skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, it wouldn't be an apples to apples comparison because the Americans without insurance are not randomly selected, so you'd be carving out a population with other confounding variables. And second, if doing so showed better outcomes here than elsewhere, we'd be saying "we have the best care, but 10% of the country doesn't get to have it. Tough luck!". Third, our overall spending is so much higher, we'd be admitting that we spend way more money to not even cover everyone.
Or maybe Mozilla will focus more on Firefox again.
We provide an abstraction layer on top of DataFusion, allowing users to focus solely on logging JSON and writing SQL.

Let’s go through an example for clarity. Imagine you’re developing the first version of Uber. Without funds to invest in setting up ClickHouse, Kafka, and other infrastructure, you still need a service to log and query data to calculate the average price of rides by city.

With our telemetry service, you can achieve this with just a few lines of code. When finalizing a ride, you'd log the data as follows:

```javascript

telemetry.log("uber_rides", {
city: "Paris",
price: 42,
timestamp: new Date().toISOString()
});

```

For your internal dashboards, you can query this data with a single line of code:

```javascript

const results =
await telemetry.query(`
SELECT
city,
AVG(price)
FROM
uber_rides
GROUP BY
city
`);

```

Behind the scenes, we utilize DataFusion, S3, and other technologies, but these complexities are abstracted away. As a user, you can concentrate on what data to log and how to query it.
And nothing of value will be lost. Mozilla is not an alternative to Google, never was. It's more of a controlled opposition.
It’s gotten worse since this was posted. Next few days will be interesting
> They simply have a better product

This is the key.

I'm not saying Google couldn't be better. But if it were possible to build a better index of the Internet, Google would do it.

Spam garbage overrunning the web is the underlying issue.
Splitting companies that have physical presence is something that is a bit easier to do? That is, my gut would be that the examples you have in your mind for how companies that hit market dominance were split, are dominated by markets that required a bit more physical connection to the consumers they were serving.

You could also see easy ways to force a company that is using a dominant position in one industry to gain an upper hand in another to divest from that expansion.

Most of that falls apart with the nature of these markets, though?
The example is bad. Maybe this illustrates it better:

https://godbolt.org/z/1asa7Tjq9
> airplanes are not good for the environment.

> to fix it requires capital and public demand.

In my engineering career, one thing I've learned is that if you fix problems B, C, and D, often it becomes a lot easier to fix orthogonal problem A, because the other fixes have made new things possible.

I see what you are doing as fixing a lot of problems with flying, so then more attention can go into making planes quieter and more energy efficient.

Perhaps yours is one of the steps to making planes as peaceful in the environment as birds[0].

[0] https://breckyunits.com/ifNatureIsDoingIt.html
"dealing with the control tower"

I know little to nothing about GA, but... it only makes sense to take time if the procedures are still done somehow manually, like speaking with human operators out there. It true, the dependence on a fallible human attention for something that can be automated, that right there is a safety hazard to me.
One expensive laser-ring gyro, or 3+ independent MEMS gyros?

I’ll take the multiple independent gyros, thanks.
> Mozilla could not have put a “better in Firefox” button on Gmail or YouTube at any price

Microsoft is literally doing this, and yet...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/microsoft-edge-will-...
Yep. LIGO is good from 10 Hz to 10 kHz

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016PhRvD..93k2004M/abstra...

which will catch the last minutes or so of two black holes spiraling into each other. (I saw a talk on this at the Physics Colloquium at Cornell in the late 1990s when LIGO was still a dream)

The PTA is sensitive to the 10^-9-10^-7 Hz range

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48084-...

which catches radiation from supermassive long black holes for a long long time in which they are slowly approaching each other.
Have you engaged Apple about registering your search engine? How's that process going?
You're trying to convince me to be less confident in my assertions by confidently telling me what I do or don't understand, and what I need to understand in order to reach conclusions.

>What you're doing is like watching a boxing match and saying "it's very lazy that these people aren't using their legs" or "I don't understand why that person won, they didn't even knock the other person out!". There's a thing that's happening here that you've not bothered to learn enough about to understand whether or not the participant is accomplishing their goals

But, you see, art is not a game. There are no rules. If you paint me a portrait of myself with your feet and you make me look like my mother, I'm not going to be impressed that you managed to paint my mother with your feet. I'm to ask you why you didn't use your hands, you dolt! If you handicap yourself to the point you make something bad, then it's only fair the results are judged on their own merits, isn't it? If you wanted to use your feet to entertain yourself then any criticism you receive for it shouldn't matter, because the activity fulfilled its purpose to you, the same way boxers don't care about the criticism they receive from people who think they should also use their legs.

