skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't true though, it seems perfectly possible to certificate transport-category airplanes with sketchy stall characteristics, since T-tail planes can end up in unrecoverable situations by blanketing the tail in a stall.

Twin-engine planes also are not required to be recoverable from an engine failure at speeds below Vmc.

I don't know what the certification requirements are, but it seems they rely on being able to guarantee that you never get below a certain speed since in multi-engine airplanes there's always a low power/high thrust regime that's potentially uncontrollable.
What isn't ignorance or preference is factually wrong, with one possible exception:

> The default presentation is some weird list of random stuff from my system, recent files and temporary files and assorted irrelevant garbage. I had to fuss with options for quite some time just to get this to be intelligible.

Is the idea here that you don't think new finder windows should show "Recents"? Good news! Finder -> Preferences -> General: "New Finder windows show:" is a drop-down list. I set mine to Downloads, as that suits my workflow better than Recents.
> > really really stupid

> Sounds like it's really, really smart from a business perspective.

> I think it's similar to the idea of, "if you owe the bank a million, that's your problem, but if you owe the bank a trillion, it's their problem." Would you rather have the gov't bail out JD or risk massive food shortages? I know my choice.

What kind of society are we building where it is sound business strategy, effectively, to hold a gun to the head of government?
Rushing to execute a contract in order to meet economic goals is unfortunately also a failure of nominally-socialist systems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_505...

As are arbitrary cost-cutting goals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_7#C...

(I only know about these specific disasters due to reading about the Il-62 because it looks cool)
I so agree about the topic. And while I do touch the receipts, though less and less the more I think about it, I am spending more time telling people they shouldn't touch it AND that it can't be recycled. The latter is always a big surprise. (Thanks to a witness at a public hearing on DC's Department of Energy and the Environment for raising this; it's the only thing I remember from the hearing!)
> There is literally nothing else for these folks to strive for except being well regarded in the history books...

Or I don't know.. money, bribes, favoritism?
It would be better to stop calling it "insurance". It's a medical costs pool.
Access to the best doctors isn't a function of how they're paid for now, unless you're saying the current system is giving them slack in their schedules by keeping patients away. Meanwhile, people are being denied access to good doctors with capacity now, because of a lack of insurance, or in-network restrictions. I've seen friends choose between life-threatening illness and bankruptcy due to networks, many times.

As for the "smartest, best" people becoming doctors... I don't think medicine is a path chosen simply because it's lucrative, in most cases. It's chosen because it's challenging (or sometimes, because it's expected). And those in it for the money are in paths of lucrative-but-socially-useless things like cosmetic surgery. High pay is incidental here.

Why pay coverage for things you'll never use? Same reason I'm paying for your broken arm. That's how insurance works. Spreading the risk.

Single payer systems - like Medicare, for example - are quite capable of covering experimental treatments. Why are you saying they can't? You're ignoring plain facts here. And it's possible that your experimental coverage might not be covered by your private insurer, either. I've been in that boat myself.

Fixed pricing is a far, far more transparent system than the current system of negotiating prices for the same things between different providers/insurers, so the same hospital charges $1.10 for aspirin here and $1.25 there. It also solves the problem of localized monopolies, such as rural hospitals, that can charge whatever they want because insurers have no alternative.

Why force people onto the same plan? Single payer doesn't do that, necessarily. Again, Medicare. There's a HUGE market for Medicare supplemental insurance (I work in that market). Wealthier people can afford additional coverage above and beyond single player. The single payer provides a guaranteed baseline, and covers basics so private insurers can focus on corner cases, extremes, and luxuries.

"End of life care is enormously expensive in America, but it is better than other places." Yeah, Medicare is single payer, right?
Sure, that's unavoidable, but it's not the job definition. My point is that judges should never be guided by "how will some group/the majority/the elite/my children consider my decision now/in 5 years/in a century" but only by what they believe to be right at the moment of ruling. Otherwise, you're setting yourself up for arbitrary rulings to appease some future historian and create judges that try to rule to win popular support. "Polls say the majority wants the death penalty for petty theft? I better give them what they want"
Farming has to scale down. Big Ag which includes tractor companies, input companies, pesticides/herbicides companies and GMO seed companies are like a cartel. They completely control the market.

