skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The civilian flight sim market is a bit thin these days unfortunately. X-Plane is quite good and gets a lot of developer support. It also runs on Linux!

Flight Simulator X is more than a decade old but it's still decent and has an unbelievably large third party library of aircraft, scenery, and other add-ons. The Lockheed Martin developed Prepar3d is an attempt to update the FSX code base and by all accounts is quite good but i haven't tried it myself.

A proper flight sim isn't much fun without at least a stick and it's worth buying one even if it's cheap and doesn't have a throttle.
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The big idea here is that Firefox is made by and for individuals who don't appreciate good design.
In response to #2, there is also a reason that photojournalism exists--unless you believe in a world where everyone imagines what important figures and historic events look like based solely on textual descriptions. This is completely ignoring the fact that I, nor most of society, would never attempt to receive the day's news via Morse Code.
I get the impression this isn't adjusted by inflation (since in some sense it's a measurement of a particular kind of inflation).

The number cited is 2.8%. CPI over past 12 months is also 2.8%...

I might be wrong about how this is measured, though.
True, but he was using statistical techniques, which are not guaranteed to produce the actual data.

My technique is akin to what an artist would do in "restoring" a damaged photograph. Often the glitch is only one data value being off, and it does produce an audible click.
I purchased the powder on amazon (Nutricost L-Theanine Powder). It comes with a 200MG scoop and I just mix that into my cup of coffee. For me, it lasts around 2 -3 hours, doesn't impact the taste, and eliminates the jitters that I receive from caffeine.
It's not a slippery slope at all. It's Facebook. The slope is made of rough grit sandpaper.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube et al. should go on outright banfests. There is no free speech argument to be made. None. Zero. These aren't government enterprises and getting banned from these sites for any reason really shouldn't matter. Facebook already enforces some weird moral code where a nipple gets you instantly banned, but when it comes to politics somehow it's a "free speech" argument and they don't want to take sides. It's 100% bullshit.

These companies need to grow up. If people don't like that they have been banned then they can start an alternative site or, you know, use the decentralized Internet the way it was designed. If we were talking about ICANN policing domains that would be a legitimate "slippery slope", but we aren't.

The only thing they really stand to lose by banning blatant conspiracy theory whack jobs and divisive hate speech is some ad revenue associated with that stuff, most of which is predatory anyway. Nipples? Not acceptable, banned. Fair use of media owned by a large company? Copyright strike, banned. Divisive conspiracy theories that promote hate? Free Speech! Selling literally snake oil? Free speech!

Americans LOVE to pretend like they are morally superior, but the moral code and values built into todays companies are completely bonkers. Free speech is constantly invoked when it doesn't even apply, and it's applied so inconsistently it doesn't even make sense.

Mark Zuckerberg should travel to Nidavellir and have the Dwarf King Eitri forge him a ban hammer the likes of which the Facebook has never seen.
Some of this is of course the Chinese government placing its thumb on the scales in favor of local businesses. It does this for a lot of reasons, but it's clear it happens.

However, compare the situation to other more open countries (e.g. India, Japan, Indonesia ) There are culture, social and language specific nuances that local entrepreneurs understand far better than outsiders, and that accounts for a significant portion of these copycat business success.

I think American business generally have a tough time accounting for the latter into account when they go overseas. IOW, not all of Jack Ma's success stems from the government being on his side.
Getting used to the normal phases (and sounds) of flight was the biggest thing for me. For instance, once I realized it was normal to bank for a turn shortly after take off (and that the sensation was not us falling out of the sky) I stopped freaking out internally about it.
39. Recently, I've read Dune again after having read it for the first time some 25 years ago. One notion I came across this time (probably did so back then, too but didn't attach much importance to it) and that particularly resonated with me was this - I'm paraphrasing here: Life is its own tool for ever more efficiently making use of the energy available within a system.
I see the Waymo test vehicles so often; I am really looking forward to this rolling out on the peninsula!
Because most of the time when you publish something that gets sold part of that money goes back to you? For someone who isn't in academia it seems weird and pretty obvious that you're getting scammed. The answer probably isn't to pay the authors, but it's to not charge for the digital content.
> Wages and salaries of private-sector workers, rose 2.9% in June from a year earlier, matching the pace seen in the prior quarter.

Adjusted for a 1.9% inflation, the wages and salaries increase is a whopping 1%. So if you are making $ 100,000 / year (which is possibly a lot higher than most people, esp. non-techies are making), the annual increase is about $1,000. Take taxes away and it's about $600 to $700.

Nothing to be bragging about IMO.
Not entirely familiar with pcb design tools (still learning atm, so I have lots of stupid questions), but will this have vendor support data from a place such as digikey? Mcmastercarr has integrations for solidworks, etc

Can this tool completely replace the need for a breadboard for prototyping, or are there cases where youd still want to use one?

