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Do you think that any trans person can reach adulthood or even puberty without being aware of the "theoretical issues" that the rest of the world thinks about the issue? Being a minority as they are?

Do you really think they are the ones trying to change the world by force, rather than the other way round? Traditionally quite a lot of force, including murder, has been levelled against trans people.

And what does any of this have to do with bees?
I don't understand how $50 a month can be cheaper than having your own machine. A machine should pay for itself in less than a year.
Love:

1 speed (of typing/screen updates/just doing things)

2 simplicity (in general)

3 basic highlighting

Hate:

When layout gets into a terrible jumble that's hard to distinguish one thing from another (kind of rare and is usually when using suboptimal tools/solutions, so isn't usually a show stopper)
> "Any communication which is threatening or abusive, and is intended to harass, alarm, or distress someone is forbidden"

Prohibitions like this one are overly broad and smother a lot of legitimate discussion. Exceptions to free speech used to be limited to things like:

* Don't yell "fire" in a crowded theater.

* Don't call for violence.

If we broaden the scope to any speech someone, somewhere might take offense to, then we can no longer have much diversity of thought in public debates.

If these kind of "hate speech" laws existed in England in the 19th century, Charles Darwin would possibly never have published the book "Descent of Man", because saying "You and I both descend from animals" was a very demeaning thing to say to most people at the time, and therefore could have landed him in court. The very idea of biological evolution is still offensive to a lot of people today, BTW.

A stark warning that this concern is not a sterile theoretical exercise came in August this year, when James Damore was fired from Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...

So a company that champions and celebrates science to the outside world (like in their many doodles about scientists) and that has control over much of today's human communication, believes at the same time that it is a thoughtcrime to cite the scientific consensus about something as basic as biological differences between men and women.
Funny thing is that the 747 was originally designed as an airframe that could convert to a freighter. That's why the cockpit is in a bubble above the main cylinder of the fuselage--to get out of the way of the cargo.

Back then, the conventional wisdom was that eventually all passenger travel would be supersonic. Boeing put their best folks on the SST project, and the 747 was a stopgap afterthought.

Turned out that fuel efficiency was way more important than speed.
Historically, cryptographic algorithms encumbered by patents have failed to get wide adoption. I suspect the same will be true of cryptocurrencies.
It doesn't really take that much skill. I did it in 15 minutes for the first time with no advance reading/watching. The kits you can buy online come with a full set of tools and instructions.
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Null-tracking, or the difference between union and sum types
The left button is used to put the ESP8266 into flash mode for updating the firmware, the right button is used to reset the device, effectively pulling it out of deep sleep to refresh the content on the screen, and the center button is wired to a GPIO pin that isn't used. You would only be able to use the single button for input. I don't see any other GPIO pins exposed, so it'd be tough to add extra buttons.

The ESP8266 has over a dozen GPIO pins, but any hobby kit like the ESP01, ESP12E, or ESP32 might not expose all of the pins. I can't tell which ESP module this board has on it, but if they're exposed you could solder an extra few buttons. They'll be really small solder points, though.
At the risk of sounding like a teenager:

How different is that from powerful people controlling or enslaving individuals to make money which they can then use to acquire control over the network?
What is your github account? I am curious to see some of your code.
The Marvell board looks pretty interesting. Would be nice to get FreeBSD or OpenBSD with pf up and running on it.
Yes but HN always has been a pro-Boeing board.

The A350 has around 850 orders vs. Boeing 1250 orders for their 787.

So "scrambling" is highly subjective and suggestive.
There are some, but they're very rare. One example is the BA shuttle between London City and New York - only business. I believe there is a French airline doing a "cheap business" Paris-New York as well.
You're assuming I wouldn't just write my own script ;)
> If you had to build one from scratch, how would you do it?

I consider Jupyter notebooks to be a fascinating evolution of the terminal paradigm: their basic behavior is close enough to a terminal, but then you are free to rearrange, rerun, delete cells, you can have rich visualization and any type of browser content, you can save and restore sessions (notebooks), share them easily, access them over the network, detach from them, etc.
I realize this article is a tongue-in-cheek fan theory. However, it does make me wonder what Tarantino was up to with Pulp Fiction.

The Ezekiel "quote" always bugged me because even without looking it up, anyone who spent any amount of time in the Old Testament, could tell that it was fabricated. "Finder of lost children" is not an OT motif in general, and certainly not in Ezekiel. Obviously, Tarantino knew people would look it up and go "what the heck is this?" Therefore I have to think it was an intentional move on his part, but why?

I think it's a tell that there's a story-under-the-story in Pulp Fiction which lends credence to the other observations. There's obviously something supernatural going on. One of the things I love about the film is that Tarantino doesn't explain anything. He lets mystery stay mystery, as any good story should.

