skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
seems this was LLM generated? I dont mind people using LLMs to generate boilerplate, but at least apply some basic oop fundamentals to make it readable. the bar is on the floor
I might be over estimating, but I'd also think taking off and landing will tack on a few hours to the start and end of your trip. Fueling, safety checks, dealing with the control tower, etc. all seem like they'd effectively take your time savings to zero.
Hi Jake, I lost my father to cancer this year, he was 59. I hope you know your memory lives with the people that are with you, now and in the future. I understand what your family is going through even though I can't understand your pain, thanks for putting your writings out there, take care.
> There is the ruthless profit maximization and the constant steering of listeners toward the same music.

What is your reference time frame here? That's exactly how it was in the 90s and before. Feels like there was a tiny bright spot from the early 2000s to say 2010 or so, but then it was over.
They were quite capable, but there was no mechanism to update them without updating the whole OS, so they were usually quite outdated.
Yeah I have a couple of commodores in my storage left there for 25 years, probably even more, I can’t even be bothered to make time to go there to throw them away
I really appreciate[1] the concrete example. Worth more than my opinion in OP and everybody's opinions in this thread put together.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=...
I expect you have a process in person, too, it's just the process has been "obvious" to you :)
How many people, when buying a home, seek out and assess the mean time to response?

Did you buy a home? Or even if you rent, have you checked? Depending upon city neighborhood, average response times vary widely.

Some city areas are hospital adjacent. Some are a mean time of an hour away.

If you haven't purposefully checked, then why not?

Some people live in 6 story buildings with (gasp!) no elevator. What of them? I assure you a stretcher up and down 6 stories is no better than a mere 1/2 mile walk on flat ground.

What of power outages in the city? Did you check to see if your building has a backup generator? Yes? No? What do you do if the power is out, and you're on the 35th floor? Yet many city buildings have no backup generator, even tall ones.

If one is to throw stones, take care not to live in a glass house. Or in this case, an apartment building.
You should just state the hours (4-8 hours a week apparently) and hourly rate (still no idea based on this vague math) in the job req then. Especially when listed next to other offshore jobs with such low wages, it's a confusing and bad look.

If multiple unrelated people are so mislead that you have to answer questions about it, it's a good sign the issue is your communication, not their understanding of it.
You're definitely right that the cross continental trip is a big and common one. however, 90% of long distance trips are made by car in the US with a median trip distance of about 200 miles. If we can make flying as easy as driving, the ability to make that trip in half to a third of the time, we believe that's a big win and incentive for a lot of people. There are 19,000 small airports in the US and 300M people live within 15 miles of at least one. So we totally think it's reasonable for that medium distance trip to be done by GA airplane rather than car.
>"Hey are you guys ever going to make money with any of this AI crap?"

The most common answer I have heard for that question has been, so far, "AI brand ambassadors".

The thought is that by sucking up every scrap of personal data on you, a company can pay an AI brand ambassador firm to create an avatar to relentlessly pummel you in every plane of your existence with marketing and very carefully obfuscated conversation in order to make you buy something.

Think: autoplaying ads on every website and in every app with a "person" who starts talking to you like they know you, friend requests from strangers on every social media site you frequent who appear human and then once they trick you into engaging with them steer the conversation towards how awesome a product is, and comments and replies in media you consume that use every trick in the book to appear organic while namedropping a product or service.

There are only two ways to pay for the billions of dollars all of this AI nonsense has cost and will continue to cost: making end-users pay to use it (unlikely) or bombarding end users with ads and skimming off a sliver of any sales.

It's going to be a nightmare.
Agree, it's very handy and natural .. also existed in many forms.

The lack of seeing this may be an patent issue where a patent for a radial menu needs to be invalidated. Pie menus existed back in the 60's, before the patents, lots of examples in this thread.

