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I find this whole concept somewhat disturbing. It sounds like he is trying to democratize aviation by creating an airplane that just about anybody can fly without any pilot training. This is so far removed from the reality of the FAAs perspective, that I do think it is destined to fail. This aircraft will never be certified by the FAA, it would cost hundreds of millions to do so and will certainly not allow automotive grade hardware. The FAA will never lower their standards for Pilot training, and hardware certification, so that any pilot that does fly this airplane will still have to meet airman certification standards (ACS) as all other pilots, and that means learning to mitigate the things that this company is trying to eliminate. Although our technology has certainly advanced significantly, history has shown that this so-called “airplane for everybody” is doomed to failure. This has been tried many times before, but the reality is that Pilot training and experience is the most significant factor and the greatest hurdle to creating more pilots in our world. This idea of anybody simply getting in an aircraft and going anywhere you want to go, much like you would get into a car, may indeed happen, but it will not be with a human pilot, this will happen when we have autonomous drones and everybody inside the aircraft is simply a passenger, not a pilot.
Sorry to be a party pooper, but don’t expect this concept to really materialize, I think the people working on this are young dreamers who have yet to learn the reality of aviation law. All too often, the pace of technological innovation, drastically exceeds the pace of legal change and oversight by the FAA (and for a very good reason).
Yes, there are indeed a lot of things that can improve in general aviation, but that change will happen at a snails pace, It will be very expensive, and I do not see that changing anytime soon. On a more positive note, we are seeing significant technological changes in our general aviation cockpit. Also, if you look at statistics and something called the Nall report, the last 25 years has shown a drastic reduction and accident and fatality rates in general aviation, something we need to be proud of!

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How about thinking deep on the reasons that made you hate what you have loved once and maybe work on it?
No. He's legitimately done a terrible job the last few years across most of his businesses.
> Meanwhile Windows Start Menu is locked to Bing

Not in the EU market.

They recently decoupled that part (search, but I don't know if they did it for edge too) and made bing in the start menu a store app that can be uninstalled if you don't want it to be available on your system anymore.

And are providing APIs for others to use:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/apps/develop/searc...

The only reason why you can't use google there is because.. Google doesn't care. Just like how they never released apps for the Windows Phone store, they have no intention of touching the one on Windows.

Microsoft has been hit so many times by the EU that they really care to respect our regulations now. Not just the "letter of the law" but the "spirit of the law" too.

The same should (or has already happened, I don't know.. because I actually use Edge and didn't care to look deeper into it) happen for Edge:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/5/23859537/microsoft-windows...

Of note, among the things that have changed recently in Windows 11, you can disable the news page from msn on Widgets, and Teams is no longer a part of Windows.
Just getting an interview isn't easy for most in this economy.

Or maybe I'm just thoroughly unlikable.
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For example there exist quite a lot of pure math papers that are so much deeper than basically every AI stuff that I have yet seen.
Mini PyTorch from Scratch Using NumPy/CuPy: A Comprehensive Tutorial
We start gently by introducing the concept of derivation, then move on to function optimization. From there, we build our first neural network, followed by convolutional neural networks for classification, regression, segmentation, and image generation. Finally, we conclude with object detection - YOLO. Everything built from scratch.
I haven’t done any piloting. If I could convert a 250 mile trip from a 5 hour drive to a 90 minute flight, I would take my family of 4 to many more places. I’d be willing to invest several months in the requisite training.

Currently I won’t do that at all because (1) way too dangerous, (2) way too expensive, (3) not obvious how to start.

Honestly, I’d love a subscription model for this. I’d pay an initial fee for training. Certify me when I’m safe. Then let me pay to get the airplane and fuel for a specific journey. Handle all the maintenance for me. Check my work on planning. Have a real expert available on integrated speed dial to talk me through anything complicated.

If this winds up being fun and fast, I’m willing to pay more for it. The specific trip I’m looking at would cost $800 to fly with a standard airline. I’d pay double that to self-fly. The premium gets me convenience (I control the exact departure time, less airport hassle) and adventure (flying!).
> Oh, you know the ones

I don't. Which ones?
San Jose has this problem where instead of acting like a top 20 city they act like Lubbock.
Curious what you (and others) mean with "AI bubble popping". I mean, in practice?
Crypto was a bubble (or well, a hype) in that almost none of the proposed applications ever looked remotely plausible, even to a superficial assessment. (Meanwhile, BTC is still around $50k).

