skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that there are a variety of advantages: the kite flies in cleaner air; the thrust from the kite is applied at one point, with less heeling moment than from a sail; the design of the boat is not constrained by the structural requirement of a mast

IIRC A kite powered boat called Jacobs Ladder held various sailing speed records at one point
It may seem that Slack has revealed a lot of data about the business in their S-1 filing. The reality is, they haven’t.
Chinese media say it's now “embarrassing” to use an iPhone in China
well yes, but there's more to a big plane stall. wings washout makes them stall at the root first, so that the center of lift moves backward, slightly helping overcome the engine momentum

moving the engine forward increased such momentum

large planes are finely balanced machines, it doesn't take much to get outside their flying boundaries, wether authority or loading, especially because the trim on them has buttload more authority than the elevator controlled from the yoke
Or, you can view this from another angle, that the golang authors yet again disregarded previous established work in the industry for the sake of avoiding hard work in the language and the compiler. It's no wonder the time package in golang is garbage compared to established offerings in mature languages like Java and C#.
>Do you think that immigrants don't pay taxes?

This is what puzzles me about the immigration debate. Most move here to work and better themselves and effectively pay a higher tax rate than corporations.
Our municipal power plant where I live converted from coal to natural gas recently. My understanding was the decision was based solely on the (now cancelled?) Clean Power Plan, and the inability to make the existing plant meet those regulations.

Given the instability of US politics, I'd guess most utility companies are operating under the assumption that those laws could quickly be put back in place after any given election cycle.
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Thanks, This was a super useful reply.
Time horizons are important. Buffett's capital comes from insurance float. That's very long-term capital. He can afford to buy an asset and let its cash flows pay him back.

If you're balancing an options portfolio, on the other hand, shorter time horizons matter. If the stock pays back in 10 years but crashes in one, the ten years don't matter for the holder of a 12-month call option. Thus finding symmetries becomes more relevant than fundamental analysis.
Be careful what you wish for. Look at Germany for the best example of what you are asking for. Ignore the PR and look at the data. They have increased solar capacity, but are closing natural gas and nuclear plants to build new lignite coal plants(the worst of the coal burning plants). Since their focus on solar, Germany's CO2 reductions have actually slowed!
But are you actually returning either an int or an error? You're always returning a Result type which may contain either an int or an error.
I take umbrage to his guesses being reasonable. It's obvious Gates has no idea the cost of things. He isn't even in the right ballpark on most of them, with the floss being the only thing he got. It's pretty sad in my opinion
In 2003, steampunk was really big, and this seems like a throwback to that neo-victorian terminology.
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I don’t know, I pay $500/month for my medical insurance out of pocket. Last time I checked, unemployment was also rampant. Basic necessities are quite expensive. Education is nearly free compared to everything else, that one is true (costs of living quite compensate for that, though).

Americans are quite welcome in Europe, by the way. For some reason, however, the majority of people prefers to move in other direction.
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Why would a corporation with lots of regulations they'd like changing suddenly stop lobbying for them just because they didn't pay any tax? And if lobbying for lower taxes is undesirable, surely actually giving the lowest possible tax to the lobbyists to make them go away is worse still?
In general yes, but if you say, start using your read data on your write side, then you're in for a very bad time. Likewise you are going to have some very serious timing woes if you violate your domains.

It's easy to read this and go "of course" for a small conceptual system, but in practice even really experienced engineers want to break those rules in production systems - and it's a lot easier to break those rules than fix the system to respect them.
Yup, that's another reason I love Lisp — it's been standardised since 1994, and everyone supports it (and since it's standardised and provided by the implementation, there are efficiency hacks possible which you wouldn't want in normal library code).

Lisp has been doing things newer languages still don't do since before a lot of modern programmers were even born. And there are relatively few warts for that age (upcasing and the pathname functions are the warts which leap to mind)!
The implication in the Uplift universe was that the bureaucracy and "gamification" of interspecies interactions was designed to avoid such an elimination state, but such a thing likely existed in its deep past. The thesis, as such, of the Uplift universe was generally that mutual cooperation was hard, but should win in the long run. The emphasis in the hard was that by default most societies wanted to shoot first and ask questions later even with cooperation heavily incentivized by the rules/games.
It is perfectly clear that the US is at economical war against Europe.

However, Europe is not obviously at war against the US.
> much of a safety issue with airliners

yeah because they tend to pitch down way before reaching a full wing stall, but the max pushes the partial stall deeper.
> we need better tools

Sure, and the "right tool for the right job" is still my mantra. Go is a very good at solving for an incredible amount of tasks in many problem spaces. Users will always want to bend tools to work in new places, and that's okay -- sometimes it isn't a fit.