When you have 2000 acres and it’s a single narrow harvest window, it’s not possible unless you use herbicides and inputs and reliable traited seeds and even harvest is time by desiccating with..surprise!..glyphosate, one realized with depressing clarity that the real farmer is Big Ag. It’s their world. And the rest of us belong to them.
I have no idea why you have decided I have an issue with all marketing. But when I said advertising, I actually meant advertising. In case you are still unclear on what that is, Wikipedia explains it well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising
An industrial job often pays a lot better than amazon ever would
Or they don't have insurance at all.
Could you please stop creating accounts for each few comments you post? That's against the site guidelines, and we ban accounts that do it. HN is a community, and it's important for community that users have an identity that others can relate to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I've written about this many times here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Also, this comment is much too much of a flamewar rant to be a good comment for HN. If you have a substantive point, please make it without stooping to that.
Amazon has started to build fulfillment centers in cities to make this work. It's also why they bought whole foods and are now buying up old shopping malls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k53IDbtP-58).

They could probably even use amazon lockers to optimize the process.
Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced: "When performing a search:" you can choose from "Search the Current Folder" (my current setting) or "Search This Mac" (apparently yours) or "Use the Previous Search Scope"
Why do you say that? I'm someone who's worked on a few very large message based systems in finance for years (100s of devs working together in multiple countries). I found that messaging and workflow orchestration were the things that helped keep things same.
In God we trust, all others bring data.

The Romanians
Eh, kind of a naive view. There's a moat in all the data Uber's collected, and analytics it's performed. Not to mention R&D into things like automatous driving, etc...
> JD doesn't spend a dime to deliver the upgrade

That's true, they already spent all the dimes installing the top-of-the line engine in the tractor.

> JD is crippling the capabilities.

Said another way: Deere gives a discount to those who don't need the full capabilities of the engine provided. Another user pointed out that market price is $1000 per horsepower. That's a significant savings when you don't need the extra 1-300hp.

The idea of buying 'Horsepower' instead of an engine is pretty weird though.
Good. The 21st-century internet has created a crisis of credibility. We've learned that "information wants to be free" and "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" applies just as well to lies as it does to factual information. We are in a storm of misinformation, and have been for many years.

I don't love the 500lb gorillas of mainstream media, but they have skin in the game if they get caught pushing falsehood. Look at men who've trainwrecked their careers over getting caught in a lie - Olbermann, Dan Rather, etc.

Can you imagine smaller no-name media sources facing any real consequences in that kind of situation? No.

We need credibility again. Until somebody finds a way to algorithmize credibility, I'm happy with saying "only the big boys are assumed to be credible by aggregators".
>3 bytes for prices up to 167772.16. If you frequently buy things more expensive than that, just have one of your servants transcribe the recipe to your favorite format.

>1 byte for the number of items. If you buy more than 255 of one thing, we'll just add another line to the recipe.

You could split prices greater than 167772.16 into chunks, delimited by using zero for the number of items in the subseqent line items.
For a deeper understanding of the Bohemian nature of the early internet, you might want to check out this book on Goodreads: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35953464-broad-band
Psychopaths in leadership/management create problems in all economic systems. Don't blame capitalism. Evil people are evil. There are good people at Boeing but psychopaths have a natural ability to gain power in all kinds of social structures.
My point is that your kind of tractor won't exist anymore if you don't fight for the farmers that are affected now... The manufacturer will eventually upgrade their base model so that you will also get screwed.
>The big downside of Make, alas, is Windows compatibility.

Isn't the big problem that you have no idea what it's doing to your system? Also that you aren't expected to be able to undo it. You can read the makefiles, of course, but it seems simpler not to have to. (Just update the necessary packages yourself, to the latest version.)

Forgive me if this is naive of me.
That's AutoStore. It has a limited size range. It's most useful for electronic parts and medical supplies, which tend to fit in AutoStore bins.

The Kiva system Amazon uses has a bigger size range. It's also more rugged. The only fixed infrastructure in the storage area is a flat cement floor with bar code tags for navigation. Shelving units and robot are easily replaced.

AutoStore has a human-carrying vehicle which can run on the AutoStore rails. It's 4x the size of the regular robots. So when something gets stuck, there's a way to unjam the grid. Still, if something falls out of a bin, it's a much bigger headache in AutoStore than it is in Amazon/Kiva.
> Imagine sending out a command to the bus and not knowing when it'll get processed

I would love to hear how others are correlating output with commands in such architectures - especially if they can be displayed to users as a direct result of a command. Always felt like I'm missing a thing or two.

It seems the choices are:

* Manage work across domains (sagas, two phase commit, rpc)

* Losen requirements (At some point in the future, stuff might happen. It may not be related to your command. Deal with it.)

