skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, an article about Roman anal hygiene is not to be read for important facts. It's feuilleton, reading as pleasure per se, light-hearted entertainment, path, not destination.

Having said that, I agree that a) this article was extremely light on facts, b) many other long articles about actually important topics digress way too much on setting the scene.
The way I would approach it (based on mechantronics I have done for robots) is to back up the control wheel with an encoded motor. (Position/rotation encoder on the tail shaft.) The encoder will give you wheel position, the motor allows you to apply arbitrary torque to the wheel to simulate the feedback forces felt by the pilot. Typically, that would be done by measuring motor current and writing a control loop that controlled for target wheel position (based on encoder) and target maximum motor current (as a proxy for torque). Then the simulator would give out the simulated results of wheel position and torque, which the control loop would attempt to follow with its control law.

Alternatively, you could put an actual torque sensor between the motor and the control wheel, which might buy you some accuracy at considerably more expense. For a flight simulator, expense is unlikely to be an issue -- I tend not to have that luxury, and typically don't need that much accuracy anyway.

These kind of control systems are all over modern aircraft, much less simulators. Any new grad control systems engineer should be able to knock something like this out.
It was also a deliberate personal attack. I may be introducing a topic that is controversial, but there is no need to insult me personally and call me a monster.
And don't forget about the fungus that eats CDs!

https://www.nature.com/news/2001/010628/full/news010628-11.h...
Not really, Microsoft has a lot of enterprise customers and when their first user experience to Linux is WSL they are immediately turned off and unable to even take it seriously. I can at least take Android and ChromeOS serious enough to see it being viable for most desktop users and small businesses. Android, along with G Suite, is great for mobile enterprise management.
That's exactly my thinking-- it might be feasible for Apple to use bitcode during an x86 to ARM transition, but what problem is that actually solving?

At best, Apple announces mandatory bitcode* for macOS App Store apps at WWDC in 2019; Apple announces the first ARM Macs in 2020 or 2021. So you've got a window of maybe a year or two of apps that don't have to be recompiled to support ARM, and most are likely still being updated since it hasn't been that long since they recompiled to supply Apple with a bitcode version.

This doesn't do anything to solve the big headache of an architecture transition, which are those legacy apps that will never be updated again-- you'd still need an emulation solution like Rosetta or Microsoft's x86 on ARM stuff to support those applications. At best, you're maybe working around the Adobes and Microsofts of the world that move too slowly to have a day-1 update when the new architecture comes out?

* I'll note that Bitcode wasn't mandatory on iOS when it was announced in 2015, and it's still not mandatory there today-- it seems unlikely that Mac Bitcode would be mandatory immediately when they announce it or in the foreseeable future.
I really like the water gun next to the toilet in Thai bathrooms. It's multi-functional, not only can you use it as a bidet, but you can use it to wash other things.
TIL that "In the middle of the first century Seneca reported that a Germanic gladiator had committed suicide with a sponge on a stick. The German hid himself in the latrine of an amphitheater and pushed the wooden stick into his gullet and choked to death."
Good old fashioned networking, I guess. Both online and in the local community. I don't think there's a quick answer to that.
Not true. Microsoft built a huge local branch there and as a result they've moved back into the dark abyss that is proprietary, non-free software.
It was only recently added to SmugMug's processing.

Having owned two businesses, I can say it's a lot more complicated than most people realize. Tax rates and reporting don't fit neatly into city, state, or even simple ZIP Code boundaries. Plus different products, even sold from the same food truck to use your example, can have different tax rates.

The whole retail taxing system is a mess.
Hmmm.... "power dive" sounds like opposite of stall to me.
Needless to say, Sidewalk Labs has not angered "Toronto", it has angered activists who don't live in the neighborhood and never will but apparently have veto power over what goes on there.
> Love Ubuntu server, but could never get into linux desktop.

It seems fine to me. I'm running it on my laptop right now, and I don't find it significantly more annoying than Windows or MacOS, both of which I've recently used on work machines.

I'm sure there are plenty of people for whom that's not true, especially people who need niche commercial software. But a great deal of what people use is on the web these days anyhow, so I think it matters a lot less what OS Chrome is running on top of.
Not that I'm disputing what you are saying at all, but I do really wonder whether a "black list" really exists. There are plenty of people hiring software engineers here, I don't think word-of-mouth is THAT powerful that a low-level engineering manager who didn't like you can completely ruin your future job prospects. As long as you do not have a criminal record or bad publicity from the false allegation, you should be all right.

If you feel comfortable reaching out, I am more than happy to refer you to a couple of really great companies that I have personal connections to that are hiring! I also know some people personally that were in similar "down on their luck" situations as you that were able to rebound that can definitely help.