Will there be any WYISYWIG tools or do you have to write things in HDL/verilog/etc
The pricing quoted in the article seems way too high. Comparable price to an Uber or Lyft ride? People on the fench about autonomous vehicles are going to pick human drivers unless the price per mile drops considerably.
When I was younger, I had serious blood sugar problems. Anxiety is one known side effect of low blood sugar. Getting my blood sugar problems under control substantially reduced my social anxiety.
Are you also running noscript? I'm running a DNS sinkhole and still get 3mb on reloads.
Just start writing, teaching, making stuff. You would be surprised how few people do this out of the general population.
Can someone tell me what is so great about SotNM? (It even won a Pulitzer.) I read a bunch of computer history books last year, and these were all more interesting IMO:

- John Gernter, The Idea Factory

- T.R. Reid, The Chip

- Stephen Levy, Hackers

- Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late

- Michael Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning

- Susan Lammers, Programmers at Work

(Actually I read Levy & Lammers a long time ago, but they're both better than SotNM too.)

Those were full of themes like patents and broad use of technology, interaction between government and private enterprise, monopolies, private research institutes and the need for profit, challenges commercializing your discoveries, the culture around early computer use, etc. They had profiles of famous computer pioneers. They told the history of tech I use every day.

SotNM didn't have anyone I recognized and was about a machine I'd never heard of before. Its biggest theme was how overworked the engineers were (also present in those other books, but not as dominant), at the cost of their health and marriages, with little-to-no reward. It was monotonous and depressing.

So what did other people appreciate about it? With books I don't expect to always "see" everything there on my own, so maybe someone can help me learn what I'm missing.
They didn't mention it, but I'm assuming that no scrolls or actual library knowledge is recoverable from the site?

Whenever I listen to history people talk about all the sources that have been lost, I dream that someday someone will uncover an ancient time capsule under their house and find a pristine collection of lost works that some wise person squirreled away for future generations.
I don't think it's a bad thing (: I'm sorry you felt my comment was of hatred towards Americans, it was not. It's mostly to provide the perspective of someone who is not from the US and who as such isn't as scared of the Trump election, and thus thinks this whole situation is about more than good and democracy vs evil and Russian tyrants.

Let me address some points:

1. Never did I mention Facebook shouldn't rid its platform of bad users-- I'm glad they are (and if this hadn't happened they probably wouldn't have, again, cause it takes time and money).

2. Never did I say Americans were dumb or insult them in any other way that should make someone believe I hate them. Saying a people is scared shouldn't be taken as an insult, many peoples and individuals are scared of different things.

3. I didn't expect this to be read as a research paper haha. I'll add more references next time. In regards to the one you pointed out (wether the Russian meddling had high impact), I'd suggest these other articles by The Verge [1] and the New York Times [2] to form an opinion. I'd also suggest watching Jon Stewart's appearance on CNN Crossfire [3]: he was talking about the loss of civilized discourse and transformation of American Politics into a divisive "me vs. you" game back in 2004, before social media was widespread.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17138854/cambridge-analyt...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/europe/russia-us-el...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
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That distinction is nonsense. The ads are part of the page and are no more or less bloat then the rest of the useless junk that gets embedded. It's deliberately put there by the NY times, they don't end up there by accident.
Assuming here that you mean "Do the authors own the IP for their journal articles". The answer is that it depends on the journal, but in a lot of cases, you sign over copyright to the article itself to the journal [1]. However, you still retain the IP of the things that the article is describing. If J Random Professor, PhD wants to patent something that they invented in a university lab, the usual breakdown in royalties is something like 1/3 goes to the university as a whole, 1/3 goes to the department that the lab is in, and 1/3 to the inventors themselves.

[1] https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/copyright, for example
I'm using Opera on both Linux & Windows 10. It's pretty light on the CPU, but I get the "Out of Memory" screens regularly (on 16GB machines!).
And on features that have lower potential for monetization, but higher user engagement like stories.
eBay own the long tail. Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist work fine if you're selling a lawnmower or a handbag, but they're hopeless if you're selling old baseball cards or an amateur radio transceiver or an Eames chair.
Preaching to the choir and racking up some cheap karma, are we?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorazepam works for me
Somewhere around 1:2 Caffeine:L-Theanine. I think a standard cup for me is around 95MG Caffeine: 200MG L-Theanine
If the labor market is growing isn't this just indicative of high demand for labor and low supply of labor?
well one review on the blog is stupid.
if an item did arrive broken, it might not only be amazon's fault, so I dislike reviews that actually review the shipment process.

besides that, yeah it sucks if this is really happening.
So if they go that way, and you get banned, would you be ok with that?
Only in the most pointlessly absolute of interpretations.

