skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python is not a terrible language. It's widely used in reputable organizations by highly informed and capable software engineers to great effect. Generic language criticism in 2024 is an anti-pattern that intellectually hinders new engineers. There are certainly preferences for different use cases and highlighting those differences are productive discussion.

For Example: One of the most common technical concern points to bring to a new engineer is the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) that restricts Python to execute in one thread only.
> every move in that direction has produced both stability and prosperity

Theatrics aside, it seems like you’re saying that the basis of your “principle” is empirical effectiveness. That is of course a reasonable secular basis for lawmaking. But that confronts two problems:

1) That still doesn’t give you a justification for overriding the democratic will. Empirical effectiveness is evidence that you might submit to the public about what policies would be beneficial. That doesn’t transform it into some “meta-norm” that by its own force overrides democratic law.

We have tremendous evidence that market economies are better than planned economies. But only kooky right-wingers think that makes capitalism a “meta-norm” that must override the popular will!

2) Your historical analysis falls short. China’s rise shows you can become rich and prosperous without embracing bodily autonomy as a principle. Even moral regulation of individuals in the west was quite stringent during the period when the west was getting rich—moreso than societies that were less regimented but didn’t get rich. Victorian England, for example, was a high water mark.

Moreover, the societies that have gone the furthest in embracing notions of bodily autonomy are uniformly on the path to extinction. Western Europe is slowly being replaced by Muslims from cultures that reject such notions.
I'm not comfortable with a future where Boeing becomes niche or "commercially deprecated", with current planes aging and no good maintenence path forward. It will become a safety liability that we passengers will have to bear.

Boeing's demise would create an amazing opportunity for Chinese aviation to make its move. It takes decades to really enter the market but it could, slowly, happen. Embraer otoh is not in a position (huge investment) or just not interested (too risky) to enter those 737/MAX and long haul markets.
The scarier trend is airlines shopping around for the cheapest MRO in South America.
My point: why isn't this private __by default__?

(Also, I fear that by setting this flag it will break a lot of tools that expect the flag to be 0)
I know we talk about warming and the same copypasta doom gloom but...

Lately I like imagining the Earth like a Human Body. Staying hydratated is very healthy. Our maps are like an MRI scan to see where the humans are and all the healthy earth organs that taste like opportunities and sadly unpalletable money salad.

Mapping is very important! I hope an AI gets trained soon on honest satellite data so it can empathize and expand our view of maps. Like our roads are dry crusty scabs but in Earth scale they can heal and peal off too :)
The irony here is that both SerenityOS and Redox are UNIX-like. Of course in their design, they're not purely like most other UNIXen, but they also don't stray away too far.
> If it wasn’t then, theoretically the US healthcare industry would grind to a halt considering the number of intermediaries for a single transaction.

It just occurred to me that cleaning up our country's data privacy / data ownership mess might have extraordinarily positive second-order effects on our Kafkaesque and criminally expensive healthcare "system".

Maybe making it functionally impossible for there to be hundreds of middlemen between me and my doctor would be a... good thing?
I think of it as a consequence of the field expanding and becoming a high-income profession: with more people in total, regression to the mean is going to inevitably show up and the hyper-focus on capitalism bleeds through in many places. Mask mandates were proclaimed to be bad for business so a certain level of opposition is largely baked in.
Hungary, Budapest has been running battery augment trolleybuses since 2005. They are super handy if you need to divert them for any reason and also it allows for more flexible routing but their range is quite limited, only 4km.

They also experimented with a few electric buses and that also had range problems but much more importantly they realized if they had hundreds of buses charging overnight it would be a significant strain on the electricity system. Distributing the buses throughout the system and their charging in time by charging them at stops would be a solution to this.
it looks like all similar/recent trials were already bench trials[1]. That is not to express that such trials should or should not be tried by jury.

"Unlike all the other recent cases federal and state governments have brought against Big Tech, the DOJ’s latest complaint includes a demand for a jury trial. This jury demand is extremely unusual—government civil antitrust claims are almost always tried to a judge—and it raises a host of strategic challenges for the parties as well as broader policy issues about the role of juries in complex antitrust matters."

[1] https://www.promarket.org/2023/04/26/understanding-the-dojs-... - looks to be Chicago School affiliated but pretty neutral.
What does that mean that "the sun is brighter"?
I honestly believe that a pair or noise cancelling headphones and an eye mask would have statistically noticable effects on outcomes. The bright, noisy environment of a hospital makes good, natural sleep basically impossible and that is brutal on even healthy people.

