skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't typically have a two sided crash where some other party is at fault like in a car

However, increasing the number of things in the air will likely shift that, at least a little bit. Things at uncontrolled fields can get busy with just a handful of aircraft in the pattern. Add a hot-head and the safety factor drops significantly.

> So it's much more in your control.

WX is never in your control. Just like anything in life, you can make all the right decisions and still die. It's just that aviation is less forgiving than the rest of our lives so (inevitable) mistakes matter more.
>American TV was a desolate landscape

not really, culturally the 70's was more desolate where the 80's was a rebirth.

The 80s spawned Cheers, LA Law, Hill Street Blues, Dynasty, Dallas, The Cosby Show, Murphy Brown, The Golden Girls, Family Ties, The Wonder Years, The Facts of Life, St. Elsewhere. I didn't watch all of them, but you can't sneer at so many shows with such tremendous production values, appeal, and staying power. A number of the actors have continued to be popular up to the present day.

and that's not even including my personal favorite, ALF. You want edgy? try making a show today with a star who eats cats

https://fanfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Alf-Gif.gif

https://c.tenor.com/ELf9Bd2Ho94AAAAC/alf-cat-sandwich.gif

https://media3.giphy.com/media/PS89uO8ZFOXE4/giphy.gif
If they're Commodore 64's you definitely don't want the use the stock power supplies. Their voltages can drift and can destroy otherwise working hardware.
> I was writing a rake task and all I did was write a function above the rake task definition. That function was loaded globally and conflicted with another function. If it’s in a rake file then what object is it a part of? This goes back to my main issue about how you don’t know where shit comes from in ruby and there’s too much implicit magic.

You added a method to the base `Object` object. Everything is an Object in Ruby. Unlike Javascript, blocks in Ruby (of which Rake tasks are comprised entirely of) do not create a private context in which to hide functions. If you redefined that same function name later in the task, it would clobber your original implementation.

> Classes already do that. I’d much rather create an instance of a helper object than magically inject methods into my class. It makes the code more explicit and discoverable too.

You might even want to create a helper class, and include several modules by which to build out the functionality of that helper class. That class might even inherit from a baser class, providing even more functionality. All options are available to you in Ruby.

> To each their own, but frankly your assertions sound like nonsense to me.

It sounds like you didn't bother to learn much about the language, or framework, at all. To each their own indeed.
> However, broadly speaking, given more supply, rents fall. There is just tons of empirical evidence for that at this point.

That will depend, honestly. The popular narrative that backs this is the 1-2 property landlord who can't afford to leave their units vacant.

The problem is that this type of landlord owns fewer total units than those who own 25 or 50+ units. And those kinds of landlords are both becoming a larger majority (their share of ownership is constantly growing) *and* they have the ability to let units sit fallow to keep the prices on the remaining stock high.

That is to say, empirical evidence is not the final authority in a market that doesn't resemble what it did even 10 years ago.
I'm currently working on some airline code. It is amazing how much legacy code written in TPF is there and how restrictive it is. A lot of stuff is designed for straight up screen scraping.
Let me travel back in time and...
Why so? It would calculate the hash, and to reverse it back to the original DNA is an irrationally expensive computation. On top of that, voter simply putting a random seed phrase for doing another 650000 pbkdf2 iterations would take this task to close to level impossible – at the same time the ballot itself will remain verifiable by the original voter.
Both Finder and explorer.exe will mung mtimes from casual browsing, usually due to metadata updates.
It is a common enough problem that there are utilities to bind mtimes to files.

IMO mtime the de-facto file timetsamp metadata, since it is most widely supported. The other file timestamp metadata I found were not as useful or portable.

And people use git for storing more than just source code.

I personally find it very useful to be able to clone my podcast index and have accurate timestamps not just from the commit, but from the file itself.

Timestamps can be important for a collections of files, but they are fragile and often an afterthought.
It "says nothing whatsoever" only if you fell off the turnip truck yesterday, or have a vested interest in defending a massive corporation.
No, and that this observation is not misogyny.
No problem. I also don't think you should be worried or disappointed about finding something interesting no matter what its provenance. As long as it's correct/fascinating (and in the case of this project, the animated output itself shows that it's doing something useful/interesting), none of that should really matter ultimately. I'll take a look at your project, sounds cool.

As for the temporal logic essay, you're very welcome to fork it and submit a PR to make something more formal/correct, but keep in mind that my goal with that was more explaining things in an intuitive way-- there are plenty of rigorous but impenetrable tomes already about mathematical logic!
I wish Ars would have sensible width on their articles, usually the last inch or so are off screen when in half screen windows.
Silicon Valley parents are sending kindergarten kids to AI-focused summer camps
Wow... quite the obsession. BtR was a fun game, and I am looking forward to playing The Dreamsong!
> I could rent somewhere for about £700 per month

That is surprisingly low. Here in the US it is over $1300/£1000. Rent has increased 20% since 2020 due to collusion among landlords, among other things.

