skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks pretty interesting, but my only experience with payments are black-box payment processors that expose an API, and services like Stripe that handle all of the institutional interconnection.

Could you help me understand who the target devs are for this library? I doubt it's someone like me, who would try to use it as a replacement for stripe before realizing all of the stuff I have to do outside of that and giving up on it. But maybe this is more for people who are doing heavy financial management anyway? Or am I just completely thinking about what this is wrongly?
I looked up the nickname of the author of the commentary. Now I feel recursion is still running inside my brain
I've tried out and written about[1] KANs on some small-scale modeling, comparing them to vanilla neural networks, as previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40855028.

My main finding was that KANs are very tricky to train compared to NNs. It's usually possible to get per-parameter loss roughly on par with NNs, but it requires a lot of hyperparameter tuning and extra tricks in the KAN architecture. In comparison, vanilla NNs were much easier to train and worked well under a much broader set of conditions.

Some people commented that we've invested an incredible amount of effort into getting really good at training NNs efficiently, and many of the things in ML libraries (optimizers like Adam, for example) are designed and optimized specifically for NNs. For that reason, it's not really a good apples-to-apples comparison.

I think there's definitely potential in KANs, but they aren't a magic bullet. I'm also a bit dubious about interpretability claims; the splines that are usually used for KANs don't really offer much more insight to me than just analyzing the output of a neuron in a lower layer of a NN.

[1] https://cprimozic.net/blog/trying-out-kans/
I'm so happy every time I see the demoscene on HN's front page. Hi pandur!
You know, who knows what happened to the investors in US Radium? Where did their funds go, and is there a trail of other problems (or bodies) with their subsequent investments? I'd like to know who I hypothetically should and shouldn't be investing my money with, as I want the world to be a better place.
I fail to see your reasoning. The court's argument is Google is maintaining this dominance via these default deals, not that it got there through them.

Given the last 25 years of history, Google's product has gotten worse after these default deals. Previously it established the dominance because it found whatever a user searched for. Arguing otherwise just feels unrealistic. They never had any exclusive deals with any provider.

Edit: Changed exclusive to default.
Why some team members need more guidance than others? It's not about skill
The other problem beyond range is dispatch reliability. Most light planes can’t go very high or fast to get around thunderstorms, and they can’t fly in icing conditions, and flying in low visibility with a single amateur pilot is still dangerous even with avionics improvements. This means that if you don’t want to die, you have to cancel a lot of flights at the last minute, which makes it only useful for trips where you have a viable alternate means of transportation.

From a speed perspective, one thing that would make a lot of difference is speeding up the preflight. Now you have to pull the plane out of the hangar, go to the fuel pump, fill multiple fuel tanks, check the oil, sump the fuel tanks, etc. Electronic sensors for oil and water in the fuel, a simpler fuel system, and a built-in electric motor for getting out of the hangar might save 20+ minutes per flight, which would actually be better than even a faster plane because these tasks are annoying and dirty.

Another thing that would be great is a bigger baggage compartment with electric power for folding e-bikes or scooters. America is amazing in the number of small airports we have, but most of them have no rental cars and are outside of town.
Neither is it true. So in essence all we have is a throwaway comment made by someone for the sake of it.
So your plan to reduce aircraft pollution is to… have more aircraft in the sky? Come on…
According to the judges ruling, Google’s internal data indicated that they would lose up to 80% of searches on Apple devices, resulting in a $30 billion revenue loss, if they gave up their default search position.
When you are the primary player in the industry, you're creating a massive, unscalable monopolistic wall that no one else can climb.

They pay Apple alone around 20 billion per year. There is no way anyone else can even think about competing with that. It's not because they happened to get the highest bid. It's because they're paying for the elimination of anyone else getting a foothold.
Typical First Years of Startup Engineering Leadership
It's surprising how hard it is to find low-diameter fibre if it drops off the desk, never mind through undergrowth.

