skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We don't have trains

If you take optimizing transportation options as a holistic problem, rather than focusing on any individual user who needs to travel those 50-500 km distances, more trains is a far more straightforward and efficient investment than flying cars, no?

>We also have a much larger airport infrastructure and a complex airspace system that handles the issue of flying over populated areas and flying approaches safely quite well.

Well, yes, at the scale of our current number of commercial aviation flights and a very small number of private planes. You're proposing to kick it up how many orders of magnitude, if we're talking number of air vehicles simultaneously in the air? You need to build an entirely different traffic control system for that, and noise pollution becomes a far more vexing problem. That last one, I'm guessing, is the idea killer if we're talking more than a small number of flying cars. If you ever get to a point where this is an actual concern, i.e. there are actually a lot of them in the air, wait until those rural voters get their hands on you and start contacting their state lawmakers, and until those representatives start law-making.

> So as long as things aren't falling of the plane over someone house (which really isn't a problem even with todays airplanes)

But it is a problem that increases with the number of vehicles in the air.

>I think until we get high speed rail, small airplanes are the next best thing

Is it though? Building good passenger rail (no need for actual HSR) is a solved problem with proven solutions, tested for decades all over the world. How many decades will it take to actually develop a "production-ready" small airplane operable by very quickly trained sorta-pilots, and then deploy the infrastructure needed for N of them to safely operate in an M-kilometer radius? I don't have a good feel for what you think N and M will be, so it's hard to tell. But I'm gonna go ahead and guess it's a far less well-defined question than "how long will it take to connect two cities with 200 kmh rail link".

edit: yes, I'm nay-saying, playing devil's advocate while rooting for the devil just a tiny bit, but I'm not trying to be a jerk, and I am open minded and looking forward to your responses.
That does sound really really fun..
What's great about XML is that free text / bank specific fields can be handled elegantly with XML's extensible structure. That is why I think ISO20022 is here to stay.

That said, this library is made to be extensible. One day I think it will even be able to encapsulate any type of bank. For example, imagine bofaISO20022.createACHPaymentInitation or something
its complicated: https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-authentication/
It's a pleasure! To be clear, I meant that you could have a repository that contains all of the information in some sort of configuration language (or maybe in Typescript; I suppose that doesn't really matter) but you use that to generate multiple libraries; one for each language you might want to support. So a single codebase (or configuration base) could generate iso20022.js, iso20022.ts, iso20022.py, etc etc.

It's not simple; it might just be an interesting distant goal to keep in mind.
I've lightly struggled w/ this but I think the Web is HTTP/HTML/JS [0]. Like, the Web isn't FTP or SSH, or NTP or NNTP. You can maybe make a case for Gemini/Spartan/Gopher because of linking, but they don't really interact, so on some level they compete.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
What a wonderful write up. Great read!

Gleam is such a blessing for the BEAM; it's the VM I know best and prefer working in, but for the best of me I find it very difficult to develop software without a (fully realized) type system.

I hope it continues to grow at the pace it has been doing lately.
> Lets say that somehow this requirement ( 'reasonable playable state' ) was mandated. It would likely result in more modular architecture. I call that a win.

It would also raise the cost of development, and raise the barrier of entry into markets.

Again, I am not against this proposal quite the opposite. But it should be made clear very early on what "reasonable playable state" means, and ideally in a way that would not constitute a huge competitive disadvantage for smaller developers.
One missed jobs report is a convenient reason, but I don't think that's it. Investors were upset the Fed didn't cut rates just before that report dropped, so they're doing a collective sell-off to force the Fed's hand.
I can't tell if this comment is sarcastic or not, but in case it's not, I think the reason people are in a "rush to stop earning money" is that they have things they like to do more than work and they want to maximize their time spent doing those things.
extremely lightweight https://www.npmjs.com/package/iso20022.js?activeTab=dependen...
Its different in this case because they were just declared a monopoly by the court.
Can we build this browser in OpenStep?
> It was the first chance for traders in Tokyo to react to a Friday jobs report that showed hiring by U.S. employers slowed last month by much more than expected.

> The unemployment rate’s jump to 4.3% in July crossed a tripwire that historically has signaled recession
$20 billion in 2022 according to the verge via court docs:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147007/google-paid-apple...
I'd love streaming if the client software were actually useful. All of them are disaster in UX if you do more than listening to music in the background. Peak design for me was iTunes 10 and Winamp 2. Which means control/status panel, a queue list and customizable table views for the songs (optional grid view to browse by album). Most streaming clients are click/scroll hell.
They spent billions of dollars putting their product into other products by default, and meanwhile conglomerate interests make it a worse product every year, while they do in fact maintain a monopoly.
I'm not sure how "you should never use CrowdStrike" is an argument in CrowdStrike's favor.