But the "AI bubble"? Are we going to discover that none of the LLM-based applications that are being developed now actually works (despite many having already been working for years, e.g. copilot) AND at the same time that further improvements, both in the LLMs themselves and in the code surrounding them, are impossible- in other words, that LLMs, after four or five years of development at most are already a mature technology? Are we not going to find any new use cases for agents that have almost the skills of specialists, minus some kind of cognitive impairment? Honest question, I don't understand.
Because in reality, as in statistically, SF is actually not that dangerous.

People say this about any vaguely blue city, which is almost all of them. But they forget Urban areas are very dense. You're actually more likely, per capita, to die to gun violence in rural America. It's just very hard to see that because the coverage isn't there and the actual amount of deaths is lower.
I don't think he can get the required certifications and charge a reasonable price for this plane. There are not enough people interested in a personal airplane at any price to support the costs to bring a new one in the air. You can rebuild all current airplane's (most built before 1980) for much less than the costs to certify a modern replacement, and only then can you start asking what it costs to build that replacement. Which is why we rebuild old airplanes all the time - it is wouldn't pass modern regulations but since it already exists it is certified.
Yes, that's how politicians and activists are shifting blame from their lack of interest in solving the issue to sacrificial goats.

The streets are full of homeless and drugged out people? That's not the reason restaurants are failing, it's the tech bro's cafeteria!

The house prices are sky high? It's not single house zoning and politicians blocking any house building, it's the rich tech bros gentrifying your neighborhood!
No, "age" is not only a preexisting word, it's one that's common as dirt.

Having the rust port be "rage" only compounds the problem.

The author's rather Italian-looking name tends to suggest that he wouldn't view a hard G as a possibility for the word "age" either (and the pronunciation link specifically goes to a synthetic Italian pronunciation of the word "aghe"...), so something else is going on.
Y'all are sleeping on HTTP/3
Yeah by the same token I love trains too. I’d happily get the train between Bergamo and Liverpool but as it stands we’d probably be talking €500 and 12-24 hours with multiple changes. Flights can be had from €20.
It has been reported. The feedback number is right there in the following post. Talking about a flaw you encountered is not “bitching about it”, it’s making others aware so they can test, verify, correct, find other ways in which it manifests… Not to mention pressuring Apple to actually fix it. No one with relevant experience reporting stuff to Apple believes earnestly that a mere report is the most effective path to fixing an issue.

If you do not wish to engage in good faith, you’re free to skip the submission and carry on with your day. You don’t need to succumb to the impetus of making repeated low-effort replies.
Small Batch Thinking in UX Improves Usability and Code Quality
How does Hetzner manage to be so much cheaper than AWS & GCP? Are the other cloud providers just making THAT much margin, or does Hetzner have a special angle?
Ask HN: How do you plan your vacations? And how long does it typically take?
Flask is FOSS, maybe it is not too difficult to add support for this yourselves.
Learning to Give a Damn
This particular Old Man, the oldest in the race, could easily become president. He's already served one term, we know he rewards loyalty. This could be a signal to Google that Trump could rescue them, or kill them, depending on what loyalty they show to him.
Sounds like you were supplying power. That's unnecessary in this case. Just leave the battery in.

The question is if you can reliably push video down a 5 mile pair of copper wires and send control inputs back up. And the answer is yes, even for an unshielded twisted pair. With the right encoding and enough voltage, you can get GBits down that wire.
I can’t find it because X search sucks, but Musk has stated before he despises the concept of remote work.
This is slick
>Freedom of Flight for Everyone

>*The full price of the Airhart Sling pre-tax is $500,000 with availability predicted for January of 2026.

"Everyone" is quite a stretch. It's hard for me to see this as anything but a new toy for rich people.
Those are two of the ugliest cats I have ever seen, no offense.
It should be somewhere in the page. I instinctively scrolled to the bottom looking for an end result but couldn't find one. I was so confused lol
Here in New Delhi, an apartment I was interested in was $380k in April 2023

In Jan 2024, it was $520k

Average incomes here are $6,500. My wife, an assistant professor (with tenure) at the country’s top public university, makes $17,000.

These aren’t fancy apartments - those start at $600-800k+

Real estate prices across the world are absolutely out of control. Every young person I know is angry and distraught. People are holding off on having kids or not having them altogether because you really can’t afford to live in any major city (which, coincidentally, also have the jobs) without both the parents working full time.
Are they asking if we have the ability to, or is it in a stuck up way like “can you not”?.
One of the videos from the well connected tech youtubers (I think it was GamersNexus) said that QA had caught the issue (if you push this bus too hard with voltage, there will be issues) but management ignored it because they needed to compete with AMD. There was also something about pushing previously binned i7 parts out as i9's by pushing the voltages to meet demand too. I'll see if I can find the reference a bit later.
Given the surrounding conditions of lower Market, the landlord would probably need to pay someone to occupy the building if X didn’t.
> It's not actually cost-efficient if you take into account one factor: demographics, or specifically: staffing.

