skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I know. I took the "did the Russians struggle just as much?" question qualitatively, as in, yes, the Mig-21 was also notoriously unsafe and the Russians struggled with it, too.

Their track records would be very difficult to compare even if detailed operational history were available.

Figures from some external operators are comparable. For instance, slightly less than half of the CF-104s operated by the Canadian Air Force ended up in some accident or another, slightly more than half of the Indian Air Force's Mig-21s were lost in crashes. I'm specifically mentioning the Canadian Air Force's experience because their CF-104s flew longer hours than just about any other F-104 variant. However, that's almost twice as bad as the figures Federal Germany got (just south of 300 out of their 900-something aircraft).

Thing is, Mig-21s were definitely flown to smithereens (hence the relevance of the CF-104s operational history, because CF-104s were also flown to smithereens). Money was tight beyond the Iron Curtain so most airplanes stayed in service forever, planned economy (even in the carefully-regulated defense industry) frequently resulted in supply shortages so maintenance was difficult, maintenance wasn't always top-notch due to personnel and supply management issues, so it's not always easy to say which side of the neglect border each incident was.

It's hard to decouple these things from the design, too, maintenance complexity is itself a design trade-off. The F-117 has a better safety track record than the Mig-21, but if they'd been handed a squadron of F-117s, the vast majority of the Mig-21's (former) operators would've ran them into the ground in a matter of weeks.
Vectorlite: Fast Vector Search for SQLite
ALSA started replacing OSS on linux before software mixing became as critical as it ended up, because people still often had proper sound cards with multiple channel hw mixers.

The assumption that you could punt software mixing to hardware or deal with limitation of only one program accessing the audio at a time took a hard hit when Intel HDA pretty much decimated presence of such hardware on PCs (AC'97 was much less pervasive for various reasons)
I guess something is better than nothing. But it's a shame to be launching something that seems obsolete from the start
I really gotta give mise a shot one of these days...
It was exactly the same when incandescent light bulbs were banned. The alternatives weren't as good and almost no improvements were made. After the ban it took like 5-10 years, but suddenly there was progress. By now even halogen lamps are gone, because LED became so much better.

And in the end it's not the fault of the legislation. If it wouldn't be so common to go above the limit there wouldn't have been any need to a beeping device. Just look at those idiots still arguing about their tachometer being 10% off, always, and therefore thinking it's fine to always go 5-10 km/h above the limit, never below.
The same reason why you test drive a car before you buy it. I would pose it’s only weird from a business point of view.

A restaurant visit is not a long term commitment. The subscription transaction is.
I do not want to hand over early my payment and other sensitive details to a counterparty that I do not know or trust (yet).

(I built a whole business around helping other people avoid this too.)

Yes, freebies are nice, but so is privacy and not having to fight bad card charges.
As a cyclist I've never been more terrified of riding on Irish roads which is a shame as the scenery can be spectacular
I don't really understand it. Tried it on some fund site and it didn't really do much besides apparently grepping for links.

The example should show how to literally find and target all data as in .csv .xlsx tables etc and actually download it.

Anyone can use requests and just get the text and grep for urls. I don't get it.

Remember: pick an example where you need to parse one thing to get 1000s of other things to then hit some other endpoints to then get the 3-5 things at each of those. Any example that doesn't look like that is not going to impress anyone.

I'm not even clear if this is saying it's a framework or actually some automation tool. Automation meaning it actually autodetects where to look.
The US is sending military payloads with private, low-cost commercial launch provider SpaceX.

The success of this model hasn’t gone unnoticed by China, who are funding several private rocket companies (such as Space Pioneer) to develop reusable launch platforms in competition with the state-owned contractor CASC. They are making rapid progress!
Maybe he's defensive because of his username is similar to Aryan too
No, because despite how effective the establishment has been at co-opting and poisoning the term, "woke" comes directly from the black activist community, and pretending that legacy and context doesn't exist and isn't relevant to the conversation would be... tone deaf at best?

"Wokeness," in the original intended sense - the sense for which people have given their lives in the streets and suffered the arbitrary brutality of American policing for decades, not the sense that incels and racist shitbags use for irony - is the entire point. As soon as your worldview and vocabulary erase the former and continue to normalize the latter you've become part of the problem.
As an European, this project is quite typical for Europe. Technically behind the times, serves French strategic interests, non-competitive on the private launch market.

"Doing something" isn't a goal in itself. Ariane 6 in context of the 2020s is similar to programming a new MySpace app for Symbian OS right now. Hard work, costly, needs a lot of qualified workforce, and the product has very limited audience.
"but muuuh SpaceX ftw!"