There are many companies here that would love to be portrayed as doing positive social good by hiring homeless.
I didn't mean to attempt understanding the whole thing - just to understand one tiny part of it for your improvement, and by that route, come to understand how it's all interconnected.

It would be impossible to "read" and understand the whole of a huge project as an inexperienced coder, of course.
I wrote my own static page generator [1] because it feels easier to write in markdown in Emacs and less worries about updates/security. I've also managed to keep a continues stream of output for close to 2 months :-) [2]

[1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
[2] http://plurrrr.com/
an ancient Roman would often grab a tersorium (or, in my technical terms, a “toilet brush for your butt”).

Picture: http://static.nautil.us/16038_96fb9b48825b741083d35b0137af1b...
all those digression are used to spam links to third party blogs, which in turns cross link back on some other article.

if it was just the answer paragraph + affiliate paragraphs you'd notice it, rule of thumb is one paragraph of content per one of cross-linking.
The Astronomical Rise of Exam Cheats
It's an entertainment tax. Netflix supplies entertainment to people in the city of Chicago, and so the city of Chicago taxes that entertainment.

Same thing with concert tickets and other forms of entertainment.
idk if GH pages has added this, but Netlify lets you determine your build command and environment for deployments. You can also have different deployments per branch with easy rollback functionality. In short, its built for this exact problem where GH pages is a tacked on feature for repos.
That's the missing piece with these large scale deployments: is there an infrastructure to provide support, training and maintenance of the deployment. It's one thing to push for moving from Windows to Linux, it's another to actually figure out the thousands of details that go along with it.

What Munich did was essentially created a homegrown solution which suffers from all the problems of homegrown solutions. Yes, you get to tailor it to your business, but then you have to maintain it for decades. Inevitably industry passes you by, and you end up paying for a sub-standard proprietary (ironically) solution that has no widespread support and you're own your own for everything - from new features, to security updates, to training, to compatibility and interoperability. It's always great at the beginning, and it's always miserable 10 years later when the excitement goes away and the original champions have moved on.
Somehow Apple seems to get away with blocking whatever app they so choose, government or not, and not face antitrust charges. Most developers would agree that Apple's approval process is a lot less transparent, cutthroat and arbitrary, and yet nothing on them.

I bet a similar app wouldn't pass CarPlay standards, and Italy hasn't done anything on the issue
IIRC I read somewhere that in some places people use the right hand to wash their bums, open doors, shake hands, and other dirtier stuff. Left hand is used when needing tottouch food and other cleaner things.
UPDATE Nr2:

-All images to browse on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kf39feyjhqub1rq/AABsKUe3YB7Jxo4ub...

-One big ZIP: https://www.dropbox.com/s/82alw5mex6zqz6f/davinci-img.zip?dl... (1,1GB before+after zip)

Thanks to opsecisameme for the wget trick
South Dakota v. Wayfair [1] last year overturned the requirement of a physical presence for a state to levy taxes.

Most states with sales tax have since passed legislation to tax online purchases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.

edit: It seems as though HN's linkification drops trailing periods, so that link doesn't work when clicked.
"... and hire people to build out the main infrastructure they need."

There's a reason Microsoft was successful for years: they built turn-key solutions, and added new turn-key features their customers requested.

Switching from that sort of IT to a linux-based, 'we need a system architect' model doesn't happen overnight. There's organization shift, cultural shift, firing unneeded people who won't retrain, retraining people who are worth it, and hiring talent to fill gaps.

Not to mention that talent's more expensive and less easily certified (e.g. all the official MS rubber stamp programs).

Not impossible, but it's a LOT of work. With dubious chances of success.
Chicago is in the hole for nearly thirty billion dollars. They have been floating the idea of a ten billion dollar bond with the debt structured in a way which lets current politicians escape the fallout from its payment and not having to raise property taxes. The state of Illinois is not well off either with debts estimated at the low of one hundred thirty billion to two hundred fifty billion. An Illinois proposal just to fix state pensions would result in a forty four percent property tax increase for thirty years.

Chicago has a narrower group of people to draw from so besides tourist and sin taxes they have to go after any product consumed by residents of the city and that includes digital.

Why is this all happening, because there is a well hidden largess in government employee payroll and worse in their pension system. Illinois alone is estimated to have over twenty three thousand retirees pulling down one hundred thousand dollars a year or more. A lot of this is from the higher end positions in city and county governments but you can find police and fire there too.

People complain about the disparity in corporate executive level pay to employee should also take a look at the disparity between the same in state and city governments let alone the disparity in retirement to even every day workers in the state. A 100k retirement not counting full benefits is equivalent to nearly forty eight dollars an hour.

So expect more digital taxes in your future.