Cars and planes are cost-efficient if you *don't* take into account their environmental and human cost.

Otherwise bikes and trains are crazy cheap.
Thats odd because SF _has_ been the hell-hole people and the media have described it as in my own experiences.

It would seem to me that Chicago, NYC, LA do have "bad parts" but they're distinctly separate from the "good parts". San Francisco's bad parts and good parts have evidently merged.

I do not understand why people who live in SF have to effectively gaslight themselves into believing that the breakdown of certain basic tenants of society is part of the culture of their city.
You know the famous russian saying: in every jest there's a little bit of jest (...and so much truth)
I think the route that doesn't require 300mil people coordinate to solve a problem against their individual interests, which like you say probably isn't going to happen, is purposely growing the plants pollinators need and artificially constructing homes for ground-nesting native bees, treating those things as crops, and paying large landowners to use their land for pollinator habitats.

Our system doesn't know what to do with land that isn't directly economically productive but I bet a lot of farmers would choose a "farm" that requires almost no effort and money to maintain for like 40% of what they would have got growing corn.
Karpathy went on sabbatical before he left Tesla...
Note: “not that dangerous” means you will be confined in extremely stressful dangerous situations routinely. situations that, statistically, you and the frantic crowd will leave physically unscathed

Maybe we should add mental health to these statistics
They have: http://salad.com and others
At first glance [0] Walz doesn't seem to have any stock holdings or reported trades, and his largest assets were a rental property and a state pension. As to wondering what his views on tech might be, IBTimes [1] only mentions the bill he signed that states Minnesota must transition to 100% clean energy by 2040.

[0]: https://www.barchart.com/story/news/27838482/a-look-at-the-p...

https://www.ibtimes.com/who-tim-walz-current-polymarket-favo...
> proficiency is a fundamental issue

Have y'all considered that a fully digitized, fly-by-wire aircraft, of the type that you're proposing to build, would also essentially be a ridiculously high-fidelity flight simulator whenever and wherever it is sitting still with the engine off?

This could be part of your pitch—the pilot could program in a flight plan and then fly it in simulation, practice all the radio work etc., using the actual physical controls they would use to do it for real, then go do it for real all in the same chair.
Thing is, recordings alone are only part of what a musician does. Concerts, merchandise, and special editions of their albums with padding and thus a higher profit margins. If it was only recordings that earned them money they would only work for a few weeks or months a year.
I already said that I don't particularly like the sound, and hard drives, CDs, and records alike can all be lost in a house fire. Of those three media, one fails less arbitrarily and catastrophically.
I don't understand how the author wants to pronounce it. "ag-ay"? It's very confusing that it's an extremely common word which this program decides to pronounce differently.
Or we could just make copyright protection dependent on ensuring that the protected works actual enters the public domain. If you provide the source and neccesary documentation to the archival agency up front then you get copyright protection. And if you don't, then you don't get copyright protection, and we find out if companies actually care.
TLDR:

> McDonald’s royalty fees, which redirect profits overseas, went up by 29 per cent that year — more than 10 times faster than its sales did.

For Australia, it's not wages or ingredients, it's royalty fee.
> If we can, why shouldn’t we?

If we could, i.e. had the means and could know all the side-effects, then maybe; why not. The thing is, we are nowhere near such capabilities. People who think so are simply misguided. Perhaps in some distant future, but my bet is still on adaptation rather than some global climate regulation scheme that is forever likely to go horribly wrong.

>cooperation with what?

I meant human-to-human cooperation. Climate change will for the foreseeable future result in migration pressures, either because a city has sunk into the ocean or previously fertile farmland turned to desert. In history this has so far solved this by military means, I'm simply advocating a more civilized approach.
This is what I ended up doing. I used HandBrake to reduce the video to a reasonable size and then just put the MP4 on the site like anything else. I guess I'm getting a little carried away with my "minimalist" attitude in this case, where I want the video to be super light. Looks like a 2 minute video is about 4mb. Not great but not that bad compared to other modern websites either.

