skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re talking about maintenance workers, not ATC. Not to mention that the FAA doesn’t necessarily apply to foreign workers.

I mean how can Vanity Fair claim on one hand that English is a necessity for FAA certification, and on the other hand claim that these workers don’t speak English? Is this a fault of the airlines, the maintenance workers, or the FAA? Or is it just xenophobic reporting? Do workers in Mexico even need to be FAA certified? I know for a fact that’s not the case for LAMEs in Australia.

In terms of the technical manuals, the ones for Boeing may well be in English, but I suspect the ones written in Brazil, France and Italy don’t start life in English. And the use of English is certainly not universal in aviation (just see how often Simon complains about accident reports at AVH).
>The requirements are arbitrary, undocumented, and largely depend on how the case worker feels on a given day. Common wisdom is to bring far more documents than asked for, just in case.

Years of derision of Greece and its processes and bureaucracy, vindicated... by having the same problems!
Roman numerals denoting centuries is a historian thing.

I mentioned "Age of Pisces" just because it seriously annoys me that years go from 1 BC to 1 AD with no 0. (inspired by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761574 )
jan.ai
Affiliates exploded this AI Startup to $100k mrr in 223 days
Type-Safe CSS with @property
Surprising to see #rrggbbaa to be <1%, when #rrggbb is the most popular. If you’re already used to hex then why switch to eg rgba when you need alpha? I find it quite useful. Maybe it’s recent and less known.
The Soviet electronics manufacturing and the politics around it were very interesting. Somebody else in the thread recommended the Asianometry video, go watch it.

As for repressions, intellectuals getting censored, assasinated even [1].

Turkic and Roma populations getting forcibly assimilated [2].

Numerous personal accounts of asset seizure and blatant corruption among party members.

Is that repression to call it out or just enough to fall below the threshold?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todor_Zhivkov
Tangential recommendation: Postgres' "generated always as identity" should be preferred over the "serial" types.
I bet it’s much harder to detect the gamma ray burst if you don’t know what direction to look since only one of the gravitational wave detectors was running
Sodium Vapor Compositing [video]
That should not stop you from trying it out.
Original title: This Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but Then They LOST It!

Tweet by one of the creators: https://twitter.com/debfx/status/1777075250364362895
Classic - someone from the EU who regularly hates on the US is upset when people do it to their country.

I always say: if you want to know the bad parts about America - Ask a European! They're the only ones who seem to know.
Should I be worried that eating cabbage is exposing me to heavy metals?

Edit: sorry that table is only for Nickel, but Brassica shows up against lead too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hyperaccumulators
You need to go all the way to the end of the thought on this one. "Mature democracies don't have coups because ...".

Democracies don't change human nature, there are still powerful people who want to execute coups in any given society.
My guess is food isn't so sterile (lack of probiotic and other micro-life) food in South America, Asia, etc [yet]. Same for water, environment in general. Plus more human to human contact. So effects of antibiotics are constantly being reversed. Plus lactobacillus tablets are literally taken with the antibiotics (tho probably it should be taken a week after a round of antibiotics?).

Whereas some Western countries might have a sterile-ness + formula + meds + other environmental factors that form the perfect storm. Edit: I'm not saying it causes x or y. Just that it is not ideal for a young kid.
You don't know that. For one thing, their silicon costs are going to be relatively cheap. It's an old reliable, 14nm process, and compared to even Google's TPU this is a relatively simple chip. For another they _could_ be putting all that silicon to a good use, and by all indications they are. Because there's far less local memory movement, and weights are distributed throughout the system, even this 14nm system could be energy efficient. 9/10ths of all power in a conventional system does not go towards compute - it's wasted in moving data back and forth. This is especially bad in transformers, which, because of their size, largely defeat the memory hierarchies the architects worked so hard to perfect. IOW, all your caches are useless and you're unnecessarily wasting 90% of your energy while also getting worse latency and worse throughput (due to memory bus bandwidth constraints). Oops. These folks seem to be offering something that nobody else does - a feasible, proven way to get out of jail free. I wish them all the success they can get, because all the other currently available architectures are largely unsuitable for high throughput transformer inference, and they work in spite, instead of because, of their design.
Depthwise RNN?
How do you free the shared heap when an application quits?
The most popular web browsers use open source, but none of Chrome, Edge, or Safari are open source web browsers. They are proprietary freeware.
top 1% would be such way out of range. top 0.0001% would still not make it justice.
You mean works for those who use CloudFlare for DNS, which archive.is purposefully blocks because of disagreement over EDNS?
You know, I would try and defend (South) Africa at least, but I really can't. I won't call it impossible though, again at least for ZA.

