skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mustard did an awesome analysis of this exactly this: Flying Cruise Ships, why we don’t have giant air ships

https://youtu.be/LyaYaFzSPac?si=hZ6HV0YuCOg-WUYT

Basically, the economics no longer work. Airships really can’t carry that much weight relative to their operational costs. They’re loud and they’re slow which isn’t a great customer experience. The amount of money you would have to pay for a ticket to make it economical would be more than a first class ticket on a modern jet, which would also get you there much faster.

(BTW all of Mustard’s videos are great. They have super high production value and are primarily about transportation technologies of the 50s 60s 70s and 80s. I recommend watching it on Nebula if you can.)
You’re missing the context in which I replied.

I was replying to parent’s sentiment of why build this kind of thing in the first place.

I was providing an example of a benefit of this technology.
Old but still relevant post by pg: https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Jesus Christ, you mean to tell me assholes like that aren't just a trope on Silicon Valley? And people invest money with these clowns? Unreal.
Nvidia Speech and Translation AI Models Set Records for Speed and Accuracy
My advice – it is perfectly fine to do this as a random fun side project with no real expectations, but if you are a solo founder looking for product market fit for a serious product I don't understand the rationale behind going on all on something that is fundamentally illegal and/or against the ToS of the services you are relying on. You will be cut off at moment's notice if your work actually does turn out to be popular. What are you expecting here exactly? To start a company? To make profits?
An omnibus edition of A Wizard of Earthsea, containing all the books and short stories.
The "buzzer" was also popular. The maxer got popular because pepsi gave them away. But the buzzer network was way more reliable (160 MHz Vs 400 something) and cheaper.

The reason maxers were so expensive was that a real person would transcribe your message from voice.
>Accepting the gospels, the liar you describe is still offering people eternal life, at a price - "take up your cross and follow me". (The cross was not just a burden, it was an instrument of execution.) If the eternal life isn't there, it's hard to describe that as a benign or beneficial lie.

If you don't actually believe in the supernatural stuff it seems like the definition of a benign lie. He thinks having society follow his broader teachings would result in a much better society on net, regardless of some people being killed for following and spreading it. He thinks that you go in the dirt when you die so he says, hey, actually you go up to this great place. This really helps it catch on and spread. Nobody finds out that part's not true because when they die they just go in the dirt.
I loved this game growing up! Perfectly ripe for a modern remake.
The idea of using the so called "4D" scan is interesting, but how did you train the AI to use it? Is there enough data available?
As long as it is an option and it works for some, why not. Please do not eliminate the minimum just because someone want 16 … do they not get get 16 if they want to, btw.

Using my 8/512/15-air happily. It is good.
In Will's talk he defines two terms related to optimizing fuzzers [2]: Strategy and Tactics.

Strategy is the datum you choose to optimize for as the fuzzer randomly walks the states of the system. E.g. optimize to maximize Mario's X value, or optimize for reaching all tile positions etc. This generalizes the concept of "coverage guided" to include domain-specific details about your target program (e.g. that the program has the concept of a grid of possible positions).

Tactics is the choice of input distribution. Sometimes the frequency of the randomness should be tuned for the application. For example, randomly changing the state of the A button every frame is not a good frequency to properly test long jumps, maybe a normal distribution with average hold/not hold time of 1s would be better. Also, encoding the randomness within the program's valid domain can help avoid over-testing parsing/validation code at the expense of more interesting code further in the program. [1][2]

[0]: Barton P. Miller, Lars Fredriksen, and Bryan So. 1990. An empirical study of the reliability of UNIX utilities. Commun. ACM 33, 12 (Dec. 1990), 32–44. https://doi.org/10.1145/96267.96279

[1]: This reference appears to be related: Rohan Padhye, Caroline Lemieux, Koushik Sen, Laurent Simon, and Hayawardh Vijayakumar. 2019. FuzzFactory: domain-specific fuzzing with waypoints. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 3, OOPSLA, Article 174 (October 2019), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360600

[2]: I introduce the concept of fuzzing in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40068187#40071972
> moat

That's the wrong way to say "recouping the cost of a large up-front R&D investment".
Congrats you don’t have a micromanager. But the flip side of that is you need to check in with them. That’s both of your fault, but you can only control you. You should at least have a “win/impact” document where you track what you’ve done and share with your manager.
It's real, but the umbrella term is very much hokie. You can sometimes see it in ADHD or autism: hyperawareness of stimulus and a nervous system that pattern matches quickly.

I have something similar. Very easy to burnout, when you're constantly being flooded by information of which you see the long-term consequences of, know how to orient and navigate to avoid, but do not have the resources to handle (e.g. time, money, energy, etc.).

Or being hyperaware of everyone's micro-expressions and what they're feeling. Too much info, and I don't have any care to spare to deal with it (even though that I want to).
A simple Google search will give you an obvious result: “Spending to purchase and improve houses and other housing units is treated as investment and not consumption in the CPI.”

