skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all well and good, despite doing little to address my point, but you seem to be dodging the question of why you don't just go buy an Android phone. You don't like how the guy at the local convenience store treats you? Pound sand and go down the block to the other one. You have yet to explain why you don't do the same with phones. I happen to like the way iOS works in the this respect, and you sound like someone that just moved into the neighborhood complaining things that have been that way for the last 20 years.
On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence
This says they can be designed to be passively stable, and indeed have existed since the 1930s: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2252/how-does-a...

I think it requires a little more careful design then traditional plane bodies, so there is some sense in which flying wings are less stable naturally. But the claim that flying wings are necessarily unstable without computer control seems to be false.
For what it's worth, my dentist told me he didn't care if his patients brushed their teeth or not, as long as they flossed.
Control f "china". Nothing.

I have a hard time trusting anything that doesn't message how iMessage is end-to-end secure but Apple operates in China.

Nobody has ever talked about that.
‘I Am a Sailor and a Seawolf’
I don't think anybody ignores that telecoms is a big monopoly problem; people know intimately that they have one or if they are lucky, two real options in any given market.

We busted up Ma Bell once long ago, and it has just coalesced back together. The capital costs and infrastructure tend towards it being a natural monopoly, so I don't think that we'll reasonably see a million telecom flowers bloom without putting the finger on the scale heavily.

Software is so much more ephemeral, and we have a much healthier oligopoly of big players. Even the sick old man of computing, IBM, is doing better than Time Warner did trying to compete in cable.
The outcome of a high quantity of deliberate practice isn’t an opinion. It may be true that it’s more popular to deride top performers and perhaps try not to hire them, but we can’t help but value the contributions that people with deep expertise make to the economy, the arts, infrastructure, and so on.
A hang glider is a flying wing, has no computers on board does not crash by itself :) Hopefully that does the job as an existence proof.
Interesting, chrome on linux works. (via qt-webengine).
Strain tolerance of two-dimensional crystal growth on curved surfaces
I think EGreg was talking about specific theories of how particular traits developed, not The Theory of Evolution as a whole.

I was just answering your question.
Food isn't a problem we solve with megacorporations and apps. Food is a problem we solve with agricultural production at scale and shipping and logistics. Food is best when it's nourishing and nutritious and where people are in sufficient quantities to cover everyone's needs with foods they are familiar with.

This is just my own wildly unreasonable opinion, but perhaps we could consider the possibilities to be realized by shelving the romance of participation and community and unity until we've got the logistics solved. Rather than trying to tell people how they should relate to food, maybe we should focus on making sure everyone has enough and that an obsession with hyperlocalism isn't setting the world up for more famine.

Perhaps then people can choose how to relate to food and how to nourish their communities. I'm certain that many people will choose exactly what you describe.
I'd say in response to your German Army comparison, what were the options to quit the Landswehr and hire on with another better behaved army?

Facebook employees have vastly more options to leave a company that they reasonably know or should know is morally questionable, and quite likely to be able to find other employment.

That changes the measures of culpability (or at least compliance) significantly.
Uhh... no? I knew that. My point was that _you_ were wrongly criticizing the reporter for not knowing the “original” meaning of a phrase. _You_ were wrong about your extended version being original and you’re also wrong about it being common. I was trying to be nice and let you know you were wrong by using the phrase “I wonder...” I wasn’t actually “wondering” lol.

Based on your recent comment, it seems like you were offended or maybe you just don’t understand how these things work at all.
Not only a profit center, but an outsourced pollution center.

