skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Due to differences in regulation I would expect there to be instances where focusing on one country would have more of an impact than spreading your resources over multiple jurisdictions. I would even guess that this is true for most companies below a certain scale. Reduction/standardisation of regulation should reduce the value of scale for which this is true, though other factors such as geography would still play a role.
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oh well. downvote shadow banned this comment for saying government should be out of propaganda business.

whatev.

The stuff dey downvote on hacker news.
Bubble is like a mix of an online Visual Studio for web development and Heroku. Everything is online, all the code and data (DB), you can only work through their interface and cannot port the app anywhere else. They provide the hosting.
Agreed that free viewing should be included in our tax dollars, but it's not likely to happen without Fred Rogers to convince our representatives. Especially with a loud minority of our citizens convinced that PBS and NPR are biased.
Why? You keep repeating this without ever defending your argument. As of right now, and in the near future, more Mac users have USB-A. There is simply no compelling reason to make this change unless you absolutely need extra features provided uniquely by USB-C. And this device doesn't need anything like that.
Well, some people think that we can't, the only thing left to do is to brace for impact.

The one getting most media visibility recently is Jem Bendell's "deep adaptation". This is not a new invention though. It was preceded by various resilient communities/resilient cities approaches, post-societal crash prepper books and prepper forums in general, and so on.
Now imagine this with an ASIC or FPGA. They are usually 20 to 70x faster.
Then you have to lug the car seats round with you wherever you are.

Say I want to go to London for a weekend. It's a bit too far for the kids to walk to the local station (especially if it's raining), so we drive to the mainline station, leave the car, and the car seats, in the carpark.

With a taxi I'd have to
1) Hope the seats fit in the taxi
2) Take them on the train (store them where?)
3) lug them on the tube (including a change at Green Park or Bank or somewhere)
4) Go straight to the hotel and check in
Climate scientists, in an effort to avoid panic, are downplaying the calamity and timescale of this crisis. It's common knowledge in the climate science academic community that the 2018 IPCC report was overly conservative in its modelling of CC progression by lacking any mention of self reinforcing feedback loops.

The two most impactful of these loops are the Arctic sea ice reflectivity loss (less ice -> less incoming light reflected back into space -> more heat captured by earth -> less ice) and the Siberian arctic shelf methane loop, arguably the most devestating one because we already know it caused Earth's worst extinction[0], and it is beginning to happen again[1].

It will be refreshing to see if the scientific community's consensus on how silent to be about the severity of the climate crisis will change as the facts of how rapidly the feedback loops are progressing essentially implicate near-term (10-20 years) civilisational collapse.

More info from the World Research Institute on climate feedback loops:

https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/08/why-positive-climate-feedba...

[0]: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/earth-permian-mass...

[1]:
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/04/28/...
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://rigaux.org/language-stu... helps explain why. We've added 2006 above.
The 737 isn't trimmed with a trim tab; the whole stabilizer is moved (rotated) by a jackscrew driven by an electric motor.
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> I also wrote a non-trivial amount of code because, fun fact, stripe.com spells CMS e-r-b, which didn’t optimize for writers’ ability to ship new words

Could someone explain the "CMS e-r-b" joke to me?
Anything similar with python perhaps?
When you say "rhetoric" do you mean it is not true then?
Thanks, I'll try Airtel next time.
IIRC FAA didnt ground the plane. Trump issued an order and FAA were forced to do it.
> You're misunderstanding that quote. It's talking about "authority" in the sense of software's authorization to move the trim tab, not the aerodynamic authority of the tailplane.

> The 737 has a 60 year old, very conventional elevator with a trim tab. The tab changes the resting angle of the overall elevator, and thus the "center point" of tailplane force on the airframe. Being out of trim means that the aircraft might naturally want to pitch up or down, and forces the pilot to apply to force to the stick (which moves the elevator, not the trim tab!) to correct it.

I don't think so. The 737 has a trimmable horizontal stabilizer. Stab trim moves (and MCAS moves) the big and leading-edge airfoil and not a trailing-edge tab on a trailing-edge elevator control surface: https://my.mixtape.moe/tkyyzt.png

See https://www.satcom.guru/2018/11/stabilizer-trim.html (where i took this image from) for further details.
Redesigning the landing gear means redesigning the wing. I'm not an aerospace engineer, but I do work at an aerospace organization. I've been told my multiple AE's that redesigning the wing is basically the same amount of work as designing a new plane from scratch. In light of that, I'm still not sure we're there yet in terms of purely monetary costs.
Put another way, anyone who lives in a country with a per capita income >1000 USD will not be impacted in any severe way by global warming.
Poor people are at risk. Even though they are poor, they collectively have more money than the rich have collectively. Target a rich person for a million, or a million poor people for a dollar, either way you have the same amount in the end. There are different ways you target each, but there are plenty of scheme to choose from on both ends. (or even in the middle)
No more than a jelly fish is a fish. Code is a mixture of logic, math, statistics and abstracted electronics diagrams.