You are welcome.
Who is "we"? I don't eat the junk. I'd rather other people didn't either, and you probably agree, but should we force our preferences on everyone else?
Goldene: A single atom layer of gold
Depends on how you eat. Stuff like rice and beans is cheap and good for you, available everywhere too. Easy to make, probably 15-20 mins all in with most of that passively simmering rice.
Is that any worse than an inability to scroll up, vertically negative, from the initial scroll position?
As a fan of Google this looks amazing, but a bit expensive for me right now.

Just one question: aren't you worried about Google blocking it? You are using a lot of their trademarks, and it could be easily confused with an official book.
Very cool presentation. Thanks for doing this.

Choosing next input based on present sounds a lot like a Markov chain - is that something you guys use when simulating user interaction with distributed system?
Not really. I run a lot of thing even chrome, docker, Xcode, WhatsApp, messenger, … all and it still ok. I do get a 512 to last longer the wear and tears of swap.
They're not powerless when they're bombing Israel's civilian citizens in an undeclared war. They didn't look powerless gunning down civilians at a music festival either. Further they didn't seem excessively powerless when they were parading around the corpses of freshly killed civilians who were without question minding their own business.

I don't recall them being powerless when they turned down a peace deal either.

To my untrained eye they kinda seem a lot like terrorists and murderers.
One of the biggest problems with forums, reddit, X (Twitter), etc. is you don’t know which users know what they are talking about. In your case, you knew about the local metro because you used it. People who claimed it was a disaster obviously never used it and yet there was no easy way to determine which person was knowledgable and which person was making things up or repeating what they had read else where.
What is a Karma farm?
not sure why I got downvoted for asking this. seems like a reasonable thing in the ML space

anyway here's a numerical simulation written in PyTorch for those who want to consider this algo on their projects before fully integrating: https://gist.github.com/bwasti/78d7058aad7f42dc893d906c877b7...

happy hacking
It is low-effort, hostile, and not appropriate for HN. I flagged it, and I suggest you do too.
The Insane Biology of the Narwhal [video]
Germans changing their name after coming to the US used to be pretty popular.
I disagreed with a couple of the Apple ones.

The iOS upper right tray stuff looks right how it is, I don't think they were trying to center them vertically with each other. It's treated more like a line of text, with some parts of the icons (outer border of the battery, rounded corners of the LTE bars) dropping below baseline like descenders.

And the Business login screen pushes the centering around because it assigns different visual weight to the UI element versus its label. When the label is on the left (text fields) the centerline shifts right, and when the label is on the right (checkbox) the centerline shifts left. The elements that stand alone (building circle, Business text, Sign In button, Need help signing in text) all keep a consistent line. If you ignore that visual weight and just center them, you probably end up with it looking wrong like a triangle with its bounding box centered in a circle does.

The QuickTime button is just bad though.
Says the fact that their objects of study are different.
It appears that you are not familiar with the concept of fuzzing.

Fuzzing is a moderately advanced software testing technique popularized in the '90s that operates on a very simple idea: If you feed a program's inputs with arbitrary/random data, this could be used to discover bugs in the program with little human effort.

In the 90s they fed random data into the stdin of unix utilities and found that many programs crashed. [0] In this context printing an error message that says "I can't interpret the input" is a valid state, but reading past the end of a buffer because the input confused the program is a bug. Variants can be designed to test any API layer.

More recently Coverage Guided Fuzzers use information about which code paths are executed for each input as a way to reach a variety of program states more quickly. Also, starting with a prefix known to produce an interesting state can also speed up testing.

I wrote a comment relating this to the article and talk in the OP here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40068187#40071950
>They’re a much more reliable way of getting an emergency call out than a multifunction mobile phone.

More reliable than a landline?
good stuff! a detailed write-up w/ GH link available somewhere?
And I'm taking over openai
Technically, block and inline dimensions are defined with respect to the direction of the text. The terms used in the CSS spec to refer to the direction of justify-content and align-items are the main axis and the cross axis, respectively.
Deploy BrowserBox from 0 to 1
Sounds similar to me. I didn't get laid off though, and my climb was only one actual promotion even though I was filling a tech lead position. I managed to switch teams right before the layoff/outsourcing. I tried hard on the next team and again achieved a great reputation in the department. But it meant nothing and I got nowhere. I even had a few people in the department ask why I was taking a demotion out of the group - I wasn't, they all just thought I was a higher level than I actually was... fuck the system.
Oh but that was specifically what I was trying to get at, i.e. point #4 of this reply of yours: Are there any shortcuts that make this reasonably computable or not?

In your original reply, you started with (transcribing) "Kolmogorov complexity is not technically uncomputable in the practical case of not having an infinite tape", which gave me hope that we would start talking about how there are some reasonable shortcuts in this particular case (as you mention in this answer now).