In my experience, ZA bureaucracy is simpler than e.g. Germany or Greece, but general operational incompetence and corruption makes it just as slow. It's a tradeoff of more easily understanding what you have to do, but you'll have to sit in a queue for 6 hours and hope they don't tell you "the system is offline".

The closest thing to legal bribery is to go through specialist firms that deal with the bureaucracy for you, for a fee. This is also much faster as they know who's who within each department to get things done faster.

I've had friends request old documents only to learn 8 months later that the archival facility burnt down a few years ago so they don't know what documents they do or don't have. Ask a firm to do it, pay a couple thousand Rand, and they'll get it done within 3 weeks.
Dokku maintainer here.

Admittedly I only looked through this briefly but:

- I don't see too much in the way of documentation, so I can't compare that to Dokku's
- Not super clear how cluster management works - Kubernetes based on some of the api responses - but it appears to take a cluster-first approach here. Dokku has cluster support via it's k3s scheduler but thats something you need to configure (not hard, just not default).
- Neither the OSS nor Dokku Pro offering stand up actual servers (thats up to you to do), while this appears to interact with actual cloud providers?
- It's not clear if this is an open source project - seems like a completely managed offering - but doesn't seem to be. If it isn't OSS, then you can't install it on your server, which may or may not be important to you.
- Dokku doesn't provide anything out of the box for cloud storage. You can configure a minio app, but thats about the long and short of it.
- Dokku is plugin-based, so we offer plugins for the major datastores and other functionality, while this seems to be more of a catered experience.
- Dokku only has an official UI via Dokku Pro (there are community offerings as well but I can't speak to those) while Hoy has that built in (presumably because it's a paid service).
- It's not clear how hoy does app building (or if it depends on your CI to do that). Dokku provides a few different ways to build/deploy applications (Heroku Buildpacks, CNB, Nixpacks, AWS Lambda functions, Dockerfile, images).

Seems neat - I like the live demo, and others definitely will too! - but not sure if comparing this to OSS offerings makes sense to be honest. It's probably closer to any of the other paid, managed solutions that allow you to provision clusters to various clouds (on the cloud managed version or otherwise).
I got married in Japan so was curious about the differences. The two differences seem to be needing to schedule an appointment and needing proof of income. Doesn’t seem really much worse than most countries (tho I can get Denmark being easier)

I do place some blame on embassies not issuing documents in local languages. I’m not asking for proof I’m not married for fun! Extremely unhelpful, tho a good job generator for translators.

In the end tho, lots of these convos are based off of people coming from the Wild West of common law, which leads to the US government saying stuff like “well we don’t know if you’re married but you can sign an affidavit in front of us”. The American Empire, barely capable of a proper census!

Things can and should be improved, but I do think it’s good to be cognizant of the fact that many countries off of differing axioms (especially when it comes to things like the need/interdiction of knowing where your residents live)
I feel it is easier to read/write rgba(125,125,125,0.9) compared to #7d7d7de6.
I think it may be because unlike RGB values, which one usually doesn't pick by hand but rather visually through a color picker, the opacity value is something you may want to tweak by hand, and decimal is easier than hex for that purpose.
Example: Everyone knows how to use a Dictionary. It's not worth anyone's time to know how it works under the hood, because only a fool would actually implement one from scratch in production code. Niche embedded cases possibly excepted.
You can bring "real postgres" test startup times back to milliseconds with CREATE DATABASE ... FROM TEMPLATE. Every test gets a fresh database (without having to run migration scripts) and the step takes millis.
I think the idea here is that you can't just "declare bankruptcy" in Germany, it's a Process with checks and balances.
If you're using macOS's Mail app:

- cmd+A selects all mail

- cmd+ctrl+A archives all selected mail.

I do this practically every day, after reading any mail that is important. This keeps me at inbox zero all the time.
You can easily ignore it, karma doesn't really affect anything.
No partial application and currying are not both ways of partially applying a function. Partial application is a way of partially applying a function.

I have to concur with grandparent and also with user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whilenot-dev in a sibling subthread.
I am a bit flummoxed how you can stay in the country after a permit expires. I’m not for stricter rules but I’ve heard this from several people (I think people in the US as well) and it seems like “permit to enter/leave” is a very weird structure instead of “permit to be here”.

I think most immigration offices in the world are pretty much black boxes, mainly because that’s their coping mechanism to deal with the influx of bargaining from rejections they would otherwise have. But it would be nice to have… some proof of progress.
>What Amazon is doing is different because they're actually doing something that adds value

is scanning your groceries manually really so cumbersome to say the "just walk out" model is adding value?