The inspection costs needed for reusability are undervalued by the SpaceX fantroopers.
Ariane 6 isn't significantly ahead of New Glenn in terms of time. Probably a few months difference for date of first launch. Just as Vulcan launched a few months ahead of Ariane 6.
Bionic Duckweed: making the future the enemy of the present (2020)
No mention of an engine failure and the last payload could not be delivered. It is now floating helplessly in orbit, effectively turned into space debris, endangering other projects.
And one of my favorite songs, "Starfighter F-104G" by Welle:Erdball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC4e1-MUuiE
Could someone explain what happened via telephony?

Telegraph->Operator->Rotary->Touch-tone->Cellphone.

It would seem everyone of these would be a next step in technology and protocols.

Sending a text message via rotary phone is probably not possible.
However, calling a rotary phone via smartphone should work.

Is there a reason why newer protocols could not be implemented/enforced?

Whereby email from proton to tuta (and similar new email services) it acts differently than when sent to the older version of email (current method).
You do know that this article completely forgets to mention if SpaceX got any subsidies? From a quick google search, it seems that this is not the case and I have a feeling that Falcon 9 sticker price is in fact subsidied by the USA. So - why compare apples to apples, when you can compare apples to oranges.
> I am afraid of the compile-time cost.

Even though compilation time is the bane of C++, I think this concern regarding this specific usage is grossly overblown. I'm going to tell you why.

With incremental builds you only rebuild whatever has changed in your project. Embedding JSON documents in a C++ app is the kind of thing that is rarely touched, specially if all your requirements are met by serializing docs at compile time. This means that this deserialization will only be rarely rebuilt, and only under two scenarios: full rebuild, and touching the file.

As far as full rebuilds go, there is no scenario where deserializing JSON represents a relevant task in your build tree.

As for touching the file, if for some weird and unbelievable reason the build step for the JSON deserialization component is deemed too computationally expensive, it's trivial to move this specific component into a subproject that's built independently. This means that the full cost of an incremental build boils down to a) rebuilding your tiny JSON deserialization subproject, b) linking. Step a) runs happily in parallel with any other build task, thus it's impact is meaningless.

To read more on the topic, google for "horizontal architecture", a concept popularized by the book "Large-Scale C++: Process and Architecture, Volume 1" By John Lakos.

Mountain out of a molehill.
>Ariane 6 is quite heavily subsidized

All major aerospace companies and projects are heavily subsidized in every country otherwise they would never survive or even be born. Like how much profit did NASA make over its lifetime?
Your argument is similar to the “it costs less than a cup of coffee” subscription defence, and just as flawed. Not everyone drinks coffee or goes to restaurants, and the prices and experience of restaurants and coffee aren’t the same around the world. Don’t try to make comparisons between digital and physical purchases with no analogue.

If I go to a restaurant I can pay cash or do it securely with a card. If I don’t like it, I’m free to never return and not think about it again. When I pay for a subscription, unless it’s via the App Store’s in-app purchases I’m giving you a name and credit card number, and have to remember to cancel it if I don’t like it, but even if I do I have to trust you with the information I already gave, or send an erasure request then trust you’ll honour it, and, and, and.

It’s a fundamentally different experience. No, you don’t go to a restaurant and ask for free bites, but after visiting a restaurant you don’t have to spend months fighting them to stop sending spam, or worrying that they charge you again even if you didn’t eat there, or worry they’re selling your data to other unscrupulous companies, or, or, or.

It’s not about the cost. Your subscription could be $0.01 a year and it would still demand more trust than a restaurant.
This is so cool. Thanks!
You can easily get the first part of via the sdk https://cloudonaut.io/record-aws-api-calls-to-improve-iam-po....
I think the first terminal-to-host connection I used at university was 300bps. That's about 30 bytes a second, and watching the characters of a large block of text appear on screen, it did feel like I could almost count them as they went past.

So I can attest from personal experience that a double-digit number of bytes per second is enough to perform useful work, yes.
This is great! Now we're waiting for Themis to become a reality.
“It’s not my money.”
There is a lot more to meeting a customer’s needs than blindly doing what they say. Sometimes, you need to write code to protect them from their own (sometimes-but-not-always rational) decisions - or to protect other customers and stakeholder from them.

You also need to keep your own team nimble. I’ve seen plenty of systems that have just thrown code at the product, and they end up with SQL tables with 150 columns - most of which nobody uses, and which can’t be removed, and the customer ends up pissed off anyway because you can no longer turn their requests around quickly.

A good, layered design mitigates against this and makes it possible to continue to be productive even in the face of customer demands.