I don't care about their goals. Their goals are for themselves. I don't need to know them to judge the quality of the result.

>"I don't understand this" (although I'm getting the sense I'm unlikely to hear _that_ from you)

I'm honest enough to say I don't get the point of the soup can. That doesn't stop me from saying it's low-effort. I see better art on Twitter every day, even though most of it probably has less of a message.
> I've never seen anything like this before

That sounds more like innovation than art. There's no art in the black square or in the soup can. No matter what your artistic tastes, you will never stop to admire a black square, and that's how you know it is not art. The same for the soup can. If you won't stop to admire it then it is not art. The black square and the soup can became "art" only because of hype and marketing. Art dealers hype up and promote non-art as art in order to make money.
“Apple Intelligence in 15.1 just flagged a phishing email as “Priority” and moved it to the top of my Inbox. This seems… bad”

Report don’t bitch about it.
Can someone ELIF this for me?

I understand how neural networks try to reduce their loss function to get the best result. But what's actually different about the KANs?
Oh I agree, just trying to leave room for conversation :)
Even when the tools are available, pilots need the training to know to use them. How many NTSB accident reports include non instrument rated pilots getting disoriented in IMC despite having an autopilot with a "level" function? If your system can keep them out of this kind of trouble without them even having to take action, it will save lives.
> Do we really need even more personal aviation in the situation we’re currently facing?

Yes? What's to stop them from using the fly-by-wire tech on a battery-powered, solar-powered, or hydrogen-powered airplane as they become viable? What in particular does the motive power for the prototype have to do with global warming?

Is flying inherently bad even if carbon-free? I certainly don't think so!

Mad props to the engineers behind this project. We need more innovation going in more interesting and varied directions, and less pooh-poohing. Maybe you can be the one who works on the hydrogen engine!
Doom Eternal (which would turn out to be a deeply ironic name and which I was only playing singleplayer) had some botnet layered over it that tried to "update" whenever you started the game. There was a bug where the little startup dialog that would say "updating" or whatever instead said nothing, and it just hung there, and there was no way to bypass it. It effectively bricked the game because not even reinstalling got rid of it. You couldn't do anything to play the game anymore. Research revealed this happened on all platforms, and nobody had a fix. Awesome to be in the future with all this fancy technology, where my game rips me off on accident, WAY BEFORE end of life (this was like a year or two from its release). :D Meanwhile, I can fire up Doom 1 and 2 via gzdoom in less time than it took that dialog to finish when it was still working. And you can play Doom 3 in the browser! https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/
It's a mindset of some in the legal profession that 'guilt' is a determination of the system, not an objective truth. If the justice system finds you were guilty, then you have to serve the sentence - regardless of what evidence comes later to prove your innocence. If it wasn't presented at the time of the trial then it doesn't matter.

Its actually a great example of the iron law of bureaucracy at work [1].

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration. Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc. The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...
Fiber is problematic as far as LOS and obstacles are concerned. Most launch points are concealed, usually at the edge of a treeline. As far as I understand, fiber creates unnecessary risk for operators.
You will also need to account for the time to pre-flight the plane, and fuel it up, possibly wait on the taxiway, and possibly divert around weather (including to an entirely different airport if necessary).
But this verdict only involves the search business. All that other stuff is out of scope. And breaking it up like that leaves the search monopoly intact anyway.
Data branching in general, no (pulling from 32 places is still 32x as expensive in that architecture, but you might be able to load bigger chunks in each place). For a KAN, a bit (it shifts the constants involved when I was talking about smaller vs bigger splines above -- sparsity and dropout will tend to make the GPU tend toward that worst-case though). You still have the problem that you're heavily underutilizing the GPU's compute.
I almost worked on this game, but I was burnt out so I took a break from all that. I ended up doing some play testing on it.

This was the kind of game Dale excelled at designing. He would do the original versions and his small crew would do the porting. One coder per platform.

The art was done by our go-to artist. I forget his name but he had a whimsical, clown-like personality.

Dale drew a lot of counterculture-type people into his orbit. He was the California stereotype, that way. But he lived clean, no drugs or even alcohol that I ever saw at his parties, and it’s such a fluke that he died so young.

Dale taught me to drive and is the reason I got good at harmonica. He was a wonderful man.
My thoughts exactly. It's depressing really. Even if i had an idea for a novel airplane that leads to more people flying, i would immediately conclude that it's not a good idea to chase after because our planet needs less CO₂ emissions, not more.
Your average home network has a functional mDNS stack already running.
I apologies as well. It's easy to argue against comments as though they're all from one person, even though they come from different people.

