skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps this could be solved by having the planes run at ground level, using some sort of guideway, and using either the guideway itself or overhead wires to transmit the power by direct contact?
Read the article. It is opt-in.
> give you that defense is not in the same league as banking if you'll give me that defense is not in the same league as SaaS

Sure, though I’m not sure what leagues we’re talking about.

> defense companies do get a lot of leverage based on their federal contracting lines

Circle back when they’re financing a $4tn of assets on $300bn equity and $2.4tn of ultra-short term liabilities [1].

> Defense contracts in general cannot be awarded to firms in bankruptcy or that have been in bankruptcy in the last 5-10 years

Is this in statute or a rule? Does the contract officer have any discretion?

> in a bankruptcy, anything can happen

Government contracts are decently protected in bankruptcy, e.g. via the Anti Assignment Act.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/JPM/balance-sheet/
You're basically just benchmarking the WIN32 filesystem versus a Linux VM in that case. The Windows file system is famously slow. It'd make more sense to compare a Cosmo binary running on WIN32 with a WIN32 native program. For example, Emacs has a WIN32 port where they wrote all the Windows polyfills on their own, and because they aren't experts on Windows, the official GNU Emacs Windows releases go a lot slower on Windows than if you just compile Emacs from source on Linux using Cosmo and scp the the binary over to run on Windows. See https://justine.lol/cosmo3/
Presumably the code interpreter environment that you get with the OpenAI Assistants API [0] is identical to this ChatGPT environment?

[0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools/code-inter...
A Plastic bottle under heat must be releasing more particles

Do new plastic bottles release more particles, or rather old reused ones?
I'd actually go the other way around. I see a lot more value in getting smaller public transit systems onto a common standard.

Getting set up to use public transit as a visitor to a top tier city like New York, Brussels or Montreal (I can't speak to London) is easy. Usually they have explanatory signage and staffed kiosks at all the major intercity transit stations. And good websites that clearly explain what visitors need to know to navigate the system.

It's visiting a city with a lower-tier transit system that tends to pose a greater challenge. I'm thinking here of cities like St. Louis, Milwaukee or Portland. Stations may not have attendants, automated kiosks may not be well-maintained, websites tend to be ill-designed or be missing key information about how to use the system, etc. And, on top of all that, I'm not necessarily visiting there often enough to amortize the (already relatively high, due to the aforementioned problems) cost of getting to know the system across may visits. And I certainly don't want to have 15 different transit apps and payment accounts to juggle. Standardizing the fare structures and payment systems could be a big boon to visitors.

There's potentially more value to the the smaller transit systems themselves in standardizing, too. None of them is individually a large enough system to achieve good economies of scale w/r/t the technical and administrative costs of maintaining their own special snowflake fare system.
Feed your idea to ChatGPT and it can give you some basic ideas about what to learn.
So you're saying dealerships are more of a monopoly than manufacturers selling directly to customers?
Never heard of Cosmopolitan before, but can I just say I really appreciate that the FIRST paragraph is a description of WHAT Cosmopolitan is and does.

There's way too many readme's that just jump in and assume the reader already is familiar with the project. it's a pet peeve of mine
> I haven't seen a code base that used a context for shared state that could be updated from descendant nodes.

I use this pattern commonly. You put a state-update callback into the context.

It's my favorite go-to when I don't want to bother writing all that Redux boilerplate (state description plus accessors plus reducers feels... Half-baked).
The people making content generally have no idea about video compression. Or they only understand it at a cursory level. It's a safe bet that set designers and decorators have no idea about video compression. Early productions seemed to understand that aspect but that was mostly in the days of 56K modems and ISDN lines. It was a small enough niche that only technical minded people were doing it.
I think that's true for tech savvy nerds, but my mom loves her dealership. Part of it might be the experience of leasing vs owning, where the dealership often does maintenance for free during the lease.
“Republic” (any system in which top-level government offices aren't personal property of the officeholder) and “Democracy” (any system in which government serves and is accountable to the general population—usually through voting on candidates and/or specific policies—rather than vice versa) are not mutually exclusive.

It’s pretty common for modern Western governments to be both of (Democratic, often also Federal) Republic and (Representative, sometimes with minor areas of Direct) Democracy.
> I can fully understand Apple's position

They want to maximize their revenue, just like any other company and there is absolutely nothing else to it.

> Anybody who is buying or using an iPhone today knows what they're getting.

You don’t get to pick and choose which features do you want and most people don’t really care.

Anybody who is buying or using an iPhone today knows what they're getting.