Of course, if it was monomolecular wire [0] you'd just encircle the opposition and reel in the loop, cutting them in two (horizontally).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomolecular_wire
This is explained in quite a bit of detail in the judge's ruling: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rZ1UlL.0...
Starting about page 197.

> Google understands there is no genuine competition for the defaults because it knows that its partners cannot afford to go elsewhere. Time and again, Google’s partners have concluded that it is financially infeasible to switch default GSEs or seek greater flexibility in search offerings because it would mean sacrificing the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars that Google pays them as revenue share.

[...]

> That was the key takeaway from the testimony of Neeva’s founder and former Google Senior Vice President of Ads and Commerce, Dr. Ramaswamy. The court found him to be a particularly compelling witness. He put it best. When the court asked why Google pays billions in revenue share when it already has the best search engine, he answered that the payments “provide an incredibly strong incentive for the ecosystem to not do anything”; they “effectively make the ecosystem exceptionally resist[ant] to change”; and their “net effect . . . [is to] basically freeze the ecosystem in place[.]” Tr. at 3796:8–3798:22 (Ramaswamy). No one would ever describe a competitive marketplace in those terms. When the distribution agreements have created an ecosystem that has a “strong incentive” to do “nothing,” is “resist[ant] to change,” and is “basically [frozen] in place,” there is no genuine “competition for the contract” in search. It is illusory.
Wow. I sense some sincere interest by the author, but I find this tone deaf. I once worker with a entry-level C++ developer in her 70s -- probably not the expertise you're looking for, so I'll answer as someone who has been paid to write software for going on 40 years.

To understand what you see today requires rewinding the clock 30+ years and considering questions like: What did the job look like in different areas/industries? Who was doing it? How many such folks were there? What did the career path look like?

In my case I pursued a technical path and ended-up very comfortable financially, and took a series of "hard" (atypically so) VPE and CTO roles. I still code, a lot, but that's not in my job description any more.
Exactly - two guys in the plumbing dept were happy to haul it up to the attic and install it. They probably quadrupled their hourly rate for a few hours and got finished by 9pm on a Friday night.. so they probably burned through some of that $250 each shortly thereafter :)
> The word ‘geothermal’ is overloaded these days and can mean one of two things:

It's an umbrella term; it covers methods that leverage temperature differences between the ground and the air to exchange energy.

In FL, 64° aquifer water is used for cooling structures over 15k²ft. I worked on control systems for those.
thanks!

Yes, it's that entire helmet-fire that makes flying hard and often dangerous. But what the accident data shows is that these kinds of problems that you mention occur, and then the pilot loses control of the plane. If we give them the ability to relax, think through their situation, and make a good decision because at least the airplane will continue to descend safely towards the runway, we make safer pilots.
The Unpleasantness of Thinking
Yeah, they aren't allowed to pay billions anymore. Which begs the question:

What about of money are they allowed to pay?

Will there be a state-run auction?
You're right. I'm going to get bashed for gatekeeping I'm sure, but Spotify is filled with low quality garbage. Not everyone's band deserves to make it. As a former musician, it's incredibly difficult to make a living and always has been. Most bands/artists just aren't that good. Art is hard. There's a lot of loud people yelling about how they can't sit at home and make passive income by gaming social media and getting paid for releasing a song on Spotify and never performing live. Get out and play. Music is a social thing. If you can't book shows or are unwilling to, too bad.

I know this comes off as get off my lawn, but that's just how a performance art works. Only the best make it no matter what you do.
Look up the Vashon Ranger, the Kitfox, and the Foxbat. You really cannot stall them by accident and they're conventional layouts. The Ranger/Foxes will just nosedown if you even manage to get them into a stall. We could also bring back biplanes and make some AN-2 derivatives.

