skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would totally LOVE the day when I can do a 500k trip with the family using electric technology

This seems to be fairly close. The Pipistrel Panthera looks quite promising, for instance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipistrel_Panthera#Specificati... "Hybrid range is 758 mi or 1,220 km; Electric range is 249 mi or 400 km"

> I do not know about you, but to me, a sustainable future simply looks and feels amazing.

I agree. Losing our technological dependence on fossil fuels is very freeing. I can imagine this resulting in a future where energy is also a lot cheaper, as there is a lot of potential for solar and nuclear power to see reductions in cost as the technologies improve and benefit from economies of scale. Conversely oil and gas become scarcer and more expensive.
You don't have to have the majority of the market to display anti-competitive behavior.
The reporting is accurate. New downloads will automatically have this protection enabled. Existing installations do not have this automatically enabled, and instead need to be manually enabled. You could have just shared the additional information without useless addendum.
The update: a quarterly look at startup trends happening outside of the valley
False. $268.65 3 months free3 + $83.87 per two years.

PIA is $84 for two years.
Mostly what I was referring to regarding the gossip/cachet (which I admittedly didn't elaborate on) was the negative buzz that still circles around Uber. Another decent sized scandal could really tank things internally, which would likely affect their workforce.
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Well, in some cases it's considered a career change and not a promotion. In which case you might not even be paid more... :)
> if you want to gain mainstream acceptance for your database product

They've been around for several years and have had millions of dollars in funding. If you're going to argue that their name is holding them back from mainstream acceptance, first you should establish that they don't already have that.
It's about giving free labor to whoever wants to use it.
If you have this page open, please beware of your battery. It's currently consuming 200% CPU whenever it has focus.
That regulation seems to be at a static thrust level right?

> 75 percent of maximum continuous power for reciprocating engines or the maximum power or thrust selected by the applicant as an operating limitation for use during climb for turbine engines; and

Wouldn't that give a stable pitch response because the thrust relative to the center of mass is constant? Also if the MCAS is always pushing the plane out of the given AoA (which seems to be what it's logic is, if AoA > x trim down until AoA < x) would that be considered outside the flight envelope anyways? The stick force curve goes screwy for every aircraft in a stall.
- There is definitely something about changing environment/traveling that is rewarding. (When mice are put into a unfamiliar environment, their hippocampus is more active and they become more active). But perhaps this need can be satisfied with much shorter distances rather than mass intercontinental flights.

- There is definitely some value to traveling, but it is greatly inflated by social pressure, the media, and the fact that most tourist destinations are cheap to westerners.

- Yeah, but some escapism is more eco-friendly than others
I meant technically speaking. Obviously the implementation or the user experience are a different matter.
I would love for Apple to create an App Store populated only with apps that did things their way, guaranteeing a certain level of security and privacy.

They could easily allow other app stores that did things the other way, surviving off capturing user details and selling it off wholesale or whatever.

Let consumers make their own choice.

It would enable Apple to get rid of a shedload of insecure , spammy apps that provide minimal benefits to users in a crowded app market.

Apple could, if managed properly, turn it into a major selling point.
>The complaint further alleges that Kik marketed the Kin tokens as an investment opportunity. Kik allegedly told investors that rising demand would drive up the value of Kin

To be fair...

Yes Kik did sell them as investments... claiming rising demand would drive up the price of Kin... which did indeed happen.

The kin tokens increased in value over 10x from the price they were sold to investors at. It didn't last, of course.

I still don't understand why they didn't get SEC approval before offering the token sale, however.

They were savvy enough not to allow Canadian investors for that very same reason... because they're a Canadian company and did not want to get mixed up in unregistered securities sales in Canada.
My Sociology teacher had us read this in class. When I told her it was about Americans, she told me I was wrong and that she had been using this as a teaching aid for over a decade.
That is a valid point. Of course the question is, how big the contributions from the random people were. Judging by the list of contributors [0] a relatively small core contributed most, but I wasn't involved at any point so this is not a reliable assessment.

[0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/graphs/contributors
Disclaimer: I am not a cookie

How much market share would either apple or Firefox need to get before google consider following the same plan
Yeah, everyone who disputes your dubious paid endorsement of TorGuard as perfect/"GOD-tier", despite undisputable evidence to the contrary like having mediocrely rated apps, is obviously shilling for their competitors.

Give me a break...
Semantics by GitHub on “Why Haskell”
I agree with this, it is good for skillsets to cross pollinate and it makes you better at both.

Another divide is development and design, those that can do that produce amazing products. You see this more in the gaming or interactive space but it makes you less biased and understanding of the problem points, and best parts of both verticals.

