skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely true. In a flying wing there is constant flap adjustment needed to counter balance a CG (center gravity) offset. The amount of counter drag is higher than a narrow winged tailplane. Obtaining a correct CG is therefore also more crucial. With variations in passengers and other load this will be a challenge.
> The article is substantially more sensational than the IAU letter is is based on

The article uses simpler language, but doesn't seem more sensationalist.

> The satellites are hard to spot already

I'm not exactly an amateur astronomer, but I do get my telescope out every couple of weeks. If I'm out not too long after sunset, I'll typically spot two or three satellites without trying, so I can imagine "real" astronomers are concerned.

Tangentially, some times it's fun to track satellites on purpose. Some people use fast tracking mounts to photograph them.
Just tried it out. Seems like a nice idea and can see how it might be useful.

However, for the Android version in Chinese, it's very difficult to get the translations of the words - it defaults to translating entire lines. Also, when you try and adjust the amount that is being selected, if it hasn't finished reading out the whole line, you get two chunks being read simultaneously.
>If they have to give it back, will they have to take on even more funding from a VC at even worse terms? ...

I think they are far more worried about being referred at this point. Who cares if you have try to pay back ICO investors? As long as you can stay out of prison, any terms are good terms. I suspect a good many people at Kik will be losing property they own, because this will definitely pierce the veil so to speak. But at times like this, only losing personal cash and property is a win in my book.
A counterpoint to that is that Bing's quality or accessability is not effected in any way by Google. Microsoft made a shitty search engine no one wants to use. Everyone CAN use it, so it is a viable option. Just like Le Bernardin is a viable option to McDonalds. (ignore the price difference, as it is immaterial to this discussion)
If you have time and are so inclined, would you mind sharing more of your experiences running that site? I may not be the only one interested in a little behind-the-scenes peak at how such an interesting part of internet history.
Used it a bunch and I'll add this to the Google products which they cancelled on me. I'm getting tired of this...

I've been slowly moving off of anything Google.
Are there legitimate uses for Kik past NSFW uses? I only ask because that is the only context in which I've ever seen Kik used. I didn't know if it was popular in other places (not the USA) for SFW purposes.
The ISS isn't in a particularly good orbit because it's highly inclined (so Russia could easily launch to it) which is an expensive issue to fix dV wise unless all the target satellites are in a similarly inclined orbit. In terms of making them easy to swap out that's certainly possible but it will add weight compared to a monolithic satellite and so far we have very very little experience building and repairing things in space without using people.
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Fair point, but I stand by my statement that it is unhelpful to single out one party. It is the personal and collective responsibility of each person involved.
> That's the problem. When passengers are seated too far from the axis of rotation they're in for a nausea inducing ride.

What if the seats far from the axis of rotation faced sideways instead of forward? People don't seem to be as affected by pitch changes as they are by roll changes, probably because we are get a lot of exposure to pitch changes whenever we drive in a hilly area.
I’ve found that it is best to specialize early in your career but at some point you’re going to hit a ceiling and then it’s better to be a generalist for more architectural and leadership roles - even if you want to stay hands on. It really helps in consulting (true consulting not staff augmentation) to be a generalist.
This is absolutely the truth. This blog post is an exercise in hypocrisy.

Mozilla does a lot of good things for privacy, but HN needs to see past their blind loyalty to Mozilla and criticize them where necessary.
Eth and BTc are quite different and Eth is absolutely a security.

Eth meets the Howey test. BTc arguably does not due to its manner of distribution and initiation.
> The idea that priors are somehow ruining an "objective" model is just absurd to me.

I think some caution can be justified to a certain extent (not the blind "emotional" objections). When establishing priors in a low data regime, one must necessarily be careful. It's a knob whose mass can change a lot in the inference conclusion. That said, if we trust our belief about the region the available data do not inform us well of, why not utilize our domain knowledge/belief?
Apple is not the one making a blog post about privacy-centric defaults.
Reading the reviews on Google Play, it seems there is some in-app purchase, but on the website, I see no indication paying is needed at some point ( sounds like all is free actually when reading the website) so I am confused...
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say this is poorly worded. TSA officers also aren't permitted to hygrometers on the job. Why? Because there's no point to wearing a hygrometer as a TSA officer. Unlike with the dosimeter, that doesn't need to be spelled out.