I don't buy the Silmarillion connection. Nor do I think that this movie is a loose retelling of any specific classical tale, ala O Brother Where Art Thou. It's more likely that he doesn't have any specific story in mind, but sprinkled the supernatural element into PF to give it an air of mystery. But I'd love to be proven wrong.
It's not just the voltage / amperage. Even if you buy a really expensive over-under that plugs into a 220 the lack of an output vent slows down drying dramatically.
In the case of healthcare it's because the US is alone in the degree to which its system is privatized.
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Pretty sure that if you want a mineral cheap, you'll want there to be peace, not war. Extracting something in the middle of a war zone is super expensive.

If anyone is intentionally fomenting war because of cobalt or oil or whatever, it's because they want that mineral or commodity to be expensive, not cheap.

That would help explain oil interests wanting to foment war in the Middle East. The idea is to /prevent/ the Middle East from cheaply extracting oil, thus increasing the price of oil.
Flying in airplanes more radiation than standing next to a nuclear reactor
I don't have the feeling I am a man. I am a man by the definition we all(used to) work with. It's not a word encompassing a set of feelings or doings. If one wishes to use the word "man" for something else, question is: why the same word? If someone with a vagina and breasts says she is a man, I have to ask: how do you know? I don't know what the man next to me feels like or thinks. I could not possibly identify as his way of being. Let alone a biological woman.

And seems that no one really cares about the theoretical issues we, transphobic people, have in accepting such views. We're just that. And problem is if our daughters or sons will come one day saying they're transgender, they will have no arguments, but just hurt feelings and the requirement to accept them as they are, or believe to be. We, as parents, may do so out of love. But others will not. And we, as parents, will have to accept the high risk of suicide for a view that has no sane arguments behind.
Point is, you researched Chevy heavily.

Not everyone is going to buy Chevy but almost everyone is going to research Chevy. The role of Chevy ads being shown to everyone plays a role in this. So a Chevy ad still is “relevant” even on an ice cream site.
I wouldn't call it a "fundamental engineering problem", but over the past 10 years there have been some pretty insane strides in power consumption, size, screen technology, and software that have made what we consider today to be the "smartphone" possible.

The change in laptops hasn't gone a fraction as far as it has in cell phones in the past decade. That might stop soon, but until it does getting a phone to last 10 years is a pipe dream, unless you are okay with a severely out of date device, which again, I don't think that 99% of the public will be.

And without customers, a company won't be able to support a phone for that long, so you'd end up with a slow, expensive, dated looking, insecure device.
I worked with Dan for several years. He's one of the nicer people I've met in the industry and off the hoook smart.
> It IS shitty marketing

It grew by word of mouth to, IIRC, 12.000 attendees last year; it outgrew several locations and is now at a size where it is actually hard to find a location that can house the event.

Maybe it is not "shitty marketing" but an attempt at crowd control ;)
I think you misunderstood the parent. They are saying that business is 5x economy, not the A380.
Will those be available to download after the conference?
The "interrogation" felt more like they didn't want me to visit Israel again. Genuinely, that was the only take away I had.

They tried to intimidate me with their faux "all seeing eye" - asking about whether or not I trained judo (in reference to the jiu-jitsu Gi I had in my luggage) but aside from that, the questions about the shekels in my wallet and also taking issue with the rubber waistband on my pants, they didn't really ask about anything else. The shekels thing and the issue they took with it was just absurd.

It was really just civilian employees on a power trip trying to mess with me... because they can.
Not all new technologies hit the ground running. Not that vr is necessarily new at this point. Look at early video games versus now. Look at early office home software versus now.

These things have come a long way in 20-50 years.

Yes, many vr games are still little more than tech prototypes and the hardware still needs improvement. But if you haven't used a decent brand system and can't appreciate how much potential it has. I don't know what to say to that.

You shouldn't take vr just at face value for being awesome but also some of the potential it has in next few years. That is what's freaking awesome to me(and I'm not op)
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To be fair, the vast majority of Canadians live near Canada's southern border.
Yes, you can even see the unedited replays
I'm not sure if that's what you meant, but the point I was addressing was that "first" is bad because you could reasonably expect it to work on anything sequentialish not just on conses (agreed), and car/cdr is explicitly about conses (agreed). But first, in some Lisps, works just fine on everything sequentialish, including vectors and strings, so I don't consider that a particularly strong argument.