This will work for now but my mind still wonders if there isn't a better way to reduce the size of these. I'll continue to experiment.
A caption from that article: "Warhol also made a digital Botticelli for the Commodore". So many articles over the last few years have implied he made that Venus picture in its entirety. It was created by Avril Harrison, among many other images she created for EA's marketing, for the program that became Deluxe Paint. The image they always show is Avril's image after somebody (perhaps Warhol, perhaps it was somebody demoing it to him) used the brush tool to simply copy one eye and paste it in the middle.
Hammerspoon 1.0.0
Open hardware perhaps?
My original comment was a bit rambly and so I had an LLM rephrase it. However I was editing on mobile so I had limited visibility due to the text input sharing space with my keyboard, so I clearly missed this duplicate paragraph. What I'd give for an edit button :P
The new HQ should have a giant neon poo emoji for a sign.
The Second Act: Thriving as an Experienced Technologist
Nah the EU stays the western world babysitter. And let's be honest, the US doesn't make it easy for them.
I note chatgpt actually does an ok job on that:

>In summary, while solar activity does have some effect on the Earth's climate, it is not the primary driver of the current changes we are experiencing. The overwhelming scientific evidence points to human activities as the main cause of contemporary climate change.

So it's possible for LLMs to figure things. Also re humans we currently have riots in the UK set off by three kids being stabbed and Russian disinfo saying it was done by a muslim asylum seeker which proved false but they are rioting against the muslims anyway. I think we maybe need AI to fact check stuff before it goes to idiots.
That just moves the arms race from anti-jamming to anti-ML targeting, doesn't it?

Litter your trenches in inflatable mannequins (anti-CV), put all your soldiers in ghillie suits (anti-CV), have cheap fireworks ready to spread chaff (anti-radar) and flares (anti-IR).
Founder Stories and Building Context-Aware Access Control with Emre Baran
A Deep Dive into Ollama Models for NER: Performance Benchmarks and Insights
That's averaging the crime over the whole city into one statistic. The point here is not simply that the office is in SF, it's where it is in SF that matters.
People run out of gas all the time (there are a lot of drivers, probably most never will in their lifetime, but that still leaves a lot that do). However in a car running out of gas is much easier to recover from - most of the time you can safely and easially coast to the side of the road. In an airplane there rarely is an airport nearby to coast into, so you end up looking for a place that might or might not be a good option - roads have power lines that you won't see until it is too late, fields sometimes have large holes (wet spots) that if you into at landing speed will flip the plane.

Low fuel warnings wouldn't really help in an airplane - from what I can tell most who run out of fuel know they are low for a while but are unable to get someplace to fill up.
People are not one-dimensional. People can lie and cheat on one day and act honorably the day after. A person can be kind and generous and cruel and selfish. Most people are just of average morality. Not unusually good nor unusually bad. People in positions of power get there because they seek power, so there is a selection effect there for sure. But nonetheless you'll find that very successful people are in most ways regular people with regular flaws.

(Also, I think you misread what I wrote.)
>Curious what you (and others) mean with "AI bubble popping"

Large corps and FAANGS are spending billions on Nvidia HW and on ML training but all those LLMs aren't earning them any money, in fact they're still loosing money just to capture the market share and consumer mindset, but there's doesn't seem to be a profit light at the end of the tunnel.

Once they've bled enough money with no chance of RoI, they'll put a halt on ML expansion and stop buying Nvidia HW. Intel entering at that point would be suicide.
This is so out there. Having a car is not a human right. Therefore I'll now take your car and sell it for parts.

I will also claim that you consented to that. Suddenly there is no theft!

(When I paid for the game, there were no ToS to sign either, so it's fair.)
> The term “tone policing” was used here as a pejorative, discussion-terminating label

Again, not a label, but an action. And it's not up for debate whether this was tone policing or not - it was, by the definition of tone policing. You could argue that it "ended the conversation" but I disagree. If you, or others, crumble and fold at even the slightest hint of critic I don't know what to tell you. I don't have that problem so maybe it's something you're doing, I don't know.

> Any association... is irrelevant

I was explaining the context, because yes that does matter.

> I don't fit that label

As I've said, it's not all inclusive or perfect. I don't even know why I bother writing careful if people are just gonna ignore it and lie about my intentions anyway.

> My position is so obviously right and self-evident

Again, if you actually read what I wrote I never said, implied, or even kind of implied this. What I said is that there's no argument to be had because these are just emotions.

I can't tell someone they aren't sad, or tell someone they aren't happy. That's not an argument, that's nothing. If you say you're some emotion about something then that's that, that's not a position that can be argued for or against.

I would receive this comment much easier if you were more honest. It's frustrating when I go through the effort to plainly explain my position and then someone like you can roll in and just... make things up. If you want to argue with made-up arguments then talk to a chatbot. I'm a person, you can't force an argument I didn't make on me because I don't accept it.