That’s what allows Apple to abuse their position as a quasi-monopoly (as a platform for app developers adjusted by user spending they are effectively that in multiple markets).
Any plans for typeclasses?
Exactly. The lie is perpetrated by the snake oil peddlers who misrepresent the capabilities and utility of LLMs.
Probably because they don't want to say what country they are in, for privacy.
You should price based on "what value does this product bring to the customer". For example if the product might increase a particular customer's profit by $1M per year, you should price it at just below $1M (maybe $0.9M?) per year for that particular customer.
> Is it that hard... even with billions of dollars at stake no one can come up with an alternative?

It's so hard that with trillions of dollars at stake, nobody can be bothered to compete. There are really two alternative routes that the industry can take to kill CUDA. I've mentioned it a few times in this thread but their choices are:

1) Revive OpenCL as a cross-platform GPGPU solution. Fund Khronos and get them to brush up the spec and make OpenCL into what Vulkan was for DirectX. There's a lot of work OpenCL needs before it catches up with CUDA, but a Free and Open Source, cross-platform GPGPU API would make a lot of Nvidia's software monopoly irrelevant.

2) Compete with proprietary, hardware-specific CUDA alternatives that implement only parts of CUDA's spec piecemeal. Basically entails trying to beat Nvidia at their own game, something the rest of the industry hasn't been very good at historically.

Option 1 makes the most sense; everyone wins if everyone's device speaks the same language. But the industry is too greedy to desire a true solution to CUDA's problem. OpenCL is derelict today because Apple, Microsoft and Google all feel as though they have better odds fighting CUDA alone. None of them are even close to Nvidia's performance profile or software capability, which is why I really feel that Option 1 is the only way forward.
It is opt-in. You have to “order” a hat.
Gaming.

Even while Proton is incredible - the experience with nvidia GPUs is still less than stellar. So if you want high resolution/framerate gaming - especially if you add HDR to that - you’re still stuck with windows.

I’d love to switch to Linux if I could, I use it or MacOS for everything else.
The findings here seem extremely concerning. HOWEVER, wouldn't we expect to see the negative effects of these microplastics play out in an obvious way in older generations by now? Plastics became common in the 1950s.

(To be clear I would very much rather _not_ have microplastics in my body.)
My city has extensive education and occupational licensing requirements if you want to work at a nail care salon. The assumption that bureaucracies left to their own devices always reach an optimum state and then stop expanding is pretty hard to support.

The FDA had 7,500 employees in the 1990s and 18,000 now. Has the world of food and drug gotten 2.5x more perilous? Or is it possible that, just like in tech, every departmental fiefdom wants more resources and more authority with no special regard for what the trade-offs are?
Hah, oh and blind every satellite in low earth orbit sure. :-)

I think a better headline would be that it isn't "crazy" to suggest you could power an airplane with microwaves, but you probably wouldn't want to do it from the ground. Powering it from a solar power satellite has its own issues as well (it would tend to blind satellite receivers on the ground as the plane flew past).
The thing with bud light though, the beer is so bad that they have to compensate for it with some kind of marketing.

Pretty sure someone mentioned nike above, the same people boycotting bud light are probably still buying nike. Even though nike is clearly a more socially progressive company (or at least, tries to come off that way). Why? Maybe because their products aren't as mediocre or replaceable
its interesting how i imagine most people have a sort of visceral intuitive repulsion to this concept, but it really is a moral upgrade over the current factory farming situation as far as i can tell.
The vague convention, as far as I understand, is that Ex denotes an extended variant of a function for more advanced use cases (e.g. with additional parameters/options) which is functionally a superset of the original function, whereas numbered versions are intended to be complete replacements and/or may change the semantics compared to the prior version.
Source for the 95% figure?
Dialogs are definitely an interesting form of writing, especially for technical writing. On the one hand, it's a deeply natural format with a long and complex history (the Socratic Method, especially, but certainly not alone). On the other hand, we've long disassociated it from "professional writing" which is to supposed to only have one proscribed argument and one direct viewpoint (likely, but not always, the author's).

Somewhere in the middle, is decades of the "…for Dummies" technical manual formula and its stock dialog characters and the love affair many had (or still have) with "The Poignant Guide to Ruby".

Dialogs can definitely be hard to read in the context of just reading a single blog post because you don't have a familiarity with that author's characters and most blog authors don't have a "shared universe" of characters. I wonder if there's an interesting world where for instance the Dummies characters were considered to be public domain at the right time or more blog writers felt confident with _why's unique voices to turn Poignant's characters into a modern "Punch & Judy" for technical writing. The Socratic Method worked because everyone had a shared intuition on the characters of the day (in part because many were famous Senators and/or Wrestlers): Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, etc. (Also, Plato was his wrestling name, these were absolutely characters.) Maybe if we want to use more Dialogs in blog posts easily we need better shared characters?
My guess is that you framing this as forced charity and dismissing the these devices as a "human right" may have an annoyed people. That would have brought the downvotes , but the flagging is probably because of your tone.