The typical programing language is a natural language only to the degree those others are. Which is to say it's not. At least in any normal definition of the term.
Overall I think rising top end brings a better set of issues than a race to the bottom does. With rising top end, the midrange options are sure to be at least decent, but with a race to the bottom you see huge compromises and underhanded methods to offset slim margins in all but the most high end options.

We’ve seen this play out in the PC market already, but at least there you always had the option of wiping the standard OS install and upgrading hardware to help mitigate shady preinstalls and compromises in cheaper products. With phones, hardware upgrades flat out aren’t possible and many are impossible or impractical to put a clean OS install on.
That does sound exciting.
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I don't think it's production ready and I also don't think it's a research file system?

It seems like a passion project from Matthew Dillon who seem to be crazy smart. I mean he fork and created his own BSD and then decided let's do HAMMER2 while we're at it.

Apparently it's one of the fastest for things like postgresql. Here are some benchmarks: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HAMMER2-...
1. No. 2. No, read my comment again.
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Unless your channel was different than mine, yes they had ads but they were quite benign compared to other channels. In addition to being very short and infrequent, the ads never attempted to sell a product—they just stated the company name and how proud they were to support PBS.

I'm sure these types of ads can have some psychological effect, but it's hard to see them inspiring a child to start begging their parents for a certain product.
Elixir is much younger than 2006. Only about 7 years old now IIRC.
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> In a restaurant, they can easily dump a teaspoon of MSG (about 4g) into your mapotofu or noodle soup

That seems unlikely to me - that is a lot of MSG. I occasionally use MSG when cooking at home, and quickly realised that any more than a small pinch per serving completely ruins a dish.

Also, do you seriously put a tablespoon of salt in a single bowl of soup? I can't understand how that could be palatable!
Sprawl exists because its cheaper to build 100 houses on 20 acres of empty land than it is to build a 100 unit apartment in an urban environment. The only sound the developer cares about is the sound of trees being cleared for more land and the sound of someones check clearing for a new build.
> Yes, I forgot your favourite language.

I would be interested about the position of Julia in a hypothetical future version of that article. On a first glance, one would expect migrations from MATLAB, R and Python 3, but maybe it will be mostly C++ programmers wanting some more interactivity?
Their CMS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system) is a set of flat ERB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERuby) files, no WordPress etc.
Wow, this really resonates with me. For a while now it has felt like Apple has based everything on price points instead of usability/purpose. And you're right, that's something that I expect "Dell" to do; "all of these things are exactly, slightly different in ways that you probably can't tell".

A ruggedized iPad mini is a great example of a differentiation that I can get behind and use. Right now, if I had to purchase a new iPad for my Mother I'm not sure which one I would get, and it almost wouldn't matter. Almost. But I'm not 100% positive which would be the best value+performance+portability+convenience combination. If there were "only" 3 the decision would be much easier. Heck, I could even tell her to "go to the Apple store at the mall and tell them you want the iPad Active (or whatever)". At this point I don't think I could guide her even if I was on the phone with her while she was standing in the Apple store surrounded by iPads. :(
Notice how I said "North America", not "The United States"? Thanks to NAFTA, you distinction is largely irrelevant in terms of tariffs.
Too late to edit, but I confess that TFA refutes what I wrote!

We’ve also made usability improvements pretty much across the board, including making the left and right panels resizable [...]
You would never support black people owning AR-15s. Whats your point?
Space is cool, but I didn't see any gravity related controls nor any other space specific controls.

Consider that the relationship between stress (HPA axis, etc.) and viral activation is pretty well known. Models of chronic rodent stress include constant loud noise, uncomfortable environmental scale (open spaces versus "comfortable" places with places to hide/nest), weird lighting and temperature, "violent" (freaking them out, not hurting them) handling, etc. These rodent models seem pretty similar to "put humans in a cramped little box, shake them around and mess with their sleep and eating schedules".

There's nothing novel and space specific here except for "going to space is stressful" and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
"Yet someone is paying for this major social media propaganda push that anti-vaxxers are all low IQ deplorables who kill their own children."

Why would people be paying for this? There are probably millions of people out there who would be willing to say something similar without payment.
Science helps us arrive closer and closer to the truth, through hypothesis, experimentation, review, and revision. So yes, by definition science isn't in the business of fear mongering. But that really has no bearing on whether or not people choose to be terrified by the facts uncovered by science.
My impression has been that my kids wouldn't just be "just as happy with half as many", they're actually happier with fewer presents.