I think a cheaper approach to what Airhart is trying to accomplish (from a don't kill pilots perspective) would be to make an aftermarket smart stall horn that could warn earlier and maybe gives some audio/visual feedback if you're getting uncoordinated at a certain angle of attack.
There’s no comparison between those two though. You can go and get an RTX 3060 with $300 and run Llama3 8B. To do the same with Groq’s chips you’d need to buy 25 of them at $20k each. To run something like the 70B model you need at least $6M in hardware.
According to that Wiki link, HTTP is "The Web" by definition. And I don't think many people would agree with the statement "Gopher is part of the Web".
How the Regime Captured Wikipedia
I don't know the details of the migration failure, but I know that prior to migration and prior to Rupert buying the site and the hardware it was all on a big EBCDIC database with no de-duplication and I have no idea why this type of database was chosen. I did not keep in touch with the previous owners of the site. I did not work for them directly but managed the back-end of many big sites at the time.

It was originally on a HP SureStore 256, then a HP SureStore 512 that I managed. I have no idea what happened after all the hardware left our data-center. It was never meant to be a social media site but rather a mountable drive on peoples laptops part of another acquisition and somehow evolved into a social media platform. The SureStore is just a rebranded Hitachi HDS and one drive failing will not cause loss. In fact one would have to try hard to lose data on those storage arrays via bad disks. If I had to speculate, it could have been something to do with migrating a 19TB EBCDIC database, but that's just a guess.

Some prior discussion [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058953
They don't need to offer similar numbers? If this ruling prohibits Google, the dominant search engine, from buying their Safari defaults, then Apple has a choice of:

- Zero dollars

- More than zero dollars from a smaller search competitor (Bing? New AI player?)

I suspect Apple will want more than nothing. They also have quarterly financials to report.
A Whimsical Odyssey Through the Maze of Scholarly Reviews
Nothing prevents them from donating to Mozilla.
Lenovo Bios Simulator Center
The general opinion in professional flying is that the pilot and operator (for something like Airhart the owner would be both I guess?) decision making has an immense impact on safety. You don't typically have a two sided crash where some other party is at fault like in a car. The vast majority of general aviation accidents happen because of bad deciding making. So it's much more in your control.

While the stats may conclude "loss of control" as the cause of the accident. Often that loss of control is caused by for example the decision to fly into instrument conditions (bad weather) while the aircraft or pilot is not suitably equipped, trained and experienced for it.
> It's awesome that after 3 years of this nonsense we're just happily escalating the conflict

Agree, it's unusual and satisfying to see the west backing a justified war of defense against a country that's a full-blown comic book villain.
Low-Drama 'Dark Angels' Reap Record Ransoms
> Don't companies make exclusive deals all the time,

Companies with monopoly power must work with different rules.

Having monopoly power is not illegal, abusing it is.
It is, if you are leveraging one monopoly to attempt to gain more. This is what happened with Microsoft and Internet Explorer (via the Windows monopoly)[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Specifically, it's the most compelling competitor that isn't included in the default iOS search engine list...
Difficult for whom? Jazz musicians can easily play most Rock songs. Does that mean that they (the songs) lack artistic merit?

There's a million examples like this.
I think openai is the most notable org taking swings at Google.

At least Google seems to feel that way. Might just be the Silicon Valley bubble
Anecdotally, I believe this occurs because I have witnessed, but is not observed at scale in the data. Even Pew Research shows aggregate belief system that men are providers [1], women are caretakers, even as pay between both reaches parity [2]. Chance of divorce doubles for men when they become unemployed, but the same effect is not seen in women, for example [3].

Most of my data and observations are US centric; if you have data from outside the US, and I would love to review any citations you can provide simply out of curiosity from a sociological perspective.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/09/20/americans...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/04/13/in-a-gr...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053582 (citations)
Fair enough. In any case, now would probably be a good moment for Mozilla to reconsider user donations on Firefox.

Just my €50 of course isn't going to change the future by itself. But I'd happily give it to them if they'd let me.