Rent/housing is such a big part of monthly expenses that it doesn’t even matter whether you have subscriptions or not. Savings from cancelling your Netflix will quickly be eaten up by any small increase in rent. These are changes caused by large-scale political decisions, not personal moral failings of vast numbers of consumers.
I used to fly the same type of plane like a decade or so ago.

very fun plane, easily carried away by the wind. for people that are not pilots surely sling will cause a lot of panic.
If this story is right and PE firms just plunder why would banks keep giving them loans?

The author mentions red lobster but that wasn't PE that ran them into the ground it was a fishing company that bought them from PE.

They also seem to think PE only goes after public companies when that seems to be by far the exception.

This is just a poorly researched rage bait rant.

If you want something to complain about in PE look at tax treatments.
Innovation doesn't come from nowhere, and demand for air travel is not going away. So if there is a small, personal, innovative platform that makes it easier to test new propulsion technology at scale (in contrast to large commercial airliners that are less innovative), it seems entirely possible that could help with aircraft pollution in the long run
It's pretty common in my part of the US. Maybe even more common in the French-speaking parts?
This is like saying that you know gas power plants are not good for the environment, so you're hoping to get gas generators into more homes to generate capital and demand to fix the problem.

If your company is successful enough for you to invest significant resources into "greener propulsion technology", what is going to happen to all the planes you already sold to get there? Are you going to send an email blast out to all your customers telling them to stop flying now because it's time to pivot to hydrogen planes?
Mel Chua RIP
That's why we are developing an alternative to big web search comapanies with our community based search engine at https://beta.mwmbl.org (main site is currently a bit slow due to dev upgrades). Feel free to join our Matrix.
That's easy: fork the airline. Or have you run out of 2 letters too?
It’s called out that Google pays Mozilla to have Google be the default search engine in Firefox. I worry this ruling will lead to Google ceasing those payments, effectively killing Mozilla as a going concern.
a lot of that is from past intertia. if the default becomes good enough then newer people who don't know what they like will use defaults unless it's so bad/people recommend that they switch
You don't browse reddit often
Will OpenAI's new AI detection tool put an end to student cheating?
The earlier the better as I accidentally chopped a piece out of my display of MBP. Now it looks like a group of dead pixels.
Which is to say, a big part is lack of optimization.

Personally, I think this is fine in context. Context that it is a new formulation and the difficulty and non-obviousness of optimization. Shouldn't be expected that every researcher can recognize and solve all optimization problems.
"easily?" Which one would own Platforms? Which one would own the google3 monorepo?
The students protested an unfair quota system. Protests were met with violence. Government was toppled.

People don’t just rise up. They rise up to combat injustice. You want peace? Don’t push people past their breaking point. When they have legitimate concerns listen to them. When they assemble to shout don’t escalate to violence. Because governments are fragile and rule only so long as the people let them.
> I bet no one even considered the idea that someone in Canada might pay in USD dollars.

Certainly not I, at the time! (In my defense, I was an intern, and was shocked to learn that rows labelled "USD" could not be assumed to be USD. I hope today I am less naïve… but even by today me's standards, that's pretty appalling data quality.)

> I was voted down as not understanding how banks worked.

Yep, I feel this. The best engineers I have worked with make it their job to become an expert in the subject matter they're designing/engineering software for. I mean … why wouldn't they?
Sure, I don’t disagree with the basic premise. I actually wasn’t passing judgement (despite my wording!), rather I was merely trying to say that despite such a massive unexpected windfall, their finances are still in the gutter.
The YieldStar algorithm doesn’t try to minimize vacancy rate, it tries to maximize income for the landlord. So yes, it can be optimal to have a seemingly high vacancy rate if your tenants are paying more.
> US voting system doesn't give you the Congress you vote for. We saw that with Ross Perot in the 90s. 19% of votes and zero representation.

The President and Congress are separate things.
> I think this is genuinely my biggest complaint about the C++ standard library

What do you think of Abseil hash tables randomizing themselves (piggybacking on ASLR) on each start of your program?
Excellent points, it's really these other aspects that get pilots into trouble.

For example it's crazy that most pilots are still taught to calculate W&B using printed charts and approximate takeoff performance.

I think you could save more general aviation lives with a fairly minimal system.

A gas gauge sensor that calculates whether you have enough fuel to get to your destination + reserve. Avionics where you input your personal minimums like crosswinds and weather and it warns you if you're about to accept a landing or flight-plan that violates those. Encode that data and send it to ATC via transponder so valuable comm bandwidth is not lost asking for fuel status when emergencies occur.