That doesn't mean they aren't allowed to perform dosimeter readings at all, it just means it's not acceptable to carry this equipment around all the time.

> While the NORMAL dosage is of course well below any level that would make a dosimeter useful, a dose from a malfunction or bent/broken/missing shield panel could easily exceed dosimeter detection thresholds.

Do you actually know that these could be harmful, or is it just a suspicion?
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I'm not seeing a problem with banked turns, only high roll rates. During the turn, so long as it's coordinated, everyone, regardless of position, should have the same experience.

It's entering an exiting the turn where you could have some greater effects. But again, so long as you use a slow roll rate, it shouldn't be too noticeable.
The article covers this, they have further plans for existing installs.
Only accepting US phone numbers for a non-region-specific app in [current year]?
No ToS, no privacy policy, no physical address, no authors' names... and it wants to roam with me inside my pocket?!?
Moving to e.g. shared scratchpad memory would be a major paradigm shift, you'd have to do a lot of coordination between CPU vendors, OS/kernel developers, high-performance library writeslrs, etc to make it happen.
Good question. It would have made everything so much easier. How much work was done on this selective cookie blocking implementation?

Personally I always hoped they would simply copy Privacy Badger and develop an algorithm, instead of relying on a black list.
See that's the first part of the story to me were both stories make a bit of sense. Nord says they discovered a configuration file with IP addresses that still worked.

If those were infrastructure IP's, and not otherwise public, that would certainly make more sense as to how Torguard believes Nord was responsible.

I know they used the timing like Black Friday as evidence that it was a competitor carrying out the attacks, but they have lots of competitors, so I was really confused as to how they settled on Nord as the attacker.
I read too much Heinlein at a formative age, but this quote from Time Enough for Love always struck me:

> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Most things are possible for most people to do if they bother and take an interest in it. Quite often people will just throw up their hands and claim they can't do something, rather than rolling up their sleeves and giving it a go.
Relicensing CockroachDB
It's the same across all government. You hollow out the function of actual, substantive work through 'necessary' budget cuts - like actual funding for IRS audits, any form of environmental regulation, or just education in general.

Then when the low-hanging fruit is all those agencies can pick, which happen to have the largest impact on middle- to low-income families, it gives more fodder to cut and gut the agencies.
Leaving toothpaste residue (containing fluoride) on your teeth is the main thing toothpaste is for.

Fluoride changes the chemical properties of tooth enamel to make it stronger. So removing toothpaste immediately after applying it reduces the effectiveness.

If not rinsing is intolerable then rinsing with a fluorinated mouthwash, which provides less fluoride that toothpaste but is still better than nothing, would be a better choice.
You don’t have gyms/casino/salons/creches in your A380?
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There are people who quit, but there's always another engineer willing to complete the work they wouldn't. That's the unfortunate reality.
The term most certainly isn't ambiguous, if anything it's very specific. Now the question itself being frivolous because it neglects to state that Arabic numbers are the worldwide numerical standard today is debatable, but the intent was to see the bias against the word Arabic.
I'd say there are 3 with the third been

3) I'd never work on life critical medical (or anything else) software, I know I fuck up and even the best can (and I'm not).

I simply wouldn't want it on my conscience that an easily preventable error (in hindsight) hurt someone.
Here we go!

It's time to move past the general purpose PC. A quick look at this machine reminds me very strongly of SGI and it's approach back in the 90's. I was computing back then, and frankly, would take the SGI computer every time. Some of the workstations I ran cost 50K easy.

Best computing experience I've ever had too.

This big machine from Apple does a few things:

One, it makes for a known, supported, big memory, big compute, big GPU, big throughput configuration standard. Software people can go big, take a next step in app functionality and know there is at least one workstation class machine out there to perform as intended, and necessary.

Two, this moves Apple very clearly back into the higher end, "money is no concern, value is" position they've held in the past. Those people, and by that I mean people who recognize and can make effective use of value, do not care so much about cost. They make it back using that value. For me, this is great to see!

Three, many of us are writing comments here and there all about a shift, or change coming. Custom hardware, etc... This is a clear signal. We are moving into a new computing era. Love it. Long overdue.
Not sure if there is "reason" for forward facing seats (perhaps crash safety? If so, why not put them all backwards since that is safest?)