But then you ended with (literally) "That said, in practice it would probably take an unreasonable amount of time to perform this computation (but that is orthogonal to whether it's computable or not)", which squashed my hopes, seemed to just have replaced "theoretically uncomputable" with "practically uncomputable", and made me wonder how it changed anything that OP already wrote in practical terms, namely: "Unfortunately, that's uncomputable"

But now it seems we're back to (potentially) discussing how in this particular use case there might be tractable ways to (limited, but useful) computability, which is good again!
I don’t know how to out this “correctly”. But some of these developer complains remind me of the whole “incel” situation, where people rather complain about how the world works instead of improving themselves or learning how to excel in it.

Sure some people are conflict adverse, but some conflict aversion is healthy (there shouldn’t be physical or verbal fights at work) while some is being introverted or on the spectrum or lazy to a degree that the rest of the world shouldn’t be expected to bend to.

The way the author puts it I’m not even sure what the untapped potential even is. They describe these 75% as “doing what they can”. Okay so they’re just worker bees. That’s fine. What’s the problem?
I never knew the Blackberry pagers were 386s. I know they've made a variety of portable 386s (and still do) but had no idea they made them into Blackberries.
Requiring moderators to pay for the right to moderate would backfire. The groups which would pay the most are political parties, foreign governments, PR firms, and corporate surrogates. All, would pretend they are “neutral” but in fact would slant things in their favor. For example, a cars sub-reddit would talk about how Brand X is “awesome” while Brand Y is “terrible”.
Depending on the display and the input type, some CRT displays do digitize and buffer the signal so that they can do some of the filtering and decoding digitally. The amount that they buffer is generally only on the order of a few lines, though.
In the early stages of learning something totally new (a new language, etc) I will be completely confounded by something, only to wake up and find that I fully understand it. It's a spooky feeling because it really doesn't seem like you had the prerequisites for that understanding before you slept (although of course you must have).
That is the question isn't it. My bet is those unvested RSUs will speak louder than any "conviction" they may be suffering from.
Yes, but some implementations or edge cases (like putting some TVs/monitors in it's max brightness/dynamic mode) can have the PWM frequency drop to as low as 120hz with god knows what duty cycle.
This looks like it's a compound noun derived from the German words Ziel (meaning "goal" in English) and Schmerz (meaning "pain" in English). A raw translation could possibly be "goal-pain," though the true definition has a deeper meaning.
Generally, yes fines are a fraction of damages; fines are meant to deter, and are paid to a regulator not the damaged party. Payout from a lawsuit is meant to capture damages, and pay to the damaged party directly.

In this case, the 'stick' is that CFPB is preventing the company from issuing new loans, de facto forcing them to cease operation. (Or I guess charge regular tuition, like a normal school?) That's a pretty big deal.
You would expect a bleeder resistor to be part of the system. The real danger is, that resistor may stop functioning, and there's likely going to be no visual clue.
It wouldn’t be dismal by any chance?
The relevancy is that at its heart, quantum mechanics really only has a few key different phenomena from classical, and you can understand those phenomena more easily using qubits than esoteric particle canon experiments.
I have people on PagerDuty who weren't alive when pagers were a thing.
"Ok then why do we still have recruiters and HR? If their job is impossible why do we pay them to pretend otherwise?"

The same reason many devs exist - people convinced them it's better or more convenient to have an expert. The number of systems that could be an excel sheet...
It's a joke, no?
Has Cyc been forgotten? Maybe it's unknown to tech startup hucksters who haven't studied AI in any real way but it's a well known project among both academic and informed industry folks.
> Google and Reddit announced a blockbuster deal that would let Google train its AI models on Reddit content.

Whenever I land on Reddit for a topic where I have specialised technical knowledge, the comments are at best incomplete but more often plain wrong or uninformed. Yet always written with a tone of authority.

Reddit is definitely not the answer for accurate LLM fact training.
Criminals, SPAMers, foreign governments, PR firms, unethical corporations, etc. are not going to be stopped by a terms of service document. This will ignore it and keep on spreading disinformation. If AI helps them do this, they will use AI to do it.
But it's still an order or magnitude higher material cost
Thanks. I enjoyed the hour I spent reading about Alphonse Chapanis.
Christmas cursors. Probaly not very useful but designers, users and everyone will love them. I imagine also cursors for other holidays.
Interesting in both cases. Thanks for sharing!
Search the same thing rephrased slightly differently 5 times to find the right result, and I can show you 5 sets of ads related closely to the topic of your search.
In this “post-racial” era, they’re trying to be more subtle:

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/30/texas-slavery-involu...
I've been 3d printing molds on a sla printer and making injection molded parts on my injection molding machines. A much better approach
That's a tradeoff like everything else in life. You're trading visual quality for longevity.
Hmm. Anthony Burgess seems to have done a creditable job as schoolmaster, in England and in Malaysia. He did finally give up in what I think must now be Indonesia, lying down on the floor of the classroom and not getting up. But his was a much longer run than the others'.
Alcohol is also consumed in all cultures. It's still bad for you.

