skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s because once they are in international waters, they use extremely dirty burning bunker fuel.
This guy didn't go off script. It seems like he was the only one of the three who knew the script.

The script says to stop if the trim adjustments stop when you counter with manual trim input. MCAS, by design, stops. You can see where MCAS stops trimming nose down on the preliminary Indonesian report (they graph both the fatal flight and the previous flight).
"Forget Tesla" is the wrong attitude. We should applaud every win we can get, big or small.
I see the same in major enterprise companies I and my peers have worked in. Java is being used for a lot of large greenfield projects I am aware of.
Thank for pointing this out. The 18% figure is from the global average and that analysis of the private industry number certainly suggests that as unions become more prevalent in higher-paying occupations the trend there will reverse.
> where if a government was doing something which one of these corporations could profit from, then the government was no longer permitted to pursue,

I knew those 'trade' deals were full of the most awful stuff, but didn't know about this - I'd be grateful for some kind of source.
I think it's because they use cheap oil that tends to be really, really dirty when burned.
I'm surprised there is not more progressive backlash against apartment brokers in NYC. Plain as day rent seekers disproportionally affecting people with low incomes. Who are their friends?
Here you go, plenty of invite codes on their subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VolkFi/comments/b1dyqy/lets_just_ge...
> by inducing intense, unfamiliar states of mind, we can gain perspective on the inner operation of our cognition

Yes, this. I've found, though, that the intensity can often be dialed back significantly, while still achieving comparable, certainly more comfortable, and sometimes even better effects.

I think there's absolutely a time and a place for nuking one's ego psychedelically, but it's broadly better to chip at it — if, to torture the metaphor a bit, with a plasma cutter instead of a chisel...
That’s not true. They produce more sulphur dioxide, a pollutant that cars don’t emit much of in general, and which the heavy fuel used by ships generates in abundance. Somehow the story morphed from “a few ships emit more of this specific pollutant than all cars” to “more pollution” to “more CO2.”

The entire worldwide shipping industry accounts for about 3% of humanity’s CO2 emissions.
In many aircraft hard elevation will overpower even a faulty horizontal stabilizer

In the 737 you can get into situations where the elevator has insufficient authority to overcome a stabilizer. Excessive pitch up (leading to a potential stall) that you can't counter by pushing on the yoke is exactly what MCAS is designed to prevent.

There was a mechanical failure, the AoA sensor.

A fixed offset from reality is an interesting failure mode, especially in two separate sensors (Lion Air replaced the alpha vane before flight 610), and even more interesting as it's the same alpha vane used in the 737 NG. The left alpha vane was being interpreted as almost exactly twenty degrees higher than the right.
Whoops: the dominant control reaction in B-10 is (n,alpha), not (n,gamma)! That's a common mistake. As you'll see, it's larger than most fission products across the board See https://imgur.com/6ODUcRx. There are a few Hafnium and Europium nuclides that can beat it but they're pretty expensive so most people stick to Boron control.

Regarding that paper on CANDUs, I'd like to see some lattice physics calcs supporting that. Has anyone run CASMO on it? I would be absolutely shocked if you took a core of 55 MWd/kg (avg) LWR spent fuel, put it straight in a CANDU with no separations (all FP inventory accounted for) and saw it push through an additional normal amount of burnup.

Today, most CANDU's use ~2% enriched feed, I believe.

PWRs are not unstable. They are in their most critical configuration during operation. If they heat up, the water density goes down. Neutrons fail to be moderated and the source of thermal neutrons back into the fuel goes down, and the chain reaction shuts down. This is a regulatory requirement (GDC 11 of the NRC). Unstable cores run away in power excursions when poked (see Chernobyl). Modern cores don't do that. They have negative MTC and Doppler.

I'm well aware of what inherent safety is. EBR-II, a sodium-cooled fast reactor, was the first to actually demonstrate passive shutdown and passive decay heat following unprotected loss of heat sink and unprotected loss of flow.

BTW I don't advocate for fast reactors to burn SNF. It's much more economical to just dispose of it and mine new uranium. I just was pointing out that some people messed up their attempts to burn SNF in thermal reactors.
Video games and consoles don't have much lasting value, so it's not a good investment (except for some collectors).

If you mean to keep a copy and be able to play it again anytime in the future, then yes I'm with you. However, most of the games are either thrash or doesn't offer much replay value, which means that once you're done with it that will stack up somewhere and collects dust.

One point though is you can trade games that you own, which has some appeal.

People used to bring the same argument for music streaming vs buying a CD or digital copy. See where that brought us.

