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I think the fear might be that by leaving the valley there will be no way back in for them or their kids, even if the valley reforms.
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No mention of rail?

Not a solution in the US, but virtually all of Europe and Asia is connected by a dense, largely inexpensive, rail network which is increasingly being electrified. That puts the onus on the grid, but there is a trend towards lower carbon electricity so emissions should lower over time. You can walk and cycle the rest of the way.

The reason we fly is because its cheap, fast and convenient.
Name one
There is research done at a big American aircraft manufacturer which determined a limit on how far you could comfortably position passengers outboard. (I believe it was 13m). This airplane respects that limit, the outboard sections are used for cargo and fuel.

Disclaimer: I work at the same research group at the Delft University
Are you saying developers don't code in portrait mode? I personally prefer it. I have two monitors side by side, both in portrait mode. The one on the left has the IDE. It is nice being able to see so much code at once without needing to scroll. The monitor on the right has my browser on the bottom half of the screen and what other tools I need on the top half. It is much much better than having two monitors in horizontal mode (which is what I used for years).
Great, thanks!

With growing concerns related to both privacy and malicious mobile apps, maybe it would be a good idea to make at least an "about" page telling who you are and what info is collected.
You may not like how it's, but it's not fraudulent nor illegal. Similar to to sellers of alcohol, tobacco, or firearms operating legally.
Now that's a nice veggie grater. And inexpensive too!
> one can increment a single value outside the bloom filter to keep the values in the bloom filter low. Example: Instead of storing bloom filter [4,3,3,5,7,4,3,3,5], one could store it as (3)[1,0,0,2,4,1,0,0,2].

CMIIW, This only works if it's guaranteed that the reset (transition from high values to low) is propagated to all the nodes.
Which is not the case in a distributed system. Like, if a node is not reachable for a long time and every other node is reset except this one then its possible to have a state in which we can have false negatives.
That's incredible, thank you for sharing and making a quality kickstarter and apparently a quality product!

Honestly if you showed me your product in CAD or injection molded and asked if it could be useful 3D printed I would have guessed "no". You've opened my vision up!
You don't have to. People always worry about destroying nature, they don't worry so much about nature destroying them.

Let's say you were stranded in the arctic and met one of those poor polar bears. He'd rip you to pieces just for the heck of it. He's a goddamn killer with no remorse. He's not going to feel guilty.

So fuck that polar bear and the ice sheet he lives on. We don't owe him a damn thing.

We're going to grill this planet and then terraform it right back again, maybe. Or maybe we'll all die in the process. But we shouldn't feel guilty about it. Nature put us at the top of the food chain, it's going to have to deal with the consequences.
If you do "ab" in the lightest weight it seems a bit off, seems okay in the other versions though, could be a bug?
Nothing anymore.

The original URI was https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/warren...
Yep. Capitalism-induced feedback loop. That said, more people are going to pay attention to a newscast about terrorism than one about, say, how the yellow dye used in legal pads is poisonous.

If you think about it, I'm actually more likely to accidentally ingest a legal pad.
True, but we were specifically discussing aerodynamic stability and how it might affect safety, training, and regulation. The quality of the ride is a separate issue.
Cool, thanks for making this.

This is basically the Roman Simplex font used in CAD packages, and included in the Hershey fonts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts

Hershey and CAD fonts are stroke-based, so line weight and endcap style influence the appearance.

Here's a JSONized version as part of the textlines tool: https://github.com/wildsparx/textlines/blob/master/fonts.jso...

Of course CAD fonts can be used at different aspect ratios - Roman Simplex is often used at 0.85 and that may be what National Park captures.
Agreed.

If Google began to charge for their services, at least there would be a way out. If a single market telecom raised prices or change policies, there isn't any real recourse.
> With the dearth of physical evidence, an objective conclusion will likely remain out of reach. Something definitely happened, and something bad. But to the extent of grinding up the bodies of 10,000 civilians into meat patties and hosing them down the drain bad? It is likely that we will never know the answer to that.

I disagree. These events are still within living memory, so most of the actual people who were tasked with suppressing the protests and cleaning up afterwards can still theoretically be interviewed. Given the scale and brutality, at least some of them likely feel shame for participating and would testify honestly help clear their consciences (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/world/asia/china-tiananme...). Many others may have hidden diaries or other records (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/world/asia/tiananmen-squa...). These events also happened in a dense urban area, so there were many uninvolved witnesses. If the political situation allowed all these accounts to be collected and cross-checked, I think we'd know these answers.
Why the dismissive attitude about where people live?
npm passes the 1 Millionth package milestone!
Yes, if someone from the EU decided to press the issue it could cost a lot of $ - probably more than it would cost to come into compliance.