You say the topic here is whether or not casing out a location would get you in trouble. This illustrates a problem with analogies, we are now several comments deep in a discussion about an analogy. I original spoke about the security of virtual IT systems, and an analogy was made to the security of physical buildings. A computer program and a physical building are quite different, but here we are talking about physical buildings. I don't want to talk about the security of physical buildings anymore.
> Immigration probably makes housing more affordable

It would if you'd import actual builders (which is strictly regulated industry). Instead we (NZ) get IT specialists (like me, lol) and if you are lucky - occasional nurse.
I've had hyper-pedantic arguments in many workplaces, but they're usually focused in tech or other "intellect driven" fields.

A lot of people (Americans especially, I guess due to their Silicon Valley) think you need to work in tech to work in tech. There are tech jobs in every industry, both IT and other types of tech. I recommend not being in the tech industry - working for a manufacturer with embedded systems or doing IT for a finance company is a lot better for your mental health.
> everyone can find an extra $50-100 monthly to stash away for retirement

And if you are extraordinarily lucky, perhaps you will get to keep it. More likely, some ordinary life obstacle will come along and wipe it out. When your car breaks down and you need to spend $1000 getting it running again so you can keep your job, are you going to leave that savings money alone, or are you going to spend it? Of course you are going to spend it, because the alternative would be going (further) into debt, and then you would have to spend the next 12 months paying off that debt instead of saving any more money. But in that 12 months, some other thing is bound to happen: perhaps you'll get sick, or you'll have to move and put down a new rental deposit, or any of the other million things that constantly knock people's lives off balance.

It takes multiple consecutive years of good luck before one can get to a position where your advice would be applicable.
Emanuelef/daily-stars-explorer released a feature to associate spikes to Hacker
That's an interesting example of a "slight" quality reduction. In apples, a slight quality reduction might be a bit of discoloration or a small bruise. The presence of a worm, on the other hand, causes the apple to be perceived as unsafe or inedible.
big fan of the approach & simplicity!
So they're re-inventing HPC networks in the data center.

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

https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2021/cmsc714/readings/Kim...

I'm sure there are innovations here, but most of this has been standard in HPC for decades. (Fat trees since 1985, Dragonfly since 2008.) This is not new science, folks.
It is always the court's problem. A judge does not have arbitrary or absolute authority. If Google can convince an appeals court that the judge has imposed an impossible or unreasonable remedy it will be overturned.
Show HN: Buy and sell projects up to $2.5k
That might just be overloading the term in a way that clouds the issue though? The exclusive default search provider for a browser vs the exclusive search provider for a browser is pretty different.
> But your article argues the opposite of your claim.

It's not. The article talks about Youtube nailing the final nail in IEs coffin, which it did.

As for shoving Chrome down everyone's throats I'm amazed no one remembers the ancient history of just 15 years ago:

- showing it on search pages: http://www.webandsay.com/archives/google-is-actively-pushing...
- prominently showing it on Youtube: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-google-promotes...
Ask HN: No one is buying our SaaS. Are we doomed?
We got exactly 1 customer who paid us almost immediately. We have delivered for them quite consistently. We asked for feedback and they are silent. We just don't know why.

We have been trying to reach out to other people in our target market but seeing lackluster response. We either get we are not interested or silence treatment.

This is the second product. Our first attempt had early interest from people but we could not monetize for after 6 months.

We are having hard time even to get people to speak with us for feedback and problem validation for current and other ideas.

What is going in SaaS market? I understand economy is not best state what it could be and there are millions of SaaS, ChatGPT wrappers in last two years.

I know problem is us and our approach. But, I wonder how others in SaaS are doing?

For the context, our SaaS is in search engine marketing for people with a lot of data. Think Algolia but targeted towards data heavy industry.

I will appreciate if you can share insights. I am losing patience and money everyday.
> People regularly talk about the innovations that came from the labs funded by that agreement.

Do you have some examples?
Classic false equivalence. Mature airplane engine technology based on alternative energy really doesn't exsit at the moment, while the same cannot be said for residential energy.

The existence of the a fossil fuel based car market provided an impetus for electric car and battery technology to develop. Similarly, practical alternative energy flight will likely develop faster if there is a market for small, innovative aircrafts.
There's a lot of mysticism and superstition surrounding C++ exceptions. It's instructive to sit down with godbolt and examine specific scenarios in which noexcept (or exceptions generally) can affect performance. Read the machine code. Understand why the compiler does what it does. Don't want to invest at that level? You probably want to use a higher level language.
Why not? They did it for Maps.
Andy got mental about art. That is, thinking was an important step for him, in his process. He went far down that road.