Convenience wins most of the time.
With the amount of optimization that goes around the bunker industry and fueling shipping tankers, I’d would be extremely interesting to see how electrification plays into this. Right now you have such fun cases as a
Bunker company selling fuel cheaper than it bought it yet still making money through discrepencies in volume/weight measures, and by pumping gas or loading gravel into the fuel, and of cause you have such things like false headings on fuel tankers to drive down local prices prior to fueling, with headings then reverting.

A lot of thise optimizations are a sort of cool hyperoptimization that only make sense because of the scale of things. I wonder if electrification, likely through subsidies, would suddenly mean we’d see the tanker industry “weaponizing” weather models to predict which ports can provide cheap wind or solar energy. Or aggressively pushing the battery stacks because even a 0.01% margin is suddenly very attractive.
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As other commenters have said, the paper continues on to include an analysis that suggests the descrepancy is not due to some unique characteristic of the private sector but rather the concentration of union jobs in relatively low paying occupations in private industry. This and other BLS published reports suggest, therefor, that unions like the kickstarter union will ultimately put upward pressure on wages in professional occupations.
Runaway stabilizer feels nothing like MCAS. They likely didn't associate the training they received with the problem at hand.
This is a very good way to think about the price of goods. When supply and demand are in relative equilibrium price remains stable and reflects the cost of production plus some margin for manufacturers. When you trim demand even slightly by a few percent - which EVs in their various forms will inevitably do - what happens to price? Where is the new demand for oil to compensate? Jet fuel?

I believe price per unit oil will decline until supply is withdrawn to stabilize at a lower value, which may or may not happen. The total market value for gasoline will shrink.
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Forgive my ignorance, but couldn't nuclear power be used to generate electricity on these tankers in the same way its used to power submarines?
The framing of the article is that oil companies need to be more concerned about the Chinese buses than about Tesla. It's a simple rhetorical device, not a statement that Tesla does not matter.
All disruptions to complex systems come with side effects, but they are often still worthwhile.
I don't think that could be a full explanation. Perfectly clean burning turns all of the carbon atoms in the fuel into carbon dioxide.

[hydrocarbons] + O2 -> CO2 + H2O

"Dirtier" burning would result in less CO2 emission.
Wonder why they are not nuclear already.
And orient them so they act as sails. Here's a prototype: https://futurism.com/new-ship-rigid-solar-sails-harnesses-po...
Statistically, per freaknomics, a realtor selling their own home lists their house 10 days longer so they can get a better offer.

https://www.bankrate.com/finance/real-estate/real-estate-age...

Levitt and Dubner found that, on average, self-listed homes stay on the market an extra 10 days, prompting the authors to hypothesize that agents might be a little more aggressive about their own homes because a 3 percent fluctuation makes a fair difference on the total sale price, but not that much of a difference when it comes to the commission.
That never really works out in practice

So glad this was such dominant practice and advice for the last 10 years. I wonder for how many of those influential practictioners have known it's more of a lazy include than clever cache reuse. Cargo culting writ larger than most.
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This makes a bit more sense:

"Every Volk phone has a SIM card slot and supports use on traditional LTE networks.

However, a SIM is not necessary and the phone will always prioritize the Volk network first.

The Volk network works as such: every Volk user gets a special router with their phone. The router acts as a wireless Qi charging pad also. The router connects to your existing internet via Ethernet or something similar.

The router is what connects phones to Volk and allows calls, texts, and data to go through.

If a router isn't nearby, the phone will try to find another Volk phone to use as a hop, until it finally reaches a router.

All Volk phones have strong radios and can go more than half a mile if terrain is clear.

If there are no routers or Volk phones nearby to hop to, you'll either not have service, have to use Wifi, or fallback to LTE if you have a SIM card installed and it has active service."

(https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/aq3hul/volk_fi_claim...)

So the backbone of the mesh network is their charging stations / routers, and phones can (?) mesh but not necessarily that far.

What I still don't like about this is that nowhere they talk about the frequencies on which they operate, not even in the "Specs" section of the website. This makes it very hard to verify any range claims they make.
Fair enough. The Java ecosystem is huge and I try to keep up but many things slip through the cracks, you'll find many in my furious comment history on the thread.

Thanks, looking it ip
What kinds of tricks did yours try to pull?
This is false information that is commonly repeated. The ships produce more of a particular pollutant, sulfur dioxide (SO2), not CO2. Personal vehicles produce barely any SO2 (gasoline contains no sulfur, diesel contains a small amount) so it isn't surprising a few container ships, which burn sulfur-heavy bunker fuel, produce more.
Their goal as a company isn't energy density or efficiency, it's atmospheric CO2 reduction. Their production of hydrogen displaces CO2 production by other methods, uses plant mass which is sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere, and produces hydrogen fuel that can be burned or consumed in fuel cell vehicles with zero CO2 emissions. Even if it gets sold to an oil refinery in the short term, it'll have offset and sequestered CO2 compared to their previous source of hydrogen. That means the lifecycle CO2 emissions of the cars running off the resulting gasoline will be lower.
My comment's a little out of place. I'm not against pattern matching, but for double dispatch; we can have both.