F500 CEOs outsource pollution to China.
One of the things I hadn't fully appreciated, until reading the link, was how divided even the perpetrators were. Firstly, there are indications that not all the armies worked together, e.g. "Beijing [Military Region] commander had refused to supply outside armies with food, water or barracks", and the suggestion that different armies may have had allegiance to different factions in the State Council, e.g. "we cannot substantiate reports that six military regions (not Beijing) support Li Peng". And secondly, if the information is correct, it seems the atrocities were committed by the 27 Army who were just one of at least 8 other armies present. Furthermore there are even multiple references to troops from other armies being victims of the 27 Army, e.g. "27 Army APCs [Armored Personnel Carriers] opened fire on the crowd (both civilians and soldiers) ... APCs ran over troops and civilians", "27 Army ordered to spare noone and shot wounded SMR [Shenyang Military Region] soldiers". And even within the 27 Army itself "27 Army officer shot dead by own troops apparently because he faltered". Sounds quite chaotic.
Adafruit Founder Limor Fried: Open-Source Hardware Revolution [video]
If you liked Pine you will probably like Alpine and Pico's successor, Nano.

What is the problem with Mutt though? Does Aerc have color or themeing support? Does it have a seperate daemon to talk the email protocols such as IMAP4?
[comment retracted]
You could have cameras and screens instead of windows. Much, much cheaper in the end.
> and rarely are monopolies in urban enough of areas

I challenge you to name urban areas in the US that are serviced by more than 3 ISP's. They absolutely do have monopolies in those areas, and more importantly, the ability to collude to set prices in various areas/divy up coverage area.
From the linked UK cables (NSFW):

> STUDENTS UNDERSTOOD THEY WERE GIVEN ONE HOUR TO LEAVE SQUARE BUT AFTER FIVE MINUTES APCS ATTACKED. STUDENTS LINKED ARMS BUT WERE MOWN DOWN INCLUDING SOLDIERS. APCS THEN RAN OVER BODIES TIME AND TIME AGAIN TO MAKE QUOTE PIE UNQUOTE AND REMAINS COLLECTED BY BULLDOZER. REMAINS INCINERATED AND THEN HOSED DOWN DRAINS.

Wow, I've never read this before. I have a really high tolerance for this type of stuff but his was still shocking.

Particularly how they brought in a mostly illiterate military unit from a rural area, blocked them from hearing news for 10 days, and told them it'd be filmed as part of a TV show. They also shot ambulances trying to help in addition to other soldiers from other units(? it's not clear what SMR troops means, possible a local police force).

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_...

Edit: SMR seems to be Shenyang's military regiments who initially went in unarmed to try to scare the students. Shortly after that failed they were immediately followed up by the armed attacking forces (27th unit from Shanxi, the rural area mentioned above). The Shanxi shot and ran over any "straggler" Shenyang units who were near the protestors. "27 ARMY USED BECAUSE MOST RELIABLE AND OBEDIENT. SOME CONSIDERED OTHER ARMIES WOULD ATTACK 27 ARMY BUT THEY HAD NO AMMUNITION"
Surely at some point demand is effectively satisfied?
Everything goes stale, eventually, and then what?
Just wanted to say I've been watching your videos for years and I am a big fan. Keep up the great work!
I love your channel so much, and am so glad to see you here commenting!

It's great that you continue to post videos. Thanks so much for combining two of my favorite things: woodworking and engineering!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-found-shawn-brooks-the-guy-...
Isn't Apple one of the few companies going out of their way to keep as much data as possible on-device instead of in the cloud? I agree that shareholders value margins over principles and that could be an issue for companies who do hold a lot of user data.
Unfortunately the source of that note, an article in the Economist from 2006, doesn't indicate when they tested. Standards and expectations of airline passenger comfort have degraded significantly over the years, so it might be reasonable to retest.

Although, I found an article from 2018 [1], quoting a Boeing VP of Product Development and Future Airplane Development, which basically says a blended wing design for commercial passenger aviation is unlikely because the required minimum height for passenger loading implies a minimum width that is quite large, and may not be very compatible with existing airports.

