skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on the launch!

> The core of what makes a good pilot isn’t stick and rudder skills; it’s good decision making and risk management.

At best, this is only half of the story. What separates GA operations from airline operations in terms of safety is much more involved than that:

- GA (Part 91) flight hours are not recorded so safety data can only be estimated

- Part 91 incidents follow much less scrutiny than part 121 or part 135 incidents

- Part 91 lacks consistent checklists/flows and rigorous training for many particular aircraft

- Passenger airlines in the US (Part 121) have

- pilots that go through rigorous training and check rides on a schedule

- chief pilots that oversee operations

- chief pilots that continuously refine procedures

- data collection and monitoring for many variables of flight

eg: exceeding an accepted bank angle while under manual flight control

- ... and so much more that part 91 lacks

In practically every example so far in aviation, adding automation makes things harder, not easier. In general, the more complex the automation, the harder it is to understand and safeguard against failure.

One safety factor in a lot of small GA planes is that pilots can often lose all power (engine, electrical, etc) and still fly and land their aircraft. Fly by wire removes that ability. Not being able to competently fly the plane coordinated also removes that ability.

The question I think you are not addressing is: there has been a lot of effort to do exactly what you are doing. What sets your approach apart from those efforts?
The problem with following the fiber back is they don't have just one explosive drone and they will happily target anyone meandering into the grey zone.
Scale and context matters. No one else could afford to pay anywhere remotely near what Google is paying Apple. If it was truly competitive bidding Google could just offer some small reasonable percentage more than the nearest competitor could afford and Apple would take it. The reason google is paying so much over where a market price would be is because they want to discourage anyone, particularly Apple, from even thinking about competing with them. Google is paying Apple 36% of the revenue (not profit) generated by those users.

A pretty good argument could be made that Apple would likely have built up and/or acquired it's own search engine by now if Google wasn't paying such obscene amounts. Apple was previously involved in talks with Microsoft to purchase Bing, and even acquired an ai search startup founded by ex-googlers (LaserLike).
>As many have witnesses, the Copilot Chat has been just terrible. I give up on my hopes for the current wave of the AI evolution.

Hey, I'd love to hear more about why you think Copilot Chat performs poorly.

I personally had a very similar experience and eventually decided to build a solution for it while in YC (shameless plug but I wrote about the Copilot bugs that annoyed me here: https://docs.double.bot/copilot)
I'm a bit confused: Can this static information system be used for run-of-the-mill static type checking as well or not? And if so, does a static type checker for this language exist or is one in the works?
Small.im: Image compressor in browser with WASM
I don't see any group dominating the internet in the way Britain/the US have dominated the seas (eliminating most piracy). The only solution is to reach a détente with peer adversaries that everyone can live with, then jointly enforce it on smaller adversary states.
Absolutely heartbreaking. Your writing has been a gift. Thank you for everything.
Yep. Intel is an empire in decline. It's a powerful case study in how you can have All The Money and still fuck up catastrophically. It's Ice America -- it's a bloated enemy in a crumbling castle!
> We want people who don’t think about airplanes as a mode of transportation to start flying

It really depresses me that in 2024 we have some of the smartest, most privileged people in the world deciding that this is what they’re going to dedicate their life to

Shouldn’t we be doing exactly the opposite? Getting people to stop flying
There is this stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid

which is has great properties for 3-d printing and is often used for plastic spoons and forks. Unfortunately "zero sort" recycling systems will sort PLA together with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate

which is bad for the quality of the recycled PET. I put PLA in a category similar to Rayon as a biobased material with problems. (I absolutely love the feel of Rayon and the way it holds colors but factories in developing countries don't do a good job of protecting carbon disulfide. That said, if I have a few rayon shirts that I wear heavily and I'm proud of I think that's environmentally better than a wardrobe full of shirts that I don't actually wear.)
Can you go into a bit more detail here. Seems like there are a lot of hurdles in place to preventing any random from just moving money around?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164240
Presumably these deals with Google will be nullified, but can the various browsers just make new deals with someone else? Can Microsoft just just swoop in and make a deal with Apple/Mozilla/Samsung? Mozilla is going to be desperate to find a new partner...
(dev here) Thanks for the feedback! Most of this is related to sustainability of the platform as a whole. When we originally posted on HN, that was the number one theme - future proofing the platform for users (this also included the subscription aspect) since the majority of the app hadn't gone through any major updates since the initial launch (~3.5 yrs ago). This was just to remain transparent in where we have been focusing our energy.
Can you share more on "metformin linked to birth defects" - my wife is on it, and she's a pharmacist - she claims this has not been proven so far
If apple wanted to or thought they could make a profitable search engine, wouldn't they have already done it?
Really impressive. I wonder how much time each design takes? The video makes it look like it is easy for the author.
XML Schema Definitions for all ISO20022 messages are public: https://www.iso20022.org/iso-20022-message-definitions

There are tools that can turn the schema files into POJO/dataclasses/structs/etc in your language of choice, sometimes with proper data validation. Not sure about Typescript, but Java/Python/Golang definitely have those.