Specialization over generalization is why lots of large software sucks today and small companies or startups win, they employ more generalists, design/develop crossovers and full stack product focused t-shaped employees. When teams are huge, specialized and care is removed. The chaos of more communication channels (N(N-1)/2) encourages just staying in your lane rather than viewing the big picture. Small teams with generalists are where the best products are made due to everyone going beyond their lanes/channels and viewing the big picture.

I think generalization is best in startups or small groups including gaming/interactive especially with hyperfocus on a product. Making the product good in all aspects, and caring about them, from design to development, presentation to production, and especially maintenance and iterative growth. Once that is established, teams can grow and specialize, but innovation and creative growth is harder.
Because it's the one that is easier to control. and perhaps if scientists make the first step , corporates will follow
"What a weird analogy"

Not sure why you find it weird. There are a lot of hard working people out there. And very few of them ever go "from nothing to something" as you put it.
That's an excellent approach.
God send for reading afficiandos like me !
Unless I misunderstood, Sign in with Apple is a required option, not the only required way to login. Of course it remains to be seen how long other options are allowed to coexist.
Yeah, this exact experiment was already run. The user attrition stats were dire.
You think a TV is carbon neutral? Have you considered going into a medically induced coma and just staying there, even less environmental damage.
The article is discussing an exclusive-writer, exclusive-reader ring buffer. Interleaved writers is intentionally not considered.

> A common strategy to reduce the amount of coordination that needs to happen between the two threads (writer, reader) is to associate each coordination variable (pointer) with a single thread that has exclusive write access to it.
I also blogged a bit about DDNet: https://hookrace.net/blog/ddnet/
I think an interesting point to keep an eye on is recommendations with negative side effects, e.g. amazons choice for a high security lock has a terrible flaw. https://youtu.be/kJ1_P5oqf6Y
Not really. The limit is clearly defined (if you are using it as DB, there is no change). If you allow users to create schemas, then it's a different thing, but I'm guessing there is no such project.
Considering what a price tax Apple has had on internal storage, "lower cost" is a bit far-fetched.

Even the old 5400 RPM HDDs cost an arm and a leg if you bought it pre-installed into your MacBook. This was back in the days where you could unscrew the lid on your MacBook Pro with a standard screwdriver and replace the internal memory.
Tara Vancil on exploring how to be online in radical ways (2018)
You shouldn't downvote to disagree!
>This is the story of how Andrea Lattuada (PhD student at ETH Zurich) and James Munns (from Ferrous Systems) designed and implemented (two versions!) of an high-perf lock-free ring-buffer for cross-thread communication. If any of those words look scary to you, don't fret, we'll explain everything from the basics.

This is not the message I want to see introducing such a complex topic. Writing correct lock-free code is incredibly hard, and you're not going to get it right or even understand it from a single post. I've done a bit of reading on this subject, and I'm not even sure that it's possible to write a correct lock-free queue (of which this is a variant) in a non-garbage collected language without some pretty substantial trade-offs regarding memory management.
The Dutch have that figured out, too. There’s so many bicycles around that you practically have to expect them everywhere any time. More bicycles make all bicycles safer.

Intersections of car lanes and bike lines should also be designed in such a fashion that the lanes meet mostly at a right angle. Sharp turns and buffer spaces. A sharp turn slows the car traffic and the right angle at the intersecting point makes it easy to check for crossing (cycle) traffic. See for example this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA
Don't know enough about crypto, but whats the benefit of a payment system for messenger apps to run on crypto at all? If you're transacting through a centralized messaging platform doesnt that defeat the purpose of a decentralized currency or ledger?
This is true. Thanks for the motivation. I'm hoping that I can pair with someone for the 20% time to try to launch a new project and satisfy my appetite for "starting up".
Reproducible in Chrome. I have a portrait monitor set up, and it was where I default landed. That said, I think it's one of a very select set of perimeters that breaks it.

Now the "Download" at the top, he's got some explaining to do...

(Agree with your point about expert web dev. Someone who designs fonts =/ someone who designs websites. Totally different skills. Some people might do both, but assuming that would be rather bold)
You can get Dr. Collins BioMin Toothpaste in the US now and it's basically the same thing.
When I was in high school, I somehow came across her post on building an MP3 player and putting it into an Altoids tin[0]. The post was a formative experience in my life and spurred me to pursue an engineering degree!

[0] http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/index.html
To be clear: you are being downvoted because your grandparent comment specifically said "aerodynamically unstable". That's why everyone thinks it's so clear in context that your parent comment was referring to the technical, aeronautical meaning of "stable".
Troll? Nah, I'm stating a fact. You're a TorGuard affiliate, your affiliate ID is #4374 and you try to hide the fact by using bit.ly links to mask your affiliate number.
It’s not speculation, just logic. Shareholders seek as much profit as possible. The moment that being PrivAAS is worth less than not being one, they’ll switch strateg
Here is the deal though, the SEC employs administrative law judges (ALJs) who even the President cannot remove and generally are immune electoral control and accountability

The SEC also enforces gag orders on settlements to hide the proceedings and discovery from the public which only allows them to continue their abuses of the system.