It's nice, but like you said. it's not really that better than existing solutions, and knowing the underworkings makes it much worse. Maybe the tech will catch up in a decade, but it was definitely unviable with the current system.
On Reddit a few months ago there was a post about someone finding their grandfather’s old gameboy.
It is not true, currently I'm maintaining a desktop app which is shipped to 3 different platforms and 3 architectures (x86, x86-64, arm64) and runs various versions of JRE (from jre8 to jre22). Most (90%) of the libraries are fully compatible, only some are using latest features such as virtual threads, but it is easy to avoid.
>Every single one of them has Jewish ancestry.

Well, yes, as that's the defining characteristic of the group and why they moved to the United States and became known as the martians.
God, I remember a month or two ago when Google released its first music synthesizer that was making distorted songs with barely recognizable lyrics. yet it was a song nonetheless. I was so excited and told myself this thing would probably be much better in a year or two.

A month or two later and Suno is all that I was imagining and even more. The AI tech is advancing like crazy. This right here is an undisputable proof of the value and usage of genAI that nobody can deny. Suno wrote and performed in 3 minutes a song better in almost every categories than those "created" by the likes of Travis Scott or Justin Bieber, at least in my opinion.

Even if the tech is frozen tomorrow and nothing but minor improvements is made, this alone can already shake up the entertainment industry.
For what it’s worth, to me, your approach is the one I’d prefer as a customer.
Japan immigration (if you have a college degree) seems to be pretty high up there. PR takes a while, and processing is a bit of a black hole, but generally speaking you apply, application extends your visa a bit, and they get back to you within the period. And it’s maybe $100?

People complain but its generally predictable save for applications for a 3 year visa can lead to a 1 year visa or a 3 year visa or a 5 year visa
This is neat. Beating myself up for not thinking that this is a great use of LLM before!
Mixtral AI generated comment to US regulators about Open Models
That happens in many countries and usually experience is exactly the same
Short GRBs are detected by omnidirectional detectors; they're so short there's no time to alter detector orientation.
I'm not implying HN is perfect. I'm hoping OP will indicate how specifically they find it lacking, which would probably inform suggestions I or others might make.
BBC, yesterday, longer form, more photos: A man who ran the entire length of Africa https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-68725446

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39957110
There aren't Nazis anywhere in any quantity you should worry about, turn off the CNN
GP's question seems like it might be a common question. Would it make sense to add this to the readme?
Logpipe: Inspect Your Logs
> I am a bit flummoxed how you can stay in the country after a permit expires.

In many countries this is viewed as "it's not your fault, it's the state's fault that the state hasn't processed your application yet, so we will not punish you for the state's tardiness"
Yeah, HN has a strong vein of Dunning Kruger running through it. Anybody taken in by the waffle about the law being the only metric to judge actions has never thought about where laws come from. Or read MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail, which clearly and passionately discusses the topic.
The point is that they didn't suddenly realize they were behind and on such occasions looked to imitate foreign technology, shamefaced and with great ideological trepidation, as you were suggesting. This was fundamental Soviet policy from the get-go, the Soviet state would not have survived without it and Soviet leadership recognized that.

It was obvious they were copied.

Obvious to whom counts. It's not like every Lada came with a 'licensed from Fiat' sticker on the bumper. "Half the cars on the street" tells you a great deal about how much the Soviets cared about the visibility and appearance of copying things to the world at large.
What I learned as an artist writing my own blog engine for 10 years
For starters, as mentioned in the article, the age of the Earth was far from settled for a long time. If you think the Earth is a few thousand or tens of thousands of years old, evolution can't be right, it is too slow.
I read that and really wanted more details on the science stuff so I guess it's a good intro to get one started investigating, and the part where the author introduces the woman who was the love of his life (up to that point) and then they were married was unintentionally hilarious because she was not mentioned up to that point in the book despite knowing each other since childhood and prior pages had stories about him carousing at university, IIRC.
> 1.6 vs 1.8-2.2 seconds

I believe certain companies would kill for 20% performance improvements on their main product.
My guess is that the term "MITM" is being overfit to include the basic problem of verifying that A's identity really belongs to A rather than M.
"blah, blah, blah" can be an expression of scornful boredom or the utterance of a vampire.
interpersonal conflict has nothing to do with societal coherence tho... unless it's a social conflict. and let's say that social conflicts in russia doesn't happen anymore unfortunately. they used to be good at it.
"GW230529 was formed by the merger of a compact object with 1.3 to 2.1 times the mass of our Sun with another compact object with 2.6 to 4.7 times the solar mass. Whether these compact objects are neutron stars or black holes cannot be determined with certainty from gravitational-wave analysis alone. However, based on all the known properties of the binary, astronomers believe that the lighter object is a neutron star and the heavier is a black hole."