I could imagine seats facing "outwards", with a corridor along the windows. Kinda like a cinema but the screen is replaced by a row of windows. This way no one gets to "hog" the window seat (apart from the front row, and even then others can still see the windows on their walk along the corridors to the toilets etc). Bonus points for raised stadium-style seating with storage lockers under the rows at the back.
Moving to a Static Site with Gatsby, Netlify and Contentful
Note that Kik has expressly stated that they have really wanted this case to go to court for some time now. They strongly believe that the SEC guidance so far has been vague and non-committal to the point of becoming damaging. They believe they have a case that Kin is not a security and that the Howey Test is being mis-applied to many cryptos. By going through with the suit they hope to fast-forward more concrete guidance from the SEC.

https://unchainedpodcast.com/kin-sets-up-5-million-defendcry...
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Your failures mostly amounted to the joint pulling apart along the glue interface rather than breaking, I suspect adding a transverse retaining pin will make the failures more interesting with significantly higher loads.

Did you consider doing any tests with a retaining dowel or some nails/screws through the mortice and tenon joint?
Oh I'm not suggesting they never hear anything. I'm just wondering how many actually care or look into it at all. The world is full of sensational stories. Sometimes it's easier to just do your job then go home and enjoy your weekends with your family.
For my part, I wouldn't put it past the minds that land orbital class, first stage rockets on the regular to come up with something that surprises us. Not suggesting that's a meaningful strategy for ensuring dark skies, just pointing out they've surprised us more than once!
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroach...

Here is the official announcement
It was standard on my foundation degree in software engineering years ago.

Ethics and responsible software development was a good unit.
Economics 101 states that wasteful duplication of infrastructure is one of the few acceptable exceptions from the free market thesis. Natural monopolies should nevertheless be regulated to avoid suboptimal services.

What’s more interesting is the recent suggestions of seeing industries with a monopolistic business model such as social media as natural monopolies. Perhaps we should regulate Facebook rather than argue for breaking up telecoms?
Strawmen - In every moral decision there are inevitably "real world" concerns that make the choices easier or harder, sure.

That only changes the costs of the options, not the fact that you are either complicit or choose to leave.

Specific to your specifics, if changing circumstances _in_ the Valley is so hard, leave the Valley as well. I live in the Midwest, so my perspective has it's own skew, but SV sounds more and more like a crazy place to even try to live.
Dodgeball isn't just problematic, it's a tool of oppression says researchers
The total amount of loaded pages in Private Browsing doesn't really have to be private?
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students go abroad to study every year. Some of them cheat. Some of them get caught cheating. Some of those cheating scandals make the news. Guess who also cheats? People of every ethnicity and country.

It is true that test prep is a big deal in China. If there's a test to get into a top university, students are going to study like mad to pass that test. You're portraying that as a bad thing. Maybe it is bad to study to the test, but they're just playing by the rules as they exist - the test determines your chances, so you study as hard as possible for that test. If you want to change that behavior, make the test less important, or make it more creative.

One of the most disgusting smears against Chinese people is that they think cheating is okay. Just like in the West, cheating is looked down upon in China and cheaters are despised. Education is highly prized in China (Confucian ideals and all that), and normal parents and teachers certainly do not accept cheating.

What is also true is that in general, science/math education in Chinese primary/secondary schools is far more rigorous and difficult than it is in American schools. Kids generally learn advanced math at a much younger age in China, and that probably has something to do with the high number of extremely highly qualified engineers and scientists that the Chinese educational system produces.
Fair enough, but had he answered, "no", to, "do you think creationism is a valid theory" I would have been happy to accept his premise that he was only interested in scientific discovery. That's why I asked that specific question. To clarify my possibly incorrect assumption that he believes in creationism and is only saying what he is to further that agenda.

That's why I asked. I could well be wrong about that. But he hasn't answered.
The allegation here isn't that the average person is ignoring it, it's that the administration is giving preferential treatment. The government is supposed to be representative of the people, so I think that's why they're calling it "we".
There are whole countries where flossing is not a thing. Fluoridated water protects your teeth. The rest may be just culture.
It's been a while since I set up a new Firefox, but isn't the Search Suggestions feature opt-in?
It's not really, because the two (telecom and big tech) are in a fight for dominance and focusing on one will benefit the other. It's natural to wonder about the influence of telecom when the Attorney General, under whom the DOJ's investigation is being conducted, was the general counsel of GTE/Verizon for 14 years and then served on Time Warner's board until last year, helping them to merge with AT&T. If you assume the antitrust division of the DOJ has limited resources, and that they were until recently focused on telecom, it's not "whataboutism" to wonder what's driving the abrupt shift to tech.
A company that doesn't balance work and life is a company who doesn't want people to be sane.