It may very well be lost knowledge in certain ecosystems, but generating a valid XML based on the given schema is generally a solved problem. Not sure if the projects adds anything beyond that.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164240
Using parens is still problematic because they have semantic meaning in most coding languages, meaning you'll still have to backtrack to the opening paren to decide whether the later paren is closing an expression or a string.

> Is this really that hard compared to everything else?

In the languages I've seen that don't allow numbers in identifiers, it's because doing so makes other expressions ambiguous.

E.g. in Python (et al), things that start with 0x are treated as a hex literal. 0x9 would be ambiguous because it could either be an identifier named 0x9 or a literal for 9 in hex.

It also makes integer literals ambiguous, because 54 would be both a valid identifier and a valid literal.

You could disambiguate that with more rules (identifiers can include numbers but can't start with 0x, identifiers must include at least one non-numeric character), but the gain for doing so is so low it feels a little Quixotic.
It's solved for the "cruise in a straight line" sense, but for emergencies or much more dynamic situations like a final approach, autopilots don't really help all that much. We can set up our VNAV and everything, but the second we get an unexpected clearance because something changed or we need to be diverted for a faster airplane or something, you need to be a real pro at using the autopilot to quickly adjust, or hand fly. We're offering a third solution--blend the two into one unified control interface.
IMHO most of hate is just because it is fashionable to hate some languages including PHP and Perl. But there is some criticism which looks valid to me e. g. [1]

Regarding embedded into HTML PHP code - it's a easy for beginners but in a large application it leads to hard to maintain mix of app logic and presentation - AFAIK this feature is rarely used outside toy project for many years.

[1] https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ (very old and some issues may be were addressed but it's hard to fix all of this without creating an incompatible language)
Ask any musician: they never made real money on anything but licensing/publishing fees
So regarding ISO 20022 it is just a format for what is sent and read so each party have a common format to use (this is only partially true as institutions like making their own variant of it thats valid ISO 20022, think yaml vs json). Sending it is a completely different story, different financial institutions use different technologies for authentication and transport of these messages (SFTP, SWIFT, exotic custom stuff, etc..). My experience has not been in using ISO 20022 to send payments so maybe the payments space all use SWIFT or something.
Massivemark Playground: one shot multiple Markdown to HTML
Massive Mark Playground is a tool designed for working with markdown text from various AI language models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and BingAI. Users can paste their markdown text into the provided textbox, and the tool allows for multiple markdown entries to be added, which can then be exported as a single DOCX file
You’re right, my bad on the terminology. A year is definitely optimistic, I just hope that’s the first draft pending appeals. the longer it stretches on, the greater chance there is of directives being changed, lobbyists influencing politicians, etc.
You're right on some points, other points don't match up with my understanding of the issue.

Chrome was a much better browser compared to the default that came installed on Windows, and certainly if someone is going to switch away from the default they will do it towards a much better alternative, on that we agree.

However, despite how much I think Google as a search engine has declined in quality, I still find them to be significantly superior to the alternatives, such as Bing and even DuckDuckGo (which I believe predominantly makes use of Bing) and that people will switch from whatever default search engine Apple sets to Google.
As soon as they formalized a metric to distinguish a monopoly, it would become something deliberately managed by entities who wished to wield monopolistic power.

It would change the shape, but not the definition.
Maybe you needed to work with your hands for a while.
> by creating an SEO industry that's 100% focused on optimizing for their ranking signals.

The SEO industry will optimize towards ranking on whatever search engine people are using
> roll over and let the Russians win?

Or negotiate for peace. It is known there was a solid negotiation process in place and the Ukrainians were interested in it. NATO was not and worked to destroy it.

> Wars are awful things.

...and _Forbes_ acting as a cheerleader of them is disgusting.

> But to paraphrase Trotsky

Trotsky was spreading propaganda. In the actual study of war, they rarely break out as described, and they often have months if not years of time where they could have been avoided entirely.

It usually turns out there is someone with vested financial interests in war and they always find themselves near the people who generate the conflict. Go figure.
Okay, in light of recent UK events I get the subtext :-)

But I don't think it's fair to call UK food bland. Done properly it's very good, but what it's not (usually) is heavily seasoned. In no way does that require it to be tasteless, and done properly it isn't.
> Making the avionics easier to use and more affordable sounds like the actual winning product.