If I watch the body language of my kids during these present-opening extravaganzas, I can see so many cues: The annoyance at being pushed to keep opening presents before they're done engaging with the one they just opened. The saturation point where they're nearing some stage of psychological numbness after umpteen presents. The stress of being pressed to show some semblance of gratitude toward all the people who are giving them presents even after they've reached that point. The increasing piles of toys giving increasing opportunities for squabbling with the other kids in the room over toys, or feelings of envy and jealousy around all these material possessions, etc.

And then, after that's over and everyone's gone home, they end up enjoying the stuff they have less over the long term as well, because having such a large collection of toys creates such a high distraction environment. It's hard to realize it when you're in the thick of it, probably doubly so when you're a kid, but owning lots of stuff is mentally exhausting.

So this year, a few weeks after Christmas, we talked through all that with our kids, and we agreed to start curating the toy collection. They helped us pick a selection of stuff to put in the closet, and, whenever they want to, we'll rotate some stuff. It turns out that, a couple months later, they're still declining to do any rotation: They want to stick with the stuff they already have. They're busy finding increasingly creative ways to play with what they've got, and I honestly think they're getting a greater feeling of satisfaction that comes with the accomplishment of designing new games with the things they already have, and of finding cool new things to build with the one construction toy they chose to keep out.

It really seems to me like, by taking their toys away, we gave them back their fun.
The closest equivalent to a modern phone from back in 2004 was a PDA (ex: Palm Pilot or Blackberry). You had internet, contacts, email, apps, mp3, and basic camera all on one device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_700p

That's 2005, but it gives you an idea of what was available at the time for ~$500. Looking back on it, it seems like the Treo 700p was still a smartphone as well... I guess I just remembered most of its PDA-functionality instead.

EDIT: The main things a modern smartphone gives you are capacitive controls and a GPS. The "real internet" as well, since PDAs kinda surfed a different... protocol. I forget exactly, but it wasn't HTML, even if it was served over HTTP. Some... format that died a long time ago. I'd estimate a GPS costs $200, plus the subscription to the maps (you had to pay for map-subscriptions back then)
Yes, this is the sociopathic point of view.

There are billions of people who don’t have “moderate financial stability”, sucks to be them I guess?
You could buy two seats, or pay extra for the ones with more legroom. I think the GP's point, say, is that you could do both (two seats with extra legroom) at ~3x the cost, so if you're trying to make flights faster you need to compete with that. Indeed, the fact that airplanes are configured the ways they are suggest most flyers aren't willing to pay much at _all_ for more comfort...so it would be surprising if they'd pay a lot more to go faster.
I liked the timeline based visualization in the Computer History Museum. It shows both the ancestry and age of each language quite clearly.
The simple fact is that if either of these were true -

- a US airline was involved in the accident, esp on US soil
- a non-US company was the manufacturer

then the FAA would've grounded the plane almost immediately instead of publicly declaring it was safe, which was obvious nonsense. In addition, US media made fun of other countries for grounding the plane.

The whole thing just shows how biased FAA/US govt has been.
Yes, but concerns about building air bases in locations that flood predate the Pentagon's relatively recent concerns about "climate change", which is little more than political spin.

The truth is that the location of military bases is a political decision and the wisest decision-making processes (e.g., one that included good flooding estimates) are not always used. Of course, reality has a way of intruding into political thinking and decision-making but usually only long after critical decisions were made. But the crows eventually come home to roost.

IOW not everything is driven by the political topic "climate change". Sometimes its simply flooding, flood zones and extremely capitalistic local land developers.
"Smaller towns" are one thing, but there are a lot of people who live outside any city limits. You're not going to link up every rural farmhouse with busses and light rail.

Even those who do live in town are likely to have friends and relatives who don't, and they're unlikely to want to rent a vehicle every time they leave town to visit them.
> The pro should really feel like it’s for Pros.

I feel that the "MacBook Pro" name was a fundamental mistake, and the root cause of 15 years of "pro" naming issues.

Not only is it a bad name on its own [1], but "professional" is so broad that it can describe literally every working person on the planet, in some capacity. All that label is doing is causing everyone to say "This isn't a perfect machine for my professional use" and then try to shame Apple for it.

Half the professionals I know aren't even using "pro"-labeled machines -- it's neither necessary nor sufficient. It's just an awkward label that the internet is taking far too literally.

Of course, if they dropped it today, everyone would say "See? Apple admits they aren't making machines for professionals any more!" They can't win.

[1]: "Apple marked the transition to Intel by discontinuing the well-known, long-respected PowerBook name. The Intel-based pro laptop is known as the MacBook Pro, a name that met with a less-than-enthusiastic reception at the Expo keynote." --lowendmac.com, 2006
Indeed. I remember lots of micro-hydroelectric power plants. Not sure how well the power distribution infrastructure is maintained. Heck of a beautiful place.
By chance, I discovered pgTune just yesterday. Would be interested to know how this differs?
In fairness, this is from 2006, so I'd wager that those languages didn't exist at the time (or if they did, they were still incredibly obscure).
Yes, your analogy is fine.