There are many reasons why I cannot work long hours. Disability. Kids. Wife. Family obligations. And that's just to name a few. And I'm a guy, I never will become pregnant. To ignore those is to basically say "we only hire guys in peak physical and mental health with no obligations who are willing to destroy their body and mind for profit."
Indeed, but which of the big tech companies does not use lock-in as a tool? Android Play Services, Google Photos, Amazon Prime, Facebook platform, any streaming service (library is „lost“ if you stop paying)..
If you have no data to back up your claim you should not make that claim. The word "many" is a borderline weasel word.
Unions aren't a panacea, nor are they something everyone wants.

I, for one, resolved a long time ago never to work in a union environment.
This seems super cool:

> For the rest of the work term Bora will investigate and test unmodified Linux Docker containers on FreeBSD, to evaluate the state of Linuxulator support.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. We definitely need to improve the app for Chinese - word tokenization is much harder here so we don't handle word selection well right now. Our app is most polished for languages like Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Russian.

Stay tuned though! We definitely want to make it work just as well for Chinese in the future!
and to be explicit, the "we" is the FTC and the antitrust division of the DOJ.
As long as the data is aggregated and not tied to individual users, I'm ok with it.
I haven't read the article, but I've listened to a podcast featuring the author. He voiced that determining the "chaos" of the field or game is very relevant to whether someone should focus on specialization or be a generalist. For instance, chess has more defined moves and outcomes, making it better to specialize in chess early if you want to be good, whereas poker players can benefit from learning across multiple domains. David Epstein also acknowledges natural skill is important. Perhaps Federer would have been great regardless, or even better as you say. Perhaps he would have burned out too.
Really now?

As you might imagine, the scale and operating requirements of _actual_ aircraft introduces complex engineering challenges that aren't present in toys.
There are very specific regulations relating to how transport category aircraft have to behave. One of these is the reason the 737 MAX has the specific MCAS behaviors that are probably responsible for two crashes: causing the aircraft to stall must require continually increasing the pitch-up control input (or something substantially similar), and that wasn't the case at low speed, high thrust, and high angle of attack.

It may be difficult to achieve the required flight characteristics without software augmentation in a flying wing, even if RC hobbyists can usually fly them manually without crashing. The 737 MAX has raised the question of whether it's a good idea to approve transport category aircraft that require help from software to have acceptable flight characteristics.
How did mainframe I/O channels work?
For anyone keeping score at home, some handy-dandy tables with entropy per symbol:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength#Random_passw...
Do you think Amazon wouldn't prioritize shopping over AWS? Or Microsoft with Xbox over Azure?
Heating your home "ruins" the world. You probably wont die at 40*F inside your home, but it sure would suck living that type winter. So does cooling it during the summer, so do many other modern amenities, etc...

At some point it begs the question: Is the world you are preserving worth living?

Sure, there are billions of people that don't have any of these amenities in life, but it is mostly by necessity and they can't afford any better...

So, is travel necessary? No. Is traveling something you should feel guilty about, probably not.
Maybe just run for office and support universal healthcare instead?
The wings will be more rigid (and will have lower bending loading because the payload is more evenly distributed along the wing span), but any roll rate will cause the passengers to experience an acceleration. Maneuvering flight will not be pleasant for the passengers.
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Even if they doubled the price they'd still make peanuts compared to iPhones.
> the kernel TCP stack is still not fully parallel

Every mainstream OS today predates mainstream SMP. While support is built into each, it's just ... support. They just were not made in the world where every system is SMP. To see how big a design difference that makes, well, look at Erlang or Go.
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It doesn't really affect FB one way or the other. They made their profit at the IPO. That's all the cash they get out of it. Zuckerberg himself (and other executives) would lose a lot of money if every investor pulled out, but Facebook would continue happily along.

Ultimately, you can't get every investor to pull out because the stocks still entitle them to a piece of corporate profits, even without control. Facebook has a P/E of 24, corresponding to earning about 3% interest. There will always be a market for that cash. (Investors seem to think it will ultimately be more profitable than that, so the price is higher than the last 12 months of profit indicate.)