(And I don't even mind manually removing Google and replacing it with DDG.)
Analogies for Belief Dynamics
The downvotes are probably because of the framing of DEI as “pork”. You are surprised people disagree about what qualifies as government waste? I find that surprising :)
Agreed. I think you’re objecting to the line I quoted.

The reason people don’t trust institutions is because the institutions aren’t working for them.
> It's a compromised and goofy implementation with lots of warts.

I don't think this case qualifies as an example. I think the only goofy detail in the story is expecting a random number generator to be non-random and deterministic with the only conceivable usecase being poorly designed and implemented test fxtures.

> What's the point it in having a /standard/ library then?

The point of standardized components is to provide reusable elements that can be used across all platforms and implementations, thus saving on the development effort of upgrading and porting the code across implementations and even platforms. If you cannot design working software, that's not a problem you can pin on the tools you don't know how to use.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133143
Because it's much better for the consumer to search for a city, get an interactive map right there on the search results, but no link to jump to Google Maps so they can get an estimate on how long it takes to get there, because that'd be bundling.
Do you mean it depends on Firefox for money and staff from Mozilla inc/fdn? Or that it uses a Firefox-based browser engine for HTML emails?

If the latter, I don’t imagine this will have too terribly much impact. Email clients often lag behind browsers in what they can display.
Please use quotes to refer to a statement that someone has actually made. Doing otherwise is an indicator that you are making a strawman argument.
Show HN: Real Estate Analytics Platform – Find Positive Real Estate ROI in Mins
Helping to automate and streamline the Real Estate Investing process. Create custom metrics, data visualizations, and downloadable datasets for your own analyses. Trying to reduce the amount of time needed for investment selections to be able to compete with larger institutional investors. Please try and leave feedback! All feedback welcomed especially negative, want to make this the best application I can!
Show HN: Datoviz – Vulkan-based GPU scientific visualization (C/C++/Python)
I'm excited to announce the release of Datoviz 0.2.0, an open-source, high-performance GPU scientific visualization library built on Vulkan. It targets the interactive visualization of large 2D/3D datasets. This version includes tentative precompiled Python wheels for Linux, macOS (ARM and Intel), and Windows.

Datoviz is a key part of the CZI-funded Vispy 2.0 project and will serve as its main GPU backend. Datoviz provides core GPU visualization capabilities while VisPy 2.0 will provide high-level plotting functionality (a bit similar to NumPy vs SciPy).

What I'm looking for from the community:

1. Compatibility feedback: I'd appreciate quick feedback on how these precompiled Python wheels perform across different operating systems and graphics hardware.

2. Library feedback: Datoviz is still in its early stages and actively evolving. The API is subject to change, and I'd appreciate any feedback on its functionality and design.

Please report issues on GitHub.

Since the initial 2021 v0.1 release, the underlying technology has matured significantly. The internal architecture is now more robust and modular, paving the way for support for other rendering technologies like WebGPU and WebAssembly in the medium term.

While still somewhat limited, the focus is on ensuring stability, performance, and visual quality. Available visuals include points, markers, line segments, paths, glyphs, images, spheres, 3D meshes, and basic volume rendering. Some important features, like axes and picking, are planned for v0.3 and later.

Please give it a try, report any issues on GitHub, and feel free to ask questions. You're also welcome to contribute. I'm looking forward to your feedback!
Totally different. When someone performs a piece by Beethoven everyone knows they are performing his work. Very few Beyonce/Taylor Swift/Nsync/whatever fans could name the people who actually write the songs. Classical composers were total rock stars of their period, they were well known and the face of their music.

Modern pop musicians have almost all of their work written by people who are intentionally kept in the shadows.