My ward even managed to have the (networked digitally controlled, and do presumably very expensive) lighting set up so the night lighting was inside the curtains and shining directly into the bed spaces, and the main ward lights would come up if you touched the wrong thing (even the nurses weren't quite sure exactly what the proximal causes of lighting changes was). With the pumps alarming the whole time (about once per night, per patient, up to 20 minutes until resolution each time) plus all the other regular medical checks preventing any extended quiet time, it was absolutely exhausting at a very deep level.
I made two consecutive comments in the thread . My point was split between the two comments and i replied was in combination of both. Comments and timestamp are available for you to see

I realize that from this thread point of view it seems I am changing the argument, that’s on me . It is not always the commenter is trying to the move the goal post sometimes things to do happen .

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To the actual point, It is not about whether nuclear is best option, I never compared it with any other option. It was not defense of nuclear , it was of project and costs management .

Nuclear’s costs cannot be baselined by costs at GA , every developed country is doing it half the costs or less.

With respect to “projected” gains are already realized in Taishan, yes it is china but that does not make EDF components being built in Europe faster or, state subsidies can make projects cheaper not faster .

France and other countries have proven track record of building plants . Citing one outlier with brand new tech plant whose costs and time have ballooned is not valid argument .

Reject or dislike nuclear for any number of reasons ideological, economic or environmental, but building a single plant after 40 years and saying it is too costly and slow is a dishonest argument .
Yeah as many have said here, even though Apple Maps started off inferior, they’ve steadily improved over the last decade and are absolutely solid now.

I much prefer their directions UI to anything else out there. It’s really well thought out.
I remember cutting grass for neighbors during the summer when I was 11 to save up money for a 3dfx voodoo2 8mb card to put into my parents computer (packard bell 200 megahertz pentium). The driving force behind this obsession was a foldout ad in pc gaming magazine with a screenshot of the game Unreal. I remember my Dad (who was very non-technical at the time) trying to talk me into one of the other cards at CompUSA (a PowerVR if I recall) and I was explaining why I wanted the 3dfx (I'm sure I was regurgitating whatever I read on HardOCP).

We got home, figured out how to install it and the drivers ,and booted up Unreal. Amazing moment in my life, and probably one the main reasons I ended up being a software developer. Tweaking settings, learning commands in the 'in-game terminal', understanding basic networking to help pick servers, tinkering with the level editor. PC Gaming was an amazing introduction to 'How Computers work' with a really motivating example. I feel like my kids completely miss that because they just play games on an ipad which completely insulates them from any of it.
What you are really doing:

You: If these tools are not ideal, what is a better tool?

Parent: I won't tell you. I just simply criticize online and provide no technical guidance, instead I gatekeep my definition of quality tooling. I think being a good senior expert does not include showing best practices I have developed through my years of experience.

You: Oh. Then I don't want to listen to you because I'm more interested in making personal progress on my professional journey than listening to uninitiated opinions provided without context.
Human factors is an important field of study, yes. But just because we know humans make mistakes doesn't mean we can't hold them accountable for those mistakes when they happen. Our tendency to focus on one thing to the exclusion of the other things is bad for getting a full understanding of what is going on. Two things are true in this incident:

1. Boeing has a known unfixed software bug in their planes that puts pilots in a bad position. It has multiple known failures that look the same and created a learned response that was incorrect. This is bad and Boeing should answer for it.

2. The pilots are ultimately responsible for making sure they are hitting the correct speed for take off and should be aborting if they are having difficulty making that speed. They failed to do so in this case. This is bad and they should have to answer for it.

Both of these are true and neither one excuses the other.
> dropping old cruft, entrenching UTF-8 support, and other areas.

I couldn't possibly disagree. My point is that focusing on ownership, lifetime, etc. (the most prominent features of Rust) shouldn't be goals for a tool that's invoked to perform a few quick calculations and shut down immediately after.
I have a suspicion that voting rings existed in the past. I suspect that an anti-covid-vaccine ring operated on HN in 2021. No proof, of course, so you absolutely shouldn't believe me.
>Heating the equivalent of 1 gallon of water from -60°F to a reasonable liquid distribution temperature (50°F) means heating it up by a whopping 110°F. That’s 268 watt-hours of raw energy required just to bring a single gallon of water up to distribution temperature!

It's actually more than this, because the phase change from solid to liquid takes a lot of energy too.
I mean actually leaving the highlight color behind, not the text selection type. But like you literally run a highlighter over it.
I guess something fairly simple - a hole in the ground. Or it gets bagged and put into waste drums (or deposited directly) - this is still what we do at outbuildings where there's no sewage or water infra.

The answer is probably on Bill Spindler's website somewhere (southpolestation.com).
Hmmm. FWiW that was another literary jest, you know, what with Dickens famously:

Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers, a publishing phenomenon that sparked Pickwick merchandise and spin-offs.

...