I'm not a zero sugar person, but close - I'll eat fruit, or some foods with minimal sugar added (peanut butter).

It's been way better for my health than my former daily ice cream diet. I've no doubt many can walk the tightrope, but it's much better for me to leave behind the sweets entirely. Stick with it long enough and it's not so hard to maintain, and it keeps maintaining weight much easier.
It also opens up a whole bunch of material options. If you go to resin providers websites they have only a few resins for laser printers and tons and tons for lcd printers.
> Are there any legit income-sharing schools of this type, tech or otherwise? Done fairly, it sounds like an interesting alternative to upfront tuition.

investing in startups is kindof like betting on the future potential of founders, though it's tied to a business idea.

Upstart started as a personal loan for students and expanded to other financial services, it went public recently. They innovated by doing the regular thing (student loans) better than the competition, rather than trying to be both the lender and the school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart_Holdings

> but of course it could be twisted to evil ends.

My speculation is that this was a 'road to {} paved with good intentions.' Just like most startup products face challenges in the real world, it sounds like the Lambda School tried everything they could to get high job placement rates, but weren't able to deliver at scale.

Then, as their early placement % dropped, they just didn't change the numbers in their marketing materials. After a certain point their early hopes and reality diverged enough to constitute fraud in the eyes of the CFPB

Anecdotally, we get a lot of applications for any software job posting, and I discard most of the resumes of recent bootcamp graduates. It's nothing against bootcamps, it's just a signal that the person is a junior engineer. And in the cases we have hired people with less work experience for junior roles, we've had a much higher signal-to-noise ratio in our interview process talking to people who completed traditional education (even if it was not directly a CS program) and have enough of those applicants as-is.
> On the other hand, there is no straightforward intuitive mapping for complex numbers.

Au contraire! Complex numbers are just rotations, translations, and scalings in the plane. In the same sense that real numbers capture 1D rigid transformations and scaling, complex numbers capture 2D rigid transformations and scaling.

When you treat negative numbers as "distance in an opposite direction", you're more generally treating real numbers as a transformation of the 1D line, i.e. translation (addition) or scaling (multiplication) by some amount. Try thinking about the same but for the 2D plane and complex numbers. Addition is 2D translation and you'll see that multiplication corresponds to a rotation and a scaling.

The first section of Needham's "Visual Complex Analysis" walks you through this perspective in detail, if you're interested and also want lots of good exercises.
By that definition, nothing is a choice because nothing is 100% certain in life.

Even for something as simple as deciding to "go shopping" tomorrow, there is some probability that it does not happen. But it is still my decision to do so.

The only way to never fail is to never try. But it means you will never win either.
While not technically an aircraft carrier but capable of carrying, launching and landing aircraft, the example of USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) comes to mind:

On 12 July 2020, a fire started on a lower vehicle-storage deck while the ship was undergoing maintenance at Naval Base San Diego. It took four days for firefighters to extinguish the fire, which injured at least 63 sailors and civilians and severely damaged the ship. After a lengthy investigation into the cause of the fire, a sailor was charged with arson but was acquitted at trial. Repairs to the ship were estimated to take up to seven years and cost up to $3.2 billion, so the ship was decommissioned on 15 April 2021 and sold for scrap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(LHD-6)
What a great story.
Chemistry truly is an unappreciated science. Another field where it is essential in studying, learning, fixing - environmental issues. There at many biologists, and ecologists, but few chemists. We need them in governments which form regulatory bodies, engineers for the industry, and chemists in the lab. Water, soil, and air chemistry are essential disciplines, and exciting. The world is complex.
We need more teachers that understand the need and use for chemistry - which would lead to a more educated population that could understand the world around them, better.
Code Golf but IRL?
It depends how it is implemented. After extracting the ID and looking up the post you can then check that the "slug" matches. Return a 404 if it doesn't.

This may add a bit of complexity (if the slug data is mutable you need to allow any past versions or freeze it in creation) but isn't too hard if this is the approach that you want to take.
I came here to post this. Incredible game!
Exactly. Almost nobody thinks illegal immigration is a good thing - everyone I've talked to either wants to loosen immigration laws or tighten up border security (or both). At the same time, nobody will be fond of being harassed in the name of securing the borders, especially if they feel they're being targeted based on their name, looks, or where they live. Especially when they have been living in area longer than the country that currently controls it has existed.
If it’s specifically accessible to special partners, Google could just end their partnership if Reddit is serving up false information to them and go back to the old way of scraping.