Have some business requirements that make using Go a chore or a pain? Use a different language, or restructure the requirements.
I make everybody smile when I open Tor to watch some technical documentation. Still gave my boss a pause when I asked him if we were ever going to consider Google a competitor in any field (which we were in a niche field) and if he would be comfortable with a competitor owning the search history of all his employees.
That’s not really a security issue. It sounds like a speculation issue. Treat custodial services like a porta-potty at a shitty music festival: do your business then GTFO

For Bitcoin you should always aim to use the lowest fee possible, and use replace-by-fee (RBF) if a transaction is taking too long.
Thanks for posting that. Fable is fantastic
The original view of the golang authors was that it was made to replace C++. It obviously failed at that, and ended up being used as a faster Python.
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How many hours did you spend resolving the issue? That’s your damage.

And while you were reimbursed, the damage to the whole community was still done and just covered by an insurance fee that everyone pays on every transaction.
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Dear lord, Windows antivir protection has gone full stupid with this.

I am on Win10 and it will not allow me to install it in Program Files. If I install it in Desktop, it will keep flagging tor.exe as a virus.

After marking 4 times that the Windows Virus and Threat Protection should restore the exe, i was able to start the browser.

Then the windows antivir went full dystopian mode, and flagged it again. Now it is asking me to reboot the computer to delete tor.exe from the device.
Why was he detained and his messages checked in the first place? The immigration officer must have had some suspicion even without the text messages.
> You seem to have the idea that any act/speech which isn't literally violence must thus be trivial/acceptable/unobjectionable.

I haven't put that forth, but thank you for your concern. What I'm noting is that you're essentially decrying the labeling of some types of speech-as-violence as a tactic that according to you is being espoused by people to somehow cover the idea that they want to use speech tactics against you.

You claim this is to their benefit, but that is absurd on it's face. Why would folks ostensibly wanting to use the sharper sides of self-expression go and label their own actions as violence?

What conclusions are we supposed to draw from such an obviously wrong point?

> I can kind of sense that you're trapped in your own definitional games here. Since you've so long equated "any objectionable thing" with "violence"

Quite the opposite. I'm willing to be very flexible and contextual with the application of words because that's what words are. You might want to have this conversation with other folks in the thread suggesting with dictionary-based semantic rigidity.

> consider my example above about the pedophilia lies,

I ask you to step back and ask yourself if you're really going to commit to the general conversation here. Because the point you're jumping into is a conversation about if forms of violence besides a fist and a gun exist, with your opinion arising from within a group who denies that.

I'll give you a counter example: is the act of lawmakers to criminalize all abortion in Alabama despite the will of their electorate is clearly an act of speech. It is an act that radically reduces the freedoms and rights of it's citizens and provokes other parties into action (such as law enforcement) which may include physical violence. It seems strange to suggest that a declaration stripping you of many of your rights and property is not a violent act simply because the lawmaker themselves is a flaccid old man.

Laws are speech, and in some cultures that speech holds enormous power. Under your refusal to recognize causality, I could set up a bomb to explode outside your car when the door opens and then claim I didn't open the door. If I undertake actions that are certain to lead to physical harm towards another how am I not in some way morally responsible? How is the speech act itself not part of the violence?

It seems to me like the one hoping to split definitions to hair-fine levels via semantic games here is you.

But perhaps we'd find a more fruitful conversation in person. Perhaps we could meet for milkshakes some time and talk it out?
UC Browser is developed by Alibaba, one of China’s biggest companies. It’s easy to spot instances of stolen JavaScript because it’s injected into the page. Who knows what else they’ve stolen. This is not an open source implementation we’re talking about.

There are rumors that much of Huawei’s network stack was stolen from Cisco and Juniper through government-mandated partnerships.
Just to make sure we understand something here:

Taxation is robbery.

If you want companies and individuals to pay taxes, you're defending a state that is unethical (as taxation forces people to give away their private property through coercion), and authoritarian ("democracy" is no justification for the use of force).

If you have any supposed justification for a centralized state that enforces taxation through the use of force on its citizens, you're only denying the fact you agree with crime.

Please stop talking about companies and individuals paying more taxes. We should all be paying no taxes through coercion.
I will admit I didn't read the article, which now that I look, it's from a scientific journal. So you're right, this article doesn't apply to my statement.