Garmin is the clear leader in the certified avionics class for general aviation aircraft these days. If you somehow manage to capture a part of their market, you win big time.
I don't agree that I'm conflating the two. Actually, some of the things I've seen that had the most artistic merit were awful things made by truly incompetent people who didn't care they were incompetent. They still had artistic merit because unless you're actually bad, it takes special effort to make something really terrible. I guess you could say that artistic merit increases when you move away from the sludge of mediocrity, while craftsmanship exists only in one direction.

>It is also an opinion that makes it difficult to have a meaningful conversation about many modern artists for whom craftsmanship simply wasn't the point of their work.

Do you mean that it makes it difficult, or do you mean that those artists don't come out looking good? Because I'm fine with the latter.
Yes, although it might be unnecessary to do all of that.

I would think that calling recv with MSG_PEEK could be used to read the first byte; if it is 0x16 then it can continue with TLS (using OpenSSL or other libraries to wrap the connection), and if it is anything else then it will continue without TLS. (This should work with any protocol that expects the client to send data first before the server does, and that 0x16 is not a valid first byte of the request.)

However, I have not actually tried this (since I have not set up any servers with TLS yet).
The industry's concerted effort to defeat GDPR and related regulations is extremely effective.

It really is "We have all the right to your personal data, everywhere, and forever. We will fight anything that challenges this assumption. We will make the web unusable and blame everyone else for it".

Literally nothing prevents the industry from coming up with a common cross-browser way of asking for user consent without dark patterns.

And yet the industry's response is "We value your privacy. We're building a profile on you. We sell your data to 1500 partners" [1]. How is regulation to blame?

[1] https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1733421877119324609
I don't think that's really a fair comparison. Like if you wanted to sell ball bearings you could spend $50 and start dripping lead into a bucket of water, or you could spend millions on a factory. The latter is definitely the better business model. What maters is quality of result (latency and tokens/s/user) and throughput per watt or capex dollar, not your minimum capex expense so long as you're running at any kind of scale.
I’m completely flabbergasted that this Starliner doesn’t use the same software package as the first successful certification flight.
Hey catapart, thanks for your comment.

You're right. Accepting credit card payments over the internet is usually done handled by black-box third party payment processors.

Bank payments, like ACH, SWIFT, and others are usually built in-house by companies that move money at scale, like payroll providers, insurance companies, and other old school institutions.

As companies that do heavy financial management refresh their architecture and move to modern web servers and the like, they'll likely need to rebuild it from scratch. This is what iso20022.js plays a small part in - if they're building on Node this is a convenient library for them to use.
Keep in mind that the footage of the computer starting at 13:03 has now been revealed from this article to be from an earlier rehearsal. Now I understand why there's this cheesy fly in effect!
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41158824
Read the article, it also calls out regulations, and the growth of guidance documents.
exponentially slower access and start corrupting them by flipping cases.
If all of these sound like lies to spin economists' narratives and scare everybody into playing into their hands, it's because that's exactly what they are.
It's certainly wrong, but its not out of place w/ the sheer number of recipes and blogs saying the same thing. It's parroting "common wisdom" which is wrong.

It's not as egregious as some of the generative AI results spewed out by the lowest-cost-inference LLMs they hooked up to Google search a few months back.
The data link for the drones is critical for many of the drones functionality.

a) Many drones still are being used for ISR (intelligence gathering). Live feed is valuable. Solving the navigation/guidance problem with dead reckoning doesn't let you solve the intelligence issue.

b) Turning FPV drones back into fire and forget munitions kinda robs them of their value proposition. We -already had- smart munitions that could be fired more or less unobserved into an area, and which could then more or less autonomously select and attack its own targets. FPV drones (in some applications) let you have part of that functionality (you can launch an attack into a general area without knowing precisely what you're aiming at, while still getting pretty precise terminal guidance) at substantially less cost (though granted the cost savings are coming from a variety of factors, not just the sensor portion).
I dispute pure math! It's kind of cool. I mean see this for example https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-find-the-positive-integer-s... (solve frac{x}{y+z}+ \frac{y}{z+x}+\frac{z}{x+y} = 4)
K'exp – Kubernetes Explorer
that's kinda my point, we don't know what the next winning move will be.
That's to have Google be default. It doesn't explain why it's impossible to add others to the list.
Oh yeah, i thought the previous user used them interchangeably. I messed it up. I think it's exclusive in a way that no one else could make the same deal. Not explicitly locking others out, but in a significant way, it implicitly did.

The point was they became a monopoly cos they had a good product, and now the product is not as good after these default deals they made with Apple, Samsung etc.
Even when we build them right through populated downtown areas!