I guess you're saying they shouldn't have outsourced in the first place? Which does sound like the correct conclusion in this case...
> We face a number of challenges simply letting our paying customers change their search engine:

I use Kagi's extensions to maintain Kagi as default search across many devices and browsers. It's been seamless across Firefox/Waterfox/etc instances.

IIRC, Kiwi and Brave were fairly agreeable (I avoid Chrome, Edge). Opera was a pain because Opera is a pain about everything.

I appreciate the effort you+team have put into this.
I seem to recall they do this the way other similar things do, which does not involve sending your passwords anywhere.

When they do is hash your password, then take something like the first 20 bits and send that to a site that keeps a list of hashes of known leaked passwords. That site returns all the hashes that start with that 20 bits. Chrome than checks that list to see ifthe full hash of your password is on it.
Nope this is literally my estimate of how much the experiments cost for the paper alone (reagents, animals, and the labor for these experiments).
See, this is what I mean. These people are doing it all on their own, of their own volition. There is no big bad bogeyman behind them. They're just NIMBYs. They are that way for a variety of reasons, which is an interesting topic on its own, but I've met and talked with them and they have arrived where they're at without some Shadowy Corporation paying them off.
There is world of difference between rendering rich text in graphics mode, and working in text mode, even if you don't have any images involved.
You should read the next paragraph!

> While a significant number of gamers still prefer physical media (for resale, sharing or longevity purposes or lack of internet), the vast majority of the industry is and will continue to be digital.
Digitalization of aircraft is a really interesting space right now! Even local legislatures are talking to media about "vertiports" (ostensibly to justify the CEOs flying to the office, we promise it's coming to you), though I really wonder how they'll drop an R44/66/Bell505 sized aircraft into a business park because of the noise.

I'm watching two companies in this space(I guess 3 now!):

Hill Helicopters[0] is working on a ground-up build of an aircraft, turboshaft engine, and an avionics suite that you can "drive like a car". It's an enormous undertaking, and I'm not sure if they'll pull it off or not.

The second one is Skyryse[1] and their SkyOS. They're focusing on the avionics like you guys, and putting it in an R66 initially, though they plan fixed-wing versions as well. It is also intended to be a single-stick input which can handle emergency situations automatically; they've already demonstrated their first automatic manned autorotation.

I do think that one of the bigger problems in aviation is cost. Most people can't afford an aircraft whether it flew itself or not. This leads to people not flying enough to become excellent and safe pilots. I've been working on my rotorwing addon and the R44 time is $750/hr!?! If you look at the cost of aviation indexed against median income, it has increased over 5x since the cessna 172 era. In cities, another big problem is hangarage, these have waiting lists currently in the decades and costs in the range of a new home.

Another area I'd really like to see more innovation in is aircraft design. Besides Mr Ruttan, everyone just builds tried and true designs and rarely explore the edges of what is possible.

I will also say, while I think that the range you're targetting is smart, and the mass of mostly unused airfields is staggeringly sad to me, there are a lot more issues than just getting there that need to have infrastructure that I'm not sure will be easy to scale.

I think the reason we see gov talking about vertiports now is because in medium-to-large cities they are completely lost on how to solve the traffic issues (hence rich powerful people asking for them). One area that I don't think aviation looks at enough is relatively short-range travel. If you think of a time-topography map of a city, you could make a much larger city, by area, if you can shrink the time it takes to travel (i.e. same QoL if I can go 50mi in 15min vs 10).

0. https://www.hillhelicopters.com/

1. https://www.skyryse.com/
Both Microsoft and Apple do password checks in a privacy preserving manner, where they do not have cloud access to it.

I’d assume Google do the same. Do you have any evidence they have access to your data?
> Save for retirement, people!

The article names many reasons why it isn’t so simple. None of those reasons are that Gen Z decided against saving money.

I do agree that opening with a quote about other larger issues may not have been helpful. It’s not like other generations didn’t have to worry about e.g. nuclear war. It’s really not the point though.
Yup - see https://docs.iso20022js.com/quickstart#step-4-send-the-payme... if you wanna see how that's done
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95426?hl=en&co=GENI...
> Why not use alphanumeric characters?

This suggestion is also obviously trivially discarded: it is safe to assume that many, many, many systems expect only numbers in those fields, and will blow up if they encounter letters.
Agreed. Add colour and/or text to this pie menu and it is perfect.

