skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says:
"near misses are [...] up 25% in the past decade"

For example, there was almost a collision between Southwest and Jetblue Thursday morning at Reagan Airport.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/washington-ronald-reagan-a...

I wonder, it going to take actual collisions to spur the focus and attention to work on this issue of "so many close calls"?
The demand for compute utility capacity is effectively infinite. Eventually we'll move on from GPUs to some new architecture but the servers will still have to run in data centers that can provide enough power and cooling.
It is very easy to call a C# method from C++, since .NET has a COM interop layer. From C++ this will just look as a class with no fields but a bunch of virtual methods. Alternatively, you can easily convert a static method to a native function pointer and then invoke that - this way it's also easy to do from C, Rust, and just about anything else that speaks the C ABI.

If your C# method doesn't take any arguments like managed strings or arrays that require marshaling, it's also very cheap (and there's unsafe pointers, structs, and fixed arrays that can be used at interop boundary to avoid marshaling even for fairly complicated data structures).

.NET was very much designed around these kinds of things. It's not a coincidence that its full type system covers everything that you can find in C.
Deep Space Trajectories: Exiting the Heliosphere
> That's not your original request though, to use line-based data.

It wasn't my request and OP (not me) said "line-based data" is best. The comment I replied to said "Newline-delimited JSON ... a line-based format".

If the only objection you have is "but that's line-based!" then you're in a completely different conversation.

> if anything, json output | jq is more the unix way than piping everything through shell vars.

The unix way is line-based. The comment I replied to is talking about line-based output. Line-based output is the only structure for data universal to unix cmdline tools - even tab/space isn't universal; sending structured non-line-delimited data to a program to unpack it is the least unix-like way to do it.

Also there's no pipe in the shell-variable output scheme I described, whereas "json | jq" is a shell pipeline.
The tweet is saying that only 1.25% make it to a billion, but a startup doesn't need to make 1 billion to be a success. How about one that makes 100 million? or even 10 million? At these levels of revenue, if the company is sold, the founders will still be rich (not ultra rich, but have a million in the bank or more).

And, for ycombinator, the number of "startup exits" is: 351 (according to this page: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/startup-stats). Am no expert at startups, but this may mean that out of the 4000 that when through ycombinator, ~9% where valuable enough for investors to take profit. That sounds like a decent success rate for me (think I read that the success rate of ycombinator startups is similar to that of the rest of tech).
Agreed, but the cynical side of me thinks that they are representing their constituents. It's just that neither you nor me are their constituents. They pay lip service only during an election year.

I'm politically very conservative. I hate every single one of the Republicans. They claim to want smaller government and less intrusion and then vote for... bigger government, more intrusion, and endless wars.

I still vote, though. Mostly, at this point, it feels like an act of protest more than anything.
I came here to point this out.

I'm automatically skeptical when this came from the author of one of the dumbest tweets I've ever read.
Docker-compose and be done with it. Kubernetes and NixOS are great and more powerful than docker compose, but the learning curve is longer. Feel free to graduate to k8s or NixOS, once you are up and running with compose. Docker compose has the most tutorials, YouTube videos, the widest support among projects you want to self host, and many more people who can readily advise you on troubleshooting. Check out r/selfhosted to get a feeling.

You can use portainer if you need a GUI but command line is not that complicated if you are comfortable with CLIs.
> Even if I believed you that there wasn't a shortage 3 years ago, there has to be a shortage now by the most elementary logic

Or you could provide data. I don't live in Ireland, did they have a surplus before?

> So you have not offered any explanation.

I explained exactly how the scheme works, as well as providing the possible explanation of higher cohabitation rates. That's certainly what is happening in Southern California where I am actually familiar with the market. Based on a cursory Google search, it looks like Ireland is having some of the same...

https://dublininquirer.com/2022/11/02/increase-in-landlords-...

> But it had “further potential to secure full market rent levels” subject to tapping into an exemption from the rules around rent increases, with one of the options being “through vacancies”, the advert said. If a property has been vacant for two years – or a year for a protected structure – then a landlord within a rent pressure zone can legally raise the rent by more than the rent-increase cap.

I'm not going to spend any more time on this. The evidence is pretty clear that landlords are playing games to drive up the rental market. There is no question that shifting demand patterns and decades of failure to deliver new housing are part of the equation as well, but those issues are solvable. The intractible problem of a landlord class are much more threatening and difficult to solve.
Same engagement baiter who said product reviewers should all be shills. Nothing of value here.
If I am reading this correctly then it resembles the behavior of the Confluence/JIRA text input windows.
I don't understand the argument that it couldn't require a warrant. The argument is simply that the executive branch has a constitutional right to wiretap without a warrant, unless the the constitution forbids it?

