skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were a number of Multics descendants in the minicomputer world. Data General had AOS/VS, and Prime had PrimeOS. They were commercial and they were stable. However, they were tied to proprietary, expensive hardware.
So even in the best case you list (which I share your skepticism of), you are 1,000x more likely to win the MegaMillions or Powerball jackpot than pick the perfect winning grid.

That makes me wonder what odds you'd get at the bookmakers for a perfect winning grid.
That's a bare-faced lie. I responded to and elaborated on this comment, “That comment has very little substance. Where do you get the hydrogen? Where do you get the jet fuel? The answer determines if it's environment friendly.”

Please point out to me what conclusions I jumped to.

And that comment was a response to your false claim which was, “As a hydrogen engine it is also carbon neutral. That makes it more environment friendly than both the existing jet engines and Musk's methane rocket hopper.”

You're just sore that it's being pointed out to you that hydrogen engines are not carbon neutral, not with the current incarnation of the tech.

You may not like what I'm saying and the position I'm taking but you're arguing in bad faith to say that I'm jumping to conclusions. Hypocritically, by claiming that I've not read up on this stuff (when I most certainly have) you're the one actually jumping to conclusions.
Presuming all backgrounds of people who have had different evolutionary paths are the same or would react the same biologically to different chemicals doesn't make sense to me. For example, many Asians from my current understanding - and correct me if I'm wrong, can't process Alcohol the same way the rest of us can - which leads a higher percentage of them getting a red face.

I too would get a bit of a "high" - whether it's the same experience that we both have or not, for me it also would cause me ADD/focus problems for many hours afterward and give me a headache.

You're right that some people could become conditioned or accustomed to it if they eat it regularly, however I wonder then what the long-term impact is - and how easy it would be to measure more subtle impact.
The Carpathian mountains have been breached almost every time an army came barging in, from the dawn of history. If men marching and carrying 40 kilos of supply could do it while being fired at, the locals should definitely be able to do it in their own backyard in peace time :D

PS: They can barely build highways in Muntenia, which is flat as a pancake. It would be underwater in case the ocean level rises...
The irony is that "byte-level binary data structures" is all that WASM is good for right now! So what's the problem with just using WASM?
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Try turning off f.lux? The colors matter for this.
If you are the original developer, there is source maps support at least in Firefox so you can step through the source code like with any normal debugger.

If you are not the original developer, most likely source maps are not available to you. Then, wasm can be studied with already existing reverse engineering tools, like IDA Pro, binary ninja or radare2/cutter. Last one is even FLOSS.
The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bring it back
The old Pan Am terminal was truly atrocious. There were tarps, hoses, and buckets everywhere for the leaking roof. Also there was limited seating for any of the gates because there of course had to be tons of Hudson News shops. I’m definitely one to feel airline nostalgia but that place definitely needed to go.
I would say the best analysis of this is by Peter Turchin: http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/population-immiseration...
That's pretty interesting. I don't know anything about Japan really, but having lived in Korea, I can say with certainty that Koreans wear masks when they are sick to prevent spreading it to other people and not for decorative purpose. If you have even the slightest sniffle or cough and don't wear one, people are going to think negatively of you. I've never seen someone pull their mask down to cough or sneeze.

A more recent development is decorative designs, and that's been popularized a bit by kpop stars in music videos, but no one wears a mask in Korea in real life just for decoration. The only time outside that is when yellow sand is bad.
Yeah generally a lot better than Google Translate.
I've got a decade-and-a-half .vimrc that I stopped using last year. I used to rsync it up to other machines before I would SSH into them.

Now that I've gotten out of it, I see that there are only a few small customizations that I really enjoy, but none that I need. And I can now use VIM on any machine.
Some feedback - your website is very lacking in information about what your app actually does, what devices it works with etc. The blue "personal healthcare assistant" looks like a link but isn't.

I'm curious about your service, but without knowing if it's compatible with my smartwatch etc, I wouldn't go as far as downloading the app.
Ask HN: Do psychologists have a higher level of belief in IQ tests than most?
I am used to most educated people I encounter discounting IQ tests as not particularly useful metrics of a person's actual ability or capacity for learning. However I have had the experience in the past that psychologists estimate the importance of IQ tests higher, without prefacing the results of an IQ test with any notes about needing to take those results with a grain of salt or similar proviso.

Any insights on this? Just anecdata?
So, unix is like kudzu, if you also could somewhat eat kudzu.
Weren't facebook messenger and google talk based on xmpp?
I know that at least they were compatible, but in the end they removed that. Trying to force people on their own client
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This personal account showed it's at least very difficult.
Many website use code supported by Google.

