skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are faster air-breathing aircraft (e.g. [0]), but none of them are manned because with modern technology there's no need to put a person in them, and the people funding these developments aren't interested in spending lots of money just to chase records.

There's also the outside possibility that faster manned aircraft exist, but remain classified [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51_Waverider
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)
in the East Dallas Texas neighborhoods on major roads i would guess a little under a 1/4 mile. Probably a 5-10 min walk between them.
I have to agree. Those companies operate as if they're untouchable. Nothing will improve with them unless they actually feel the cold winds of risk.
Updating pinned dependencies is a form of paying down tech debt. You want to do it as quickly as you can afford to, but not mandate doing it robotically. If a new python version comes out, great, but mitigating a site outage is not the right time to try it.
-Wholly uneducated guess: many of the tasks handled by the SR-71 is adequately handled by satellites today.

Additionally, if someone had indeed broken the record in some black project or the other, chances are they would keep mum about it rather than calling Guinness Book of Records.
These are features for a desktop computer, not for a mobile phone. That's why they were not priorized/implemented.
This is what you are looking for: http://www.onceagreenberet.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/sr...
> translates to "Red Dream"

Wikipedia adds some meaning, but I don't know if this is what Huawei intends: HongMeng is a character in the Daoist text Zhuangzi and a metaphor for the "primordial world, primeval chaos" in Chinese creation myths. Like many Zhuangist names, Hong Meng is a word play, translated as "Mists-of-Chaos", "Vast Obscurity", "Big Concealment", "Vital Principle", "Natural Energy" and "Big Goose Dummy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Meng
Why Disney+ Freaks Me Out About the Future of Streaming
> Google and Microsoft also announced that they support a Canadian initiative to protect the integrity of the election this fall — including removing hoax accounts and fake content.

Yes! Now let's get all the other media companies onboard!
The Impeccably Understated Modernism of I.M. Pei
Man, 5 megaton tnt is like ~25 exajoules.

Thermal energy of 100 tons of 2000C uranium is like 0.25 terajoules...

Somebody missed at least 5 zeroes

And it was later found that only few percents of the fuel melted, so very likely 7 zeroes...

And given that it is not possible for anywhere close to 10% of thermal energy of such huge, solid body to go into steam flash, add 2 more zeros.
> `foo.bar.qux.qaz.await!()` would need to expand to `await { foo.bar.qux.qaz }`

Interesting point, thank you. I hadn't seen this previously mentioned, and it's definitely a reasonable argument.

> there's no denying that `foo.await?.bar` appears nicer than `foo.await!()?.bar`, especially if there is no guarantee that postfix macros will ever become a thing.

Agreed, for sure. I'm honestly just very concerned about these features because I see them as stepping stones to others. The path from postfix macros seems much brigher than the path from postfix keywords.

I think I agree with you about an await block being a good idea.

Thanks for the response, I think this is the first meaningful response to the prefix await + postfix macro that I've read.
Compatibilism is not libertarian free will, which is what most people mean by "free will".

I've seen quite similar concepts to the ones you mention re: Kant, Mill, Descartes, etc in different Platonic dialogues. So, they are maybe micro innovative, but not in a big picture sense.

By "intelligent design" I mean Socrates began his quest looking for a philosopher that could explain the world in terms of 'why' orchestrated by an overarching mind, instead of 'how'. From Phaedo,

"One day I heard someone reading, as he said, from a book of Anaxagoras, and saying that it is Mind that directs and is the cause of everything. I was delighted with this cause and it seemed to me good, in a way, that Mind should be the cause of all. I thought that if this were so, the directing Mind would direct everything and arrange each thing in the way that was best."