cl, cr I could live with, maybe. (consleft, consright). Other suggestions, head and tail, fst and snd, which have some of the other touted advantages. (I don't necessarily agree with them, but they also don't hurt, so...)
They immediately reminded me of "Hoboglyphs", https://weburbanist.com/2010/06/03/hoboglyphs-secret-transie...
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The point is that more than exercise is involved. Getting exercise does not require an expensive membership in a club.
Fun fact, the power method is what all neutronics codes that simulate neutron distributions in nuclear reactors use. The diffusion/transport equation in a multiplying medium is a eigenvalue equation and the dominant eigenvalue is the inverse of k, the multiplication factor
It’s actually the airlines dragging their feet on a lot of this, not “30 year old ATC.” Many airlines don’t upgrade their planes to have the latest equipment. Flew in a small personal plane with a friend that’s a pilot and he was explaining how in several areas his small plane has more advanced avionics than commercial airliners. For example, his plane is certified to fly the latest 3D GPS based landing approaches while many commercial airliners still don’t have the necessary equipment onboard.
They're also used in spectral clustering, which is a powerful method for clustering data (see Ng 2001 for some pictures)
It depends on the kind of oversight policies the EU group develops.
Upper deck Air France economy A380 is still the best and most quiet economy layout I've ever flown.
Or could it be a ploy to scare Emirates into making a big purchase, because they don't want to be the only company shouldering the support costs for a class of airplane?
While i disagree that phones aren't status symbols any more (they absolutely are!), I agree with

>The challenge is economical, cultural and political, not technical.

While there are some technical hurdles to overcome to make a phone that lasts 10 years, they aren't that big comparatively. The real problem comes when you need to support software for a decade, getting people to buy a phone that's more expensive, larger, and slower than the competitors, selling enough to make the whole thing economically feasible, and getting people to be okay with a dated looking device.

I just don't see that being possible right now, especially while phones are still getting higher resolution, more capability, larger batteries, and smaller form factors. Maybe when phones hit the same plateau that laptops did a few years ago it will be possible, but I would not want to be part of a company attempting it right now.
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Too bad it's struggling: A380 won't go anywhere overnight but in comparison 747 was in production for decades. Compared to 747 and many other wide-body aircraft it's a wonderful plane. Sitting on the second deck gets you by far the quietest flight even in economy.
There is a mechanism design to make it easier to fund public goods voluntarily: dominant assurance contracts.
> you need to pay salaries in order for company to continue operating. If you don't, the employees will just quit.

you need to get funding in order for company to continue operating. If you don't pay a decent return for the funding, you just won't get funded.

> Shareholders going on strike makes absolutely no difference for the company.

This applies only to companies that do not require capital to operate/grow.
>> the question hinges on whether they need a frame of reference for those feelings

> Why not? Just about every other medical treatment require far greater standards of
evidence than just a subjective feeling. For example there seems to be wide
consensus in medicine that those with body dysmorphic disorder are to be denied
amputation of healthy limbs.

I'm not talking about the medical treatment.

My question was why do you believe those people need an external frame of reference to know whether those feelings are correct or not?

You implied they do, but haven't explained why.

>> Perhaps it is like the feeling that you're hungry

> To which the equivalent conditions would be the various eating disorders,

that statement assumes your position on the issue in question. Is it like an eating disorder or not?

> And unless there is a disorder like this, it's easy enough to gain a frame of reference, we all know what it's like to be hungry vs. not hungry.

I can't parse the meaning of this sentence.
MATLAB, for one, in its eigs function uses Arnoldi with restart (picking a arbitrary seed to zoom on "good" parts of the Krylov subspace). Imagine we pick an Arnoldi vector for restarting (a member of that orthonormal basis which spans that subspace) which is equivalent to some polynomial expression of the initial matrix times our initial vector. We essentially want to pick this vector using such a polynomial (not the characteristic) so that the values of this polynomial function peak as a function of the true eigenvalues of the matrix - this lets us pick out the Krylov space that better approximates the correct eigenvector and hence the correct eigenvalue.
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Exactly, when flying economy I always try to get an A380. 747 is the most painful plane there is in economy.
Ask HN: How to maximize battery life of my Smartphone?
This question keeps appearing within my group of friends, from my understanding there are 2 type of batteries in smartphones:

- LiPo
- LiIon

And there are various theories about phone charge/discharge to keep battery healthy:

- Recharge when it goes down to 40% but stop at 80% (I use this technique for my laptop)
- Reach battery minimum (~10%) and fully recharge
- Keep the phone plugged whenever you can (battery topped as much as possible)
- Keep the battery as close as possible to 60% all time (recharge when it's lower, stop charging when it's higher)
- Keep the battery unplugged and fully charged all time (laptops only)

What's the right way to deal with battery cycles of my smartphone?
Bonus points for laptops suggestions too.
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Because they just wanted to screw with me. They specifically didn't let me take on a paper file which had my invitation letter, citizenship copy and various other things that would have made my life easier at Ben Gurion.