(Compliance with laws is not a "feature request")
In case your brain is thinking "wait; I thought it'd be that cool scripty typeface on the oddly-angled signage?", you might be thinking of the USDA's logotype for National Forests. Unfortunately, there isn't an available font for that exact face. Some cool specs, though, in the Forest Service's design guide: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd381002...

Section 1-18 (page 24) of the linked PDF has examples of the "National Forest", "National Monument", etc. logotype; Chapter 8 has some more signage specs.
As someone who loves being out in the wilderness, this has been fairly depressing to me. The more time I spend out there, the more I damage it. I didn't feel guilty during the winter, because I was always moving on snow, and I was generally the only one out there. But as it gets warmer and the snow melts, hoards of people from Seattle descend on the wilderness and trample it to death. And I'm one of them.
Not the op, but: it's not that every piece of regulation is great, but regulation as a whole protects society as a whole
Generalizing, you're asking the "obvious" question: "these are first-run prototypes, and short-lived, so why not mitigate the brightness in future?"

And yes, SpX has said they plan to get telescope images to determine the bright bits, and to do the right thing.

On the meta question, of why societal discussion is so far from sane... Well, there are perverse incentives... And it's not like our profession has spent the last few decades working diligently to improve discussion tooling... we've done almost nothing on it at all.
Also the first image with the quote, GLORIOUS is off between the L an O
Stability in aeronautics is the tendency for an airplane to remain in equilibrium without control inputs. A helicopter is unstable, a Cessna is very stable. Comfort is a different metric. You can have a comfortable helicopter ride even though the aircraft is unstable. Comfort is also subjective, while stability is not.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a core part of their messaging has been that they don't actually know what users are storing inside their cloud, has it not?
MCAS wasn't required for the MAX8 to fly it was required for it to maintain the common type rating with the existing 737 fleet. With training the MAX8 would have been fine to fly and pilots would have known to pitch down or decrease throttle when experiencing the engine induced pitching.
Is it relying on TF-IDF or BM25?
Doesn't everyone publicly look forward to proving their case in court when the inevitable legal battle is obvious?

Not many folks say "Oh man I don't want the SEC to sue me, I'm gonna get creamed in court!"
Augur
While I appreciate all the terminal personalization/customization available out there, I generally just stick to vanilla bash as I regularly have to ssh out to remote servers where I'll just lose my setup. I wish there were some kind of shell "translation" system not dependent on installing a bunch of stuff on the remote server.
ETH was specifically called out by one of the SEC guidance letters as something that was a security at the time of its issuance but is no longer a security because material facts pertinent to the Howey Test have changed (notably, they delivered on the product, ETH now has significant use-value apart from speculative purposes, and development & decision-making are decentralized).

That something could move from "security" to "not a security" in 3 years while preserving the ownership interests of stakeholders should probably tell you that crypto is something new, though, and that existing legal frameworks don't properly capture how it behaves.
nacirema should be mandatory school reading
In case anyone else wondered why an A380 would include religious symbolism: in North American English, a crèche is a Christmas nativity scene with baby Jesus, while in British English, a crèche is a nursery/daycare. The latter makes much more sense on a plane.
And helicopters are aerodynamically unstable as well.
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When I lived there we called Gristedes "Grosstedes" and Gourmet Garage "Greedy Garage"... 125th street Fairway made up for it but it was Hell getting through there ...
Show HN: Emetti is a newsfeed on your website
In one sentence: It's not as much of a threat to traditional media, therefore we don't hear about it as much.
Protecting our energy infrastructure from cyberattack
Hmm I was wondering if that was the case nowadays.

Honestly I don't think the extra step is worth it since the VPS will still know your origin IP in the event of a subpoena anyway.

You could try https://privacy.com but ironically I doubt it'll help much in terms of privacy. (I use privacy for
convenience, as it essentially mitigates your card numbers being leaked - they're locked to the vender and you can impose spending limits)

Unfortunately I doubt there's many people who want 100% privacy that you'd want as customers if you're a VPS provider. I know Vultr accepts crypto but you have to prove your identity first (still great if you're a crypto advocate as privacy isn't the only benefit).