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2018/04/03/dont-look-for-commercial-b...
I used it once out of curiosity. It felt like a weird crossover of Maps and Inbox.
I've worked with wood for a few years now, and I wish I would have found Rex Krueger's channel earlier (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj4SLNED1DiNPHComZTCbzw/vid...). I'd say his primary intent is to get you started with the minimal amount of cost, and his videos get to the point faster than many other instructional videos.
Uh, not really? Seems more like a failure of the computer. Don't know much about flying but sounds like a pretty extreme maneuver was attempted by the computer.
Weird that metro supermarkets are so rare in the US. All over the EU in major cities people do most of their shopping in small, well-stocked (for their size) supermarkets.
It‘s just cookies recognized to be tracking cookies, isn‘t it? These companies are earning money by tracking you. They have a strong incentive to bypass these mechanisms.
Version control is extremely useful in software development because code modification by multiple authors is a primary use-case that happens multiple times throughout the day.

Maybe your experience is different, I haven't seen a use-case where multiple authors are changing excel macros or formulas that often, or even often enough to where this is an issue. In fact I think adding version control would make things very very confusing for most people.
> This is contradicted by most accounts.

IIRC, that discrepancy is accounted for if most of the bloodshed actually occurred near but outside of the square, which is reflected in the same Wikipedia article:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...:

> The earliest casualties occurred as far west as Wukesong....Several minutes later, when the convoy eventually encountered a substantial blockade somewhere east of the 3rd Ring Road, they opened automatic rifle fire directly at protesters....

> At about 10:30 pm, the advance of the army was briefly halted at Muxidi, about 5 km west of the Square, where articulated trolleybuses were placed across a bridge and set on fire. Crowds of residents from nearby apartment blocks tried to surround the military convoy and halt its advance. The 38th Army again opened fire, inflicting heavy casualties....As the battle continued eastward the firing became indiscriminate, with "random, stray patterns" killing both protesters and uninvolved bystanders....Soldiers raked the apartment buildings with gunfire, and some people inside or on their balconies were shot. The 38th Army also used armored personnel carriers (APCs) to ram through the buses. They continued to fight off demonstrators, who hastily erected barricades and tried to form human chains. As the army advanced, fatalities were recorded all along Chang'an Avenue. By far the largest number occurred in the two-mile stretch of road running from Muxidi to Xidan...

> To the south, paratroopers of the 15th Airborne Corps also used live ammunition, and civilian deaths were recorded at Hufangqiao, Zhushikou, Tianqiao, and Qianmen.[116]

> The killings infuriated city residents, some of whom attacked soldiers with sticks, rocks and molotov cocktails, setting fire to military vehicles.
OTOH, if you are going to deploy with OpenJDK (etc.), why not develop with the same implementation?
From my experience job-seeking and hiring, it depends entirely on the culture created by the founders/chiefs, which in turn depends on their own style of skill cultivation. If they are generalists, they will likely value their ability as generalists and that of others, same for specialists. I have specialized in programming, but I am definitely a generalist, and all my best fits (including my current employer) have been working under and alongside fellow generalists at small companies. I specifically say small companies because there aren’t already teams of specialists and even the one or two existing specialists will usually appreciate anyone’s interest/help.
Backups, for starters. Personally I value being able to restore the software to a known state in case something happens. Not having any way to back up my data was kind of a deal breaker otherwise.

Firewalling traffic and tunneling also requires root. I believe it is a popular way to block ads and analytics, either with a hosts file or iptables.
I agree with the parent poster, and yes, I consider all the time whether I'm mistaken. I can't even shut off the part of my brain that double-checks and questions my thoughts and views, on Facebook or anything else.

Do you want to try to make a case for Facebook being good or even benign, or did you just want to check in if we're conducting regular introspection?