Some artists don't do the mental thing so much. More of a conversation between just the hand and the beauty sense. Maybe a little mental, maybe no mental at all.

The non-mental approach is more fulfilling, imo. A better high and a better product. What beauty I can create in 5 minutes scribbling takes a year to almost-do the same in code.

(ok, the mental approach is pretty much just a big tease. It never really delivers. Lots of "neat" and "interesting" but it never really actually delivers the big punch. Sorry if that's harsh.)

All respect to Andy tho. And it's nice to know that he shared that particular path with us. I wonder if he ever dabbled in code.
I’m begging for trains in the Texas triangle. It’s such a perfect use case. It’s ~3 hours between any of San Antonio-Austin, Houston, and Dallas-Fort Worth. Long enough to be a horrible drive, short enough to be a waste of a flight. There’s also not much density in between to contend with.
It depends on your motivation of why you want to work in that field in the first place.
Ask HN: How can you tell the difference b/w dark pattern and deceptive pattern?
The online voter registration site for Texas feels like a dark pattern because the use of a familiar Submit button makes it appear like you are registering online but it's actually just a Print function.

Screenshot:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fechvpkj47ggd1.jpeg
> I’m one of the paying Kagi customer who wants to make Kagi my default iOS search engine, but cannot

FYI, there is a workaround [1]. It's trash that Apple makes us do this. But you can.

Granted, it nudged me to switch to Orion as my main desktop browser.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.h...
And when we talk about walled garden, fans always said customer chose it.

No, customer is dictated. For walled garden owner billion reasons.
Yeah, stuff like this is why I wouldn't feel the urge to play new video games even if I had time. Even if everything works fine, I don't want to wait on updates.
The NIC is still there but they're skipping the data copy from system RAM to GPU RAM. https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirect
"Oh no"

* adds a 5th digit
Their security, not yours.
Working 10 hours per week was nice while it lasted.
4-digit flight numbers are for humans, not computers
GA progresses with silicon carbide fuel cladding development
> even if we wanted to, we are currently not able to make useful systems that are also secure to the degree that the current user base is still able to use it.

I disagree. We have computer systems now that are secure which the vast majority of people have no trouble using: phones and tablets. They are so secure band-aids like CrowdStrike and similar anti virus measures aren't needed on them.

We've known for decades that desktops, such as Windows, MacOS and the majority of Linux use a broken security model. We know why it is broken: you can't trust the owner of the device, be that joe citizen or a corporate. Joe citizen will be socially engineered into installing something the modifies the OS, turning it into malware that can't be repaired. The corporate will buy something like CrowdStrike, which is essentially the same trick in a different guise: con the owner into installing something that makes the attacker money. A absolute precondition for an OS guaranteeing it is secure is it can't modified by a third party, and that includes the user. Yet we persist in providing OS's that do allow the user to modify them, and then pretend papering over that with things like anti-virus programs fixes the problem.

We've also know for decades secret proprietary code that is so secret it comes with a licence that bans you from attempting to pull it apart and looking for vulnerabilities (via a licence banning you from reverse engineering), is pure poison for security. I need to have 100% faith Juniper does not have a backdoor, or and Microsoft is not still allowing MD5 signed certs in critical parts of it's infrastructure.

Despite all that it's true that here we are in 2024, still using things that are insecure by design, and still buying hidden proprietary code from vendors that have included backdoor passwords in their products in the past. I'm not sure it is a political problem, but it sure isn't a "we don't know how to do better" problem. We do.
To be fair, by the time git came around, sourceforge had been enshitifying itself for 10 years or so. Git would be popular without github, github just makes things easier.
It's not new science, but tuning RoCE performance is new engineering.
It's only easy now because Microsoft had a lot of runs in with the US and EU regulators on this specific issue in the past.
I like how everyone is looking for technical solutions, where the trivial one is to reduce the number of flights.

It's not like we're not in a climate crisis after all.
Aggressive increase in supply reduces demand, which reduces price of existing stock. Many, many people have a vested interest in keeping that stock at a high price (both single family home owners and investors). Wiping 10 years of payments a family has made off the value of a property overnight isn't popular.

On top of that, housing is a key element of our economy ("safe as houses") and the impact on a big enough drop to make a difference would likely be very bad.
> you could also consider a wider definition

That's an understatement, which is sort of the whole point of what I wrote:

> I encourage everybody to read TBL's book Weaving The Web and his other expository writing

People who think they know what the Web is but thinks it doesn't include Gopherspace are simply wrong; they are ignorant—in the literal, denotative sense of the word.