Otherwise you're stuck with resellers and grey-market providers. You could try "bulletproof" hosts from various uh-greyhat-forums but trusting those is very mehhhhh.
This is a very narrow analysis that fails to account for any metric beyond the financial regulatory system, so I'm not surprised that it has led you to a strange and irrelevant conclusion.

The metric to apply here is a moral one, and that's the one where Zuckerberg both fails to justify himself and fails to rise to minimum expectations of duty and obligation. It's also the metric that most people are applying in this situation.
Not really, though -- it was empirical, and the fact that an estimate of the first halving does X doesn't imply that further halving will have the same effect, so a reductio doesn't work here.
It's more about size and stability.

I can have a 100TB volume for under $10,000 that multiple editors can R/W to over 10GbE. We probably average about 400-600mb/s to a client on a simple setup in real world situations, which is fast enough for a few editors to work on multiple streams depending on the server. It's easier to backup/archive from an IT standpoint.

Most people working solo don't need to access hundreds of TBs though. They're fine with local or thunderbolt attached storage devices.
One is the key aspects of ICO pumping was reputation building. So, launching a currency by leveraging a trusted or recognizable name lends credibility to the extent unsophisticated people might buy and assume “they know what they’re doing.”
Fans of this may enjoy "Industry and Sexual Repression in a Po Valley Society", in Umberto Eco's Misreadings.
> Google had people literally begging them to put Fiber in but backed off because they couldn't make (enough) money.

Was that the reason, or was it because the other telecom companies were lobbying to keep Google from accessing rights of way and expanding to other cities. (One failed example:[0])

In many jurisdictions, the cable and telecom companies are attempting to make it illegal for municipalities to install their own government-run internet because they really don't want to compete. It's ridiculous. [1]

Had Google been allowed to compete like in other industries, they probably would have crushed the telecom companies. But they weren't allowed to.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber#Reactions
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/another-state-la...
Eth was a security was it stopped being a security before SEC took action, so there's nothing for SEC to do.now.
Youtube is fully of spammy auto-generated videos reading press releases and other nonsense.
Flowlingo dev here: Thanks for the suggestion - all this info is linked from app store pages (I'm guessing this is where the person above found it). Having a separate about page on the website is a great idea as well, we'll add that.
Most weight savings come from the bending relief due to the distribution of the load over the wing span instead of concentrating it all at the wing root (which is the case for a conventional design).
The engine placement in the image looks like if one engine has a catastrophic failure it might take out the other engine.

Engines have taken out hydraulic control lines in the past.
Wait, walking outside is a sin now
"Not only did Berkshire bite, sinking $340 million alone, but so did insurer Progressive Corp."

"The company was supposed to use the money to build mobile generators, which supply power at sporting events and other outdoor venues. But evidence suggested DC Solar “engaged in nearly no legitimate business,” the government said."

This is uncharacteristic slip of Berkshire Hathaway, isn't it?
I am surprised.

Can anyone recall when (if) Berkshire Hathaway invested in a Ponzi scheme before this?
> RC flying wings are regularly flown by humans without any software in between the input and control surfaces.

Technically this is definitely not true. Any modern RC wing will use software to do elevon mixing and get elevator/aileron input into the actual mechanical surfaces. It's possible to do this mechanically but software is so much simpler it's a no brainer to just have a servo per surface and do everything else in software.

It may be true in the spirit of this discussion in the sense that most RC wings just do fixed software mappings between inputs and outputs instead of having an on-board computer taking into account attitude/airspeed/etc and adjusting the inputs based on this. That's what's actually needed for aerodynamically unstable aircraft and RC wings generally don't need that, although similar kinds of hardware do exist in the RC world and are used sometimes.
Interesting - I assumed creche was an American term and widely understood. In the UK I've never heard it used much (we typically use "nursery" but I opted for creche based on the assumption that most readers are not UK-natives)
The quality of AT&T's service is going to vary depending on where you are.

I have a gigabit connection from them that I pay $60 / month for (they lowered the price when I tried to leave). It's the fastest internet connection I've ever had.
Ethereum. Also: Stellar.

Or anything where money is raised for a non-profit organization. Preferably as donations. More transparent this organization the better. Non-profit nature is very good in guarding against my expectation of profit by the work of an issuer.
This whole drama (not of the highest quality) should be a big warning for all those naive people (trying hard not to call names) who seem to not completely understand the HUGE trust threats that _all_ VPN services entail.
VPN services are black boxes.
You have absolutely no idea what they doing in their black boxes despite all their claims.
A nice post that sums everything up: https://schub.io/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.h...
I'm more disappointed that "regulating telecom" apparently means Net Neutrality these days. In the United States, the telecom industry engages in quite a bit of anticompetitive practices, specifically MSOs (multiple system operators) like Comcast and Spectrum.