A common thread among SEC settlements, also in CFTC and CTFB settlements is summed up from a recent SEC agreement

"mak[ing] any public statement denying, directly or indirectly, any allegation in the [SEC’s] complaint or creating the impression that the complaint is without factual basis"

So basically you have no recourse against government agencies whose quasi legal status pretty much makes them immune to the checks and balances as specified in courts. If you want a closer to home comparison, FISA courts operate pretty much the same way. There is no disclosure other than what the government wants you to know and they have the full resources of the US government to take you down, the common tactic is to bankrupt individuals or threaten it to get the deals they want.
New users who download Firefox for the first time will have this automatically enabled, says the exact language in the Firefox post about it.

Existing users who read Bloomberg’s phrase “new downloads” as “it’s a new download since I just downloaded it today” will be sorely disappointed.

(Yes, I am totally expecting some HN readers to read “new downloads” and then consider a download’s ctime while asking “is it a new download?” rather than realize the above.)
I downloaded it today as a new user and it did not have it enabled.
Yes, and that is precisely my point.

A previous commenter implied that there somehow native controls were technically different than Flutter controls.

Obviously the rendering stack is different but Skia is as native as Quartz is.
Since the 1970s? How did people, including children, ride bikes before then?

1950s PSA about children riding their bike like driving a car (worth watching the whole thing for nostalgia):
https://youtu.be/fDm6jiQz5BY?t=206
Furthermore, with government, there is at least some notion of accountability. Imperfect as it may be, generally speaking when people in government fuck up, they have to deal with repercussions and consequences. Furthermore, there are mechanisms such as FOIA that any citizen or organization can utilize to find out if and when those fuck ups happen, as well.

Big Tech though is basically a closed black box that has immense power and is almost totally unregulated. This leaves an incredible amount of room for abuse. Therefore, I am totally okay with a semi-competent, sometimes-benevolent entity that is accountable to the public (government) to much more tightly regulate this industry.
I have given it more thought and I think this ability to use whistles to express the language might be due to how in Turkish we have syllables that are very structured and with distinct sounds.

I tried to "whistle Turkish" and "whistle English" and noticed in English, ambiguity emerged rather quickly. But with Turkish, words weren't as ambiguous.
How competitive is the healthcare market? Would breaking up the big players or lowering the barrier to entry help with the outrageous cost of healthcare?
Dict-parser: Elm package to create a fast parser to match dictionary keys
TL;DR: “How does Amazon choose its choices? Do humans have a hand in the decisions, or are they governed by an algorithm? The company won’t say.”

...followed by theories.
I've been using OmniGraffle[1] for that purpose for the past couple of years. Very satisfied with it.

[1] - https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
I mean, transatlantic flight is #3 on that list. If however you want to target directly #1, then i hope people from africa are seeing this.
dropped you an email.
I think being a specialist vs a generalist, from the perspective of earning power, is a question of risk and reward.

There is a bias in favor of specialization for the economy as a whole. This is why specialists get paid more (engineering major vs English major), in general. However, I consider this a riskier path since specialization is more likely to lead to earlier obsolescence. Thus I would say that there is a bias in favor of being a generalist for the individual, since it keeps more options open. Being a generalist is the safer path, since you can move around more easily, and you're less likely to fall off the top of the hedonic treadmill and lose motivation.

You need to balance specialization - to maximize earnings now - with being a generalist - to maximize earnings later - according to your own risk preferences and external demand for various skills. It is possible to be safe as a specialist if you specialize in something that is in demand for your entire life (such as surgery), and it is possible to be such a generalist that your career never takes off.

That said, as in most things, I think the middle way between extremes is the best way, for the most people.
Wired internet carriers having monopolies are almost all because of local laws and agreements. The only way to bust it is to say those "rights of way" restrictions are illegal...which isn't going to happen.
The Struggles of Rejecting the Gender Binary
This isn't anything like FISA.... that is a bizarre comparison.
I agree that it's not very intuitive. That's why there's no single clear definition of "market" in antitrust laws and most of the time it's done by hypothetical monopolist test, which is a highly data-driven process. I have no idea on what will be the final decision since it's not a predictable one for the outsider; I am just giving you one real possibility rather than ruling it out from the beginning.
I estimate the odds that AWS Aurora will offer "massive scale SQL without manual shading" in the next 3 years to be >95%. Then why would anyone want to to use Cockroach? They need to differentiate on something else. Ideally something that Amazon is unwilling to do, or would find very hard to do.
Facebook doesn't control Android yet people are able to login using "Sign in with Facebook" button on Android phones.
The article stipulates there is a single reader and a single writer. The actual API enforces this constraint.

https://docs.rs/spsc-bip-buffer/0.1.1/spsc_bip_buffer/fn.bip...
Well, also some information on what happens when you change the keywords in the search.

