skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At least not as long as we continue to allow the agriculture industry to blanket a not-insignificant portion of the earth with glyphosate.

How is it possible that something so obvious and so catastrophic has been allowed to go on for decades? Why have so many well-meaning smart people been co-opted by Green Revolution stories?
You can have extensible structure and fields with JSON Schema, gRPC, Cap’n Proto, etc. There’s nothing XML-specific about that.

The only thing XML gives you over any of those formats is unstructured mixing of text and data, which is more a foot-gun than anything. Oh, and of course, being significantly more verbose.
Well, we've known about the dangers of lead for an awfully long time:

> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0960327117737146
BLIPVERT!! That word came to me a couple days ago. Now I have made the connection.

https://youtu.be/PJP-Ilw_xaY?si=THvq0HE-5GisP7FG

That sound reminds me of the howl of a billion demons. Lovecraftian or Goetian or a forest full of screaming bugs or whatever.
> Why have so many well-meaning smart people been co-opted by Green Revolution stories?

What does this mean?
Choice seems to be an euphemism for everything related to private IT: For PCs there is Microsoft vs Apple. (I use Linux, but that's not for the broad masses currently.) For phones you either pay a premium to enter the Apple walled garden or you prostitute your digital life and get spied on by Google and its advertising cancer.

What would we say if there were only 2 car makers, 2 grocery chains, 2 companies building houses?
What do you mean `{id = 2}` ?

The ROS parameter system does automatic overwriting of values. You end up with different subsystems loading different param files in the parameter server, with each one overwriting values from the last one. It is a complete nightmare.
I didn't want to make a snarky, unabashadly NIMBY comment until I read this response.
For every dollar you lower barrier to entry in aviation, I'm going to be calling my local government representatives to raise it back up by two with taxes and fees.

The solutions to environmental problems aren't to grow markets with technology we know is bad so we have the money to make it less bad. The solution is to make it so expensive for the average consumer that it's uneconomical to do the bad thing at all.
Because the ugly truth is that you can't actually feed the world population any other way. Once your money is in the Ponzi scheme, the only way to get anything back is to ride it out and hope you're at the bottom of the pyramid.
I am "stuck" at the senior engineer level by choice, Having been asked by multiple managers to apply for promotion.

I declined every time. I see no benefit in going further, and I see plenty of potential downsides.
This reminds me of programming languages designed with an English-like syntax in the hope that people would be able to develop software without learning to code. It also reminds me a bit of the Ercoupe, an airplane designed in 1937 with the ailerons and rudders mechanically coupled so that pilots would have fewer controls to operate and reduced ability to put the airplane into uncoordinated flight.

Neither approach has remained popular into the modern era. Of course it also reminds me of Airbus, which has a similarly simplified fly-by-wire control system that abstracts away the details of controlling the aircraft under normal conditions. Airbus promised that system, introduced on the A320 would make planes uncrashable, which pilots promptly disproved on that aircraft's first passenger flight[0].

Helping people get pilot's licenses without learning to fly coordinated turns does not strike me as particularly useful, but there is no doubt room for improved avionics and planning software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296Q
Stall speed is a misnomer.

Stalls occur due to exceeding the critical angle of attack and can happen at ANY speed.
Hard to tell. I have a frequent route that takes me ~ 2 hours of flight (13 liters/hour, 26 liters in total) or ~ 10 hours to drive with around 50 liters of gas. Flying means burning 50% less gas. But for others there may be better driving, how to calculate that?
Logically, the more dispersed people are the less concentrated they are in any one area. Obviously. That said, Toronto is extremely walkable. Maybe not as much as certain European cities (I honestly wouldn't know), but everyone walks everywhere in Toronto. My wife and I had a dinner reservation with friends one night and we chose to Uber instead of walk because my wife wanted to dress up and wear high-heels. Big mistake. The walk would have been 25m, the Uber trip took over an hour. Toronto even has the largest indoor walking path network anywhere in North America, it's something that Toronto prides itself on and was motivated by our cold winters. The point being, you don't need to walk on sidewalks on roads. You certainly don't have to drive (and most people don't). And there are paths all over the place that short-cut through buildings, parks and court-yards etc and avoid busy roads.

And still, you can't find yourself anywhere in downtown Toronto where you're not trying to dodge people or get one second to yourself without having people constantly around you anywhere that you look. Though my definition of "crowded" likely differs from people who don't mind being around people as much I as do. Our friends told us that we would despise New York given how bothered we were by the amount of people in Toronto.