If the police chief was asked on a golf course not to arrest someone, but instead do "self policing", and he complied, it's still a failure in policing, and not any failure of whatever "self policing" is supposed to be.

Maybe we need a regulation solution that doesn't involve handing over ultimate authority half the time to a party that is consistently on record as opposing regulation?
How do you fix the TTL trick?
No, no, no. I just picked a couple of numbers of relevant research-related agencies as a general comparative. ("This is is the kind of league NASA is in.") Other comparatives might be DOE, NOAA, USGS, NIST.

The federal budget is about $4000B. Discretionary spending is about $1200B. NASA is so far down in the noise of this that it's not funny (20B/1200B ~ 1.7%).

As an example, Federal highway spending (not state) is $44B.
Microsoft SQL Server has had this built in since “forever”, but instead of looking at your config, it does its analysis based on workload trace, analyzing how that workload performs and what particular queries are having sub-par performance.

Thus the “tuning” matches your actual use.

If there can be done guaranteed improvements to your DBs performance based on static analysis of the config-alone, why on earth is that not the standard config? That seems like a no-brainer.
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Maybe because there is nothing stupider than having people die from from preventable diseases due to bunk science?
Silicon Valley is probably the worst place to make general statistical inferences regarding Tesla.
Reminder that the stigma against herpes is a pharmaceutical marketing creation from the mid 1970s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul...

>Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir, marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the 'normal cold sore' from the 'stigmatized genital infection' was to become the key to marketing the drug, a process now known as 'disease mongering'.

>Much of the hysteria and stigma surrounding herpes stems from a media campaign beginning in the late 1970s and peaking in the early 1980s. Multiple articles were worded in fear-mongering and anxiety-provoking terminology, such as the now-ubiquitous "attacks", "outbreaks", "victims", and "sufferers". At one point, the term "herpetic" even entered the popular lexicon. The articles were published by Reader's Digest, U.S. News, and Time magazine, among others. A made-for-TV movie was named Intimate Agony. The peak was when Time magazine had 'Herpes: The New Scarlet Letter' on the cover in August 1982, forever stigmatizing the word in the public mind.
I got the cheapest phone available at MediaMarkt (German electronics store).

It's a SwissOne (don't know which model exactly) for about 30€. The battery life is great (runs more than a week) and it even has dual SIM support.

Interestingly, I could not find (in that shop) any phone without a color screen and camera. Really, I just want a phone for calls and SMS.

The one downside of that phone is that the audio volume on calls is really low, even when set to the maximum. That makes it difficult to have conversations on busy streets.
In the future, I would pick one of those phones targeting senior citizens (with the huge buttons).
Towards Universal Language Embeddings
There’s an open source tool that lets developers program by voice using Kaldi.

https://www.reddit.com/r/speechrecognition/comments/5p3uxb/p...
It's probably more like 300 iPads. However, I'm not sure this really matters as you get the cables and chargers with the new iPads and you would have to purchase new cases anyway, even it was the same form factor as the old machines.
And yet, a vast component of code is communicating to developers.

Some patterns (e.g. Java) try to minimize the expressiveness in favor of consistency, others (e.g. Perl, etc) focus on expressiveness (which makes the subsequent result highly dependent on the skill of the _expression_ of the original programmer). But either way, there's distinctly language going on. It just conveys in a different manner than the common human languages I know of.
There are a few good PBS channels on YouTube. I'm a big fan of "Eons".
Anna Boniface has made some important contributions about RED-S (reletive energy difficiency in sport), which often accompanies an eating disorder, or disordered thoughts about food.

We have a lot of preconceptions about eating disorders, and it's good to hear from people who challenge those.

Also, HN for some reason flipping loves the idea that exercise is a treatment for mental illness, so it's useful to remind ourselves that for some people exercise is part of their illness.
Absolutely. I usually associate the mob mentality over goofy stuff with Reddit (e.g. being mad at some video game company over microtransactions).

I wish somebody could figure out how to channel that passion into the larger issues that face us today.
At first I thought this was going to be about breakouts of shingles on the ISS, the thought of which nearly put me off spaceflight entirely. What a relief!
Ok, we've changed the URL to that article from https://qz.com/1574878/pilots-trained-for-boeing-737-max-wit... in keeping with the guidelines' call for original sources. Thanks!
I noticed this in the FAQ:

"Why I get[sic] "Crossfont.app can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer." while open Crossfont?"

Maybe it's just me, but commercial macOS software really seems like it should be signed... especially if it isn't installed via the App Store.app (I can understand not wanting to give Apple the cut of the proceeds, but not expecting your customers to jump through those hoops...).