His novels, most of them published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication.
I was shocked that such a scientific station is using Fahrenheit to measure the temperature of the water
And people that hate coding
Yes they can, through the results of your development
Because it's not happening, immigrants mostly lives in the suburbs, the city is unaffordable for most people and is emptying itself rapidly (in the last decade the city has shrunk by 100K+)
> The point I am trying to make is that the opening is the 'low point' and then it becomes an action movie with the heroes in control.

To be quite candid, I did not appreciate the brutality of WW2 until I spent a few months a decade ago researching the progression of events from 1939 to 1945. I say this as someone who had a fairly decent exposure to WW2 (Gramps was a B29 bomber pilot). Even now, every time I do a little digging or reading about a certain WW2 event/battle/massacre, I am still left shocked by the absolute brutality that occurred on a large scale. Conflicts since WW2 have not approached the same level of killing intensity, thank god. Perhaps nuclear weapons are indeed proving to be the ultimate moderator of human conquest ambition.

Sorry for rambling a bit: Back to your quote about it being a hero action movie - in my opinion WW2 kinda was an action movie with many stories of heros who sacrificed themselves or risked their lives directly to save their buddies - on all sides. The reason we hear so many of these stories from that time period is due to the massive number of engagements and opportunities presented near daily for men to attempt extraordinary maneuvers (e.g. flank attacking an overwhelming force who has their squad pinned down).

Some of the stories you hear from WW2 are absolutely over the top insane (risky). You will never hear nearly as many "hero" stories these days in my opinion due to all professional militaries employing similar risk-mitigation strategies to avoid unnecessary losses. Times were different back then.
Has anyone tried skipping the embedding path in favor of combining a proper FTS engine with an LLM yet?

A tool like Lucene seems far more competent at the task of "find most relevant text fragment" compared to what is realized in a typical vector search application today. I'd also argue that you get more inspectability and control this way. You could even manage the preferred size of the fragments on a per-document basis using an entirely separate heuristic at indexing time.

The semantic capabilities of vector search seem nice, but could you not achieve a similar outcome by using the LLM to project synonymous OR clauses into the FTS query based upon static background material or prior search iteration(s)?
The sun is literally shining brighter, in that it produces more energy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/08/28/our-...
Modern electrical generation, transmission and distribution systems are protected by "relays" that open breakers to prevent damage. I did a quick search on "Carrington event protective relaying" and found https://www.pes-psrc.org/kb/report/115.pdf. It seems that what is needed is to properly configure the protective relaying for the possibility of a geomagnetic storm and to make sure that all relaying is operational and modern enough to do so. Anything new or upgraded should meet these criteria. Older stuff probably needs to be reviewed.
Quanta is a great example! They don't dumb things down. It passes feymans razor because the professor can read it and know what it's talking about

I think it'd be a fun follow-up and talk a quanta article, and some PhD in the topic, and walk through why it does (or does not) pass this razor.

I think one very simple but important thing they do is they don't shy away from mentioning the technical terms. I just opened a random one and in the first paragraph they say the word "Hamiltonian cycle", and explain it. The explanation is probably super simplified, but that's fine, it's (1) an anchor for the curious layperson to read more/Google it (2) it's a marker for the expert, he immediately knows what they're talking about, and doesn't have to try to reconstruct it/guess
That's weird, I'm in EU and don't see anything?

Is this from the github page itself or from github?
Gravity Without Mass? Study Challenges the Existence of Hypothetical Dark Matter
> I tried to gently point out that while she is right that staying in bed would be safer for him, wouldn’t he be one step closer to the grave if he were to give up on his favourite activities?

More than one step closer! Being bedridden is usually the beginning of the end. Once you can’t even get basic exercise done, everything starts to degrade rapidly.
The question is what do you want to do? Do you want to continue programing web apps in the server?

It's not my area, so you may look a better opinion, but i suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript
Yeah, MS will continue to do this kinds of abuse, it’s in they DNA by now
What if you don't know where it was though? What if you saw a bit of text, but don't remember if it was in outlook, confluence (if so, which), mattermost (if so, which server), or teams (maybe a screen share?). Those are all systems I use at work, and while I've never been quite that lost about where to start, it's also not wildly exaggerated.
I had the same feeling about the name. "Plan B" sounds like the 2nd best choice, not the best choice.
> every single line you merge becomes your responsibility

Your responsibility to whom?
It's a blog for general US public reading, I'm inclined to think the seriousstuff is all Celsius and SI units and Fahrenheit is used in the social write ups so than regular folk in the US know what the tempretures are.
I'm pretty sure the baud rate default can be 115200, 9600 is very late 80s.
Maybe they don't want to fully give up that part of their industries.