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-u...
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Well there's an option for dual AOA but neither Lion or Ethiopian took it. In the case of AOA disagreement a light illuminates. Source https://twitter.com/trevorsumner/status/1106934415610073091 and https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/southwest-airlines...
One of the saddest to see edits to Wikipedia is this one to its article on NFS.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=385927363&oldid=38...

There has been a lot of literature published on the problems with NFS, and the mismatch with POSIX file semantics, since 1988. Some of it was even in the original paper from Sun, in fact. To this day, Wikipedia has nothing on the subject. The words "stateful" and "stateless" appear once each in the entire article, with no indication of their pivotal importance, made much of in the actual literature on the subject.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17950343
I beg to differ, they are actually essential in my case.
Ah, well, it is from 1955.
I don't know why we don't have "digital safes" for our lives? People spend so much time creating those streams of data and just leave them hanging wherever on the internet. It is just not typical behavior of humans to leave all their stuff on the streets. Current consumer-level storage devices aren't very safe for very-long-term storage ; i wonder if anyone is working on some kind of optical-based device or something else.
It doesn't get much better in countries with lower corruption. The difference is that in less corrupt countries after the stealing is done the project delivers something close to expectations. In more corrupt countries after the stealing is done there's not much left for delivering anything.
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> The fan only turns on if I’m doing something intensive like compiling go or scrolling in Slack.

The next time somebody asks why everybody has a problem with Electron, I'm referring them to this page.
The difference is that those foods are high in glutamate, not the chemically-stabilised for easy human sprinkling 'monosodium glutamate'.

I've long suspected any headaches or perceived ill-effects from MSG consumption are probably just sodium spikes from dishes made with a bit too much msg and salt, perhaps washed down with some not enirely quenching alcoholic beverage.
Thank you for getting involved, that's awesome to hear!

I completely agree, we are focusing on a few other things first, however, I really want to improve that soon. We will likely start to work on it by the end of April!

Regarding the ad spot, that's a fair point. As of now, we are using https://usemagnify.com so we don't have a lot of ways to customize the spot but we will likely work on our own system or certain publishers once we get some of our priorities out of the way. :)
> I don't believe there is a nefarious scheme in play.

I don't either but I do see it a sad lack of imagination and resignation to out-of-date mythologies about individualism.

There's no defensible reason why work-home-school-retail structures rural places can't nucleate closer together into walkable "main street" towns.

Much of the design of fly-over states is dictated by developers. It starts when a farmer who wants to retires sells a huge tract of land to a development company. The land eventually gets populated with a mind-numbing matrix of boring mcmansions, without regard to utilities, tax base, schooling, or distance.

People then buy into to the facade of rural living but then end up driving 10's of miles for each and every errand and activity. They even take vacations in Europe and marvel at how delightful it is to sit in a town square and be able to walk to everything. When they get back to their ex-burban strip mall hellscapes in the USA, the vast majority just fail to make the connection that it doesn't have to be that way.
Oh neat. Is the plan to write a proxy sitting between client and server and decrypting/encrypting all events so any client can be used in e2ee rooms?
The deck is stacked, though. CUV's are considered trucks for the purposes of CAFE regulation. If they were considered the cars that they really are, they would be more fuel efficient, more expensive and manufacturers would be pushing small cars a lot harder to bring those averages down.
"Hacking your face to dodge the rise of facial recognition"? I mean, it's not that it wouldn't work, in a way - but it strikes me as a rather gruesome approach!
Like these but less plasma? https://youtu.be/AoWi10YVmfE

My favorite part of this is looking at all the toasted skin on the fingertips in the video.
I could've sworn this came out years ago. Odd it's suddenly something everyone seems to be talking about.
I think "callback hell" in this case would be caused by "boolean blindness" and/or lack of abstraction.

General-purpose programming languages, by their very nature, cannot provide us with constructs that are specially suited to our domain; they can only provide us with generally-useful building blocks, like booleans, integers, functions, etc.

We could try to solve our problems using only those languge-provided constructs directly, e.g. using maps-of-lists-of-booleans-of-whatever. In that case, we get "callback hell", pyramids/triangles of doom, etc. because the same code needs to implement our solution and encode information about our domain.

Alternatively, we can use those language-provided constructs to write our own domain-specific constructs; then use those domain-specific constructs to solve our problem.

I've worked with people who avoid this second approach because understanding the solution requires learning those domain-specific constructs, whereas in the first approach we already know how built-in constructs like booleans work.