I believe what is interesting about this is that the supposed black hole is lighter than is expected - it's in the gap they mention, not the neutron star!
It depends on the humans and what they're up to. Fast feedback is a very valuable attribute of a test suite, so reasonable people may well be willing to go down this road.
I understand this is ELI5, but doesn’t attention already do this, in the way you described? It pays specific focus to the most contextual words in the prior sequence.
If a neutron star, black hole, and regular star can all exist in the 3 solar mass range, do they have a different curve in spacetime?

I always imagined the example of a ball on cellophane for a gravity well caused by massive objects.

If they have similar masses, how does the black hole bend "deep" enough into space to the point where not even light can escape?

What if it's some other class of object that we have yet to identify? Why black hole if not neutron star?

This is not a criticism of the article, these are curiosities. It's a really good read. Fascinating science.
mmm, tin flavour broccoli!
Come form a company in Finland instead! We're quite a bit better on the margin in this regard.

Okay, alright, there are a lot of EU countries that are quite a bit better in this regard. More generally: Do your research, shop around, and move to opportunity!
This is blatantly false (Hal Finney felt confident in that his family would be OK and they were technological savvy enough to work out access to their inheritance), but also, they became a target so I believe that their privacy should be respected.

Edit: sources are (1) a note about the Finney family being targeted in 2014, https://www.wired.com/2014/12/finney-swat/ and (2) a message from his wife in 2022 https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ruaaur/a_message_f...
When a maintainer doesn’t want something that’s totally fine if he doesn’t be a cunt about it.
Ask HN: Google Drive vs iCloud – which is best for personal files/photos/videos?
I'm moving ~20 years of my personal photos, videos, and files from external hard disks to a cloud. Motivation: a damaged/lost/stolen SSD could lose my precious memories forever.

I'm an iPhone/mac user (no iCloud for photo/videos, just contacts and a few very small things that makes moving to a new iPhone easier). But I also use Google Drive a lot.

I'm from a country with terribly slow upload speeds, and I've got 10 days in a country with high upload speeds, so I'll try to make a decision soon.

For a fairly important decision, I find surprisingly little useful comparisons online.

The most useful has been a youtube comment [1]:

> The biggest difference is that iCloud is a sync service, whereas Drive is a backup and sync service. Being able to store things and delete them from your device while still having the option to sync specific folders across devices makes Drive superior to both iCloud and OneDrive.

This makes me lean toward google drive.

Your thoughts one this are greatly appreciated.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=794VnvYuJ5c
Yeah I’d be surprised if this method weren’t just as fast. And if it’s not, would the difference just be to run the server with a ramdisk and to maybe turn off some of the durable setting to speed things up ( https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/non-durability.html ).
I know there's impressively little metal in most metal ores mined today. It's actually kind of amazing how comparatively cheap metals like copper are, considering they move and crush maybe 1000 or 10000 kgs of rock for every kg of metal (the mine waste isn't pleasant to think about either).

I guess that in contaminated soil, waste ash ponds etc. the metal is in forms which are harder to extract or separate. Because from just weight ratio, it's hard to understand how rock is better.
Most important paper of 2024.

The idea that we want models not to have to use the same amount of compute for every token has been around for a while. This is the first compelling mechanism I've seen for doing it.

> Equipped with these new methods, we can sample autoregressively by choosing to route tokens to or around a block based on the router’s output, which does not depend on any information from future tokens. We provide empirical evidence that this is a relatively easy auxiliary task that quickly achieves 99% accuracy.

Does anyone else find this is a bit surprising?
Ask HN: Any one-stop financial&tax solution for SaaS company doing global market
> This article has been around for some time, ..

Interesting, what gave you this impression? This article was first published only 4-6 months ago around Oct 2023.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of sourgraph and their founder, Quinn, is quite charismatic. I almost went for a job offer with them 5+ years ago. But let's be real, startups are not a winning game for a non-founder, thank goodness I stuck it out with BigCorp. In any case, this isn't that old of a post, cheers.
PM2 fits the job perfectly when you want to start managed processes from the CLI without a config like you would with something SystemD or SupervisorD).
It has some nice interfaces for observability.

Its more lightweight than spinning up Docker containers for each process
Nailed it. Then you get Hanlon's Razor obsessed people rushing to defend the government. It works wonders