The most well-known implementation of the concept was in the Sims 1, where actions for the active sim were clearly labelled. The menu was a nest of unlimited depth. Good to see someone bring it to the desktop, but it would be better if it were more like its forbearer.
> Online games that aren't sold as services (like WoW with a subscription) wouldn't need to work online or with servers.

Absolutely agree, but fact is, games which rely on a centralized server architecture for the actual purposes of playing them do exist, and are thus a factor that needs to be considered.
"Investor owned homes" also includes an absolute ton of housing where someone owns a second house and rents it out.
seems like these days most of the payment is 36% of ads in Google searches, but maybe there is also some money sent specifically for it to be the default.
Chrome is not anyone's default browser, but it still has dominance. People will be bothered a little under some circumstances.
The most common place where noexcept improves performance is on move constructors and move assignments when moving is cheaper than copying. If your type is not nothrow moveable std::vector will copy it instead of moving when resizing, as the move constructor throwing would leave the vector in an invalid state (while the copy constructor throwing leaves the vector unchanged).

Platforms with setjmp-longjmp based exceptions benefit greatly from noexcept as there’s setup code required before calling functions which may throw. Those platforms are now mostly gone, though. Modern “zero cost” exceptions don’t execute a single instruction related to exception handling if no exceptions are thrown (hence the name), so there just isn’t much room for noexcept to be useful to the optimizer.

Outside of those two scenarios there isn’t any reason to expect noexcept to improve performance.
yep! lots of interesting stuff indeed!

Our plane will be ~7 gph at cruise burning unleaded fuels and fly ~170mph over the ground (with no wind)
It's also correct. They exploit heat (thermos) from the Earth (geos). A geothermal power plant and a geothermal heat pump differ in many particulars, but not in the meaning of the adjective they share in common.
> but Google didn't buy its way into dominance annd maintain their dominance through exclusivity deals

This is a huge claim. Do you have any evidence to back it up?
It appears Apple Silicon uses a combination of measured boot and trusted boot concepts: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/boot-process-secac7...
You're probably joking but I'm sure this would make a killing
Manual Config vs. IaC vs. IfC
For the climber, I thought the final solution was going to end up being rails that just pushed a weight further out from center mass at the top of the tower. The ball pendulum was cool nonetheless!
> Some people may not heed the notices and their systems will crash

Some of these systems are indirectly responsible for keeping people safe and alive. This "oh well, you should have paid attention and taken care of it" attitude won't fly.
Agree that’s kind of *^%% move, I’d have too much self respect to start working somewhere for a few weeks than bail.

Doesn’t matter if it’s a food service job or a FAANG. McDonalds was doing him a solid by offering some kind of employment for a person presumably down on their luck with zero experience. Hiring people is a huge expense and risk even for a small franchise.
My idea is that they could auction off the right to be the default search engine separately in each state. So google could still win most of the auctions but if some other smaller provider wanted a chance they could concentrate their whole bet into a smaller market like Rhode Island or whatever.
Hang on, what retirement? There's no social security, there's no potential to live on a fixed income, inflation has effectively restarted the clock on a lot of retirement plans. I'm not gen-z but I fully understand I will need to work as long as my heart beats. I say this -with- a retirement fund.
I hope so! That's definitely a use case we want to see happen, but when you start charging people for flights things get... complicated
Yeah but that parts not up for debate either, and is settled science.
"There is a leisure class at both ends of the economic spectrum."

But even setting that aside, the article goes on to mention Albania (low CoL) and access to healthcare. The latter, in particular, checks out. I have great insurance, but my out-of-pocket max equals somewhere between 5 and 10 round-trips to Europe. It's not hard to imagine there exist people who can setup the circumstances such that working in the USA part of the year and living somewhere else part of the year is massively more economical than staying in the USA.

Actually, doesn't that exact situation describe a huge fraction of the US agricultural labor force?
It is easy to construct an MLP that implements any basic logic function. But XOR requires at least one hidden layer.
I assume OP meant in terms of money. Apple will not accept scraps (like tens of Millions) for the default search engine, after getting billions from Google. And no-one else will have the financial resources or be willing to burn these amounts (Microsoft) to offer similar numbers.
So I am just seeing Tcl and Forth everywhere. You go a bit over my head with your explanation but you have given me enough to sort this all out myself, pointed out a few gaps in my general understanding of things. Thanks.
> would still expect a subject matter expert working with that ML to produce better results than an amateur working with that same ML.