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/8605917/highways-interstate-ci...
Being bamboozled by the elites with bullshit gaslighting
Yes sure, but then I would not use the word "impossible" related to loss of control.
(dev here) Thanks for the feedback. We choose circle to remain consistent with other todo applications (Todoist, iOS Reminders, etc). Semantically, these aren't selection boxes or choices per se. They are to indicate a completion action outside of the scope of a form element.
> Google started when the tech sector considered the search problem "solved". You had the likes of Altavista, Yahoo and AskJeeves. There was some variety (eg Yahoo's directory) but no one thgouth search was going to be a big business.

I don't think the search problem was considered solved. More like unsolvable. Some new search engine would show up every so often and be good, but fall into the same terrible abyss of mediocrity as all the others in 6-12 months. Thus the meta-search engines like DogPile that would search "all" the search engines and give you a blended result.

Google disrupted that by continuing to be good for at least 10 years before it fell into mediocrity. Unfortunately, the web has gotten so big that developing a new search engine is very expensive, and (IMHO) there hasn't been a new good search engine since Google. I've moved to DuckDuckGo, but I think it's only good enough, not good. I was at Yahoo when they launched their self-hosted search in 2004 and it was good, but they couldn't get enough marketshare to keep investing in it.
As you probably know, there is actually a lot of innovation already going on in the Experimental category. Fuel Injection, FADEC systems, advanced engine computers, terrain avoidance, synthetic vision, electronic trim, and so on. I built a Van's two-seater, and the technology I have up with me is night and day different from where we were 20 years ago, let alone 40.

Are you going the experimental / kit build route, or will you be the certified manufacturer? If it's the latter, how do you plan to navigate the FAA? I think a lot of aspirational "GA innovators" ultimately die climbing the regulatory hill.
How about this:

NVidia's focused R&D efforts to improve Intel platforms.

The Intel platforms are still very, very good, and very, very hard to replicate. It took many decades of concerted optimization to get here. AMD is a little bit ahead right now, but it took many decades of R&D to get there.

Other efforts to do so -- even when x86 was much simpler -- went nowhere. Remember WinChip, MediaGX, Geode, C3, C7, Nano, 5x86, 6x86, and that whole debacle of Intel-competing products?
Sounds like a fun idea. I think we should elect and hire a committee to delete laws. Make it a fork of the law making formula.
The current systems seem to be all designed around there only being minimal air traffic, as it was in the past. People talking one on one with ATC, everything being done on a plane by plane basis. Can that really continue to function if traffic increases a few orders of magnitude?

I mean hell, imagine everyone having to ask the city car controller for permission to back their car out of their driveway, state their route and get for approval to drive all over the place without any regard for traffic and let the controller make sure there's nobody in your way.
> Even if you build the train some people won't give it a try, sadly. A lot of carbon was spewed in to the air to fly him and his suitcase over the capitol corridor tracks.

They might be more willing to try if the service prices included the cost of the associated emissions.
Paris Olympics developed one of the fastest tracks – using mussel shells
Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmdPZPWZKw8
Google seemed to think the many billions of dollars spent annually to insert Google into other products was necessary in order to maintain dominance in the search market. This wasn't disputed right? I doubt they are relieved now that Bing, OpenAI and others have charismatic products that appear to threaten their core competency right as the business is declared a monopoly.
You think Ecosia pays any substantial money to Apple?
Nice!
I’ve noticed that I tend to use Pie Menu myself on apps where I frequently switch tools. Like Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator etc. Or for apps that have different modes: like Calendar (today, week, month), Things (today, inbox++), Obsidian (daily note, graph view, backlinks).

For other apps where the keyboard shortcuts acts more as other shortcuts I don’t use it as much.
1989 until 2023 gives a 8.765% positive return with inflation.
X to Close Flagship San Francisco Office
Not as profitable as monopoly. Sharing monopoly profit with Google is more profitable for both and loss for the consumers.

Both Apple and Google make less profits if they compete against each other, but consumers benefit from two search engines trying to compete against each other.
Does space dust fall on the roof of my house?
> What would pass as a high-quality studio in the 1980s is now home hobbyist accessible, with bits and pieces state of the art for even the current decade like the digital processing.

The gear is accessible - but the acoustics of a studio certainly is not.
While true, it is also notable that ChatGPT is not a search engine, SearchGPT is not live yet, and that AI results have only further diminished the quality of search results in Google Search.

If anything, OpenAI has only served to further exacerbate and accelerate the inevitable decline of Google Search.
Yes, that's part of it, but I think it goes beyond that, having observed these people close up for several years. I think for some, it's a real fear of change. Others are closet classists/racists who do not want 'those people' in their 'nice' neighborhood. Some on the left are more upset about a developer making some money than about people not having housing. It's a complex subject.