Ten might as well be zero. 50 people (25 pairs) is necessary with complete control of breeding in order to have sustainable genetic diversity. Without complete control, hundreds are necessary in any given pocket of civilization.

Even if there were tens of millions of humans remaining, there is virtually zero chance of meaningful recovery since all of the low-hanging fruit of industrial-age energy resources have been mined.
Ask HN: What makes HN the superior intellectual forum on the web?
Personally, I find these two below mentioned reasons for HN's appeal toward intense intellectual discussions, unparalleled to any other place on the web --

1. Bare-bones design -- This acts as a great filter and barrier-to-entry of sorts, wherein only those who _actually_ want to consume (or contribute) content stick around.

2. Text heavy content -- Again, I personally find this super appealing. Text only content keeps the reader's focus on what the author is trying to convey, which more often than not brings out the best in one's writing. Contrast that with many competing 'multimedia-heavy' forums where there's a greater chance of a reader getting distracted by unrelated content (suggested, similar, etc).

Bonus: Well implemented nested comments -- Following two HN users have a go at each other (respectfully, that is) in a fine display of one-upmanship is absolutely gratifying with a super-low chance of it going ad hominem.

What'd you guys think?
Nah, this breaks too many CDNs and most pages stop working, just as if you had disabled JS.
>- When referring to a Jewish person, the WikiLeaks account just spontaneously decided to surround text in parentheses,

Except... WL didn't do that. They never surrounded text like that at all.

They said on guy who was trying to antagonize them was involved with the ((())) issue. That's REALLY FAR from them saying something antisemitic.
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I'm guessing a vast majority of that 2.9% wage growth is in the upper brackets anyways.

https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/income_cha... for reference from a few years ago, it would be shocking if things have changed
NYT needs to produce and recommend content that people find engaging to continue earning their subscription dollars.

The idea that tracking is purely or primarily there to support a business model of selling user data is a strawman invented by self-righteous HNers. You need to know what parts of your product are effective to make it competitive in today’s marketplace.
We've already asked a number of times and it doesn't look like this account will start following the guidelines, so we've banned it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My two cents in this discussion is that neither of the platforms tell how they get answers.

On IndieHackers, ideacheck has been asked several times what panel its used, but was never disclosed. The same is true for afteridea. The fact that both have big claims and no evidence supporting their statement is at most curious.
On linux you could try QEMU/KVM with GPU passthrough - install virtmanager for GUI. Easy with a desktop, difficult to do, but possible on Optimus laptops with - so you need the right kind of integrated and dedicated GPU there - see this guide https://gist.github.com/Misairu-G/616f7b2756c488148b7309addc.... Easy, but expensive route for a laptop, on a more modern laptop, would be to attach a eGPU enclosure via thunderbolt and share/passthrough that to your VM.

If you are considering doing your VM's on a server then it's worth a look at Unraid too - it uses QEMU/KVM under the hood but has some other advantages too.

Edit: you are likely to lose a little GPU 2-3% due to vm overhead, but GPU passthrough is as close to native as you are going to get. I've happily run a high end VR headset via a Windows VM running on Unraid in the past.
Except that the content is directly related to user behavior. If they see no one reads the style section, they'll cut it and move resources to financial news. If they didn't have tracking they'd never know that, be wasting resources and having a comparatively inferior product.

They can't do UX anaylsis, nothing.
I guess my edition is rather old. The cover says it "includes pre-release information about Windows NT 5.0" (before it was renamed Windows 2000). :)
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I would disagree that Apple is viewed as innovative. Granted, this is anecdotal based around people I know, but Apple is widely considered as non-innovative and resting on its iPhone laurels -- at least since Jobs passed away.
Thanks for the correction. I converted everything to .flac to maintain consistency with my personal library, so I must have forgotten which other lossless format I had converted from.
uMatrix / uBlock seems to do what you want.
I feel older at 31. I did not know that emojis existed, till now...
Well I'm not a fan of "open core" products, for not all too dissimilar reasons. But I'll admit the situation with open source and commercial actors is fair bit more complicated, with no easy answers (unless you are Stallman)
Typically no (except in open access journals), if you are talking about the paper rather than the rights to the discovery itself.
This suggests that it is not adjusted for inflation:
https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ect/ectfaq.htm#faqE1
Another point for the bullshit web: The GDPR cookie consent notification. I really hate clicking on those notifications to make them go away.

Designers, can you please just add a non-obtrusive link, instead of a pop up that covers half my browser screen?
Why would they care, they have to do the work of 5 in the time of one because there's now off the shelf solutions for everything. Too bad if those solutions often come bloated and incorrectly configured, maybe they should hire more engineers. Some business prioritize loading speeds but big ones with brand reputation won't care, they have little to lose.
So, still less than inflation [0]?