(And, off the top of my head, the things Facebook does that nudge it into "evil": persuading media to move to video by lying about viewership statistics, gaming the algorithms to maximize engagement in the style of a Skinner box, in at least one case intentionally trying to depress people through feed manipulation, turning a blind eye to electoral interference, all the dark patterns surrounding getting people's personal information, the shady ways they share that information, and if I sat here and literally thought about it instead of producing a list as I typed it out, I'd come up with more. This is not what a good or benign corporation does. Doing these things is not compatible with being good or benign.)
It's a lot easier to liquidate one's stock in a company like Facebook than it is to find another position in the valley. And I suspect that a lot of people are leaving Facebook over its conduct and they will continue to do so but some are going to stay. What Facebook is doing isn't any worse than what the tobacco companies did and the tobacco companies are all still here. I don't know anyone who brags about working for them though.

IMO quitting in a huff over issues like this causes damage to one's career that one really ought to avoid. I left my previous gig over cultural issues and I nearly got labeled a job hopper for doing so. I'd suggest taking the long view and let's see what happens with all the tech companies that are now doing morally questionable things.

It feels like there's been a phase transition in mood in the valley in the past 2 years.
This sounds like enthuastic and vigorous excuses for the fact that these theories are not falsifiable and even worse than phlogiston and luminiferous ether theories. Why such a full throated defense of them? I think because you want to get as far away from creationism as possible, as quickly as possible. “We are working on it! Shh!! One day I am confident we will know!”
A factor of 1.5 doesn't strike me as being enough to suggest the problem will go away (the satellites become too small a part of images to matter). Additionally, the satellites are not two-dimensional, so there is no orientation in which they would not occlude the view.

It appears that the objections are not to the size of the satellites (they are relatively small compared to other satellites in LEO), but that they are to be highly numerous. The planned size of the constellation is 11927 satellites.

The frequency with which these satellites photobomb astronomical images is the concern, rather than how much area they affect. In fact, their being smaller makes them more of a menace, as they will be more challenging to spot, or easier to confuse with an astronomical entity.

This said, I don't think this is a strong argument against putting such satellites in orbit, and progress will and should continue. Astronomers will have to be careful to avoid contamination.
Probably all of them with options pay good attention.
The ambassadors secret diplomatic cables are not "just" some guy
Swiftkey has a "tap map" screen[0] that shows the adjustments it's made.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/q42xiqg.jpg
Among several other books on or related to the subject, I ran across this 2017 book (https://www.amazon.com/Art-Capacity-Planning-Scaling-Resourc...), which largely has triggered my question.
They've sold/given/transferred patents to Airbus.
Look, you're the one saying that elderly people are so miserable that we should not prolong their lives.

>It's not "wildly pessimistic" to spend time thinking about what happens after people get beyond that point.

Your thoughts are pessimistic, not the fact that you are thinking. The main purpose of a nursing home is to extend the length of people's lives. If you think this is inhumane, then perhaps you would prefer a crematorium to a nursing home?

There is nothing about extending the life of people who are in a place specifically to have their lives extended that is 'not taking the elderly seriously.'
Mozilla is always the after-child of chrome, it's cute that they're trying, but no sane person would use Firefox if they're not a masochist really
> the lobbying power of Big Telecom.

I think this is a bit more accurate.
Everyone advocating and working towards increasing lifespan wants to eliminate that mental and physical decline. The goal is to give you more years feeling 30-40, not just more years feeling 90-110.
Do they? If you're waiting for a ton of options to vest, how much will you potentially lose by leaving? Where else is there to jump to in the Valley that isn't a startup that could close in a month, or isn't underhandedly conspiring with FB to not to hire each other's employees? If you're lucky enough to own property in Palo Alto - if your kids go to school there, how much do you want to have to commute to a place like the Financial District and have to play human feces hopscotch every day?
Mapping OH variability in troposphere: airborne+satellite formaldehyde synthesis
It seems like I was spite down-voted for mentioning a hack that removes need to create an ever more plasticky device that is useless IMO and pollutes the environment and kills animals. Until we find a way to recycle plastic properly we should think twice about the lifetime of every plastic item we create or bring into this environment. Thanks for reading this.
What happened to local loop unbundling? Is the problem that it didn't also apply to "cable"?
And how do you know the Micfo IP fraud is not related to NordVPN? They were using them extensively.