* Correlation and SLAs (correlate outcomes with commands, have clients wait a fixed period while collecting correlating outcomes)

Is that a fair summary of where we can go? Any recommended reading?
I doubt that in a non-capitalistic system the 737 MAX would not have had similar problems as in no system resources are infinite. Budgets, even in the most socialist country, are limited. The question is just WHO limits the budget: private enterprises (or their shareholders), co-ops or politicians.
> Most advanced industrialized nations have a state-run health care system and pay on average half of what the US pays.

The U.S. is not an outlier with regard to healthcare consumption when you factor in household income[1]. GDP is the wrong metric to measure against.

[1]https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2018/11/19/why-everything...
What people don't get is:

receipts are not for customers.

They prevent a crooked cashier from pretending to ring something up and pocketing the cash.

Ever seen those signs? "If you didn't get a receipt, your meal is free"
It also becomes difficult to reason about what code will actually run when a message goes out. Top level handlers are ok, but they can spawn messages which spawn messages which... lead to me running out of mental capacity.
I think that is easy for much of the HN crowd to say -- where things like updates are a daily occurrence. But I think the world of POS systems is much slower, and requires a lot of testing and read tape to make even a simple change. I think the cost of updating some of these systems would be much more than one might think -- and many of them probably will require hardware changes.

The point I am trying to make is -- updating the format of the receipt across a fleet of POS systems is probably very expensive.

We have not even factored in the cost of what looks like extra ink, ware and tare adding graphics. It all adds up and is a big cost for something that 90+% of the time finds its self in the garbage.
The tulip bubble is the worst poster child of asset bubbles and irrational exuberance

But at this point, I don't think it matters. Colloquially, saying 'tulips' gets the point across. People know that you are criticizing the exuberance or volatility of an ephemeral asset. People know what asset price distortion you are comparing it to.
This is basically backwards

Infowars never has the best coverage

Because it's a at best a crazy conspiracy site, and at worst a far right conspiracy site.

This is actually a massive problem with YouTube in which Google optimizes for time spent watching and ad time which drives a lot of people to far right and conspiratorial content. And a lot of people are complain I that Google needs to fix thay
Hmmm, I'm sure the tech is great as well as the scientists and engineering perfecting it. However, I consider this kind of tech important in a post-energy transition world and probably a bad idea to pursue now.

Converting CO2 to hydrocarbons is a fundamentally an endothermic reaction (e.g. it needs energy to happen), so given the limits on process and thermodynamic efficiencies, it will always take more energy to convert CO2 back into gasoline than the energy you got from burning the fuel in the first place. So it seems like what they are proposing is throwing 1x of one type of energy (electricity) at undoing the effects of less than 1x of another type of energy (fossil fuels used in transportation).

Maybe that would be a good idea if we had excess clean electricity generation and couldn't effectively decarbonize transportation, but neither of those are true.

First, we currently need all the clean electricity generation we can get our hands on, and aren't anywhere close to fully decarbonizing the grid to the point where we have excess capacity for stuff like this. Spending 1 megawatt-hour on this for less than 1 megawatt-hour of impact when it could be use to straight up replace 1 megawatt-hour of fossil generation is, I think, a waste of resources right now.

Second, electrification of transportation is starting to happen exponentially, so many of the things you were looking to offset in the short term will probably just cease to exist over the next 10-20 years. The exception is air travel, where the energy density and having propellants are super important, but then you're competing with the price of producing biofuels as a carbon neutral alternative. I suspect that biofuel production will be cheaper, simply because the energy required to grow the algae or convert the cellulose is less than the co2 reversal they are proposing here, but I could be wrong about that for process reasons other than thermodynamics (e.g. capital expenses, etc.). However, focusing on decarbonizing air travel is sooo far down the list of priorities right now. There's so much more lower hanging fruit we should be investing in.

Overall, I think spending energy sucking co2 out of the air and converting it into fuel isn't a good idea right now. Maybe in the medium term if it can compete with biofuels, and definitely in the long term after we've decarbonized as much as possible and still need to remove co2 from the atmosphere. But when I see investment dollars get thrown at this instead contributing towards deploying 1:1 replacements of fossil fuels, I feel a bit sad. Mostly because I know it will be used by propagandists for delaying decarbonization efforts (e.g. "See? We have tech than can undo all these fossil fuels we're emitting! So we're all good and don't need to electrify transportation.").
I wish you could just block entire domains, regardless of search or subject.
Why Books Don’t Work
Seems like two different comparisons being made, which can possibly be resolved like this:

MacOS Finder > OSX Finder > Windows Explorer
True. I didn't agree with his metric. Mine came from my experience with BASIC and Lisps. It was that the compile should happen in no more than a few seconds if iteration speed was the goal. My metric was about keeping the mind in a state of flow for maximum creative output. Otherwise, it could take all night if I wasn't staring at the screen waiting on it.
Yes, it looks like unionization is the reason why they ran away from Long Island City.
I suppose what I've described is just a little more of an unstructured version of this. Mixing data and computation in such a way is definitely a tech debt tradeoff though.
People who don't have insurance are not "insured individuals".
Shrinking Moon May Be Generating Moonquakes
There's very little marginal cost to Google having more news sources.
The problem with that particular statue was procedural - they illegally took down that statue before the city council decided what to do with it as the accusations appeared. I can understand why these people did it - they can be frustrated after decades of being ignored.