So I'm skeptical that there is some high-population-density major urban centre where crowds would not exist on a level that makes me feel uncomfortable. At the same time, I'm happy to say that cities, in general, just aren't for me. Fine to visit from time to time when there's some special occasion (comic-con, concert, trip to Vegas or what-have-you). But not a place that I would want to live no matter how "walkable" they are. For my preferred, secluded & remote lifestyle, a vehicle is a necessity.
I'm wondering if there's someway of abusing the heuristic to produce an absolute monster of a maze;

Somehow make it so that the top ~70% of next steps in the queue are never the next step in the solution (I'm too tired right now to come up with any sort of answer, but my guess is that it wouldn't be possible to generate a planar maze that way).
It's funny you say that because as an Edge user, I constantly get bombarded with popups on Google websites asking me to switch to Chrome. It's all about who's on top and how to keep it that way, not quality.
Would be great if you can make CFIT difficult/impossible to accomplish by default as well.
I love the idea & I love to fly but building and operating air planes is a shitty business.

Technology wise we could have fly by wire fully automated planes, vtol, and helicopters easily (at least in limited areas first). The problem is not tech it's regulation, insurance, backwards compatibility and scale.

Sadly scale is the killer. You would need a Toyota for airplanes but your market to sell is tiny. You just cannot spread your dev costs over huge volumes of planes. I have seen aero dynamic designs which are comparable to fuel efficient cars but travel at 200mph. But it's very expensive and risky to build a company around it.

What you might be able to break into is Garmins market but hard! Maybe new markets like electric planes or vtol.

I hope I am wrong and you are right. I wish you guys succeed bc GA aviation is stuck in 1970s.
They would still have to go a very very long way to get back to even pre-covid level. In the meantime: propaganda.
I watched your efforts and have tried applying them to my loved one. To be human, to be one with intelligence to figure things out as you have, the digital touch you have made, thank you. Go in peace.
You're moving the goalposts from difficulty to recreate (your choice of words), i.e. copy, to difficulty of creating something without having seen it before (i.e., telepathy).

By this definition, this comment of mine is peak artistic merit. Nobody could've created it without seeing it here — except me, just now!
The movie came first, “20 minutes into the future.” It’s on YouTube and very good, if you like art films.
Yeah I mean obviously people here in the forum know how to spend 20 billion dollars than the dumb executives there...
Ironically, the drones themselves are targets worth about $1k or less. Just fairly difficult to spot/shoot down.
Thank you for doing this.

I'd like to do the same. Any suggestions for getting started?
I miss that time. Xoom, Namezero, Bravenet, Napster...
One of the biggest barriers at this point is probably getting a medical. There are tons of perverse incentives there - getting one if you've ever been prescribed mental health meds, for instance, can be at best a ton of red tape.
Have you discussed anything about targeted therapies? For example, how the different genetic makeup of some tumors are used to treat them. Keytruda comes to mind.

https://www.keytruda.com/

Antibody drug conjugates also seem to be discussed often:

https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/antibody-drug-conjugat...
> Although Justice Thomas had claimed the travels were “personal hospitality” and therefore exempt from public disclosure requirements, Mr. Wyden wrote, legislators wanted proof that Mr. Crow had not claimed any tax deductions as business expenses for hosting the justice on his yacht and private jet.

> The Senate committee has not yet sought Mr. Crow’s tax records from the Internal Revenue Service and hopes that Mr. Crow will voluntarily comply with the request to turn over the information, said Ryan J. Carey, a spokesman for the Finance Committee chairman.

> Mr. Carey said that exercising the committee’s power to seek tax records is “a long process” and that if Mr. Crow’s “tax treatment of the yacht is legitimate, he should be willing to say so.”

So what they’re saying is that Crow is guilty until proven innocent, they don’t have any actual crime, and they want him to volunteer his tax returns to the committee so they can go on a fishing expedition?
For my part, I find it questionable to invest in and develop a transport technology that consumes seven times as much fossil fuel as a car.

You give consumption of 7 gallons in cruise mode. I don't want to know what is burnt during take-off or landing.
Angry Passengers Sue CrowdStrike over Outage-Related Flight Cancellations
One key difference I see between something like this and an ultralight is the danger to people on the ground. A few thousand pounds moving at up to 200mph or so (potentially 300+ after structural failure) is a lot of kinetic energy.
Nitpick: "Manual lever" not level.
Who's running this show anyhow. Those WS fools better shut it or be obsoleted!

Brrap! Brrrraap brrap brrap!

WS fools don't know who their dealing with.
I'mma pop up again with this, since it's not mentioned - there's a CLUSTER command that lets you reorder the table data to match an index. It's a one-off so you'll need to run it regularly from a crontab or something, but it's important to be aware of because postgres keeps a "correlation" statistic between the indexes and the order on disk. It affects the query planner, biasing it against random disk access and towards sequential disk access. It's one of the possible reasons postgres might not use an index that otherwise makes sense - the random disk access penalty is too high.
This game blew my mind when I discovered it in an Apple computer lab as a 7 year old. I emailed back and forth with Zilpha Keatley Snyder for years, and she always replied within 24 hours of an email, like clockwork.