Their initial motivating examples was bare instanceof, but I now see they extend it.

How would destructuring fit this model ?!
Customers in Europe are used to these choices, it was the same with Microsoft and Windows and their browser.
Can you explain how they are different?

Both cause the stabilizer to tilt. Both cause the stabilizer wheels next to the pilot/co-pilot to turn. If the plane is pitching down, and you pull back the yoke and that still doesn't recover, don't you at some point check the stabilizer angle? If it's wrong, you use the stabilizer trim switch on the yoke under your thumb to correct it. Won't you see the stabilizer wheel turn when you do that? If you let go and the wheel immediately starts turning again the wrong way (pitching the plane down), doesn't that look like runaway stabilizer?

Also, how did the off-duty pilot figure it out if they are nothing alike?

BTW, when you write "runaway stabilizer feels nothing like MCAS" are you speaking from personal experience?
Nobody sane would give civilians in a poorly regulated sector nuclear fuel and expect them to operate a generator safely.

It is even debatable if the US using nuclear power on their subs/warships is wise. It is great for natural disasters relief (mobile power plant) but terrifying if the US ever loses one.
On the deployment side of things...

Many developers don't get the concept of deploying a patch. They envision a script for each DB object stored in source control. Mimicking the the Java class files for all their objects. That's fine for code which can be re-built from scratch. But you can't re-build your DB, it must be patched to preserve the precious data.

It works fine for DB release #1. But when DB release #2 comes around there's no way to deploy the DB changes. Special diff tools are brought in to generate the patch. The auto generated patch drops a column.. ooops.
When I first heard about Project Fi, this is what I imagined it to be like. I was a little disappointed when I found out it was just glorified wifi-calling.
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I thought this was common knowledge. I've been doing this since the upstart days...
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I think the bigger concern for China in regards to this is slowing the pull on their fx reserves in light of their overall demand [0].

Indonesia and Malaysia are taking the biodiesel approach with decent amount of success at cutting their fx spend [1].

Why China cant pursue something similar to Indonesia and Malaysia probably has to do with their Ag policies/capabilities/climate.

[0] https://ycharts.com/indicators/china_oil_consumption

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Nikkei-Markets/Mala...
The US has lost several, as have the Soviets and Russians.
"Why pay you so much, I can just set up a website on Wix for $10."

I mean, that's a valid point in the age of Wix and Squarespace. I'm certainly glad I'm no longer in the business of building brochureware sites for small clients.

I understand your larger point that we shouldn't be quick to assume a realtor's work is not difficult. However, I think the issue is the buyer doesn't really have the option to forego the buyer's agent service and capture (through a reduced price) the commission that would have otherwise been paid. Not everyone needs a full-service realtor in the same way not everyone needs a bespoke CMS.
Barrier to entry is what makes some jobs pay more than others. I think programming is easier than working in fast food, but you could literally take almost anyone with an elementary school education and turn them into a productive fast food worker in a matter of days.

I might not be good at real estate, but I bet in a weeks time I could do a passable job filling out necessary documents and doing open houses.

There is no reality where someone who has no programming experience is anything other than a huge liability if you give them a week of training and then assign a feature to them and tell them to start coding, testing, and making pull requests for it.
Disclosure and claim to authority: I work on the Windows team at Microsoft, sometimes on performance and OS installation stuff.

There's definitely some cruft that chews up time on first boot. But it's not everybody's favorite punching-bag, licensing. That stuff doesn't happen in the critical boot path.

It might be installation of device drivers, but that too is unlikely. If you generalize Windows in a VM, you can use the `sysprep.exe /mode:vm` flag, which essentially tells sysprep to retain most of the device tree, since you expect to run the thing on similar hardware. I would assume that AWS is clever enough to have found that flag; certainly we have Azure use it. When the flag is used, there's very little device- and driver-related work to do on first boot after generalization.

The reality is that software is complicated and hard, and anything punchy enough to fit into a comment on a website is going to be a vast simplification of reality. So let the simplification begin :)

One reason first boot is slow is the component that orchestrates startup of usermode services, which on Windows is called SCM. SCM is very old. At the time SCM was created, it was much better than the SysV-style init scripts of other OSes. But since then, other OSes leapfrogged Windows with systemd/launchd, which are a generation ahead of SCM. SCM starts services in serial, while systemd maximizes parallelization. SCM has a "push" model: it basically starts all the services that it can find, while systemd has a "pull" model: it starts just the dependency cone you need to get the system you want. (This is a simplification.)