The late president of Gdańsk said they will take it down, but it takes time for the procedure, and the activists took it down themselves before that. So they will probably put it back and then take it down legally. As funny as this sounds Gdańsk is very liberal for Poland.

But, generally I agree - Poland is crazy religious, and the problem with that particular priest was that he knew all the highest officials in Poland, including even presidents. He was the Solidarity priest, that participated in the protests against communism. At first it was almost a national betrayal to say anything bad about him (because he was a figure of anti-communism opposition), then after communism failed he knew presidents and prime ministers and who would act on these accusations.

So he died without being officially accused, and now it's hard to even get people to remove the statues...
It does and right now we are doing both. There is also a lot of promise around methane capture which we can then burn as fuel and only end up with CO2 (but no new CO2). Methane will also eventually turn back into CO2 and water but it takes several years. Our biggest challenge is that humans (me included) are selfish. We really just need less people to give the earth time to heal itself without doubling down on the destruction at the same time.
yeah, i know. I quite like it myself.
Same wish here. I think more people would use Pascal - in its modern incarnations like Delphi (despite the cost, for some who can afford it) and FreePascal (which is free as in beer as well as speech) - if they knew more about it and did not have misconceptions about it, some of which might stem from (wrongly) thinking of those incarnations as being as limited as early versions of standard Pascal (which was probably meant as a teaching language). They are not as limited, they are a lot more, a hell of a lot more.
Because people aren't actually like that in real life. Just because they've gotten a to a particular lifetime job in life, it doesn't mean they don't still crave the approval of their peers. They don't live in a vacuum. They want to still be invited to speak at the places they usually speak, attend the same parties they usually attend, etc.

And beyond that, there's a more fundamental issue: people like this are chosen for these roles because of their fervent, polarized political beliefs. Their principles, if they have any, are either aligned with or overcome by the politics. Their willingness to listen to reason and step outside their bubble is limited, unless doing so lines up with their politics.
Let me second this. And in particular, I strongly encourage every developer to try starting a new project in a test-driven fashion (by which I mean that you advance the code by writing a bit of test and making it pass, and then doing that over and over.)

There's a qualitative difference between working in a well-tested code base that's very hard to describe convincingly. A lot of my early development experience was in code bases that had little or no testing. Experiencing a well-tested code base totally changed things for me. Instead of work being a death-of-a-thousand-cuts experience, it became pleasant, steady progress.
Infowars won't actually accuratley answer of it's been correct so Google is following the users clear intent and giving them good answers
"Also, criticizing socialism is not magical thinking. It's been a proven failure over and over."

That's just partisan nonsense, platitudes disguised as criticism. You need to do a lot better than that. I could come back with plenty of failure modes for capitalism as well, but I very much doubt you'd call them proof that capitalism is a "proven failure", and I wouldn't make that argument myself. There are many cases where socialism has worked well and continues to work well.
A name for the state of Georgia. Most U.S. states have a few names, some unofficial names- like "Rhode Island" - are very popular (the name of that state is actually "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations"). The inclusion of "republic" means it's probably a hangover rooted in colonial, revolutionary, and/or confederate time periods.
For me, that Amazon page is listing it as a pre-order, without any release date. And all the other versions (Kindle, Paperback) are the 1st edition instead of the 2nd.

Very frustrating, as I considered the first edition to be essential and upon reading your comment, instantly went to purchase the 2nd edition.

Edited to add: Found a date, Amazon is listing it as October 21, 2019.
Yes, my worry is not so much that architects build ugly or dysfunctional buildings (that has always happened), but that today's architects, once they manage to build something, tend to have quite a bit of power to prevent tearing down or altering their oeuvres, no matter how ill conceived.
I love how browsing the web now is like gearing up for war. Need our anti tank and our anti air of course.
5G Wireless Meets 5th Generation Warfare
Before being acquired by Facebook they already had over 30 million users
Lenovo launches HoloLens competitor
> You can also do the old MIT introductory CS textbook, SICP, using Racket.

#lang sicp

https://github.com/sicp-lang/sicp