The nice thing about Smalltalk in this example is that if/then/else, loops, etc. are not built-in; they're library code. This takes them off the pedestal that they occupy in other languages, and makes it easier to think about replacing them with our own tailor-made alternatives.

(Note that this isn't specific to message-passing style OOP; we can also do this with e.g. recursive functions for loops, induction schemes (e.g. Church encoding) for control flow, etc.)
I think the FAA already has a healthy culture of failure analysis that makes is _actually safe_, not just a feel good safe. I don't want to see a bunch of malicious prosecutors and lawyers get involved.
The Comdyna GP-6 analogue computer that I use daily at work
banksy's walls are sold though; and he is still kind of the exception because of his art format. Not everything needs to be lasting but 100% temporary art is not common.
Why can't we simply collect this material after use and recycle it?
I doubt that enterprises (or even their vendors) do much upgrading. Instead, they have those machines on a refresh cycle and replace them every three years. They do, however, often prize repairability: if you have a fleet of hundreds of the same model of machine, it's easy to maintain spares of the components most prone to failure/damage.
> If the MAX is so similar to old 737’s and no additional training is needed, then why the MCAS?

That's the problem. The MAX isn't similar enough to older 737s, so MCAS is necessary to change the handling characteristics to be more like older 737s. It's a fix to cover up a lie.

> If plane at a low altitude at full power is stalling, just lower the nose. That is pilot training 101. Why need a system like MCAS to help.

They know this, but different planes still do that in a different way. MCAS was supposed to cover up the fact that the MAX did this differently.

> The pilot should be able to disengage the autopilot and take control of the airplane.

But MCAS is not the autopilot, it's something that tried to make the plane behave like a regular 737 during manual control. So turning off the autopilot does nothing; it's already off.

The problem is clearly that Boeing wanted to pretend the MAX flies just like an older 737. It doesn't. If they'd just admitted that and given pilots extra training, all this mess wouldn't be necessary.
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yea definitely, i found it to be horrible and not very useful for job searching.. It's a place where everyone good buddy pats each other on the back, use fake fancy titles, and where you get constantly spammed for jobs your not interested in..

its difficult to actually believe anything you see on that site
Rouge? Communist?

“Better dead than rouge?” Hm.
This is the logic that produced the green new deal.
Yes, I had realized my mistake and corrected that, apparently while you were composing this reply. I think the current version covers your objection.

Bjorn's Corner in Leeham's has a lot of information on the topic.
Have you tried the ungoogled Chromium build? Not sure why anyone would use Chrome.

Separately, if you have android you should install Netguard, the no root firewall, to see how often most apps are phoning home + block them from capturing unnecessary data.
I'm tempted to spin up a Matrix homeserver.

Anyone know if it runs well on Docker via træfik?
KeyPoint Affordances for Category-Level Manipulation
Choice between Open, and FreeBSD is mostly a matter of personal preferences. In principle, O. invests more into security, while F. tries to be more inventive, but when used as a desktop you won't feel much practical difference. It's about small things like how uprgrades are done, what packages available etc. After using both in parallel I settled with FreeBSD mostly due to ZFS, and the fact that I prefer some of my software compiled with very specific settings (OpenBSD discourages compiling ports), but OpenBSD is fine too. I'd like to note that all of BSDs have less money, manpower, and visibility, and it means producers of software, and hardware care about them even less then about Linux. E.g. there's no official Electron for *BSD. I heard some people succeded in building it with some hacks on FreeBSD, but anyway nothing Electron-based is available for quick and easy installation.
> A GET request was originally envisioned as a request for a file at a path. […] Nowadays […] the host who decides what to do with it: […] dynamically generate the content

Nope, a very early description of HTTP – years before 1.0 – already mentions that.

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Methods.html
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> Also, does anyone in tech realize how much, say, lawyers and doctors make?

Lawyer median income 2014: 75k/year

Doctors hold up better to this stereotype at median income of $208k (2017)
In fairness to the Administration here, that "healthy culture of failure analysis" always included the threat of "malicious prosecutors and lawyers". Places like the FAA and the FDA just never put the threat of prison out front and center.

Unless they have to.