I read the books much later (in my 20s) and while stylistically I found them hard to get through, I can see how they also would have stretched my mind if I'd found them as a tyke.
I am sometimes flabbergasted by some of the things YC will fund. This is one of them.

I don't know where to start, other than to say I would never make some of these assertions in public. Doesn't YC provide legal support to the startups it funds?

For example:

"Unlike a traditional airplane, it becomes impossible to command the airplane into a stall, a spin, unsafe attitudes, or other bad states."

This is categorically and absolutely false and wrong. There is no such thing as "impossible". Do not ever say things like that or you will find your own words used as weapons against you in the inevitable court case when something does go wrong. Too late now, it's already out there.

Attorney: Sir, your plane stalled and became uncontrollable. The pilot had no controls because you removed pedals and any industry-proven direct control mechanisms. Your company asserted this failure mode was impossible, yet, it happened. Exhibit A, in your own words.

"we can use MEMS gyroscopes that cost <$100 instead of laser-ring gyros that cost $1000 if not $10k"

Attorney: Sir, your aircraft killed all four of its passengers, destroyed three homes, killed an additional three people on the ground --two of them children-- and sent half a dozen others to the hospital in critical condition. Why did you use cheap sensors instead of industry-standard, battle-tested, fully-vetted, qualified, susceptibility-tested hardware?

"We’ve developed our own control surface actuators"

Attorney (following-up to the previous question): Control surfaces failed to actuate controls as required. You used cheap self-designed actuation hardware that did not have extensive engineering design, testing and qualification pedigree as industry-standard products...to save money...

"own radios and GPS hardware (an aviation grade GPS can cost upwards of $10k, but it’s the same hardware as in a $20 consumer grade GPS)"

Attorney: I repeat the question. Your cheap $20 GPS just killed half a dozen people. How could you justify placing such little value on human life?

"The only real single point of failure is the engine."

False! A triple-redundant design, will, at best, mitigate a single failure and ZERO in the case of common-mode failures. Triple modular redundancy requires, at a minimum: Triple redundant power, triple sensing, triple compute, triple actuation and no common-mode failure mechanisms. Once a triple-redundant system experiences a single failure, it turns into a system with two possible sources of truth, which means it is impossible to know who might be right.

My free advice is to stop talking and get out of this business before you kill people. Seriously. You are not at SpaceX with hundred-billion-dollar budgets launching craft that fly so far away from population centers that they could explode and nobody gets hurt. Before Crew Dragon flew for the first time billions of dollars went into evolving the systems that made it possible.

Then again, what do I know? I could be wrong.
Maybe the payment was to stop Apple from developing their own search engine?
You could make a very winding maze that has a lot of false corridors that don't lead anywhere, so the algorithm would be forced to waste a lot of time following them to the end. Especially if many of these are "near solutions" that get close to the goal but can't get all the way.
I thought glyphosate killed plants, does it kill insects too?
+1

Monarchs are so amazing. I recall in the early 1980s in Lake Tahoe, they would cover entire trees during their migrations. They are the most amazing evolutionary creatures migrating 2,000+ miles over multiple generations, whereby every 3rd? gen on the migration is the Super Generation that has all the 'Valkeryie' Genes that transmit the genetic knowledge forth...

Monsanto and pavement killed the Monarch.

Milkweed is fundamental to the eco system, and (this is IMO) due to its very fluidic and milky nectar that was consumed by many, it was an easy vector for Glyphosate which is literally feeding Krokodile (russian battery-acid-heroin) to Planet earth. - but being the Monarchs Sole food....

We are doomed to the petrochem blight (its not about "electrical power" -- its about forever chemicals and extinct entire food chains.

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There is a great documentary on Teflon called "The Devil We Know" - regarding teflon forever chemicals in all of us. I was milling about in the garage and I needed some tape for the hose I was fixing - an I grabbed a roll of teflon tape for the threading -- then it hit me.

My dad owned the Timberland Water Company in Tahoe. growing up he was plumbing here and plumbing there... every where a plumber plumbed the teflon tape was there too...

Also, growing up in Tahoe - we were big skiiers - and to eschew the snow we would spray ScotchGuard all over our clothes. ScotchGuard is Liquid Teflon Aerosol Spray. Yum and we would spray ourselves down in that while wearing our snow gear.
> But if it were possible to build a better index of the Internet, Google would do it.