Anyway, These regulations are not about Apple. They are about fixing market dynamics issues to protect customers and other businesses. That’s why they target by market share.
That would never work! :-)
3Blue1Brown makes some of his videos with a lightweight dialog format too.
On hn[1], the content submit'ed for discussion - The Featured/Fine Article.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
It's not a stupid question. And yes. It'd be fairly localized, but the absorption losses would be somewhat proportional to the amount of water in the air, so, uh, don't do this on a rainy day. But the climate effects are probably minimal -- the energy is getting turned into heat when the aircraft flies anyway to overcome air friction.

It might also accidentally fry low-earth satellites.
It became clear to me in the GPT-4o launch that OAI was interested in the "GitHub copilot for everything" route. With low-latency voice mode and the ability to take action on a user's behalf, this will basically feel like pair-programming for everything, or just having an employee who can do everything for you until they need your help or clarification.

To power that experience, an app will need to feel "multiplayer" like someone else is working with you. They'll probably bundle this in the API and have "agent mode" that developers can embed in any app or website, or just let consumers give OAI access to control their desktop. It'll also likely work async, so you can assign tasks, walk away or go to sleep for a few hours, and see the results.

This is speculation. But it feels like the interface that we'll look back on in ten years and say "that seemed obvious in hindsight."
Show HN: I added dark mode to neobrutalism UI library
> ...these are small enough to enter the body’s cells and tissues

Same. No training to identify concern vs FUD in health news, but I'm erring on side of caution. We are limiting exposure to plastic drink bottles in general (sport drinks in plastic during/after children sporting events are common where I live)
Amazing that 2% of AI generated videos are undetectable by such a system.
They looked into this concept a while back and came to the conclusion that unless the population density was great enough along the guideway, the maintenance cost was too high.
> such as any human society — you need rules and traffic cops.

We need some rules does not automatically mean we need to put government in charge. Rules and order can emerge spontaneously from the society itself and it is much more accountable to their customers than any government red tape system will be.

> Running red lights, speeding through school zones, dumping toxic wastes into the nearest available stream or river, etc. — fucking things up for everyone else. That way lies failed-state status.

Most of these issues happen "because of government" rather than due to lack of it.
Yeah, trains don’t run over the ocean.
> I'm not sure what was going through his head at the time, whether he'd just learned how to write them at college, or if he just thought they were the pinnacle of engineering.

I think it's easy to forget that a lot of interns might never have actually worked on a "real" codebase before; I know I certainly hadn't before my first internship! For someone who had only ever worked on homework code in classes before and maybe some side projects for fun, it's very easy to imagine that they honestly didn't understand that implementing the hardest data structure they knew by hand wouldn't actually be an impressive display of engineering to the company they were hoping to get a job offer from.
Of course not. How would they be able to get over mountains? Or through the English Channel?
Yes, I believe the legal criteria is "known or should have known" that it was happening.

If the C-level knew, they were criminally culpable. If they didn't know, they were criminally negligent.
The Enron emails dataset
Labels body RIAA sues AI music firms Suno and Udio for copyright infringement
Their blog shows their product: https://multi.app/blog/launching-multi-multiplayer-collabora...

It’s Remote Desktop, but allows more than one participant to connect at once.
She also filed a 650 page complaint which so irritated the legal system that new case law was formed to bound the permissible lengths.

It seems she originally got fired by Apple, where she was a product manager, for leaking NDAed info. It also seems she's been on an anti-apple tear since.

Personally, I worked as an engineer in Apple for several years, and it was by far the most ethically run and conscientiously run place I've ever seen, so her sequence of Apple complaints originates in a non core division, so is not like the engineering core world I was in, but sets off my "wait, what?" sense honed from experience.
Wildfire Threats Make Utilities Uninsurable in US West
https://archive.today/MmGE0
please quote me where I said the second part
No way, that's just for filthy plebs. Us elites need to find the coolest way to move our bodies to places to meet other like-minded elites.
Pocket Z project hopes to rekindle pocket PC form factor with a RPi Zero 2W
Ancient Maya DNA shows male kids were sacrificed in pairs at Chichén Itzá
It looks like you misspelled the word fines. Its spelled the following way: "acceptable cost of operations"

See the tiny fine the government handed the cellular providers for selling user data
Unless you consider Grammarly AI, there was no AI used in that article. But honestly, I don't think AI uses "we", does it? I read that using "we" draws the audience in, as if we were performing tasks together.

Although... I don't know, I've been writing articles like that for awhile. Last night I was writing one and recalled your comment on the "we" usage, making me second guess... haha. Is it really that bad?