Socrates goes on to find out Anaxagoras is blowing smoke, and in general is displeased with the scientism of his day, where everyone explains the world in terms of 'how' instead of 'why'. So, he then goes about questioning all the contemporary philosophers to see if any are able to articulate the kind of explanation he's looking for, and for the most part (except for Diotima) they are unable to give a satisfactory explanation.
Here is a good blog post that goes through all the various options for legal structures for starting a business

https://www.toptal.com/finance/interim-cfos/c-corp-vs-s-corp
But if there is a kill switch in so many cheap devices then wouldn't someone would have found it by now? It's not like people aren't looking. It's not like these devices are super secure.

Perhaps the higher end, non-consumer facing, equipment might have it. But for the cheap tp-link devices I highly doubt it.
If I remember correctly Angular comes with unpinned dependencies.
Would this really save much efficiency versus the much less disruptive option of taking the trains out of commission (for the evening/morning/etc) when they get to the end of their route?
This has surprised me on occasion. Shouldn't the compiler be smart enough to figure out how long to keep it around for, instead of failing to compile?
Stockholm: Distances vary between different line types, e.g. the backbones lines 1..4 are a different type of backbone transit offering shorter travel times by having longer distances between stops (.5-1km) and shorter invervals between buses. Regular inner city buses have shorter distances.

The free API is fantastic. I'd be willing to bet it's the most comprehensive public API for city public transport in the world (Happy to be proven wrong though!).

As an example
This API endpoint is for stops and lines.
https://www.trafiklab.se/api/sl-hallplatser-och-linjer-2
What kinds of carveouts are you proposing? Should small companies be allowed to abuse personal data however they want?
That's one small exception to one small part of the compliance burden, though.

Small businesses are still, for example, subject to abusive SARs of the kind used for illustration here. They're still required to write documentation like privacy policies according to the new standards. And unlike large organisations, where there is the 4% cap on fines, a small organisation faces an existential threat if regulators decide to impose heavy fines, which they have considerable powers to do.
Google employees in these threads: quit Hanlon razoring your own company. Google has done this repeatedly with Microsoft, from blocking Maps and YouTube on Windows Phone to this. The blocking is always specific and based on badlisting Microsoft version strings, and demonstrably has not affected Firefox (even ESR versions!), Safari, etc.

I've posted elsewhere in this topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033057) a way you can test this yourselves. They're badlisting Chromium based Edge, not, as so many seem to assume, using a goodlist of browsers they tested.

I'm sure it's difficult to imagine the "Don't Be Evil" company doing malicious, anti-competitive things, but that's what's happening here, as it's happened many times before. Punishing and deterring Microsoft Edge users is a thing that someone at Google made a conscious decision about. Test it yourselves.
Same-origin policy is not a security model. It's a ridiculous quarter century old hack. If you pause to think about it, domain names are a horrible way to delineate security boundaries on the web.
Um, what? It's CSS Grid [1]. It's separate from Flexbox.

[1]: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
Just to throw my one cent in on these matters.

http://www.avialogs.com/index.php/en/aircraft/usa/northameri...
Lots of companies do this (SV and others), if it makes good business sense for them to do so why do we care?
CVE-2019-0708: A Comprehensive Analysis of a Remote Desktop Services Vuln
The model seems incorrect:

1) It misses pricing. If I am next to another gas station or hot dog stand, I have competitive pressure; my best strategy is to price just below the competitor. If I am isolated, I can jack up prices by however much people are willing to spend to not go further.

2) It also assumes just two players on a beach. With more players and a longer beach, you end up with everyone spread out. With three players, the two outer players will continue to move in towards the center player. If the center player ever has less than 1/4 of the beach, they'll want to move to just outside one of the other two players, who will then want to move to the center.
The original quote said "a laser shot toward the horizon will eventually hit the Earth’s curves."

No, on a sphere a laser shot towards the horizon will not hit the Earth's "curves."

Shooting towards the horizon is by definition shooting tangentially to the surface you are on. The horizon is the point where the sky meets the land or sea. If you make a straight line from your laser to the horizon, it will continue out into space.