Anyway, thanks for the reasoned response.
Exit nodes can track which sites are hit to a degree. CDNs make this more difficult, but it's not too hard to figure out what percentage of your traffic is Facebook. It also won't work if you're going to the Facebook onion site of course.
Without HTTPs links could be replaced and executable file downloads could be replaced with malware.
Makes it real hard to discuss career progression.
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Depends which social class and country are we talking about here its not as cut and dried as that.
Craig is almost certainly not Satoshi.
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Would that be before or after all planes are grounded and every building in the US is retrofitted or rebuilt to be more energy efficient in ten years?
I agree. My daughter loves Spirit. OTOH, she also loves Disney's Elena of Avalor, which I think is exceptionally well done. The Disney stuff targeted at older kids seems pretty horrible to me.
We have many hundreds of years of reserves, coal will certainly cease as a source of electricity before the reserves are used up.

Many of those reserves are held as assets on the books of multinational coal mining companies.

Just look at the stock prices for those companies and the rolling process of bankruptcies to see the market judgment of the value of those assets, and the demand for coal in the immediate future.
From the point of view of the Canadian healthcare system, they can't tell that apart from actually necessary care. If a doctor prescribed it, and it's a covered procedure, it is considered necessary, and a hospital will do it.

Hence, medical care is either life threatening (which will get you seen ASAP), medically necessary (which may take some time to get to, depending on the procedure), or medically unnecessary (which is not covered by the healthcare system, and your wait time will be until the heat death of the universe.)

There is no 'a doctor said that we should do this, but we think he's full of shit, so we are scheduling you X months in the future' tier of medical care in Canada. You either need it now, need it, or don't.

If the hospitals can't tell the difference between necessary and unnecessary care apart, then the study authors sure as shit can't. That's why the quantifier of 'necessary medical procedure' is a weasel word. If the procedure is covered, it is by definition, necessary.
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Sorry, I always forget the order: http://thesibyl.net
Instead of punishing yourself for not doing something, take a moment to appreciate yourself when you do something.

When I go to the gym, I used get annoyed at myself for not doing enough work. I didn't even go often enough in the first place. Now I say that any day I go is a good gym day, and I feel only good thoughts about going and exercising, and when I am not exercising I occasionally remember that if I do go I'll feel good, and that's motivating.
The top 10 contributors are active and fairly well known in the community (I recognize 5 of the names at least), of 170 members with commit bits for the project.

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/graphs/master
I believe that is right. I'd recommend Falter, it covers a lot of ground, including this piece.

https://www.amazon.com/Falter-Human-Game-Begun-Itself/dp/125...
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> The browser should act on behalf of the user and do its best to preserve privacy while reporting on ad click attribution.

I certainly have never wanted my browser to report ad click attribution.
Yes, that’s right; it is about the Stalin era, though. My personal experience with the USSR was limited to the end of 1980s, where things were much softer compared to those horrors.
I'm not so sure about that - I can't remember the last time I was in a studio that wasn't running macOS to be honest.
You can enable HSTS preload and prevent spoofing.
I'm commenting here so that the Google algorithms can identify me correctly.

HR (and my management) has completely abandoned any pretense of enforcing any sort of objective and impartial standard ... at least we now know the definition of “hate speech” that Google HR uses: anything that Google’s activists perceive as hateful.

Google, look at thyself. What are you championing? Why don't you focus on software, and let politics take care of itself.
people sniffing on what kind of static content you are consuming. think public unsecured wifis or sensitive material.
> Finally when I DO decide to start working on the task, often just as midnight hits, I feel like all the buildup and stress gives me a wave of energy to just plow through it no matter what.

This speaks to me more closely than I'd like. I've pulled off some admittedly productive all-nighters (where "productive" means that the results satisfied the recipients), but at great personal cost. For years, I've yearned to harness the mental state of procrastination-induced late nights of solitary work.
Linked legal agreement: https://www.eenews.net/assets/2019/05/21/document_ew_01.pdf
Not a good analogy to compare tire sizes for mountain biking to information security in Javascript.

You should be comparing bicycle locks.
Yes, because only the guilty ever get accused.
That's not dynamic instability.
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If you mean intrusive data structures, Rust just doesn't support them. Everyone still manages to write software in Rust just fine. (There's some early support for immovable data with `Pin`, but that's only exposed via async/await at the moment.)

Move constructors are one of the worst parts of C++ and being able to write movable, intrusive data structures is absolutely not worth the cost. If you do need one, Rust shows that it's better to sacrifice movability than introduce move constructors.