Thanks, though. No worries. I assume most articles are AI these days as well.
Push ifs toward the source of data
https://archive.is/ivyym
* The Swiss and the Channel Tunnel just joined the conversation
Yes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_human_spacef... Apparently they continuously keep at least one docked there as well as an escape pod.
thanks for the diagrams & videos! Always helps for visual learners like me
To clarify, I definitely don't mean I've been implementing these structures by hand! Even when using data structures from the standard library or other dependencies though, I just don't end up needing sort-ordered collections very often in my work, and I thought that was interesting (although sibling comments might indicate that this isn't necessarily typical).
This is not about a deal. Even if there was a deal once, I don't care about it.

I want our government to set policy responsively to democratic forces and in best interest of its citizens.
At 2.7% that's 2.7% and .7% growth faster than wages.

Let's look at the bay's wage growth[0]: 11% (or ~1%/yr) from 2010-2020, but they removed CPI-U inflation[1], so it's something higher (annual was ~1-3% in that time period). Which puts the bay area housing at 5%+ higher growth, 2x to 7x worse than Spain.

So, once again - Spain is doing well when it comes to housing prices. Tourism frustrates locals because they think it's increased their housing costs wildly - but in fact it's because their economy is switching to a tourist economy unless they find an industry to grow.

[0]: https://bayareaequityatlas.org/indicators/income-growth?year...
[1]: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0&output_view=pct_...
I dialed them back after reading this. Although I do consider just shutting them off altogether, as it really doesn't generate enough income to justify their use.
With this you can even roll a QR code into a game of minesweeper: https://sdk.scroll.pub/treeComponentFramework/sweepercraft/#...
Wow this is awesome, thanks for the tip
The pre-2000 system happened because Thatcher didn't like having a London government that represented the views of London voters, which was far more left wing.

That it what it gives us: Representation in a region more populous than most countries which is politically often poorly aligned with the national government.

The 1985 power-grab by Thatcher was deeply anti-democratic.
I'm in a weird bubble, because I don't know anyone in my friend group who does this, despite most of my friends in their late 30s early 40s being successful tech professionals.

Many have bought fancy houses (and some modest houses), a lot of them have nicer cars, but I literally don't know anyone who would fit the 'upper middle class' definition who spends money on high fashion, expensive watches, high end wine, etc.

The only people I know in my extended circle who buy that sort of thing either have many millions liquid from successful tech exits (as in, coudl retire) or inherited millions.
Satellites are 10x higher up than planes -- that probably helps.
This button has been pressed 12598 times.

do I win?
Yes but this allows silly transit companies to retroactively charge your CC like in London
The Controversy Surrounding the Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History
Yes, it's crazy to me that Netflix puts so much effort into improving encode quality, and then they don't let most people see that version -- almost no one gets to see the "good" versions of their encodes.

Whether it's because Netflix locks the good high-bitrate encodes to the most expensive subscription plans many people aren't on, or because their "Roku 4K" or "Fire TV 4K" or whatever is actually negotiating the 1080p-H.264-low-bitrate stream, or because their internet connection latency was auto-detected too low, or their device doesn't have enough memory to buffer nicely or whatever.

I bet Netflix is absolutely capable of delivering something really nice. But in my experience, Netflix quality as delivered looks about on-par with "YouTube free 1080p" -- so much so, that even plugging in a 1080p-only-Blu-Ray, is a huge improvement even non-techie folks can notice.
Site is down. What did it show?
The author observes that AI is replacing junior developers/lawyers/other knowledge workers while at the same time producing output that can only be safely wielded by senior developers/lawyers/etc, leading to a future where there is no longer a path towards developing those senior skills.

Yegge has written many other essays I've found deeply interesting. He now works a company that makes an AI coding assistant and wrote this post on the company's site. He flirts with the question of whether he might be one of the baddies - he even frames his essay using a series of horror movie titles - but then shies away from the implications and advocates for his product.
This goes back further.

Teletype machines needed a delay to move the printing apparatus back to the beginning of a line. The two characters provided that delay.

I never used one of these; I was too young.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33

https://www.revk.uk/2022/02/crlf-has-long-history.html?m=1
I disagree.

Collaborative is a very overloaded term, it's everything from Git to Google Docs to screen sharing to multiple people accessing one app at the same time via remote access. Multiplayer is a term that usually refers to a very specific mode of collaboration, where multiple people can work on one project, on their own computers, with their own cursors, at the same time, with all changes instantly synchronized between participants.

Google Docs is both collaborative and multiplayer. Git is definitely collaborative, but not multiplayer, same goes for sending patches over mailing lists..
Ah, yes, brings back memories of Winsock…from the days when the OS ran the hardware inside the box, and connectivity was a peripherals problem.
>nothing developed so far can store energy as cheaply and densely as fossil fuels, or fully meet the needs of commercial air travel as we know it

Nuclear? It has been researched in the past.