A gear down warning. It's ridiculous that we still have so many belly landings and consider it a "good" to rely on training and human memory to prevent them. How much cheaper would complex airplanes be if we didn't have the crazy insurance rates due to this?

Angle-of-attack and spin warnings. It's ridiculous that even $1mil+ Cirrus planes can't detect when you're too slow in a base to final turn and sound a warning before you spin. We have the technology, it's foolish to depend on a decades old stall horn!

A system that parses all the hundreds of notams and filters out the important ones.
Google didn't payoff the right public sector employees. The Christian and O&G lobbyists were able to buy off politicians and judges to get the right rulings so they can continue to ruin the country (ie, defang regulators so O&G can continue polluting without hurting their bottom line, none to minimal punishment for pushing anti-climate propaganda, pushing "white christian values" to children without consequence, the presence of religion throughout government ranks, abuse of religious tax exempt status, no enforcement on donations to political entities from religious orgs)
So they did let the public eat there
> in common parlance, macaroni is a curved noodle

In regulatory parlance macaroni = pasta [1].

[1] https://fdastorytime.com/2018/10/10/name-that-food-macaroni-...
> Obviously you only get promoted when you can promote your work. No one is going to magically guess it exists.

There are managers, like me, who will judge your work by your work, not by how loud you are, nor by how much you drank with me at the company party. If you are a developer, I don't need to magically guess about your work, I can see it in your commits, I can review them, I can see how much, how often and how well you contribute.

As a matter of fact, no matter the amount of talk and "promoting" your work, I will still judge you ONLY based on the actual work. Maybe I am slightly biased against "talkers", but I've found out that doers' work often needs no "promotion" and it speaks for itself. As for talkers, well, they are probably still talking. Maybe it's better if they go to a big company, so they can mix up with doers who actually do work.

The less we talk about the work, and more actually doing it, the faster we can do the work, and get on with our lives, wouldn't you agree?

> I remain convinced that all the people who say WFH should be an evidence are actually petitioning for their job to offshored in the midterm but that’s me.

People who think the only differentiating factor between them and a lower paid worker in a different country, is not their work, but their physical presence and self-marketing tend to work for bosses who enjoy seeing their workers as a form of control. I think it's a match made in heaven.

Luckily, there are also people who are confident in the quality of their work without having to "market it", and bosses who judge a person's skill by the results. Which, I hope you agree, is also a match made in heaven.
Kagi on Firefox requires an extension, which is ridiculous. I am about to find a more user friendly browser. Session, bookmarking and history search haven’t seen any meaningful improvement in 15+ years.
At least in the short term they probably would. Why not take the basically free money?

Longer term, yeah they'll probably just make their own search engine.

I highly doubt Google would give Mozilla anything. The only reason I think they would would be to appease Chrome monopoly concerns, but I don't think Chrome is even at risk of that. It's not the default browser on any platform other than ChromeOS and some Android devices.
You can sell low-level exploits quite profitably. You don’t need to make it, like, an official employment. If you can find gold, why be employed in a gold-mining company for a salary if you can just sell your findings?
No, it means Google paid Apple and Kagi didn't.
light-sport rating, it encourages more people to be in the (already congested) airspace system who haven't really gained all the other skills necessary or experience to be there.

LSA pilot here. I'm curious to know what skills or experience I haven't gained which allow me to be in the airspace system? I passed the exact same checkride a private pilot would, minus flying at night and VORs. I also have class B,C,D airspace endorsements, and I fly in the DFW Bravo all the time.
This seems to be a feature to some people. They must exclusively work on tiny, compartmentalized projects. Otherwise, I don't understand the allure. We use CUE a lot, and when I teach people about this particular constraint (only one concrete value is allowed), they get frustrated, as if the alternative is better.
More than an optimization is a different exception handling philosophy.

AFAIK itanium ABI exception handling requires two phase unwinding: first the stack is traversed looking for a valid landing pad: if it succeeds then the stack is traversed again calling all destructors. If it fails it calls std terminate. This is actually slower as it need to traverse twice, but the big advantage is that if the program would abort, the state of the program is preserved in the core file. This is easily generalized with noexcept functions: no unwind info is generated for those, so unwind always fail.

MSVC used to do one pass unwind, but I thought they changed it when they implemented table based unwind for x64.
The claim that "supply and demand" somehow do not apply to housing as they do most goods is an extraordinary one, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Once again, yes, RealPage might be able to push things a few percentage points up and that's bad, but it is simply not capable of turning Houston prices into Los Angeles prices.
Things don't have to be exactly in the same category to usefully compare them. Groq has emerged as the premiere way to host LLMs at scale at speeds that are dramatically faster than anyone else, which allows for all kinds of new and exciting applications that wouldn't work if you had to wait for 50tok/sec responses, but which feel magical at 500tok/sec. And although the exciting with LLMs seems to be around the training of them, I think if you look out a few years, vastly more FLOPs will be expended on inference than on training.
To expand for people who might not be as familiar, dropping the XML file on SFTP is common in fintec land.

