skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The A380 did have weight and other issues early on. The A380s that are being broken up were replaced with new ones (Singapore Airlines leased five early A380s for ten years, when the lease was ended they didn't renew, but instead bought five new ones from Airbus).
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This is completely wrong.

Embedded systems running Linux are extremely common, and becoming more and more popular because it runs on so many architectures (esp. ARM, but also PPC). For many applications, hard real-time is not necessary, and Linux is FAR easier to develop on.

They are not "the exception" by any means. Look at almost any automotive "infotainment" system on current models: it's likely running on Linux. There's countless others.

For high-integrity systems for critical safety applications, you would not use Linux, you'd use a dedicated RTOS, of which there are countless choices. But these all have big disadvantages: poor performance (they favor determinism over performance), poor development support, high license costs, etc. If you're doing avionics, then sure you'd use an RTOS, but if you're making a "smart TV" to play Netflix, you wouldn't, you'd use Linux.

Also, Linux does have real-time capabilities, it just isn't hard real-time, only soft. It works well enough for controlling hobbyist-level CNC machines. I've used it myself for a pretty critical real-time system where ease of development and performance were more important than absolute real-time guarantees.
A380 comfort level beats 787 and others. You will never feel the take off or landing and no turbulence either. I have flown with Emirates and I am hesitant to fly anything else. The business class experience was amazing with full recline seats. Fly them and try it out yourselves.
Why does Apple have to make everything proprietary? It's kinda annoying.
In that case it will be very simple to circumvent. As webpage could be delivered once you log in, in form of an encrypted message.
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Ah, except that was a very key point! Nobody exchanged goods for work done. What would be the point of that when everyone had access to public 3d printers that could assemble whatever you needed? The Walkaways were explicitly cashless in any and all of its forms.

Private property was also rare among them, as were fences...
What's wild is that people still talk about that time Dave Chappelle "went crazy", left his show, and walked out of the spotlight. He's never been anything other than clear that the he felt like it was messing up his life, for all the reasons you mentioned in that first paragraph.

Having needs is one way to fill the existential emptiness.
I do think the A380 helped Airbus brand image a lot. It might not be worth the money invested.
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Taking paracetamol won't cure my flu, it just alleviates the symptoms. Doesn't mean I'm not going to take it.
To your first point, Facebook has clear policy against sending a marketing message more than 24 hours after a user messages in. They just haven't been enforcing it. You can definitely report them in the app.

With SMS, in the US, it is illegal if a company is sending unwanted texts. Covered in the TCPA - Telephone Consumer Protection Act ~2015. Any legitimate provider will automatically opt you out of the campaign if you reply STOP. You can also copy the text and forward it to the number that spells SPAM (7726). They will send a bounceback and ask you what number sent the message.

It's super cludgy, but the carriers do seem to act on complaints, although it can happen slowly.
There's an issue of trust, as well. When I call a support number, and I get a robotic voice that assures me I can speak to it as if it were a person in plain language, I simply don't believe it.

It's just not true, either. So I end up trying to figure out how to structure my query so the robot on the other end will understand what I want, instead of just saying what I want.

In the end, I just repeat "human" and mash the 0 button over and over until I get a real person to talk to.
It's interesting to compare savings rates in the US to Greece:

https://data.oecd.org/chart/5cbS

No doubt there are some savers in Greece although if I was one of them I'd probably keep my savings in a German bank account.
I recently revisited some of the earliest web code I ever wrote, which was in PHP 5.5 (about 7 years old, I think). I wasn't surprised by all the mistakes I made, both from being a newbie programmer and from making what I think were fairly easy-to-make PHP mistakes. After all, every tutorial I could find back then used mysql, didn't used real_escape_string, etc.

What was surprising was how hard I had to dig now, 7 years later to find out how to do things correctly in PHP 7. Searching for what I thought should be fairly common things to do seemed to bring up all of the old articles that I first mislearned from, and it was really hard to find things like what the best way to iterate over a mysql result set was.

Honestly, after putting my 7 years of experience to practice, the final code didn't look half bad, but I don't think I'll ever end up using PHP since it still appears to be very easy to write bad code. Maybe if a definitive guide for how to write good PHP shows up, I'll give it a shot (or maybe I'll just try Hack).
Shaved head is the best option, but going bald definitely negatively affects your attractiveness and makes it harder to get dates - especially when younger.
CLIs, though, serve a different market. I put them in the 'professional' box, alongside Autocad and such; yes, these tools are built with the assumption that the people using them have experience using them.