And for what it's wroth, I'm glad this thing exists, because people should be able to see it and say 'oh yeah, this is like the buttons on my remote control"
I think its just a huge burden that certain states are putting on people along with dramatically increased cost of living due to insane govt spending. People are really hurting right now and tempers are short.

- Housing has gone up 50-60% in the past 3 years.

- Groceries have also gone up 30-40% along with restaurant prices.

- Despite the job market for professionals being the worst its been since 2008 you have the media gaslighting everyone talking about a "vibecession" and saying the economy is the strongest its ever been.

- Crime and lawlessness has been out of control, we are approaching 90's levels of crime in a few short years.

- Interest rates are the highest they have been in 30+ years, all loans etc are now very expensive(see housing costs as house prices have shot up).

- Arsonists running wild in California/Oregon/Washington causing record wildfires and releasing tons of CO2 into the air.

- Homelessness hit record high (up 12% from 2022 to 2023)

- All these things are causing a huge drop in quality of life and pushing people to the brink. So many people in my circle of friends - engineers, scientists and mgmt that are out of work I have never seen anything like this.
The linked wiki article says around 50% of geothermal heat is from radioactive decay
You're reaching.
CDK lets you write Python instead of configuration files. It’s a good idea, but hobbled by CF being a steaming pile of garbage underneath it. TF was building a CDK competitor a while back but progress was slow on it.
Yeah, I thought that was a direction too. Slightly over thinking it.
Apache Arrow Columnar Format:
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html :

> The Arrow columnar format includes a language-agnostic in-memory data structure specification, metadata serialization, and a protocol for serialization and generic data transport. This document is intended to provide adequate detail to create a new implementation of the columnar format without the aid of an existing implementation. We utilize Google’s Flatbuffers project for metadata serialization, so it will be necessary to refer to the project’s Flatbuffers protocol definition files while reading this document. The columnar format has some key features:

> Data adjacency for sequential access (scans)

> O(1) (constant-time) random access

> SIMD and vectorization-friendly

> Relocatable without “pointer swizzling”, allowing for true zero-copy access in shared memory

Are the major SQL file formats already SIMD optimized and zero-copy across TCP/IP?

Arrow doesn't do full or partial indexes.

Apache Arrow supports Feather and Parquet on-disk file formats. Feather is on-disk Arrow IPC, now with default LZ4 compression or optionally ZSTD.

Some databases support Parquet as the database flat file format (that a DBMS process like PostgreSQL or MySQL provides a logged, permissioned, and cached query interface with query planning to).

IIUC with Parquet it's possible both to use normal tools to offline query data tables as files on disk and also to online query tables with a persistent process with tunable parameters and optionally also centrally enforce schema and referential integrity.

From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48083405/what-are-the-di... :

> Parquet format is designed for long-term storage, where Arrow is more intended for short term or ephemeral storage

> Parquet is more expensive to write than Feather as it features more layers of encoding and compression. Feather is unmodified raw columnar Arrow memory. We will probably add simple compression to Feather in the future.

> Due to dictionary encoding, RLE encoding, and data page compression, Parquet files will often be much smaller than Feather files

> Parquet is a standard storage format for analytics that's supported by many different systems: Spark, Hive, Impala, various AWS services, in future by BigQuery, etc. So if you are doing analytics, Parquet is a good option as a reference storage format for query by multiple systems

Those systems index Parquet. Can they also index Feather IPC, which an application might already have to journal and/or log, and checkpoint?

Edit: What are some of the DLT solutions for indexing given a consensus-controlled message spec designed for synchronization?