How do you get a response/know if your file processed correctly?
Not just advertising: Mozilla could not have put a “better in Firefox” button on Gmail or YouTube at any price, or forced Google to follow through on their promise around H.264, etc.
So you're not the target customer. Which is fine.
"It's only a $2B decline"
I always thought that the idea behind antitrust laws was that if an entity reaches total market dominance and uses that dominance to keep other out of the game, the entity should be split into competing entities.

What I'm seeing however is nothing more than toothless, political pointing sticks.

Both IBM, Microsoft and Google have clearly at some point obtained total domination of their markets. Consequently they've all found themselves at the antitrust chopping blocks, however these companies have become so important to the economy that actual verdicts are reduced to a "carry on, just don't exert your dominance too much".

Or have I misunderstood antitrust laws?

Edit: s/excert/exert
I think there is a clearly anti-competitive component in this, demonstrated by the recent AI training deal between Reddit and Google. The one that went hand in hand with preventing any search engine but Google from indexing Reddit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057033
The Great AI Unbundling
My personal opinion is that an always-online game isn't even your property. No more so than an account here on Hacker News has me own HN/Ycombinator. It's their server and if it shuts down tomorrow that's unfortunate. But perfectly within their rights as handling their property.

In a casual legal sense, I feel it will ultimately come down to how and what a court considers a good, and how much of a digital good you own. I can see an alternative argument in a case where, say, you end up buying a "new" game at WalMart for a server that is no longer up. In that extreme case I can understand feeling like you were swindled (I can't think of a case where this happened, but I wouldn't be surprised about this occurance). So I can understand an argument where there should be some sense of game you buy when you buy a game.
Self-Compressing Neural Networks – Model size in the loss function
Sony's Stacked Sensor Promises Improved Smartphone Image Quality
I know, but a user will never tell the salesman "I'd rather don't have that feature"
We've been using Timoni in production for six months now. What a breath of fresh air (and sanity) coming from Helm. It's not perfect, but I'll take immature imperfections (that are improving by the month) over the YAML/Go templating nightmare that is Helm.
Show HN: Interactive TSP Solver with Genetic Algorithms in Rust and WASM
I've recently started playing with genetic algorithms, aiming to eventually apply the NEAT algorithm to train some virtual race cars.

Before jumping blindly into NEAT, I first tried out the Knapsack problem to learn the basics. After this, I discovered that the TSP is another interesting application. I've also been using this project as a chance to finally explore Rust, and as someone who primarily works in web, I decided to dabble in WASM while in the area. As a result, I've packaged up the TSP algorithm in a web page to visualise the process and allow users to experiment with different configurations.

I quite enjoy playing around with the parameters and watching the algorithm work, and thought it might be interesting for others as well, so instead of silently deploying this and moving on, I figured I'd share it here.

Any feedback is welcome!
And what is it that we got after all, that both sides were immoral, and no one won the cold war. The advanced technology you speak of in option 4 pales in comparison to what we could have achieved together, which goes to show that your entire argument is bogus. It's not just puppies for everyone in option 1; it's a much higher level of advanced technology than in 4.
Chrome's Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon
> A lot of people will likely wonder: “isn’t removing stick and rudder skills going to make worse pilots”? Short answer: no. The core of what makes a good pilot isn’t stick and rudder skills; it’s good decision making and risk management.

I find it's easiest to just ignore this mindset. These are the people who claim that a manual transmission is "real" driving. (Unlike the people who enjoy driving stick and aren't snobs about it.) The market will favor you and everyone else will see those people as snobs.
I have one that I bet the airlines didn’t think about: split them init multiple smaller companies and restore competitive market /s
Everything that the financial industry does, increases the economic inequality in the long term, change my mind.
Not necessarily. Hurricane debby currently affecting Florida is a cat 1 storm with only 80 miles max wind. But it's still bringing devastating flooding and storm surge damage.
Another Icon A5 then, but non-amphibious and FBW?
> Why is it that you think it's feasible to put all this effort to "scale the market", but getting to something like "building efficient passenger rail" or even "offer a comfortable, fast intercity bus" is out of your reach?

Because personal planes will get them the attention and support (and more importantly, money) of wealthy customers and investors, and building rail gets you none of that because you're just suggesting using known technology and resources to solve problems, and that's boooooooring.

Why solve the actual transportation needs of a populace that cannot move efficiently when you can build yet another stupid toy for the rich?
Apparently, there is a vegetarian restaurant next to the general store past the campground.