There is some judicial oversight in the FISA court of course. What's the argument for why congress can legislate that, but not a more typical warrant?
What is life and how does it work? – with Philip Ball [video]
From YouTube

00:00 Intro - what is the secret of life?

04:09 Is the human genome a blueprint or a musical score?

7:58 Crick's central dogma of biology

12:03 What scientists got wrong about genes and proteins

18:50 Why evolution chose disordered proteins

22:27 The process of gene regulation

27:03 Why life doesn't work like clockwork

30:29 The growth of intestinal villi

32:18 Why do we have five fingers?

34:55 Causal emergence

38:09 Do all parts of us have their own agency?

42:46 How does this affect genetic approaches to medicine?

48:09 Why do organisms exist at all?

Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. There is no unique place to look for an answer to this question: life is a system of many levels—genes, proteins, cells, tissues, and body modules such as the immune system and the nervous system—each with its own rules and principles.

In this talk, discover why some researchers believe that, thanks to incredible scientific advancements, we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined.

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including 'H2O: A Biography of Water', 'Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour', 'The Music Instinct', and 'Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything'.

Philip's book 'Critical Mass' won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. He is also a presenter of Science Stories, the BBC Radio 4 series on the history of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. He is the author of 'The Modern Myths' and lives in London.
Some features about JavaScript's AbortSignal I learned today
RHEL 7 (which still has 4 years of extended lifecycle support left) ships with Python 2.7.5

MacOS Sonoma (the latest version) doesn't include Python at all; older versions of MacOS which are still supported ship with Python 2.x
But you'll never be able to prove it

Like my iPhone 12 getting slower and worse battery with each iOS release even with a new battery...
Does anyone know if there is a way to expedite the decision-making process? We've received a term sheet and are under some time constraints to respond.
What I'm getting sick of is why the hell every other service out there now has the need to bundle goddamn TV streaming services like no tomorrow.

No, my cellphone service should not need to come with streaming TV so that the price can be quietly hiked on the backend. No, I want Amazon Prime without all the bullshit streaming because I don't consume any of it. It's like Youtube and Netflix trying to get into gaming to try to keep throwing more kitchen sinks at all of us when we don't want it.
GPU processes are separated due to driver instability and unsafe code, so this means more than a GPU process crash, or a content process crash (tab crashed), something in the orchestration layer or main process crashed. There are probably massive amounts of memory being moved around which could easily be stressing the system or running into large limits. Don't think this is related to the security model or a compromise of an origin / content process.
I prefer jsonl from command line tools, just cause it’s nicer to log, and parse using standard tools. Plus it’s like a two second function if you’re doing it in a real programming language. I think it’s the best of both worlds.

They say to use JSON lines for streaming, but even if you’re not it’s still very nice to be able to do my_command | grep xyz and still have it be parseable
Yes rates must remain high to pull out all of the dumb money chasing things and raising inflation. Dumb money treated the economy like a casino it couldn't lose, and they must be hurt. If the dumb money doesn't get hurt, it won't learn the lessons it needs to and will lead to double digit rates like in the 80's. Houses back then were 3x income, they are 5x+ now. That must come down, consumer income can't support it and consumer income is what actually makes the economy flow. Stagflation otherwise at best.

"A struggling housing market suggests restrictive monetary policy is working to cool demand—at least for the 4% of GDP tied to residential construction. But unless the remaining 96% of the economy loses resiliency, as we suspect it will, policy rates could stay high for longer"
What is engagement farming?
> But the relationship between brain chemistry and consciousness is at best correlating certain conscious states with certain neurological states.

How ironic that you would say that in a thread about Daniel Dennett's passing. You have obviously not read "Consciousness Explained."

> And QFT explaining laws of nature would be strange considering QFT is included in the laws of nature.

You should watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lL-hXO27Q&pp=ygUPZmV5bm1hb...

> there are philosophical arguments as to why there must be an ultimate, necessary explanation

Yes, obviously. There are arguments for why the earth must be flat too. Why should I care about either? They're just wrong.
I was wrong to generalize. What I meant was the unions in Europe where I am(Austria) are weaker than in the US since they're too nice and non confrontational resulting in loosing at their own interests.
Some of his point might be true, BUT:

If you have a great idea, if you are onto something, then the best chance of success comes from having resources to execute, credibility and to share the endeavor with others who are literally invested in the outcome.
The biggest thing that sours me on YC is the exclusivity. They gets tens of thousands of apps for something like 300 spots. For all the criticism of artificial scarcity of places like Harvard, why is this different? As peter theil would say, competition is for losers.