- cosmos/iavl: a Merkleized AVL+ tree (a balanced search tree with Merkle hashes and snapshots to prevent tampering and enable synchronization) https://github.com/cosmos/iavl/blob/master/docs/overview.md

- Google/trillion has Merkle hashed edges between rows in order in the table but is centralized

- "EVM Query Language: SQL-Like Language for Ethereum" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41124567 : [...]
That's the wrong way of looking at it. At least, you need to consider the value of the targets this new system can destroy that the old ones wouldn't be able to.
https://archive.ph/5RLwA
It's CHEAP to make and distribute music. Production costs are low due to advances in PC and audio tech. Distribution costs are at the floor where the actual distribution is practically free and it is only the legal concerns that are a cost. The whole industry currently doesn't have a better physical value-add than the guy playing on the street corner with a money hat. If anyone can make music then music has demeaned itself, and maybe it simply wasn't ever a big deal in the first place.

Many say the 60's and 70's were the best years in music, and this was the heyday of the time where if you wanted to listen to someone's song, you had to buy their record and you didn't really have any other choice unless you fooled around with expensive and bulky reel-to-reel tape decks[1]. Was that all it was - inability for the masses to create and distribute media without a middleman? Not that the middleman didn't perform a valuable function, but it was performing it for everyone who would buy records in the whole market. Now we get to choose or be our own middlemen, and people who don't want to do that kinda get what they deserve.

[1] I don't know when the compact cassette started becoming popular - did people make mixtapes in the 70's?
I was developing on one remote machine and running/testing it another machine. This is just a fun little learning/diversion project... I don't really care about it having a meticulous git commit history.
Because the vast majority of new works are not done by one of the few who would be qualified to check it.

You can think of the cryptography community as similar to the math community. If some nobody makes a new proof of a big conjecture, it is considered with skepticism until some big name comes around to verify it. If Terence Tao comes out with a new proof in one of his specialities, people are going to assume it's basically correct or will have only very minor errors that are easily fixed.
what you're describing as the "Blade Runner effect" is on TVTropes as "Once Original, Now Common". formerly "Seinfeld Is Unfunny"
> That said, I generally prefer test harnesses to unit tests[0].

That's a strange redefinition of harness.

The larger-scoped tests are more often called integration or even system tests.

And while I'm here, those are slow tests that are harder to debug and require more maintenance (often maintenance of an entire environment to run them in!). Unit tests are closer to what they test, fast, and aren't tied to an environment - they can be run on every push.
I use a 2 step process for this.

1. I installed an extension (can't remember the name) that makes visited links (from history) purple (like the old times) so that I won't reopen a duplicate tab

2. After reading a page I add them to bookmarks in a specific (have read) folder so that they're marked by the star in Firefox URL bar and I can easily check if I've already read them just by looking
> being able to know what a product is by its name is very valuable

Sure. But this is arbitrary.

The vermicelli definition doesn’t match Italy’s, for instance. So you’ve “protected” Americans from the competition of Italian producers who can’t pay to repackage.

> no idea what your other statement means

Point is I would love to have obscure definitions around what my product should be that arbitrarily match my current offerings. If anyone tries to compete I can put them out of business for making an honest mistake, or force them to have to market convolutedly. (Can’t be mac ‘n’ cheese if it isn’t made in a factory!)
Howdy! FI(H) here. Looks very cool, I watched the video too.

Many students get the hang of hovering within 10 hours - "learning to fly" really isn't that hard? I see the rest of the course as "learning to become a pilot." That means the background knowledge and practice to allow decision making & dealing with emergencies etc.

I think if you could improve just a single one of the problems you touch on (difficult controls, navigation, mass and balance, fly by wire etc) you could make a lot of money...

... But improving all of them in one shot... that sounds unreasonable to me? Are they really connected?

> Our system makes it impossible to lose control of the airplane, potentially solving 80% of today’s fatal accidents in general aviation.