Subject matter expert yes. Subject matter is not programming though, it's whatever the thing being built is about. (So if talking about non-tech companies that never considered hiring programmers before I think they still won't.)
> everyone tries that

They don’t really. People try and fit in publicly so that they’re seen to be good by their group, whereas fitting in to any group at any level in any age requires accepting some things that you know are bad and when things aren’t visible people commonly indulge in a lot of bad that even their group would publicly object to often with the moral license they feel they’ve earned from the performative good they do in public. Being a truly good person by our own standards is hard to the point of almost being impossible.
Why put the spool on the drone? I'd think you'd put it at the base station, and maybe have a way to cut the fiber on the drone so you can pull all the fiber back to the base station. Ah, but maybe that makes it easy to find the base station, but unless the drone can be autonomous after some point and take the fiber with it far from the base station, I'm not sure the base station's location can really be protected.

EDIT: Ah, the real reason the spool has to be on the drone must be that the drone can't pull the fiber through snags, and if the spool is on the drone then it doesn't have to.
Just start. It doesn't matter where. What matters is where you go and starting is the only way you will get anywhere. Looking for tips is easier than starting, but it only feels like work. It isn't. Work is hard, learning to program is work, hard work, anything that doesn't feel like hard work doesn't do the hard work that needs to be done. Good luck.
Not using a seatbelt is unhealthy. Using Google search as the default is unhealthy as well.
'Zombie' Condos, Angry Residents and a Ruling That Stunned Miami's Developers
I imagine our grandchildren will think of covid the way we think of the spanish flu - as a minor historical footnote.
Well that would depend on what the written specification of that id is.

Is it the id of the appointment at that time or is it the id for the appoint meant.

Seems like the originator chose the latter and the others the former.
Sure, but if you're not having to pay rent, why fly at all? Why not stay put and save that money?
Gopher does not have virtual hosting. (Gopher with TLS does have virtual hosting because TLS has virtual hosting, although the menu format of Gopher makes it difficult to know if TLS should be used for specific servers; however, storing the encryption parameters in DNS records might allow this to work.)

Titan is a suitable companion to Gemini for uploads (although I dislike the way that the file size parameters are added to the URL, and a few other details), but that is if you want to use Gemini, including the required TLS.

I think FTP is no good.

I also think that different protocol can have different advantages/disadvantages and can be good for different purposes.
"They" is a really good plural pronoun to use for a pair of "he"s. Probably would have been clearer to include "both", as in "they both...".
You might check capacitors and it’s possible the power supply is bad.
Why does it ask for the age? It not displayed later to the person. How does it help to never forget another birthday?
Autoland for higher range GA planes is nothing new, but still impressive.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/aviation/five-ways-garmin-...
> consumers as content creators, influencer marketing, and DIY viral fame.

Indeed. His famous quote comes to mind:

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_minutes_of_fame
Probably help, as that's the nicest thing I've seen someone call them.
if they re-use the flight number maybe they can add a letter suffix to it. e.g. 1555B?
Ask HN: Is this a new kind of GitHub malware attack?
I maintain the Architecture Decision Record repository at https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record

Today I posted on HN about it, then near-immediately received two new GitHub issues that are very strange, unlike anything I've seen before on GitHub.

Any insight on what these are will be much appreciated.

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record/issues/80

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record/issues/81
I've never really come across this kind of reasoning in practice, though. Companies that want the best candidates are more often than not keen to put in the work to get them.
The door was open the whole time
Might have been a throw away comment but it’s not untrue.
Cool! Didn't know this was a thing that already exists.
This also seems like a natural consequence of crazy inflation and outlandishly unaffordable house prices. When the target is out of reach, it's hard to motivate to even try.
The "ain't it, chief" sealed the deal.
That's not my argument.

I don't even have to search, that's the point. I know what the thing is based on the name, done. I cook, I know what the results are.
You don't need a nuke to create a small EMP. But you do need a high power source.
It's a compromised and goofy implementation with lots of warts. What's the point it in having a /standard/ library then?
For women, children are a job and huge opportunity cost. For men, they are a hobby and minimal opportunity cost. Broadly speaking.
While true, my point is that you can write C in a way that many functions are also obviously free of UB, and you only need to carefully vet the pointer arithmetic in some low-level functions.

So I agree with the point in principle, I just do not like the "spin" of "every line of C is time bomb nobody can understand" while in Rust you just have to look at some lines of "unsafe" and all is good.
Probably peer pressure from social media. Who wants to save money when I can get instant gratification online 'living the dream' like my peers are?
https://archive.ph/3FtOo/again?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2...
Just a heads up, the marketing site has really bad scroll performance on Android Firefox.
Yup that's a good point too. Of the ~25% purchased by investors, like 80%+ of those are individuals with a portfolio of <10. Big funds are like <5% of the 25%.
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