I'm not certain this is one of those times, we need more information. But throwing people in prison is very much the appropriate thing to do in certain circumstances.
Yeah, that's pretty much what major companies I've worked for will do with summer interns.
What about allowing burqas, but requiring a "license plate" to be affixed?
Nobody will mention MSG in this scenario unless they have a very acute allergy to it.
I'm surprised they neglected to mention invidio.us as an alternative way to access YouTube, it's a step above using DuckDuckGo for YouTube imo.
I've been a cofounder a couple of times, never had any great success though. Getting close to 5 years ago I was working on a startup in addition to my normal job. I'd go to work, work all day, go to the gym for an hour or two, come home work on the startup for 4 or 5 hours. Then I'd spend all day Saturday and Sunday working on the startup.

Then one day I just stopped working on the Startup, quit going to the gym, and was having to drag my ass to work where my productivity dropped to nearly zero. I ended up quitting the the startup and giving up most of my equity. The other founder went on to find another cofounder, they got an investment and are doing pretty good.

Anyways I ended up feeling like crap for a few months and started to feel good again. I had started a new job as a manager at my old job had went to a new company and hired all the good people as soon as his non-compete expired. I was productive at work, going to the gym again, and had started several personal projects, bought a house and was making improvements there. I attributed this to no longer working in a place that sucked.

Then I hit the wall again. Productivity in the toilet, quit going to the gym, just stayed home all day watching reruns of MASH. This time it was pretty bad, so I ended up going to the doctor.

I was diagnosed bipolar type 2. Well that sure explained a lot. I'm on meds now that control it pretty well. I still have the swings, but they are not as severe as before.

I haven't founded a company since I was diagnosed, but I did working for an early stage startup for a couple of years. A couple of changes I've made.

1. Really focus on saving money. If I decide to found another company I want to be able to quit my day job and focus on just that. Saving money is easier to do without the hypomanic spending sprees. Boy do I have some stories there. Like the weekend that I spent $300 on socks.

2. Set realistic goals for myself and time box what I am doing. I have to understand that I still have the depressive cycle where I am not as productive, but don't have the hypomanic cycles to make up for it. The big driver here is setting a reasonable amount of work hours and sticking to it. Hence why if I found another company I need to be able to quit my day job.

3. I vet ideas a lot more throughly now. In the past someone would approach me with an idea or I'd have one. I'd get all excited and run off and start implementing it. Now that I have the requirement that I'd quit my job to work on it, I research them better now. And I also ask my self do I really want to be in that business. I've turned down a few ideas just because I don't want to be in that business. I also look at the realistic return. Since I have to draw down personal capital to work on an idea, I ask myself, would I be better off just leaving the money in VTSAX? So far every time I've determined it is better to just leave it in VTSAX.
Boeing Had Too Much Sway in Vetting Own Jets, FAA Was Told
I already have an alternative for Windows users. Doesn't provide any data retention mechanism, but still helpful:

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/del
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 18 12:46 /usr/local/bin/del -> /usr/games/sl
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The Neuroscience of Psychedelics
Was it bloated? Things bloat when they die.
Before you search, you don't know if it will be in the 30% or the 70%. It is quicker to always add "!g" than it is to search twice 30% of the time.
Except that's not really how it works

Bob to team: "What should happen when the two AoA sensors disagree?"

Team: "We should alert the pilot"

Manager: "We can't alert the pilot because the manual will need to change. What if we only use one sensor?"

Bob: SMH

Team: "That's not a good idea. We need redundancy."

Manger: "Well, we're not alerting the pilot. Use the one sensor."

Bob: Writes the code to use only one sensor.
That is correct in my experience as well. I will continue to code according to their "standards" since they're paying me. I tried to bring up points about not over complicating code and it didn't go too well.
There's a typo in this title: Bluckbuster.
"Was it so much worse than that of regular jet?"

I remember spending a lot of time at Heathrow in the BA departure lounge waiting for flights to Edinburgh - normally you couldn't hear very much (if anything) from outside. Then the whole place would shake and you'd hear an impressive roar from outside and you'd know a Concorde had taken off.
> For mass transit high speed only makes sense for longer distances. Most mass transit is relatively short haul where the acceleration/deceleration times (that still provides a comfortable ride) prevent you from saving any time.

Probably I just should have said superconducting maglev trains. I guess you're right that they only need to be properly high speed over longer distances. Superconducting maglev would be a win for acceleration/deceleration as well so would benefit short haul.

Realistically speaking, inexpensive superconductors would be a total game changer for many fields, not just mass transport.

> Over the speed of sound is great if you want to fly half way around the world. But from Paris to London it doesn't really save you much. Unless it becomes cheaper than regular air travel.

I kind of feel that in general it'd be better to replace planes with trains, than to replace planes with better or faster planes. Better security-wise. Better for the environment in the long run I believe. I'm totally open to correction though.