Externalising customisations is a huge benefit to productivity.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/haaretz/

Rated High on fact checks.
I love this new generation of tech illiterate bloggers, would it be too much trouble to make www version of website working. So much for devops lol
It's not that easy. I mentor at hackathons. Early on, even with GPT-4, lots of people thought the key was thinking up good ideas and getting LLMs to build them. Most still didn't get their apps up by day 2. There's definitely a baseline of skill.

It certainly helps with deployment though, especially things like why import vs require, where to find the API keys, which class to look inside, and so on. I would say we're twice as productive now. If it took you 3 days to do hello world, it would take maybe 1 now.

You definitely still need to read the docs. AI is just great at telling you which docs to read. But it may lead you astray if you choose not to.

Another gotcha is that LLM is the average of the above average skill. It sounds funky but basically GPT still recommends a 2018 stack for Android, which is far outdated, even though it knows the 2024 stuff. We see people trying it in interviews, and many end up giving feedback that they wish they didn't use it.
I don’t follow. You try to educate me and I don’t care. Take it as a sarcasm.
First, honey is not the same as refined sugar.

Secondly the article itself states that it’s the intense exercise that keeps them healthy, not their diet.
That is the problem, right?

EU countries, not having a reusable rocket at their disposal, will have to pay through the nose for every launch, discarding the entire expensive rocket in the process.

Of course, that will limit their ability to launch satellites into space: the cost of discarding a rocket is high (let's not even start about fairing dimensions and subsequent limits on payload size). Wrecking a sophisticated machine after each use is uneconomical.

Meanwhile, the US is galloping towards much cheaper launchers. This means that by 2030 or so, they will be able to put orders of magnitude more tonnage onto orbit.

China noticed - and it is trying their darndest to close the gap.
JetBrains sells very expensive tooling around Kotlin & KMP. If it takes off their path to profit is pretty clear.

That said, building a really good cross platform UI toolkit and framework is really hard. It remains to be seen if JetBrains can pull it off.
How so? What are you referring to?
This is almost weirdly philosophical. I've been thinking about this all morning.
You're dumb.
I think module-null-sink and module-loopback could be used to create a virtual source which combines multiple sources, though the source/sink thing makes my head spin. Or, more simply, I suppose using the loopback of whatever audio output device does the combination (and the same mixing) for you, if you play all audio through one output device (which is most likely)?
This looks like an interesting project but it doesn't look like it's been updated in a couple of years.

I'm always leery of swapping to new replacements for well established tools for this reason; what will support look like in a few years time?

You may have a temporary speed advantage over the incumbent but will the incumbent be able to catch up and provide regular updates?
It's more complicated than that. Even before W Bush, the United States didn't hesitate to twist the arm of its partners in economic matters.

France and the USA may be allies, but economic relations have been complicated for over 40 years. The USA has no hesitation in interfering with or sabotaging the French economy (aukus subs, alstom, airbus defense, galileo), claiming that its law is extraterritorial in order to condemn company directors, and all the drity tricks imaginable.

This is what led many European companies and gouv in the 90's and 00's to prefer partnerships with Chinese and Russsian companies.

Even the British, with their special relationship, have completely isolated their nuclear industry from all US companies for fear of being screwed and at the same time signed partnership with CGN in China.
This would probably last forever. The MD class size is only around 120 people and at 70k per year tuition costs would be 8.4M per year (ignoring that only families earning under 300k are eligible). Modest interest on 1B would easily earn over 10M per year and probably several times that. Hedge funds often manage these endowment funds.
Yeah, error messages start to become more opaque as well which makes debugging even tougher, which is kind of the opposite of the point of using multiple accounts. But really, AWS not having proper namespaces in its constructs that’s ubiquitously supported (IAM paths were attempted. Attempted) hampers a lot of things
Ok so let me get this straight, We’re upset and blaming Bitcoin mining because

-An 81 year old has vertigo and high blood pressure

-A cancer patient has a headache

-A 64 year old man had a blood clot

Noise complaints are a fair concern for bitcoin mining but most miners are actively monitoring this and finding alternative solutions (look at riots large immersion facility and gigas hydro boxes).

Also, how does one deduce that mining is the only cause for these health issues. Any questions about lifestyle, past health concerns?

Time has become a joke.
A personal guilty pleasure is sugar-free red bull. Sorbitol, Sucralose, Ace-k unfortunately.
> acting like that's the immutable status quo

It is immutable.

What are you going to do about it? Confiscate everyone's home gamer PCs?

Even in the most extreme hypothetical where lawsuits shutdown OpenAI, that doesn't delete the stable diffusion models that I have on my external hard drives.