Another performance issue is that Windows doesn't have a way to notify code that the hostname has changed. Obviously it'd be easy to add one, but then the hard part would be updating the whole OS to do something reasonable with that notification. So instead, Windows requires a reboot to change the hostname. Except first boot: to avoid a reboot as soon as you power on your shiny new computer, there's a clumsy dance where the OS holds back most usermode processes until the hostname is set, then it sort of tries booting usermode again. (Huge simplification!)

Thirdly, the footprint of Windows is just bigger than that of an expertly hand-tuned Linux installation. Much of this problem was solved with Nano Server... but are you actually using Nano Server? It turns out that people like Windows because Windows runs Windows programs. Take away compatibility with many Windows programs, like Nano Server did, and you get a much faster and more secure OS that nobody's heard of.

We take both perf and cloud hosting seriously, and we're working on problems in this space. You should expect Windows to get better with each release. But to close this off, I don't want to hog all the blame. It's always possible that AWS is doing something silly in their guest agent or paravirtualization stack that measurably degrades boot perf. We've previously caught Azure doing silly things -- now fixed -- that seriously delayed the amount of time before the guest reported itself as ready. If you want to see Windows hosting done well, try Azure.
And how does that 3% compare to the total CO2 from personal vehicles?
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It's a single data point / anecdote. These investigations are incredibly thorough, precise, and authoritative so it makes sense they'd seek to exclude that kind of information until they knew for sure.
It's simply not true. It started out as a factoid, but got jumbled into nonsense by a game of telephone:

1. True: 16 of the world’s largest ships produce as much _sulfur_ pollution as all the world’s cars.[1]

2. False: "How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world", headline from Daily Mail.[2]

3. False: "world's 6 largest shipping tankers produce more CO2 than all the world's personal vehicles combined", from OP.

While SOx and NOx pollution is extremely bad, they're not as culpable in causing respiratory diseases and climate change, and that's why legislative action has been slow coming.

[1] https://www.lngtransfer.com/news/the-16-biggest-ships-produc...

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-...
"Volk One devices can connect to each other, from several miles away. They can also hop, to reach devices farther away."
I think it must be something other than WiFi. Not sure how they are getting that kind of range, but it would make things a lot more practical.
> Which [instance] do I choose?

The one your employer provisions your account on. Your account will be @user@company.domain
She and Balwani are both facing 20 years in federal prison.
I take it you don't work with linux professionally? I'd enjoy being a fly on the wall during the meeting where you convince your boss to run the company critical infrastructure on void linux.
write something illegal, see if they want to actually own that code. write strong encryption libraries and make them available for anyone to export.
> The entire worldwide shipping industry accounts for about 3% of humanity’s CO2 emissions.

To my knowledge personally owned vehicles account for a similar percentage of total CO2 output, so that number while small is a red herring. People tend to generate more CO2 per capita as a result of air conditioning than from the vehicles they drive.
Percentage of revenue going to the players has already been negotiated.

It should also be noted that the players union represents a tiny portion of the actual employees involved and they actively negotiate money away from other employees.
You don't pay anything to the agent, directly. Why do you think for sale buy owner homes are cheaper? The seller can knock off a few percentage points because they don't have the overhead of paying 6%.
Nuclear power plants on land could be used to generate power for producing synthetic hydrocarbons, which would in turn be used for powering ships. But putting nuclear reactors on merchant ships is totally impractical for security reasons.
I just took a look at the curiosity video. It's funny, I think with enough refinement something like this could beat Zelda. Except it wouldn't actually know it beat the game! I feel like that is cheating, somehow.

Like maybe you could get American Fuzzy Lop [1] to beat Zelda. Isn't that the same thing, in principle?

[1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
Now they need to get off coal as the source of much of that electricity. I’m not saying they won’t though... I’m pretty sure they are onboard with both cleaning up their environment, and limiting their CO2 emissions.
Excuse me for this tangent, but when it comes to environmental concerns, why do we still skirt around the largest elephant in the room?

Curbing population growth.

We have laws against almost every "natural human instinct/desire":

X Murder

X Rape

X Theft, even if you're stealing food when you're starving

X Taking shelter in property that you don't own, even if you were freezing to death

X In some countries: Being with whom you love

So why are we resisting laws against "Making babies whenever you want" and not even discussing them without annoyed dismissals and instant shutdowns?

Is it because the people who shape the zeitgeist — First world countries — have yet to experience the horrors of rampant overpopulation?

People who vehemently argue against population control, ought to own up to the fact that we should then guarantee access to food, shelter and healthcare for every new human.

You shouldn't expound one human right only to continue to prevent everyone from many other rights.
I’m using gnome-terminal running in VcXsrv. The scrolling and font rendering is far better than any of the windows terninal apps I’ve tried.