You shouldn’t participate in games that are zero sum and they shouldn’t pretend they have some kind of carefully thought out scientific method to determine who should get in. Half the companies I see in the batch are dog shit. A third of the companies are “ideas only” which is basically now an Opaque beauty contest. Just opt out and boycott these stupid status games
fancy clickbait
I just can't take anything seriously about a grown up child actor from one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Canada making diss tracks and acting all hard and shit.
I suppose the confusion still remains about how empiricism can be self-justifying. You've laid out a case for why it's empirical reasoning is pragmatic, fine, but that doesn't mean that empirical reasoning is grounded in empirical reasoning, even if empirical reasoning is in fact rational. Whether you go with a Humean-style solution or a Popperian solution, it's just still not the case that justifying empirical reasoning through empirical reasoning is not circular.
all you need to read: "I charge you a one-time payment of $375, and you get access to my community, which includes live workshops, recorded classes, a group chat, and a few other things."
I will echo you. I use nix and kubernetes and have achieved great success. I have my configuration as nixos modules. Making a host a kubernetes controller is just a false -> true flip.

All my images are built and stored and served via tftp and a remote nix store for the servers to boot. Very easy to build the system and then do atomic upgrades. Best part is ... Rollbacks if the config is bad are easy and fool proof.

I would never use mutable distributions in production. Too scary.

My nix boxes need very little minding.
Points for using the term "Non-Ergodic". I wish it were used more often.

The post is well written, mostly cohesive, and with a willingness to express ideas counter to the status quo.
Newcar – A modern animation engine based on Canvaskit(Skia+WebAssembly+WebGL)
I used to check the live world snooker championship scores on teletext in the 80s (when the BBC didn’t show it all live)
Now skipping between it on iPlayer and hacker news in my phone…
The title is clickbait, as the laws of cosmology are effectively made up to follow hypotheses made upon observations of the cosmos. If anything, the observations have led to imcomplete models that need more refinement. But it apparently sounds less exciting to many.

Twisting the causality of calculations just in order to make an attention grabbing title is garbage though.
Seriously? Oh jeez. If that’s true then I picked a horrible example AND learned something today!
I will add a new reason. They are pleasant to study.

They are small, hard and easy to manipulate and keep dry. A big collection fits in any room and they have an entertaining endless diversity of forms and colours, so primates like to collect them.

Don't believe me? How many roundworm or fly species do we know? How many we don't know still?
I’m not familiar with Canadian regulations but isn’t there a debate right now about capital gains tax and its effects on venture capital and startups?
Definitely not new. We only know a handful of people (without kids) who keep more than 2 subscription services open at a time. If anything, the frequency of switching has increased. No one place has a large enough catalog to sustain the demand / consumption and short attention spans of the current consumer market.

I exclude Apple TV+ from our list since it's coupled with Music, Arcade, News and other things that we use as a family. I also use iCloud for my @personadomain email.

We generally avoid Amazon. I'll burn through Fallout during a $1.99 Prime trial or something, get a few packages shipped for "free" and move on.

We used to have AT&T fiber, that came bundled with HBO which was nice. We really didn't use it much though. Anything I want to see is 10 episodes and I can binge it when I'm sick.

Amex cards sometimes have a media sub program. We did Disney, Hulu and the NYT for $5 after the monthly credit on the statement. It easier to justify keeping those around when we change things up.
It's definitely who you hang around with, but I think how the conversation is approached also dictates outcome. Talk about a political ruling class with most people, and they'll look at you as though you grew a third eyeball. Talk about the Dems and Repubs being out of touch with the average person due to the insulative effect of DC, and they'll usually agree.

You can generally convey the same idea gently as long as you hedge your phrasing somewhat. Making it sound like a wacky accusation comes off sounding, well, wacky.
Ask HN: Why do government services force you to call them or write a letter?
I have caused so many problems for myself simply because I’m anxious about phone calls and procrastinate calling government services for a year or more at a time.

Why do they insist we call them, often to wait on hold for an hour and not even get through to a human?

Surely it would be better for everyone if we could use a modern ticketing system for asynchronous communication.

I’ve found this problem consistently in both the US and the UK.
I'm in two markets, both heavily reliant on PDF rendering, viewing and distribution. Commonly PDF/A, which isn't very popular so having to adapt libraries happens every now and then. We're both into desktop applications and network services.

While I'm quite FOSS positive, a lot around GPL style licensing hasn't been tested in court and I don't want to be a pioneer in this area. Besides the business aspects of having to maybe publish some of the 'secret sauce', of course.
This method is for training. They are using a stop-gradient to 'shield' some tokens from contributing to prediction of the immediate next token, and thus producing a stream of tokens that are only used for longer term prediction.