This is not uncommon -- there are some things you can do in C++ that you simply cannot do in Rust (either safely, or at all). Usually there's another, better way to achieve the same overall goals.
This is fascinating to me, because if the primary use of fossil energy at these plants is in process heating... why use electricity here at all? Seems to me like there are a variety of renewable options that could generate process heat at scale without involving the electrical grid at all.

Small-scale nuclear comes to mind first - after all, for every MW of electric a typical plant generates 2-3x that in thermal power, and removing the turbines+generators seems like a good way to lower complexity of an installation.

Solar-thermal might also be a viable option to explore in low latitudes with abundant sunshine colocated with existing oil reserves and processing plants. Even wind-powered heatpumps exist, though I doubt there is sufficient energy density for the levels of process heat needed for many refinery operations.
It doesn't get bipartisan support because Green New Deal comes mixed in with a bunch of other controversial welfare crap (universal healthcare, basic income, guaranteed jobs, free college) that makes it too hard to swallow. Thus, you can easily oppose GND even if you are not opposed to climate change policies. If we want to get serious about climate change we need to propose legislation specifically to target that and nothing else, otherwise you just add fuel to all the "fixing climate change is a wealth redistribution plot" conspiracies.
Sure, but how often do users do this in practice for any apps? I know I don't check the fingerprints for Signal or WhatsApp or iMessage on my phone.

And even if the actual binary I'm running is secure, plenty of apps that claim to provide E2E encryption don't give me any way to verify the key of the other user. How do I know that iMessage or Facebook Messenger aren't inserting their own key pairs me and the people I'm messaging?
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There are plenty of reasons even beyond privacy and MITM content changes. Supposedly HTTPS is better for SEO and also there are browser APIs[1] that only work in HTTPS context

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure...
Only for people that suffer from it.
> the entire horizontal stabilizer needs to be moved to ensure the nose is brought back down in short order

Doesn't MCAS take a long time to significantly move the stabilizer? Like tens of seconds? It's hard to square needing to decrease AoA so dramatically with the actual mechanics of MCAS.
Why? It's not like this will be permanent, a few hours probably. And many sites exist without ads. What's there to support? A few dollars a month in fees?
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Horribly inappropriate word choice aside, many many things in life require short term pain and effort for long term gain.
It seems like the biggest problem is the retreat from nuclear, not the focus on solar.
Is libsodium WASMed for the browser?

WebCrypto is pretty good, altho its API is horrid, SEA is a nice wrapper for it ( https://gun.eco/docs/SEA ).

It would be nice if Tanker exposed the cryptography operations, so it could be a more re-usable library. Is this possible?
I think the scale of the effort would be way too big. Same probably for carbon sequestration. It’s just too much.
The “hustle porn” is also quite frequently a coverup or distraction from general failure at other parts of life. Those that are super successful in perhaps their career but have no personal life, no partner, no kids, no real existence outside of their company tend to be quite boring people. These types keep promoting themselves and their “hard work” but it seems lost on them that others aren’t really all that impressed.

Those that are super impressive and truly accomplished are the ones that have successful careers but also have actual lives with families and a real life. Doing both well and not stressing out is a true accomplishment worth celebrating and promoting.
I think that gets to other people's points that if it doesn't have consequences it is isn't likely "tech debt". If you don't "owe" it to someone, and often that someone is "future you", then it isn't really tech debt, it was just a trade-off or a poor aesthetic. We have other fun names for ugly aesthetic choices that work and get the job done and aren't likely to be replaced such as "jerry-rigged" and "Rube Goldberg machine" and "duct-taped shambles".
I feel like Netlify has set the standard in this area now so I'm curious to learn what's different when I see these projects mentioned here.
This is interesting I was listening to onw of the War on the rocks podcasts and their commentary was that the commerce department has to produce in < 150 days the details of what this will mean.

Everyone seems to be jumping the gun here "working towards the president maybe"
The distinction with accelerometer data is that some platforms do not require the user to grant permission to access, as opposed to camera/microphone access.

Apparently, prior to iOS 12.2, Apple did not require the user to grant a website permission to access motion & orientation sensor data [1]. They have since introduced an off-by-default toggle to globally enable access to this sensor data. Unfortunately, it seems to be all-or-nothing - if you want to allow any site access to this data, you need to allow every site access to this data. Hopefully this is a temporary band-aid fix and Apple will introduce per-site permission a la camera/microphone/location permission prompts.

I wonder if any other data sources exist which don’t require user permission.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/04/ios-12-2-safari-motion-...
It's not illegal if they're not found guilty.

And even if they're found guilty, if punishment is .0001% (or some other laughable minuscule percentage) of their revenue, its not a punishment - it's a cost of doing business.