Also cheesemaking is big in the Netherlands, so I wouldn't be surprised that lots of it is for feeding cattle.
That’s just as useful as telling someone who wants to learn about Tesla to look up “Apartheid”.
I think we know that for decades. The problem is mainly cost. But of course, looking at how the past millennia is presented to us, you’re probably right.
To me, that "clearly established" narrative is an exercise in "begging the question". Starting from the "common knowledge" assumption that there is a through line between "write code", silicon valley / "tech bro" hustle culture, Joe Rogan, and psychedelics, the article's narrative is clear. But if you don't already have all those lines drawn in your mind coming into the article, then in my view, the article does a very poor job of drawing them itself.

Perhaps I'm being overly critical, but part of it is that I think there is an interesting story here, and I was disappointed not to find it in this article. I can easily imagine an article, like the kind they publish in the New Yorker for instance, that really does tease out all these connections, along with teasing out the places where the "common knowledge" is a distortion of reality, providing real insight. But this just wasn't that article, for me.
How are any of these lame jests actually helping the OP who is impoverished in his joy of reading? Keep them to yourself.
That's a cool observation - it could just be GP's natural turn of phrase. I know a few people who never use any contractions when they speak. I assume it's a local/familial style.
Perhaps off topic, but I want to recommend Asahi. I had it installed on a spare M1 iMac and it worked well for me. I don’t use it right now since I gave the iMac to a family member, but early this year it was stable and nice to use.
> I suspect his crash was a suicide.

I wouldn't count on that. Most of us wouldn't do that to the aviation world. Decreases plane availability, especially for something like a T-34 Mentor, increases insurance rates, increases FAA stance on already asinine policies, etc.

occams razor - he misjudged his aerobatics.
Reminds me of Diddy Squat, the farming show by Jeremy Clarkson. Farming, just by itself, is not profitable, so they need to do all kinds of things to make profit.

Likr setting up a store, making a branded product, Ie making beer from the wheat, or social media on farm life.

The tragedy is all the time required not farming.

In the case of books, to first debut, you must already be successful or perish. Even getting accepted to a publishing house requires insane stats, and they're just beginning.
How much of an issue is lithium ion battery fires these days?

The batteries in these must be enormous.
Super cool, I didn't know about this - too bad it's not archived. I did know about a different game for 1-2-3, I even managed to track down original media and get it working in Linux!

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/doom.html

There is a brief gameplay video, if you want to see it.
>There is a difference between having something and then losing it vs not having it yet.

I disagree. The reason for the policy would be the same.

Probability of person of age x causing collision is too high.

>The bureaucracy finds it more manageable to put policy in place than to determine individual skill.

Yes, of course. Testing every single person all the time can get costly, and it may or may not be deemed worthwhile by a society (or whatever government leader). Obviously, when people are young, their faculties are getting better, so testing once is not unreasonable.

But at advanced ages, faculties can degrade, and degrade at varying rates. For this scenario specifically, maybe it is not onerous to sufficiently test 90+ year olds that want to fly, since there are so few.

However, since an airplane crash in an urban area has a high likelihood of causing damage to others, society does have an interest in controlling who is in the pilot's seat.
Zürich's new 74 bus fast charging station
> The CVR fitted to G-FDZS was not removed from the aircraft as it continually overwrites itself, retaining only the last two hours of audio. As such, the recording of the takeoff would have been overwritten during the flight to Las Palmas

In 2017, the date that aircraft began production, we had terabyte thumb drives and 24kbps Ogg Vorbis, why a two hour limit?
this must be parody. what exactly is the threatmodel where memory-safety matters for a calculator? did these devs miss the point of popping a calc.exe? surely no bc has ever been used for LPE or RCE.
> With these private companies I get access to all this data for free.

These companies are already receiving government data for free. And then enriching it with private weather station data (and ads). So your taxes are already funding some part of it.

As computing power being used for forecasting increases (14.5 petaflops each for both Dogwood and Cactus NOAA supercomputers), having more granular data is going to be useful in improving their models.

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-completes-upgrade-to-...
As professionals, they should be aware of how they come across in public. I'm not saying they are incompetent at all (although I've met a few where that could be debated) but that they make themselves appear incompetent by complaining in public about their jobs, to people who also do the same or related job but don't have so many complaints about it.

Having a rough day is one thing. Having a feed full of complaints about how grueling the biz is, is a whole different can of (annoying) beans.

Ironically two of the most belly-achy of people I know in the biz are also tutors. I wouldn't want a tutor that complains so constantly about what it is they're teaching. We've all had school teachers that hate their jobs. They make the class excruciating.

It's truly an appearance thing. If you have one of the enviable jobs on the lot, why sully it by complaining about how badly you apparently can't handle it?
> It's just a set of observations.

I've never heard anyone but Collier put forward this perspective on "dark matter", and I can't recall any other physicist using the term in a way consistent with that perspective. Frankly I think she was off base. Her videos are fun but her takes on terminology are often pretty bad.