They frequently have agreements to be the only registered cable operator for a given geographic region. They frequently become the only provider for a given apartment complex or multi-tenant location. We're not allowed a la carte programming due to bundles of channels these companies have a large stake in because of distribution rights. Rates have been outpacing cost-of-living and previous profit margins year-over-year since the 90s. Consumer broadband internet is still slower than most other developed nations, and we pay more for it at all pricing tiers. The only time I remember seeing speeds increase while rates dropped were when Google started building out fiber, and that only happened in a couple microcosms.

I think there's a serious need for trustbusting, but the tech industry at large doesn't seem to be a good target yet.
I'm just curious, do you own/work for a company with a bunch of ip addresses? Or did you buy them for a homelab?

Also, is there an "affordable" way to own an IP?
The same Kik from the 2016 left-pad debacle on npm?
It's hyperbole, but its partly true. I live in greece and see those tourists. We live in a tourist bubble, fueled by social media, airbnb and pretty instagram pictures. Tourists are overreporting the value of their experience, as in most cases i know they are getting a prepackaged experience, which is same for everyone, in a beautiful environment but really not always meaningful. Local cultures are diluted everywhere, and when they are preserved in touristy places it's artificial. Tourism nowadays is largely escapism, not much different from VR or gaming. I wish people started actually moving to other places instead of just visiting. A mass emigration to more temperate climates would also reduce heating costs massively.
That's not the relationship. ICOs are scams, and they violate SEC rules, but there are so many because SEC had not enforced rules until recently.
By "OTP-like" library, do you mean basically supervision trees and things like that? I think one of the issues Pykka (not sure about Thespian) would run into is that they're using python threads as one of the backends, and I can't see how you could implement this safely on top of that.
It is Apache 2 and thats the only version we will deploy, there isn't a Proprietary version that planetscale will use in the background. This isn't a fork or even a re-licensed version of Vitess. Everything we develop goes into the Apache 2 OSS project
The problem I see though is that "drive an electric car" is interpreted all too often as "buy an electric car, and now that you're 'green', do not worry yourself about the fact that you change cars every two years and the footprint of your gas consumption is dwarfed by the footprint of actually making the cars pat self in back".
They didn't mention storage expansion. This was a big red flag. While 250gb is fine for an OS drive, should I ever want to upgrade, what is the catch?
Tangentially related: there are quite a lot of good quality free software fonts out there. Some — like this typeface — are suited for display purposes, signage, and lettering. Others offer a full family of weights for typesetting body text.

I have my own shortlist of long-time favourites. To name but a few: Gentium Book Basic is a delight to read in print; Titillium adds a nice touch to technical drawings; Hack traces its monospaced code font lineage back to Bitstream Vera (through DejaVu Sans Mono), which back then kicked off a whole new period of free software desktop look-and-feel.

But I've never really found a site that collects these free software licensed fonts with curated reviews and use-cases. Sites like FontSquirrel offer a rough index, but contain no easy way to filter on more complex queries, and don't really show each typeface's strengths and weaknesses.

Does such a site or community exist?
If changing the product is evidence of competition, then Google Search and Android must have some, since they are continuously being worked on and new versions released.
... for left-pad!
> A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck

Your entire argument seems to be more people = more progress. And longer lives of brilliant people = more progress. What about longer lives of those stuck in their ways or those who want to keep status quo?

And more people != more progress.
1. Billions of uneducated poor.
2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery where several scientists or inventors simultaneously make a break through.

You’re also making an abstract “progress” as the ultimate goal. But what type of progress? Creativity? Technology? What about happiness? Or sustainability?
Curious - who are are the possible "third party forensics firms" that would investigate this?
Airbus and Boeing have been flying fully fly-by-wire airliners for decades. It works just fine.
I thought the same ... I think it actually is the same.
> I'm all for that once someone comes up with a rigorous, apolitical calculation for what that value is.

Would you agree that the longer we wait, the higher that number will be (Because we will need more drastic reductions, faster)?

> apolitical calculation

Economics is, by nature, political. If we're waiting for that criteria to be met, we are going to be waiting forever.
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