IVR, is supposed to be 'intuitive' or 'natural' or however one's preferred marketing dialect describes it. The assumption is usually flipped - that tools are supposed to assist those ignorant of their use[1].

It has been a long time since normal users have been expected to use a CLI. If you're looking at one, you choose to. This is not at all true of IVR/Sirlextana.

[1] Of course, they don't serve the caller, they serve the robot's owner, so interests are only aligned to the extent the robot efficiently helps the caller with their goal, which adds an additional layer of opportunity for frustration.
When conversations become bitter, when i feel defeated and nothing interests me then i move on to not drag the team down, i start completing documentation to not keep any knowledge to myself.
My experience is that they tend to repeat their intro dialogue, which is often something like "tell me a few words about why you're calling, for instance you could say 'upgrade account' or 'billing issue'". Unlike keypress phone trees, they virtually never enumerate all the options.

If I'm saying 'help' it means I've tried that and failed, so it's not clear what the benefit is.
My wife is a psychiatrist and has dealt with people who survived suicide attempts. Mostly people who tried to kill themselves by shooting themself in the head. She says that her experience is that people do not immediately regret the decision just the consequence of having survived severe damage to the head.

It seems, at first thought, unreasonable that people trying to kill themselves by jumping off a bridge would be more likely to regret the decision than people who shoot themselves in the head. I wonder if this is mostly a selective choosing of the survivors of jumping off the bridge to fit a narrative.
Google should be using AI technology to save the lives of American soldiers.

It was Albert Einstein who signed a letter (ghost written by physicist Leo Szilard) written to Roosevelt about suggesting initiating what became the Manhattan project which created the nuclear weapons that saved an estimated 500,000 American soldiers lives when used on Japan.

Was it wrong of President Truman to save the lives of 500,000 American soldiers?
So we can make more bullshit jobs?

I think that voting and calling your representative should be the maximum effort necessary to be fairly represented.

That isn't reality, nobody should take this as an opportunity to condescend to me as a fair weather child. It SHOULD be reality.
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We had an illegal AirBNB in our building in Berlin. Some guests were ill-behaved and partied all night. The person renting the flat was unavailable. You had no recourse short of calling the police. I’d be very much fine with a hotel or an old-fashioned BnB in the building where staff or a responsible person is available to take care of and discipline misbehaving guests. You can call that NIMBYism, but yeah, no unregulated hotel in my backyard.
Some are actively designed to make you give up on the call, at least that is what it seems like to me.

How many times have you called and the prompts go:

Press 1 to talk with sales
Press 2 to talk with marketing
....
Press 9 to talk to tech support, the only reason anybody dialed this number

Then:
Speak your 18 digit account number, being sure to pause between each digit to make sure the computer records it correctly.

Then:
Speak your phone number

Then:
Speak your 24 digit hexadecimal product code

Finally you get through to a person and 100% of the time they ask you for all of that information again so they can type it in (and get it wrong).

And even when you get a person on the line they make you go back and do all of the stuff you already tried before finally transferring you to someone with half a clue.
Really, no comments from the down voters?
EK is still pushing on the global hub concept. They recently have been talking to Denver about a non-stop ther, but I don't see how you do that when there are already 7 non-stops to Europe (two Norwegian, one united, One Edelweiss, two Lufthansa, one Iceland Air) and one non-stop to Asia, plus connections on both sides of the country.

That's route fragmentation at work.
Doubtful, there's no reason to throw it out since Mach is still UNIX-y.

This is really there for Swift/Obj-C developers who want to use sockets but have something easier to grok than BSD sockets or NSStream, especially when you need to deal with TLS (Secure Transport, as simplified as it is, is still more difficult to use than saying "open this socket with TLS please"). BSD sockets are also ugly as sin to use in Swift because of rampant use of pointers (it's C, after all) - so there's that too.
Same here! It is such a surreal experience to just nestle into the heart of a Japanese neighborhood for the first time (and actually still is, going on well over a year now).