Your explanation of what they meant makes sense: a laser shot towards a distant target, not towards the horizon. But that's not what they said. And, obviously, I did not actually think the fault was the engineers' but the journalist's explanation.
Sometimes you can store the random seed so you get the best of both worlds. Not with crypto though.
It seems people want to eat their cake and have it too.

Close down FB. Why? Because they provide a platform to all ideas, noble, vile and in between. But we want to democratize the internet and give people a voice (but only those voices we at the moment approve of). But big media wants preeminence and don’t want to be usurped by diffused news sources. Who’ll establish lockstep narratives?

FB should become a platform. I don’t see it working as an impartial moderator of what’s right. I don’t see it working ala Wikipedia federation. The only way I see it working is devolving moderation to groups similar to Reddit or Flickr. Also have basic enforcement of local national laws (depending where the group is from) so if you’re from Russia but venture into s US group, don’t complain and vice versa.
I'd rather have a sane API.

def configure_ring():
if DEBUG:
return Ring(backend='debug')
else:
return Ring(backend='memcache', ...)

ring = configure_ring()

@ring.cache(expire=60)
def get_url(...):
...

Tons of other libraries out there that implement this exact pattern.
I highly recommend this book as well.

One of my favorite parts talks about how the word "apprentice" comes from the same root as "apprehend", etymologically "to grasp with the hand".

Evolution has endowed us with mirror neurons -- a function of the brain that mimics what others must think/feel as you watch them perform some task. For a long time in human history, apprenticeships largely consisted of watching and imitating the master, with very little to no verbal instruction.

Watching a master at work can get you on the right track extremely fast since you don't spend as much time exploring inefficient paths or dead-ends, bumping into obstacles, and misusing tools.

Greene tours the apprenticeships and anecdotes of timeless masters throughout history and modern times. He can help you discover your natural inclinations, and navigate the power dynamics that govern your path to mastery.
> The Subway spends billions of dollars a year on power. Most of that power (for trains) is spent accelerating so every stop counts.

The entire MTA spends less than $500 million on electricity annually (which includes the subway, Long Island Railroad and MetroNorth commuter rail) of a roughly $17 billion dollar budget.

Additionally, the 4.5 million people who use the 28th Street stop on the 1 line and the 6.7 million people who use the 28th Street on the 6 line and the 3.3 million people who use the 28th Street stop on the R/W lines politely disagree with you.
Toast: Containerize your development environment tool in Rust
>Cache is a popular concept widely spread on the broad range of computer science but its interface is not well developed yet.

This sentence is grammatically incorrect. Replace "Cache" with Caching".
It looks like the links you posted are broken because the site owner doesn’t allow hotlinking to those images.

Could you post the link to the blog post with those images? I’d absolutely love to see them!
It's also assuming they would do something untoward with the monopoly, rather than just building a thousand new power plants and then making ten trillion dollars by being the lowest cost provider of zero carbon power generation for twenty years.
Is there primary literature? I know steroids can damage your fertility, but 90% of users become infertile? That seems really unbelievable to me.

The article makes it sound purely anecdotal
Unless you are the incumbent banking on it like Big Media with the DMCA. The amount of fake / mass DMCA Takedowns that happen on YouTube on a daily basis is astounding.
Canada’s Syrup Cartel Challenged by Vermont’s ‘Maple on Steroids’
Yeah, seriously, having been in the nightmare that is trying to rollback on systems not designed for it, it is my number one (background) priority to get systems to a place where rolling forward isn't the only answer for trying to rollback. I tell you virtualization really made my life easier, being able to at least take a snapshot prior to major upgrades was a game changer. After that, finally getting chef to the point where we could rebuild production in a mostly repeatable way (dependency chains can only be tamed so far without increasing infrastructure costs) really made dev work easier. Using chef kitchen to trivial build a new VM to know that you're close to production really helped reduce dev time by a lot (even if it seemed like the chef recipes would break in subtle ways every month or so). I've been watching Docker for years now, and am hoping it's hit the tipping point where the benefits outweigh the added complexity. I suspect my next gig that's lacking reproducibility I'll start with docker rather than chef and see how far that takes me.
We still have no idea what the Intel ME microcode is, present on almost every pc manufactured. I think it is very possible, plausable, or even likely.
Although Westminster Hall is on the estate and is part of the palace in terms of tours and so on, it isn't the part they want to refurbish.