Being a composer is not a public facing profession anymore.
As opposed to what? Pay the record companies, or, most likely, never even to be discovered by them?
Mine does not
Who says the base needs to be a ground station? You could have a hot air balloon above the drones.
>just demands that the company delivers what they advertised

I don't know any company that advertises "game will stay up for X amount of time and will always be playable". On the contrary I'm pretty sure every EULA specifies that they aren't. you're logging into someone else's server, so I should log in knowing that server won't say up forever

>EULA/ToS is invalid if it contains unfair/unexpected clauses.

how is it unexpected 30 years into the internet that "oh yeah, this is a server-based game, it won't stay up forever". It's unfair, but laws are rarely made with a goal of perfect "fairness".

> Disagree on it being technically infeasible. It's basically trivial:

Nothing is trivial in tech. Not unless you're talking on the scale of years. This isn't even a gamedev thing, it's just that there's always random footguns and pitfalls due to the nature of shifting to a attrition strategy instead of a retention strategy.

> You don't lose IP by distributing anything

if you distribute IP you do not own, you end up taking damages while also having the game taken down. very few games are made fully in house anymore.
Firefox makes you jump through hoops too. To enable the UI for adding custom search engines you need to set the undocumented preference "browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh" to true.
Where did I give my gut reaction? It would almost certainly be more inline with finding processes to improve things. I'm all for pen tests and similar. Bounty programs are also good ideas.

The topic here, though, was whether or not casing out a location would get you in trouble. And, yeah, if you are casing out a place you can get in trouble. Regardless of how much crime has or has not happened there. Indeed, I would stipulate you are less likely to get in trouble if you are checking out a place that has not had crime.

And apologies if you thought I was blaming you on the leaks. Not my intent, at all. Genuinely surprised to hear you get 3,000+ hits. Moreso with how few hits I get, relatively.
Show HN:I built an extension that blocks words associated with US Politics
I got sick of the constant bombardment of US Political discourse, especially as I am not American, so I built an extension that blocks the top 200 words associated. You can add you own words to the mini DB, and toggle on and off etc.
> whether mainstream browsers by the big tech companies support or not

If they did, I would be concerned Google was going to EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) them. So I hope they don't.
I've long been baffled at the inability to contribute to Firefox development. It seems crazy to me that this isn't possible.
It depends what you mean by "The Web"; the words might have more than one possible meaning. Usually you would say HTML and HTTP(S) is "The Web", although you could also consider a wider definition, that since gemini:// and spartan:// resources have URLs, they can also be considered as a part of "the Web", too.
I was shocked when learning to fly how much GA tech was stuck in some weird pre-World War II era state. Everything seems so needlessly complicated. Even small aircraft cost so much that I couldn’t imagine a computer controlled system and fly by wire would be cost prohibitive. Even a new C172 is close to $400k at the low end, and anything you’d actually want to fly is much more. A few grand in electronics seems worth it and can probably easily save itself back quickly in added fuel economy and maintenance, not to mention any monetary value you might place on your safety.

But then I watched as the ADS-B mandate (or whatever you want to call it) came into effect and GA enthusiasts started tossing around concentration camp metaphors. So many of the people in the industry are very old and just don’t want anything to change.

Also shocking is how expensive everything is. It’s like new blockbuster prescription drugs, and perhaps for similar reasons (FAA testing is maybe very expensive?) but with no expiration date. At least in 25 years that new drug will be cheap, adding a simple GPS to your plane is still going to cost more than your Lexus.

It feels like the real problem in this industry is lack of competition. There’s a chicken and egg problem: planes are expensive because so few people buy them, but so few people buy them because they’re expensive.

Light sport aircraft were supposed to be the solution, but the difficulty of flying (which you’re addressing) seems to have precluded that.

All of which is to say: you’ve got a wide open field here and I hope you do well at it, aviation needs this.
"inside the cultural revolution at wikipedia, which pivoted it from a decentralized database of all the world's knowledge to a top-down social activism and advocacy machine" (by Ashley Rindsberg)
So it is pronounced kind of like “egg”, Aygg