If it wasn't for AirBnB's abundant selection of places and prices it would have been near-impossible to get those kind of experiences (and new friends and countless other random things).
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It's baked into evolution and sexual selection. Guys with hair look better because it says something about their suitability for reproduction. Not much different than say breast size in women. We can combat such bias at an intellectual level, but that doesn't change our underlying wiring. The nice thing about getting older is I no longer care what anyone thinks about my baldness ;-)
Tomato, tomato. They still have to manage renters, take care of regular maintenance (cleaning), etc. If anything they have more work than the actual landlord.
It would be easier to convince them if liberals didn't outright mock them, Hillary bragged that she was going to put a lot of miners out of business.

There's also the sense of abandonment. Coal miners worked and died for generations to provide the energy that made comfortable city life possible. Now when they are no longer needed they get thrown away like an old tool. If liberals actually promoted something other than "leave behind everything/everyone you know and move to the city" they might be more receptive to dropping coal.
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Personal experience: no major side effects

DHT is not the most important (androgen) hormone after puberty
Only in the mind, and I think the large majority of people wouldn't care much for the difference.

Just make sure they can plug into Facebook/Instagram/YouTube/Social Media of choice and quite literally most people wouldn't care in the slightest.

That's not to say the negative reaction of a small minority wouldn't be vastly increased, but I think the masses would still be perfectly fine.
Minus rewards offered for tasks completed and political power structures, yes.
Fuel, at least according to Wiki [1], runs about 28% the cost of a nuclear plant's operating expenses. And our current nuclear tech was chosen largely because it was cheap. You're also looking at much greater expenses in running breeder plants. Those are already pretty substantial costs. And now on top of the cost extracting/refining/enriching fuel from saltwater would cost, you also have to keep basic economics in mind as well. Right now there's little demand for nuclear material, and so this is reflect in its cost. However, should this change you'd expect to see the cost change in turn, and likely quite sharply. That's a lot of stuff piling up pretty fast!

I'm not sure where you're getting he millions of years for breeders. The article mentions the value I've seen pretty much everywhere which saltwater extraction could theoretically provide enough material for about 60k years of nuclear operation. And breeders could ideally reduce consumption to a bit less than 1% of current usage. So that'd be 6 million years, but that's at current consumption rates. If we replaced our energy with nuclear that'd be a 25 fold increase in usage so we're down to 240k years at current rates. And that's in the scenario where we're extracting all the material we can from ocean water, using every single resource we have on the planet, and doing it all with perfectly functioning breeder reactors.

Just seems we should be targeting something that isn't a numbers game, though granted you can probably make some argument that cobalt will be a limiter on solar but solar also comes with many other perks - decentralization, minimal danger from failure, much cheaper, practically infinite energy availability, and so on. The only issue is storing energy, but this can be done affordably in numerous ways even with present day tech - and decentralization can also remove lots of the burden here.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...
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The average person probably shouldn't be buying investment properties anyways. Running income producing properties is more of a part time job than anything else. It takes significant effort to find the right property at the right price with the right renovations in order to make a good profit. Unless you're really willing to put in the leg work (and usually the "sweat equity"), you're better off putting your money in index funds or REITs. It takes the right person to make money in real estate.

I've known several people who wanted to "get into real estate" so they bought duplexes and became landlords. All of them lost money or broke even because they went into it without doing their due diligence. My parents ended up just walking away from their "investment" property and declaring bankruptcy, that's how much they lost out. It isn't buy property -> profit like people think.

Leverage cuts both ways - it magnifies both gains and losses.
When I read articles like this I wish I had a better grounding in economics, I guess specifically macroeconomics? Is there a well-known, digestible textbook?
I already own an iMac, I am looking at this for the following:

1. iOS development, Using Unity for games Development, (edit: Mac app development)

2. 1 VM with Windows

3. 1 VM with Linux

edit: also when travelling, to use this for all work demos
I’m mostly RP English and I usually have to put on a US accent to get anywhere.
I respectfully vehemently disagree. I like EK and their A380s, but give me a 787, even on a budget carrier like Norwegian. Lower atmospheric pressure and higher humidity, plus a non-stop makes all the difference in the world.I'm fine, even on a old 777 from the US to Asia, but US to Europe wrecks me on anything but a 787.

I haven't flown a A350 yet, but my understanding is that the humidity is lower (due to the fact it's not a true composite frame) so I am more likely to get jet-lag.
> In fact, I'll take real toilet paper over standards any day

You can print the Standard on the real toilet paper and have the best of both worlds. Read before wipe!
>'You've been corrected two times now that the statistical testing methods you've been attacking are in fact not how the experiments are being done and that the choice of null hypothesis that you've been attacking is not at all the null hypothesis that is being tested against."