They promised they'd put it on the plane and they didn't. I got it two or three days later as El Al doesn't fly during Shabbat.
If you know the first one, you can project everything onto its orthogonal plane.
The repeater suggestion is exactly what I did at university. There was a network I could _just_ pick up most of the time on my laptop that I wanted to use (run by the central university rather than my college so it had fewer usage limits). Putting a DD-WRT router by my window which connected to it as a client, then shared the connection over Ethernet, got me a rock solid connection.

It also lets you put your devices on their own subnet/NAT, which is nice from a security perspective (I've do this at home quite a lot - re-purposed router connects the main network on 2.4GHz and treats it as a WAN, then provides its own connections on 5GHz).
What isn't obvious at first look/listen: there is no user-driven exploratory discovery for voice-activated devices. You must memorize the exact command needed for a particular "skill". Some words may be selectable (e.g. Echo vs Alexa). If an elderly person has trouble remembering dozens of voice commands, only a tiny subset of the device's functions can be used.
AKA every Bloomberg article.
I always wondered how Christians were able to square the existence of Santa with the 2nd commandment. Then again, how they can reconcile Jesus with the 2nd commandment is bit dodgy to me too so what do I know.
It is a great sacrifice and I absolutely supper her.

Just maybe it would get more media attention if she was physically there and refused to play in abaya or the "high-necked white blouses" nonsense.

Also, where is the solidarity form champions like Magnus Carlsen?
> the author claims that releasing derivative works of Shen under the GPL is copyright infringement

Do you have a source for this? The closest I could find was this[1]:

> Appropriating other people's work by copying the code and changing the license is IMO immoral.

If this is indeed the source material, then I think your characterization isn't _necessarily_ correct. Saying it's immoral isn't the same as making a claim about law.

The link provided[2] does indicate that de Raadt thinks it is a violation of copyright law however. Finally, I question whether there is actually a consensus on this matter at all. If you relicense BSD code as GPL, then consumers needn't abide by the GPL; they can simply opt to use the original license. Does that really mean a relicensing has occurred? Of course, in non-trivial cases, there's likely additional code that has been intermixed with the original code, which would make it impossible to separate. But the release of the GPL code would still technically need to comply with the BSD license itself. Even at that point, it doesn't feel like "relicense" is actually correct.

(Note that I picked up on this because I firmly believe that such relicensing is indeed unethical, while simultaneously not knowing whether such relicensing is definitely a violation of copyright law or not, while also believing that copyright law shouldn't exist at all.)

[1] - http://www.marktarver.com/fsf.html

[2] - http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070913014315
> I'm tired of arguing something this obvious

You're arguing a scenario that is impossible both practically and theoretically and then calling others pedants for pointing out the fundamental flaws in your thought experiment. You're literally arguing against the textbook and then asserting that your thought experiment is close enough to make your point. It might be time for you to stop assuming that everyone else is an idiot and entertain the notion that you might actually be wrong.
It's 1250 to 850 orders.
I guess I (mis?)interpreted the above poster's reasoning for not pursuing programming "this late" was the money aspect because otherwise it makes no sense to me. Most anyone at anytime could learn to program if they don't care if it will make them money. I.e. I could only imagine someone not pursuing it because they thought it was too late for it to be a career for them.
There was a shift in the aviation market that wasn't entirely straightforward to predict. Airbus bet that the market would continue with a hub-and-spoke model, with lots of regional jets providing connections to hub airports. Boeing bet that the market would shift towards point-to-point service, with direct flights between second-tier airports facilitated by mid-size jets with extended range.

Boeing clearly made the right call, but there's an element of hindsight at play. Emirates, Etihad and Singapore have been very successful as pure hub-and-spoke airlines and there's still a vast amount of traffic going through the major hub airports.

The lead time on new aircraft designs is immense - the A3XX project started in 1994 and took the first orders in 2000. Airbus made some strategic blunders and didn't respond quickly enough to market conditions, but in some respects they were just unlucky. Boeing's 747X project failed and they have struggled with sales for the 747-8, but they avoided heavy losses by re-using old IP rather than launching a completely new platform. Both manufacturers were caught off-guard by the events of 2008.
Yeah my understanding is that the 747 was a success because it could cross the major oceans in a single go, something smaller twin engines could not do at the time. This while providing a price pr seat that most people could accept.

Now we have twin engines that can at least do the Atlantic trip just as well, allowing all manner of smaller airlines to offer trips from a multitude of airports.
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I use HN comments as a predictor of future events, whether it be product trends or Bitcoin prices. Just take whatever is posted here and reverse it.
The convergence analysis is a bit lacking, but there is a significant sped up when you store the last power of A and you keep multiplying by that instead of A. That is: A, A^2, A^4, A^8, ...

It makes the second case they give go from 60 iterations down to 7.
The refresh rate sucks. Transflective LCD gets you e-ink-like contrast, LCD-like refresh rate, and battery life that's still much worse than e-ink but a significant improvement over backlit LCD.
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