PS: the Chicago debt is only for pensions, they are down tens of billions more in deferred maintenance and similar debts.
The article says the indie web won’t succeed because it lacks the engineered addictivity of the regular, ‘big tobacco’ web.

In reality, it doesn’t even come to that. The indie web is, as of now, inferior to the point that no honest product comparison could make it seem an alternative. It requires you to learn concepts (like Mastodon’s federation and servers) that does not benefit you in any real way in your day-to-day use, adds additional complexity, and makes things less practical on the user end in the real world, even if in abstract it does improve the ideas underlying.

P2P is still trying to win based on the goodness of people’s hearts. That does not work - I’m saying this as someone who built and is running a P2P platform myself (Aether, https://getaether.net) so I struggle with the same thing. You have to be decentralised and a better product. The only way to make this is to play to the strengths of P2P networks.

If you try to copy a centralised service to make it P2P you will always be at a huge disadvantage, since centralised networks will be always better at running centralised systems. If you do something that’s only really possible on a P2P system though, then you can offer the centralised internet an actual alternative. I don’t think anyone does that yet. (Though for whatever it’s worth, I’m trying.)
> But you see, part of the magic of neoliberal thought is that imported workers don't qualify as an economically oppressed population. If you import laborers, pay them less than minimum wage, force them to live in substandard living conditions, and work them half to death, this is still considered "fair" (and maybe even "laudable") because conditions were bad for them back home. Their life is possibly better now, slightly. And it's more affordable than raising wages.

It's true, they're still economically oppressed. That's more or less a constant. But I'd also like to think that if they say, "I'm here because I'm less worse off" that I can take that statement at face value and provide protection for them. I am quite tired of the notion that we have to hurt people and ignore their own agency to "save" them. We often see people handwave these concerns away with talk of trafficking, which magically invokes the specter of prostitutes in chains in the trunks of cars, and then we stop talking about what people want or need and instead about how the state can "protect" them.

I am of the opinion that both longer-term structural reform and short term workarounds are not only compatible, but the only consistent position for a compassionate human.

> . Suppress moderate popular movements for long enough and you will create a radical popular movement; in today's America, this would probably be fascism.

Hence the essential role of antifa actors and free information folks.
How is it a great talk? He makes a lot of statements without backing them up at all
Because "well maintained distro" won't fix issues as soon as possible and won't make necessary changes. For example, Linux is not friendly to proprietary third-patry software, but the government might need it. Or there could be bugs.Or they might need to support local encryption standards in browsers and document editors. Or support a specific hardware device.

So the working scenario is that a Korean company creates its own distribution, adapts it to the needs of government, sells it and then maintains it for the fee. This could also have a benefit of supporting a local vendor instead of sending public funds to US.
"What’s really rare, he adds, is his annual week of paid holiday"

I may be getting it wrong as I don't live in US, but does it mean he only gets one week of holidays per year? Is there any other form of paid off time?
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Americans don't have a high ground here.

The first time I used a modern bidet was eye-opening.

It eliminates the funk. It's environmentally friendly. It's easier on the bum, if you have hemmaroids (I don't, but this is the report from friends and family that do suffer). And it just feels refreshing.

The toilet paper is only needed to sanity check cleanliness and dry out.

The American squeamishness over the bidet is irrational and overdue for a change.
Your comment is so insensitive, it is ultimately just flame bait. Do you go around castigating people for being hesitant to talk to cops, as well?

It's fine that you trust the (de facto) government. And I'm certainly not going to convince you otherwise right here. But don't casually brush off the opinions of those of us who don't.

The effective requirement to expose your permanent identity as a condition of receiving medical care is an ongoing travesty. It also is a large component of how the healthcare market is so fucked, in that it fosters extreme price discrimination.
Not necessarily. ActiveX controls are just plain old COM binaries (though some could be constructed with Visual Basic), Wine ought to be able to handle these just fine. But as with all things Wine, mileage may vary depending on app.
Would setting the appropriate aria roles help here?
Can I host it myself? I'd pay a few bucks for that.
The Liberal Embrace of War
Nope, Roosevelt Island in New York:
https://www.wired.com/2010/08/trash-sucking-island/
Performance Benchmark Analysis of Istio and Linkerd
I do this with tipping.

If the price is 22.95 I tip -22.95 and the total charge is only $0.00 ... save a ton of money!
Why do you wonder about "down votes" on a comment that basically insults people in tech on a forum primarily visited by people in tech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley

> "Download Valley is a cluster of software companies in Israel, producing and delivering adware to be installed alongside downloads of other software.[1] The primary purpose is to monetize shareware and downloads. These software items are commonly browser toolbars, adware, browser hijackers, spyware, and malware. Another group of products are download managers, possibly designed to induce or trick the user to install adware, when downloading a piece of desired software or mobile app from a certain source. "
Correct. US companies don’t have to give any paid time off. It’s as bad as it sounds.
Usually, low-skill hourly wage service jobs in the US have no paid leave, at all.