Quote this. Where? I am sure by "corrected" you mean "someone claimed something I believe to be wrong, so I continued to point out why." Amazingly, this looks like yet more strawman arguing...
So what, not having hair is a disability now? Better stop giving insurance money to those paraplegics with the full head of hair. Bastards don't know how privileged they are to have hair.
Funny, I have those exact two comics sitting right outside my cubicle. #1319 was put there because my team lead thought I wrote too many scripts to automate silly stuff. I put #1205 there beside it so that I could rationalize all the automation I do.
I will never forget the episode where he goes diving for octopus in Sicily. The comments on how disgusted he was by his guide throwing dead octopus into the water for them to "catch"... it was Bourdain at his best.
I can estimate the amount of money I'm willing to pay for something. I can observe some evidence of what other people are willing to pay and from that proxy make an estimate.

If that's pulling something out of my ass, well, I guess you're not a fan of statistics or the scientific method? Oh, actually, I forgot that's a central tenet of the Austrian School -- science is bogus when contradicted by philosophy.

> can't parse the latter part

If a government creates money, then it must have a monetary policy. Do you think government-backed money is not "for the greater good"?
As someone in the process of grading 50 undergrad essays, I respectfully disagree! I read the WSJ and NYT for short form news. But the New Yorker does something else entirely and, in my view, continues to do it very, very well.
Im the CEO @ Structurely.

We made a deliberate decision not to call ourselves a chatbot, as the stigma around them is poor and didn't want to get lumped into that category.

We decided that an A.I. assistant is more aligned with our product - which is backed by humans - but a very vast majority of our conversations are handled entirely by A.I. only.

Every conversation here was 100% A.I.
https://research.structurely.com/customers

Good chatbot companies have to deliberately not call themselves chatbots. X.ai is another good example who calls their "chatbots" A.I. assistants on purpose.
That's an interesting question.

My impression (based on nothing more than anecdotal industry experience) is that there are far more jobs for PHP globally, and that the average starting salary for a new PHP dev is going to be considerably lower than the average starting salary for a new Go dev.

However, the number of stable senior PHP dev jobs with high salaries is also likely far higher than for Go.

I imagine it's easier to earn more as a new Go developer if you can get a job doing it, but it's easier to steadily get raises as a PHP developer.
Who is talking about lying to the government? You are misrepresenting what I am saying.
You didn't really post much about why exactly that's a bad thing.
> Productivity improvements don't mean employees get to work less, either.

The economics literature begs to differ, though it's not a 1:1, as the improvements are usually specific to an area of the market while the labor market is much less specific, which actually means that the benefits are less because they're dispersed over a wider group of people, marginally improving the lives of people who didn't even have productivity improvements in the work they do.
I used several Airbnbs in Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima last year. The first one we arrived in, in Tokyo had signs in the lift saying that Airbnb was not allowed to operate in the building, which was a bit of a stressful start. Nothing came from it though. The places in Kyoto and Hiroshima were fine, but it's made me weary of using Airbnb again.
Perhaps it should read, "especially veterinarians."

> A 2014 federal Centers for Disease Control online survey of 10,000 practicing veterinarians published last year found that more than one in six American veterinarians has considered suicide.

The study:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6405a6.htm
> At the very least the US will have some wiggle room to lower rates when the economy slows down again.

While true, one of the lessons from 2008-9, and part of Bernanke's point, is that monetary policy alone can't always accomplish the task. If we use up all the extra fuel in the run-up to a rough patch, we risk not having enough to get us out of the rut ahead.
Their 100 years of A/B testing has no effect on my wife.
> In 5-10 years we may have a 300 person 1 hr transport from sydney to New York by way of the BFR.

Is your average human's health and safety really compatible with the acceleration required for ballistic travel?
Meanwhile the stock market has more than doubled in the past 10 years.

After plummeting due to the financial crisis and a long period of quantitive easing.
I think balding has an evolutionary purpose too: you get more vitamin D from the sun.
People that don't shave their head drastically underestimate how much work it is to maintain that image.

Worse, when you slack off because life is stressing you out, its immediately obvious to everyone around you and the depression cycle goes into hyperdrive as you have to deal with constant comments and queries reminding you about both your baldness that is probably a significant source of stress and your current mental state.
This is surely a monopolies issue, Google using its search dominance to weigh into a separate market (newspaper/magazine publishing).