I'd love to see details on how you achieved this... or at least your definition of "impossible"...
Hm, with regards to the difficulty of scaling these systems specifically and really the whole topic at hand more generally I don't know that there is sufficient domain specific data to justify a viewpoint either way. I mean how many examples of scaling a national healthcare system (public, private, or otherwise) to support 300+ million people do we have? Literally three, right? The US, China, and India. Each of which has such significantly different circumstances that comparing them is less apples to oranges than it is apples to giraffes to glaciers. That being the case I feel like it's only reasonable to draw upon non-domain specific data wherein so far as I'm aware and in my experience we see a pattern of scaling existing systems being simpler than originating new ones.
Is it time to worry about brain chimeras?
Downing Street condemns Elon Musk for claim 'civil war is inevitable' in UK
do you have a demo or video of the tool? screenshots?
You realize that those two reasons are contradictory, right? Because if you do the work force reduction, you don't need as much office space.
I agree. I think as soon as you refer to AIs as what they are, computer programs, a lot of problems and solutions prevent themselves.

For example, why are some people trying to give rights to computer programs? Since when have computer programs had rights? Fair use doctrine, for example, is a right for human beings.
That doesn't stop people from imagining the "Big Bad Californian" in their minds. For a while, I was looking out-of-state for real estate, and I encountered a non-zero number of realtors informing me that their seller intends to charge a "California tax" to anyone coming from that state, because he doesn't like where I'm moving from.
"Better backup" aside, as I understand that I'd miss out on deduplication and all the other things backup software can do like keeping track of what it has backed up etc.

"Better encryption": Can you explain why age's encryption isn't sufficient if it's recommended for encrypting files? Really want to understand how it's recommended for encrypting and sharing a file over an untrusted channel like email, but not recommended to encrypt a file and upload it to an untrusted server.
A lot of the existing training system from the FAA and others all emphasize aeronautical decision making and single-pilot resource management. It's the core thing that we are taught when we learn to fly.

Also, under the upcoming MOSAIC regulations, such airplanes will be LSAs and flyable with a sport pilot license.
It’s a subtle aspect of moods and emotions that we are not privileged to know their impetuses. Yet, to learn them can be as simple as asking the subconscious of this, and this is a crucial function of free writing.
I was thinking about that too. I think logitech or someone else has a device or software too?
You might find "The neural network zoo" helpful; it's a chart showing the different types of neural networks, along with a brief discussion of each type: https://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo/
Honestly this is something I would like to do once I feel "financially ready." I want to be a barista, at least for a little while. Like this CEO outlined, it's really easy to be detached from the real world when you're working super high paying jobs.
What percentage of the costs are salary vs. capital cost or (non-payroll) operating expenses? If the process is mostly automated, it should be able to absorb higher salaries without having much impact on the bottom line.
Ok, pipelining as in using the fact that the socket is bidirectional, so you queue up the next request before the previous response has arrived?

Sounds a bit dodgy, since any response could potentially contain a Connection: Close. Maybe ok for some scenarios with idempotent methods.
Interesting, I wonder how there are so many radial menu patents when this clearly invalidates them.

https://patents.google.com/?q=(radial+menu)&oq=radial+menu
Jagged Intelligence – Building a GPT with Personalised History Data Retrieval
> you need to setup a NAT gateway for your tools inside of a VPC to access the internet

You do, if your stuff is in a private subnet. If you are just "playing around" however, you have options:

a) Spin up your resources in a public subnet, give then a public IP(be very careful about your security group rules if you do this)

b) Create your own NAT gateway EC2 instance(can be way less expensive than a NAT GW as tiny instance sizes can forward a lot of traffic). It's almost trivial to do. Disable source/dest check, enable ipv4 forward, configure routes.

c) IPV6 :) Depending on what your destination is (+ an egress only IGW)

I wouldn't recommend either (a) or (b) for a large production environment, but small deployments will do fine. You can't escape network egress charges though.
Exciting project, good luck!
Signed, from Italy ;D
I share an outrage for mass production of plastic, but not at all for Lego.