If you work N hours, you get paid for N hours.

That’s why getting one week of paid leave annually was described as rare.
Step by step guide to React form validation
That is the conspiracy theory that some are telling themselves: that this is THE reason why Munich moved away. AS IF!

Here's something more likely: Munich was ready to move back because the project was expensive to maintain, cumbersome in practice, killed productivity and was generally unpopular with the end-users, and Microsoft's new branch was just a cherry on top.
For what it's worth - the title is a bit misleading.

The tax began its life as an extension/adaptation of an existing 9% "amusement tax" on patrons of amusements (movie theaters, bowling alleys, etc) in the city. But until 2015 it only included physical businesses, not any of the new online replacements. The definition is now expanded to include online games, streaming movies, movie tickets sold online, etc.

Also, this has been in effect for a while now (e.g. my Netflix bill went up by $0.99 a year ago) and all the various online businesses have already implemented it. Not sure why the article is bubbling up now, just as the new mayor is about to take office. :)

For more history see https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2018/05/29/chi...
Basically Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). This is something people forget about. OS and app licenses are likely a drop in the ocean compared to the operating costs of supporting your infrastructure (regardless of whether it runs on Windows or Linux).

[edit: TOC -> TCO]
> I would respectfully suggest that you read the book I quoted.

I got the Kindle edition and have read up through most of Chapter 2 now. While I see the author's general point, at least regarding nuclear power, and can understand where he was coming from when he wrote it, I already see two obvious flaws looking at it today:

(1) In Chapter 2 he predicts that there will be more TMIs as more reactor years of operation accumulate. But that didn't happen. If the expectation is that we should have, say, one TMI for every 35 reactor years of operation (35 is his estimate of how many reactor years of operation there were of reactors similar to TMI-2 at the time of the incident there), we should have had 50 or more TMIs by now. So evidently there was some major factor that he overlooked in his analysis. (The obvious candidate for such a factor is that, as someone else mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the nuclear industry learned from TMI and incidents like it, and the level of understanding of how nuclear plants work and how to avoid problems became much better than he indicates in the book.)

(2) He focuses on systems in which what he calls "normal accidents" can take place--incidents that are outside the intended operation of the system, but which are unavoidable (and hence "normal") due to the tightly coupled interactions of the parts of the system and the system's complexity being too high to be fully understood. But he completely ignores systems in which the intended, normal operation of the system causes harm, which is simply ignored because it is too diffuse to attract attention. For example, in the introduction to the book he says that we could have chosen coal plants instead of nuclear plants; he seems completely oblivious to the fact that coal plants, by emitting particulates into the atmosphere, have killed orders of magnitude more people through respiratory disease than have been harmed by nuclear incidents. But coal plants emitting particulates isn't an "incident"--it's the normal operation of the plants--and people dying of respiratory disease isn't a single newsworthy incident, so it flies under his radar and he never considers it.
Pulling or cutting the pensions of retired public service workers (many of whom who risked their lives to protect the public) would, beyond the ethical questions, eliminate the credibility of the city's promises to those who sign up for such jobs and hence would likely greatly reduce the quantity and quality of recruits.
I think there is a different type of stress for a developer. When you work physical labor especially jobs like the ones you describe they can be exhausting but when you clock out that's it, your body and mind is then able to recharge and prepare for the next day. In addition, there are a limited number of variables you have to control for so the mental stress is reduced. This is not to reduce the stress on a job such as a gas line worker or someone for whom a mistake can mean disaster, but those risks are generally known, you dont really have to figure a lot of stuff out.

When working in a field such as software, you take the stress home with you, you are constantly thinking about the job and the fact that if you cant figure out this issue that yo have been working on for 7 days the project is potentially going to fail or they are going to fire you. Many nights you kiss your family good night and then while they are asleep you sit slumped at your desk just trying to get a few more hours in before you collapse for 4 hours of sleep and then get up to do it again. This is obviously not all the time but it is for the most part at some time in all software jobs.

In software and many white collar jobs the concept of work-life balance is really just an idea there is no clear delineation between work time and not work time.
>I may be getting it wrong as I don't live in US, but does it mean he only gets one week of holidays per year?

Yes, and even that is a rarity for wage workers.

>Is there any other form of paid off time?

Nope. Most hourly workers are lucky to get a few unpaid sick days. Have an accident, or get sick and need to spend a couple weeks in the hospital? Now you're unemployed and bankrupt.
But that's only half the story.

The other half is that the FAA -- which is meant to be the counterweight to those perverse incentives -- is no longer credible.

(I've made this point before [0] but it bears repeating here.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19888207