Not when it's detrimental to their sources of income, i.e. Ad Sense.
It is LLM generated code so I imagine it would be more work to create any semblance of a proper Python package structure.
That's like saying anything with four tires and a motor is a sedan. Name economic systems (including socialism) have the right to create businesses and own property. Capitalism is ownership of private ventures by an investment class who reap the profits (paying the employees as little as possible); socialism is when companies are owned collectively (most may be owned by employees, some may be owned nationally). Everything else is unrelated.
On top of what Steve said, illumos does support all of the required APIs here, but the Rust libc crate was just missing definitions for them. It's not a tremendously exotic platform the way something like Haiku is.

Edit: also worth pointing out (again) that the bug actually exists everywhere -- it was just being masked on the other platforms.
Custom schema means nothing against improper implementation
ITT: People not understand the basics of a monopoly.
Its amazing that the two religious nations Pakistan and Bangladesh have been failed states and the one secular country India has made it.

A very clear A/B test which shows mixing governance and religion is a terrible idea. So it is strange that India is now moving towards religion and more importantly we are doing this here in the US?

Did Christopher Hitchens teach us nothing?
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> "As a result, farmers increased glyphosate use while reducing the use of other herbicides," Swinton noted. "This became particularly concerning for monarch butterflies since their host plants are strongly associated with row crops and their numbers began a sharp decline during the period of glyphosate adoption."

It kills the plants where insects happen to live and breed.
This isn't some random thing, it's been available under the brand alpecin.com/ for probably a decade. They even sponsor a Tour de France team.
Heh, I didn't read the whole thing, just the opening and closing paragraphs.

I found this amusing:

"Last year I started saying that within five years Intel would be out of the processor business. Afterwards I did wonder a bit about whether I was being too extreme, but those momentary waverings are now past"

This remark was said in May of 1992. Intel's stock would go on to rise by over 4,000% over the next 8 years. :)
A niche thing maybe, but XML has comments, which I appreciate.
yeah, this is one common claim about sprinkles - that the pattern can't be reproduced. Is that so true? Manually, sure, probably, perhaps. But if sprinkles signing is common enough, or the attacker has enough budget - and they do - then sprinkles matching deserves a machine. A sprinkles printer.

And if you have a standard algorithm which converts a sprinkles picture or three into a hash. Then now you have a precise target for the machine to benchmark against.
Some instruction sets are variable length, there are also things like thumb and the 'compressed' riscv extension.

If you compress each instruction one at a time into a variable number of bits the ability to jump to any instruction is preserved but compression is hurt by not being able to use cross-instruction conditional probabilities and having to pack things into integer numbers of bits.

One could imagine a compression format that had 'jump points' -- compiler selection locations where it was possible to jump and decode from, so that you'd only take the above losses at potential jump targets.

You could go further an imagine the instruction set having some kind of constrained short jump forward a limited distance (by simply letting the decoder decode that way) or that can go back a limited distance without using a jump point so long as there was no way for controlflow to change out from under it.

I wonder what percentage of instructions would need to be jump points in such a system?

But I think this is mostly of academic interest: except in very small embedded devices code size is not a huge performance driver and like anything else you get diminishing returns from further optimizations. Variable length multiple-of-bytes instruction sets like x86 probably get a significant fraction of the potential compression gains and do so without a lot of complexity.
If I understand your numbers correctly, that’s like, ~0.25% a year. Is that accurate?
Hi from the US.

You don't seem to understand that what you see as problems to be solved are seen as features by half of our politicians, who would rather have people not vote at all.

These are the vulnerabilities of in-person voting that mail-in voting does not have.

>If the idiots here can organize an in-person voting election, anyone can.

No, that's not the case. I can't organize elections in Texas because I'm not in charge of organizing elections in Texas.

And people in charge of elections in Texas make sure that urban neighborhoods (which are likely to vote for the other party) don't have enough polling places to go to.

Oh, and did you know it's common in the US to have churches as polling locations? It's especially great when you're voting on issues like separation of church and the state, abortion, gay marriage, etc.
Then banks would adopt ethereum. And use Iso20022.
Supreme Court Justices should be above reproach, and if Crow wants to clear his name before a lengthy process he has the opportunity to do so.
One company has a history of generating revenue, the other doesn't.
While I share your passion, there's still a front end. The front end vs back end of a cpu core exists as long as the logic for decoding an instruction is separate from that of executing. In an AVR core, the "instruction decode" and "instruction register" blocks are the front end, and the ALU is the backend. The first image result for "msp430 cpu core block diagram" for me was [1] which has the first block saying "front end". So like I get it but just because we work on the smallest cores doesn't mean they're alien tech compared to the newest Neoverse or AVX-512 monsters.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ch-Srinivas/publication...
Like any certified engineering discipline.
Okay, gotcha. That makes sense! I was getting stuck on where I should send the end result, but I'm guessing if I were doing financial work, I would already have an endpoint from my partner financial institution that would expect this kind of data.

Thanks for the explanation!