It's too vast to be useful for much, but it does illustrate that the columns and so on in most buildings you do use are not actually obligatory (it doesn't have any). It's a bit like those huge buildings for building space rockets and jet liners, except built hundreds of years before the people who invented those were even born.
It's funny. That's it. People just find it funny.
I live in Europe so I expect the state to look after me in old age, when I'm ill, unemployed, etc. I'm not sure its such a leap to extend that further. Now I'm not sure if in the current political climate its the most likely, but certainly possible.

To answer your point 2. Solar and wind should keep us going for a few millenia?
I don’t know. I was running it before 95 and never had NT. There may have been some random libraries like WinG and WinSock to install, but the lack of install libraries isn’t really an end user wowing feature.
Chinese is in a much different place economically than the Soviet Union was.
Beautifully Crafted Sound Bath Sets (Singing Bowls)
Facebook Use Eroding in US
> I've told the important people in my life that if they want to message me, they will need do it through Signal. It takes 2 minutes to set up, I show them how, and tell them that I won't reply to any SMS.

I've done the opposite: there's no way I'm going to install a messaging app, and everyone I care to interact with knows they need to either use SMS or email to reach me. Everyone's been perfectly fine with that.
You’re still missing what’s been stated elsewhere in the thread: that OpenBSD’s review process is VCS‐agnostic, that the project officially mirrors to GitHub, and that many developers and external contributors use the Git mirror for their work (just look on the tech@ list for how many mails have “diff --git” in the patch).

Myself, I’m crazy about local branches and rebase -i. But it’s no skin off my back if the final command I run winds up being “cvs ci”.
I don't. The article wants to make college hard for the sake of it in order to make some barrier that only the "truly intellectual" can meet.

I proposed two different paths with different focus areas.

Bachelors absolutely do not equate to a HS diploma because it depends largely on where you go. My HS school was a standard, public school that only taught the basic subjects. There was no programming course, computation theory course, discrete math course, web development course, compiler course, etc.

So in your system, it will only take a few years before it will require everyone to go to school for a masters to even get a job. This system is broken.

This is assuming your premise holds and it really doesn't. There's companies that still do non-web work to this day and still survive perfectly well.
Might have been a C17A/21/26 instead of a C130. I’ll dig tonight to find it.
I haven't worked at Google, but I have worked at Facebook, and I can say with some confidence that in this respect Facebook is Google too :)

For sure there are tradeoffs for big projects that don't make sense for small ones. But there are also times where big projects need a tool that's "just better" than what small projects need, and once that tool has been built it can make sense for everyone to use it. I think good, strong, convenient version pinning is an example of the latter, when the tools are available. That was the inspiration for the peru tool (https://github.com/buildinspace/peru).
So it goes with many homeless and mentally ill. Quite a reminder that our very sanity depends on the kindness and support of the people around us.
I think the definition has evolved. Since usually the DB is reset between tests (and such reset is snappy), it's transparent enough to appear as unit testing. That we do this in a buggy manner or do not understand how to properly reset the DB does not negate that fact in my opinion. You could mock it or inject it, therefore doing unit testing in the traditional sense, but again you could introduce even nastier bugs and a whole lot of indirection overhead.
Landing on top of a dense forest is surprisingly survivable. It is actually more so than landing on top of suburbia
When you add "at all" to "Uninsured will not pay" it implies that they are refusing to do so.
Man hospitalized for hypertension: drank homemade licorice root tea for 2 weeks
Wow, that's hilariously silly.
> Look at all the praise for capitalism despite the fact it has destroyed the planet.