The tech is out there. It's too late.
Graphcore employees have share value wiped as sale to SoftBank agreed
Yeah this is really starting to cause problems as things like this sugar tax push companies into adding sweetener to their "normal" versions. I now can't simply buy a Coke and know it will taste like Coke - I need to inspect the packaging and check if it will taste disgusting or not.

It's fine that they exist but presenting them as being full sugar when they aren't is false advertising.
a) how important am I and is behavior/trait X to my parents? VS
b) extra-familial socio-cultural conditioning aka "how important, from the POV of marketing/superEgo, is behavior/trait X is to my parents AND/OR all the candymen?"
c) deception by previous and within same generation. Are you strong enough to be yourself VS are you strong enough to adapt to an in group that wants you to be a part, a slave, some example?

The physical changes are most likely not directional but are tuned by how much a parent cares and how strong he, she, they are to make sure this desire/caring is obvious.
How Well LLMs Program Java and Go
It seems to me that regardless of the outcome of this case, some developers do not want to have their code used to train LLMs. There may need to be a new license created to restrict this usage of software. Or, maybe developers will simply stop contributing open source. In today’s day and age, where open source code serves as a tool to pad Microsoft’s pockets, I certainly will not publish any of my software open source, despite how much I would like to (under GPL) in order to help fellow developers.

If I were Microsoft, I’d really be concerned that I’m going to kill my golden goose by causing a large-scale exodus from GitHub or open source development more generally. Another idea I’ve considered is publishing boatloads of useless or incorrect code to poison their training data.

As I see it, people should be able to restrict how people use something that they gave them. If some people prefer that their code is not used to train LLMs, there should be a way to enforce that.
Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire
What you are describing is just another aspect of modern warfare. It’s an arms race and an attempt to gain superiority in various areas/capabilities. What you are demonstrating is not the obsolescence of aircraft carriers but just another dimension to fleet defense. Infantryman are not obsolete despite long range artillery, missiles, planes, helicopters, and tanks.

If navies are obsolete then Taiwan’s best course of action is reconciliation with China with the best terms they can find. Likewise for all other countries near China.
I think this is obvious to some people and non-obvious to others. For example, look at all the people in the video who didn’t rescue the kid.

source: I was once the only person, out of plenty adults outside a pool watching, to notice that one of the two people in the pool was struggling to keep their head up. This includes the kid’s mom, who was giving the kid vaguely encouraging suggestions from outside the pool. I thought it was obvious, apparently no one else around did, and I’ve never had any lifeguard training.

Interestingly, the other person in the pool was the kid’s older brother. He also thought the kid needed rescuing, but he wasn’t nearly a good enough swimmer to help, and he was starting to get into trouble himself by trying to help pull the kid to the side of the pool.
The author is definitely confused. Direnv and Nix are not related.
"easily code and build products and stuff"

Those are three different things. Most of these AI agents can produce working code in different languages. Whether that matches tightly defined business needs is a different matter. Writing code that makes a P5.js sketch that animates a cat is a neat trick, but not something you can build a product around. Building products is a broad enterprise and can be very difficult, even with a full team of highly skilled engineers. Google and Facebook have access to the best engineers on the market and even they make products that bomb or go way over budget and deadline. The "and stuff" part is usually the part that makes money. Logistics, financial infrastructure, marketing, marketplace differentiation, and much more go into successful business built on software. An AI agent can describe those things in plausible terms, but can't manifest any of it.

What these platforms CAN do is help prototype experiments quickly. Then you could take it to a Dev team and have it built properly. I think that is an interesting future and will allow more people to participate in the early stages of some projects.
Probably Orbital composites. The image at the top is from them.

https://www.orbitalcomposites.com/
Of course. As long as they are not _Chinese_ servers. You see, US is our friend. /s
New Glenn still has to fly though
It is extremely doubtful any of the allies would have allowed Germany nukes. Back then, Germany (East or West) was not a fully sovereign country.
Build a family.
Disillusioned with big city life, college graduates in China take up farming
I know that Robert Heaton will appreciate this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpQ_W_lQ9Jo
> GMeet can be counted as a part of the browser itself

That's the part that is arguably an antitrust violation.

See e.g. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-browser-bundling-ba...
you should just fly (aka google maps sattelite view) over germany and fly over estonia to see what i mean. i am not saying this practice does not exist in germany but the difference in extend is just immediately visible. Its probably the most obvious difference from a brids eye.
Finding Memory Leaks in the Ruby Ecosystem
How Analyzing Cosmic Nothing Might Explain Everything