This is a bit more low level than the usual prompt engineering approaches, and to my mind, a bit more promising. There's more easily measurable results, and I've seen other context where a well placed stop-gradient does wonders...
Another cool example is Nexus One's trackball. It had advantage of being able to scroll in any direction.
The BSP D8 Bluetooth Game Controller
"sanctioned and by design"

So is "qualified immunity". Yet it's still unjust.
> Markets are an inescapable fact of life.

It would help if you explained why you think that. Adam Smith disagrees with you: in The Wealth of Nations, he wrote that markets were something that had to be carefully tended, lest they devolve – via monopoly – into non-markets. A basic, back-of-the-envelope simulation involving ideal rational selfish actors with fixed, differing capabilities and finite resources will show the same result.

> No I don't care that you think that some hack writer has written something where this isn't true,

The Bitchun utopia does actually have a reputation economy (Whuffie), and winners, and losers. Perhaps your criticism would be more meaningful if you actually engaged with any of the ideas you dismiss out of hand.

> frankly I don't care about any of your arguments since you continue to argue about your silly fantasy worlds.

Gedankenexperimente, in the tradition of Hans Christian Ørsted. Albert Einstein's fantasy worlds were much sillier: riding on a beam of light!

My verdict is: ad hominem!!!1 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/9 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/21
Apparently a huge part of the average game's download size nowadays is uncompressed audio
Vodafone PayPal payment was broken for two months because of a frontend coding error until I sent it to them on Twitter, at which point they fixed it within a day.
I'm no expert on the matter, but this is what Apple says:

> All apps listed on alternative app marketplaces are submitted to a Notarization process with Apple. Notarization is a baseline review that applies to all apps, regardless of their distribution channel, focused on platform policies for security and privacy and to maintain device integrity. Through a combination of automated checks and human review, Notarization helps ensure apps are free of known malware, viruses, or other security threats, function as promised, and don’t expose users to egregious fraud. Apple does not enforce the App Store's high standards for business practices and content on apps distributed through alternative app marketplaces.

So what I understand is that it's a baseline check for security, technical issues etc. Content moderation doesn't seem to be a part of it.
The fact that you can get such large amounts of money for such a small amount of equity in general is good.

what were your startups?
Guess by that logic magnets shouldn't work? Because there is nothing to push on.

There already exists examples where you don't need an actual physical material being expelled in order to have thrust. The key in this example is they are saying they have reached a force great enough to counter gravity.
For the same reason Congress can’t require the President to get the approval of the Supreme Court before he vetoes a bill: Our Constitution gives powers to the executive that cannot be usurped or overruled by Congress, notably in this context to conduct the national defense and foreign affairs.

The FISA court exists to ensure that the executive is not operating outside his Constitutional authority, not as a gatekeeper for use of that authority at all in any instance.
Have almost the same thing been leaked before, but now decryption keys are released?

Edit

Found it, previously they released a magnet link called funnytorrent that was over 800gb, but all files are 7z encrypted and no password was available. There are still seeds :O

So I'm guessing the new thing is the new TW3 version CDP confirmed this week they are working on.

Edit 2

The "new magnet" link is the same hash, so no new files in there.
If local governments ask us to leave, we leave. Ask Libya in 1969, the Philippines in the early 1990s, and Iraq (mostly) a few years ago. If South Korea or Japan or Germany were to ask us to leave, we'd be out within months.

(Attention those rushing to type "ACKSHUALLY, what about Guantanamo Bay": Don't beclown yourself. Look into how the US is there in the first place.)
A Web Dictionary for GenZ Slangs
It was a summer morning when I was chatting with one of my friends. She used to use words like W, L, iykyk a lot. I used to have hard time finding meaning of such words. That's why I built a GenZ Slangs Dictionary and interestingly I got genz.social domain as well. Now, I'm looking to build a social media especially for GenZs but I still need to learn more about GenZ stuff, how they behave and how they use social media etc. If anyone is interested to join me in this journey, do let me know!
The problem with this is VCs give you money, and some (like YCombinator) also give you advice. The CEO group gives you no money. Also, how do you prevent parasites from entering your CEO group?
AFAICT those are almost all for later Xbox controllers which are built on Bluetooth.
yes, you are correctly taking alternatives into consideration here.

while the author is Tru about the reasoning they fail to elaborate on the alternative.

take a job with youghly the same pay as working in your own startup? that would seem terrible.

obviously, if you have opportunity with a much higher expected pay, then that should be the go to opportunity.
It sucks because their games are really good