Collective Seven (C7) is related to a very long list of VPNs, including Nord, yet NordVPN has denied knowing them.

> Anyhow, how is that Nord the bad guy now and everyone forgets the fact that they just wanted to let torguard know about their own vulnerability to fix?

It looks bad because they tried to force censorship in exchange for a non vulnerability. Torguard has a bounty program but instead Nord sent someone to the Torguard employee's house and tried to intimidate them into silencing a Youtuber.

It appears Nord knew what they had was not a vulnerability but still wanted use it as leverage for taking down the Youtuber's videos. This is censorship at it's worst.
Spoilers: it's because our regulatory, legislative, and judicial infrastructure exists to defend monied interests. We're incapable of taking collective action that reduces private property accumulation, so no monopoly busting.
Argh, I hate to be "that guy" but when there's such an obvious typo in the first paragraph it really cheapens the appeal of reading the rest of the text.

If they haven't even proof-read the thing before publishing then I'm going to (likely incorrectly) assume that attention to detail has been overlooked in other areas too.
No the local monopoly was never busted - just use LLU
Firefox will begin blocking trackers by default
Effectively no, because he can vote them out.
> It is trivial to setup up multiple credentials for the same account.

Unfortunately, some very popular 2FA keygen apps can't handle multiple device linked to a single account. I have a well-known service provider that uses a well-known company's app for 2FA. Unfortunately, this app has to be reset to a new device code on changing of the phone's sim card. I wanted to set up two sim cards so I could switch between them for a trip overseas but this is not supported and my service provider does not support other 2FA such as Google or MSFT's app which are not tied to the sim card.
People that own FB stock by way of a general retirement fund probably aren't exercising their right to vote on the chairman.
On my last two trips to SF, the main obstacle to riding BART was that there were more broken fare machines than working ones. I can deal with everything except being 6th in line to buy a ticket from the one working machine. Invariably, the 5 people in front of me are experience technology for the first time and have no idea what to do.
> So if they dumped all their Facebook stock I wonder how that would affect Zuck?

Very few Facebook shareholders bought the stock from Facebook, and virtually none would sell the stock to Facebook. They buy and sell from other investors. It doesn’t matter how much stock I personally have, if I were to sell all of it, it wouldn’t take any money out of Facebook’s bank account.

If I sold enough stock to actually affect the price, other investors would buy it at the lower price and bid it back up. Not only would my action have no effect on Facebook, at most I would help other people get the stock at a better price.

If you don’t want to own Facebook stock, by all means get rid of it. But don’t expect that to cost Zuckerberg any sleep.
Arabic Numerals as Americans understand them are representative of the characters used when writing in Arabic. The term is ambiguous.

So, this article is frivolous.
Enterprise will pay for stability until they've evaluated alternatives, but unless Oracle JDK support or features provide at least an apparent benefit justifying the additional cost, they’ll switch to an alternative.
The thing that draws me to woodworking, as a software engineer, is that it resembles many aspects of software, but has a wonderful imperfection inherent to it.

The more skilled at woodworking I become, the more I learn that every piece of wood is unique, and does not care about systems and methods. The grain will happily explode in your face if you try to work with it the wrong way. =)

It all makes me appreciate the physical aspects of things much more.
Maybe instead of buying the $7,000 CNC machine you send the design off to a machine shop? Or use the CNC at a local makerspace?

I do agree that the low volume and small build area will pigeonhole the product, but it does fill a niche between 3D printing and big boy injection molding.
The safe handling of bulk low-density nanomaterials
Well, given that mass would scale as square of wingspan that is only 2.5x as bad.
Okay, so then let's go by the numerous fines they've had to pay for not following data and privacy regulations along with a looming antitrust case. Pretty sure that goes beyond just some commenters on HN.