Please, oh please, show me a system that has increased the quality of life for more people than "capitalism" has.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't conserve- we should- I do- but there are limits, and things take time. If humanity had never built fires because they pollute, we wouldn't be here today. If coal had been prohibited, people would probably still be burning trees as the main source of their energy.
Setting up an asymmetrical encryption channel can be hard (and expensive). But once it's set up it moves to a cheaper faster symmetrical encryption which rotates the keys. There are dedicated chips for this encryption that it barely takes any processing power at all.

Also note that would be the backbone encryption channels, but inside those people would be using https which is encryption further up the networking stack.

It's encrypted turtles all the way down.
> The problem was that bubbles need to be perfectly symmetrical for sufficient collapse power and that is only possible in zero gravity.

Then wouldn't that work to power a spacecraft?
Natto is awesome too! I am sure any aversion to it is purely psychological, it’s delicious!
>FROM node:11

Node follows semver and rarely has breaking changes within major versions, so this makes sense to do. The article recommends pinning a minor version of Python because it doesn't follow semver and sometimes has breaking changes within minor versions.
Tonic water made with actual quinine rather than the synthetic stuff is great. It seems preferable to the pills, though I suspect you’d have to drink a lot.

Edit: The WHO suggest treating severe drug resistant malaria with 500mg of quinine orally every 8 hours. A 1 litre bottle of tonic water should not contain more than 83mg according to the FDA.
Drinking 6 litres every 8 hours is a bit much.
https://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Jh2922e/2.5.2.html#Jh...

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_water
The "don't build your own" advice has a more specific piece of wisdom embedded.

When you build and use a non-trivial piece of software, you also create a large body of non-trivial design and reliability issues, which will take you many iterations and possibly rewrites to get right. Mature software has generally had time to address those issues, and what isn't addressed is better understood by the users and implementors.

When you roll you own, you have to ask: compared to the thing I'm replacing, do I understand the problem domain well enough to anticipate the issues?
A narrative in which any punishment leveled at Facebook is construed as an assault on free speech and civil liberty is _very_ convenient for Facebook.

Fining an automotive company that makes unsafe cars is not attacking personal freedom of movement. Fining hospitals that are unsanitary is not attacking your reproductive rights. Shutting down a bank that commits fraud is not an attack on free enterprise.

Facebook isn't a pillar of democracy; it's a for-profit business that inserts itself as a middle-man in human communication.
> (a 2 minute commitment?)

Installing an app is more than a 2 minute commitment. You also have to be OK with that app running on your device.
"Most of the articles I've read suggest no proven link between taking vitamin supplements and longevity, disease prevention or just better overall health (even popular ones such as Vitamin D)"

Regarding vitamin D: In the UK, official advice from a national health body ('Public Health England') is for adults and children over the age of one to take a daily supplement containing 10mcg of vitamin D, particularly during autumn and winter.

This is based on a review of the scientific literature on the subject. Here is a summary of the guidelines on vitamin D (from 2016). The article below includes a link to the full report and review of the scientific evidence.

https://www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/the-new-guidelines-on-...

One thing to keep in mind is that these guidelines are based on the climate of the UK (we don't get year-round sunshine). If you live in a country with a mostly sunny clime, the guidelines may be less relevant.

Also, this was recently reported in The Guardian:

Top UK scientist urges people to take vitamin D supplements

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/26/top-uk-scien...
You can perform the verification after having obtained the dirfd. E.g. by doing a reverse lookup through procfs to see where it actually points. Or by walking the .., making sure you never leave the container root.

It'll certainly be easier to get right with the newly proposed syscalls. But you can also get it right with the current ones.

> O_PATH is a Linux Kernel 4.x thing; can't find it in POSIX.

I don't think that is relevant to docker which relies on many linux-specific APIs anyway.
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