"toothpaste" and "best toothpaste" return different results; which is interesting.

Also, it mentions that, unsurprisingly, there are external companies attempting to reverse engineer the algorithm.
That can't possibly work. How do you handle tokens, 2FA, etc?
My anecdote: I floss very very rarely and still my gum never bleeds. So it might be helpful for you, but not for me (at least not for the preventing bleeding).
The whole point of open source is that anybody can read, modify, and run the code. If you remove "anybody", it's just another proprietary license.
>the root cause of Sunday’s disruption was a configuration change that was intended for a small number of servers in a single region. The configuration was incorrectly applied to a larger number of servers across several neighboring regions

sounds like a money quote. Ability to apply config changes cross-regionally instead of incremental region by region rollout.
I think the implied point is that everyone (except microsoft) has google as a default.
> To use an extreme comparison, there's a reason the entire German army wasn't hung at Nuremberg.

An interesting alt-history fiction could be written where that was the case, I bet...
Mozilla is going even further and implementing technologies like Prio [0] to provide cryptographic guarantees of privacy for collected telemetry data.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/testing-privacy-preserving...
> "integrate the passenger cabin, the cargo hold and the fuel tanks"

"Flying Pinto".
Well.. everything starts out with good intention :)
Google Fonts has at least Gentium and Titillium.
The screen is very competitive, comparable screens in the audiovisual industry regularly go for 10,000$ or more. The screen actually looks like a bargain tbh knowing about HDR 4K screens im not even sure there’s anything in the same ballpark. And knowing Apple I expect them to have done this well - iPads were known around pro audiovisual production circles as one of the few consumer level screens where you could approve final Color correction on - because they were so Color accurate they were up there with pro screens.

In the Mac Pro I have no idea but in audiovisual again there’s a reason Macs are king - ProRes. Doesn’t matter how much thy price their pro machines, production companies around the world will gobble them up because they still own the most efficient video codec known to the industry - very fast encoding times and excellent compression.

Most movies and TV shows you watch today are still recorded in ProRes in high-level low-compression modes such as 4444 or XR.
IIRC "Communications of the ACM" isn't a scientific journal but it's not exactly light reading either.

See also, my earlier comment from a recent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19961776
> The only money they have is from an unregistered sale of securities which was only undertaken because they HAD NO MONEY.

Don't you think this would come out at trial? Sounds like the only reason they came out with an unregistered ICO was in order to generate revenue it needed to continue operating. That's a huge red flag for me if I'm an SEC investigator
Thanks—we've changed the URL to that from https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2019/tu-delft/klm-and-tu-delft-joi..., which is a corporate press release.
I've heard mixed reviews. The core of the issue is that it doesn't help you strengthen weak muscles. Better to put some kinesio tape on your back to remind you to correct your bad posture.
> reduce the amount of coordination

Interesting premise, but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

1. They have three shared variables.

2. Those three shared variables are being falsly shared in that data-structure.

struct ContiguousAsyncBuffer {
buf: *mut u8,
len: usize,
read: AtomicUsize,
write: AtomicUsize,
watermark: AtomicUsize,
}

Look at that struct, all of the atomics are inside the same 64-byte cache line!! That's the worst sharing possibility imaginable!

3. Therefore: the dumb-and-simple "Mutex / Spinlock" would actually have less sharing (share only a ONE variable: the mutex), without any false-sharing of various atomic variables.

---------

I kid you not: a "lock/unlock" queue probably performs better than the atomic thing they did here (and the atomic-thing they're doing doesn't even work correctly).
It's an aerodynamic issue with the 737 MAX: the engine cowlings themselves produce lift at a high angle of attack, and the engines are mounted farther forward than they are on other 737s.
I keep thinking Digital Signals Processing Q__Q
Giving the founder control prevents other investors from taking control of the company and doing things that are worse than what the founder would do.
> It takes hard work to go from nothing to something. People doing the hard work are not confused about what’s meaningful.

If that were true, every startup would be successful.
I'm sad that there isn't a system I can control without handing administration over to a third party. I haven't been able to convert my personal life over to full random password in a manager with full 2FA because I agonize over the fact that if my phone gets wet (Or has any sort of problem at all) I am locked out of my life with no real recourse, and if I screw something up in the third party password manager I lose my online life I've built up over 15 years
> It'd be a lot more acceptable if there was an option to show me "This is the exact telemetry payload we want to send to Mozilla."

There is! Navigage to about:telemetry in Firefox.
Google's probably already coming up with a way to do this, while privileging their own because it's "part of your Chrome login, not the ordinary web experience". Fits with their usual "hey, look, we're helping! (but also crippling the competition)" business model.
To take your anecdote in context.