Lego is a fantastic use of plastic, IMO. Durable, reusable, broad appeal, and designed to be kept, not churned out into the landfill or ocean.
Embrace OpenTofu?
You still need to run a JS environment even if your own CDK code is in Python. At that point you may as well just use JS if you're going to have to put up with its drawbacks anyway.
This is more people just casually conflating two separate terms: geothermal and ground-source. Pretty frustrating since it is right there in the name of each, ground-source heat pumps are near-surface and basically leveraging the annual average air temperature while geothermal resources are leveraging higher temperatures much deeper in the earth.
Lots of machines at home and yet having DNS tied to DHCP or running mDNS is too much of a hassle.

I would hate to have to remember even the last octet of all my machines in my house. Instead it's just the simple names. The numbers underneath can all change whenever, it doesn't matter. Until I start calling my kids by an octet a name will be easier to remember instead of "is that north camera 101 or 105 or 113 or..." versus "north-camera.my.net" or "is my pool controller 10.7 or 10.8 or..." Instead it's just pool-pump.my.net.
> A test will only catch an edge case you already thought of.

Property-based tests and model-based tests can catch edge cases I never thought of.

> Tests have burned out software engineers who waste the majority of their time deriving tests that will pass anyway.

Burn, baby, burn! We don't need programmers who can't handle testing.
...but a generation of engineers trained to answer questions like ChatGPT...
Great feedback, working on that!
Most accidents occur because the pilot makes a bad decision somewhere and a chain of events leads to an accident (in GA--commercial is a completely different beast). Our hope is to break that chain by making it as easy as possible for the pilot to continue flying the airplane and bring it safely to the ground in a high-stress emergency.
> Indexing into an array adds bounds checks which takes non-zero time.

* When done in such a way that the compiler cannot know the access is in-bounds. The same code in C would also need to perform bounds checks on access. If you do the same assertion you would in C checking that the indices are always less than the length, then Rust will not perform the bounds check because it detects it's unnecessary. Leveraging iterators is one idiomatic way of avoiding those bounds checks.
AWS just isn’t for hobbyists. You have to deal with the complexities of it because the real target customers want and need these things. There are plenty of other cloud services appropriate to your scale. It’s frustrating because you’re using the wrong tool for the job.
Allegedly the quad layer BDXLs should have the same longevity as they are made using the exact same technology. Shame Sony just announced they are going to shut down the only remaining factory in the world making those, I've ordered some from Japan but I imagine they will shoot up in price once the official stocks deplete.
See ya on the other side. Or not.
Just signed up to say that I'm an AWS Certified Solution Architect and I've used none of them in production and don't even know what most of them are.

And no we don't use CDK or CloudFormation!
Most of these sure.

Workmail is a weird choice, I mean its just fine as an email system so why cut it? Plus migrating email hosts is kinda a pain. I use it for my personal/professional email and, I never interact with Workmail directly since its on my phone.

Lightsail, it sounds like the primary reason is that it won't make money on its own but I figured that was never it's purpose. It always seemed like Lightsail existed to get people into AWS for smaller projects.

Cloudformation I strongly disagree with. I use it for all infrastructure and having used terraform in the past I much prefer it. My only real problem with CF is that it is not required that all new features are part of CF when they launch. That fixes CF but doesn't need a replacement to make it work. Throw in some UI improvements, but no reason to throw it out.
> I wonder how society moves forward.

I'm nervous about this generation of kids who had to grow up locked in a house.
sure... until one realizes one has gotta pay the ripper if they ever wanna get recommended by "the" algorithm of spotify
Burst Damage
federal (government) employees may except non-cash gifts of less than $20, per occasion, for a total of $50 in a calendar year from a single source. Cash it no permitted.

As is usually the case, different laws apply to Congress and the Senate. I believe it's $100 for House members and $250 for senators. of course, there are also political "donations."
Windows are folders, and they're spread out across monitors and workspaces. My taskbar is a wide strip on the side of one monitor so it can easily list about 20 or so windows.

The organization is basically that of a desk with stacks of papers on it: impenetrable to others maybe, but completely logical to me.