[0]https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/consumer-prices-up-2-point...
The article says those are just demo prices to test customer's reactions, and then goes on to say those prices reflect 1.70$ per mile, comparable to uber and lift, but that an analyst said they could afford to go as low as 70 cents per a mile now, and 35 cents per a mile by 2020. If that's true and materialize, WOW!
I can write correctly, but never neatly, no matter how hard I try. I have been an artist my entire life, and professional artist for a while.

But also, I transpose numbers in memory. I can read a number, a price, and phone number. And minutes later, I have to try really hard to recall the numbers in the correct order. A day later and I am totally convinced of my memory, but the numbers are not in the right order. Most often it's a pair.

In college I learned to memorize an entire deck of cards (not in order though), and I could have a friend take out a few cards. I could then look at the remaining cards in the deck, only once each, and tell my friend which cards he had taken out. (this is all technique and training, no memory wizard here)

But still can't keep numbers straight.

Edit: At the bottom of the dysgraphia page some commenters linked to, there's other related issues. The one I found was dyscalculia [0], I had NO idea this was a thing!! Ha. This explains my entire childhood. Thanks HN for seemingly random information changing my life.

I can measure something like 10 times, and still cut the wrong length of board. I have to work really, really hard to cut and measure things correctly. I couldn't remember how the friggin denominator worked, still. I have kids and I had a hard time teaching them fractions. Yet I have thousands of lines of code clearly in my head right now...

My wife can tell me the price of an item with the sales percent automatically, and tally up a bill with the tip in an instant, (and she hates math and was never good at it!) and I would have to get out pencil/paper or concentrate incredibly hard, and still likely be off.

What a revelation. Thanks guys for this discussion.

Edit: I don't think I have dysgraphia, (nothing severe like some of the comments here) but I also write in all caps because of "general" writing problems, I wonder if there's a mix of issues that are related.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
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Server is down (might just be the corporate HTTPS inspection here)
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Big difference is that those generally do not delineate naturally into "expensive/professional" and "low-cost/hobbyist" markets.
I had a similar story - user said that even though their review is wrong, "I'll let it stay because I don't feel like changing it".

Really makes you question what is going on in the heads of people around you.
The implication in that is that the OP would be engaging in behaviour that warrants a ban, so at a guess their answer would be "my opinion wouldn't matter", which can probably be distilled down to "yes".
> the overwatch league is poised to take over in the esports scene

in terms of number of players? Do you have any links to places where this has been said?
The general audience verbiage still changes over the time axis, though. Are you going to have different training sets for different time periods, and were would you cut the threshold between different corpuses? There's a lot of continuous flux, as well as discrete moments when a phrase turns sour when it was positive or neutral in the past. However, these are still classification issues which NNs could potentially resolve, but are still issues.

But it's certainly true that texts written to be specifically & clearly informative will always be easier to translate than fiction, opinion pieces, or informal conversations. It all depends on what you consider to be "high" on the result spectrum.

The successes already achieved leave the focus on the existing shortcomings as the ceiling, not necessarily on adding refinement to what it already does respectably well.
1. Well how is the format of plaintext the best method of getting information to the end user? What if you added a thin indexing layer on top of the plaintext? That would allow people to jump through huge documents with ease, but it's no longer plaintext. Sounds more valuable to me. Where is the line? What's the ideal?

2. Fair enough

3. Referencing "increasing the entropy in the universe" isn't a good argument because the amount of entropy increase due to humans is much, much less than how much entropy is increased by particles being blasted out of all the stars in the universe (unless I fundamentally misunderstand what entropy is). I think that stars blasting out particles is a much larger contributor to entropy than humans not using computer bits effectively.

And also what does entropy as a concept have to do with anything, anyway? Why should human engineering tasks have such considerations? If being super efficient with an abundant resource has a large cost (of some sort), but low efficiency has no business- or environmental- downside, then why be efficient with it?

In your last bit you argue that it's acceptable to send a site that is bigger than even the most bloated HTML/CSS page; I don't think that's true for any site/app that wants to be fast. It slows you down and people notice and stop using your service unless it's required of them.

I think that in general things are not as bad as you make them out to be, and your arguments have some merit but are mostly revealed as nonsense when the rubber hits the road. Universe entropy is completely unrelated to modern software engineering and web sites that have a lot of devs and are not SalesForce are not _that_ bloated.
The subtext is WSJ carrying water for the GOP tax plan. See, supply side economics works! Similar cherry picking is done with GDP stats.
Seems cool. Can it handle internationalization?
Still, his site is lightweight and loads quick.
note that this was reference to a previous HN thread.