skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The shareholder system of control is at least honest and transparent

The shareholder system of control foists massive negative externalities on the public while concentrating profits in the hands of a few.

It's like advertising toxic waste disposal for $100 a tonne, then dumping the carcinogenic sludge in the town square while keeping the cash for yourself.

If you're a real capitalist, you peel off 1% of your windfall to support politicians who sabotage any attempt at regulating toxic waste disposal.
> like I've suddenly gone soft and introduced a bunch of nebulous, touchy-feely context into the objective truth

This drives me nuts. If you haven't, check out the paper "Beyond subjective and objective in statistics" by Gelman and Hennig (2017).

Right at the beginning they make the point that any analysis includes external information in many ways, such as adjusting variables for imbalance, how we deal with outliers, regularization, etc.

Especially if you're doing any sort of causal inference, you're usually making strong assumptions before estimating your model, even just in terms of which variables are included and how they're connected. The idea that priors are somehow ruining an "objective" model is just absurd to me. You're already making so many other decisions about your model that will affect estimates and your interpretation of them. Priors seem like another perfectly reasonable decision to have to make as well, with the benefit of getting results that I think in general are must more easily understood by a lay audience. (E.g., I don't think I've ever encountered someone not on my data science team that actually understands what a p-value is. But people are much better at understanding when I say, there's an X percent chance that there is a positive effect here.)
but consumers should have the option of running software from outside the store too

They do. It just won't run on iOS. That's a choice Apple made, and by extension, a choice the purchaser made when they bought the phone. For example, it is a primary feature that holds some responsibility for my continued use of iOS.

That's adding choice, not taking it away.

Yeah, who is Apple to say that I didn't want my entire contact list uploaded to a Russian server? Maybe I like a little malware mixed in with my Kandy Krusher.

In summary, if you don't want to pay a 30% surcharge for vetted software and a system that ensures that those you support technically will load only vetted software, an iPhone probably isn't for you or your loved ones.
Adding Drop in Authentication to Your Android Apps with AWS Amplify
In one neighborhood I lived in in NYC, the only local supermarket closed down to make way for a Walgreens. They tried to reassure the community that they would stock staples like (terrible) bread and milk, but obviously no fresh food like vegetables.

This neighborhood was not a poor one. Million dollar condos (forget houses), all around.
This closely approximates what I've gunned for. I'm not aiming to be a maximalist, but want my investments to be worthwhile. My intuition has suggested to me that with cardio (moderate/intense), a little goes a long way and long sessions can eventually yield injury. You mentioned not bothering with citations but if you recall any sources I'd check those out.

You didn't mention it, but the other benefit of strength training is higher testosterone levels.
Your comment assumes we still need fleshy meatbags wearing clunky suits in orbit to fix things. This was true 15 years ago, but I'm not convinced it's still true today. A couple of repair drones housed at the ISS combined with repair parts brought up along with normal resupply missions could probably be made to work if it was deemed cost effective.
> Chinese speak very freely about all topics in private and with people they know.

It sounds like that's not always the case:

https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/tiananmen-crackdown-aw...

> Mark was intrigued by the seemingly unlikely scene, in which his now civil servant father chanted slogans against the government. But before he could probe him for more information, his mother had called an end to the discussion: “Stop talking about this.”

> ....Anecdotes of talented people punished for taking part in the protests are part of the Tiananmen story that witnesses have been passing on. The underlying message is: stay away or you will end up like that.
I would agree that voting results where the outcome was known ahead-of-time should be considered with caution. Such information undoubtedly influences both how votes are cast and who decides to cast a vote.
In my experience, every time I've been to Whole Foods they don't have basic produce, condiments and sauces, etc that I would expect to have at a normal grocery store. Common vegetables are just missing from the store for no apparent reason. And their selection of anything Asian is awful, much worse than even Safeway. It might be a regional thing (I live in a city) but where I live Whole Foods is expensive, bizzarely limited in selection, and caters to a very specific lifestyle and diet - I get the impression it caters to people for whom cooking for themselves is a special occasion and not a daily thing.
I'm wondering how he got the asterisks to work ...
Fuel use is generally measured per distance traveled, so that part is implicit in the claim. The passenger capacity is talked about in the next paragraph:

> What’s more, the Flying-V will carry the same number of passengers – 314 in the standard configuration – and the same volume of cargo, 160m3.
Unpopular opinion, but we could tax fuel at a higher rate than we do now (or stop subsidizing pollution, depending on how you view it).
All airplanes are aerodynamic. There needs to be a mention of what exactly is happening to cause those fuel savings.

I highly doubt that those numbers are trustworthy considering how closely we are scraping fuel efficiency numbers, unless there is some performance metric they aren't mentioned that has degraded.
Lower calorie per dollar, as long as none of it gets thrown out as waste.
You're right we don't currently, that just means its time to boot up space race 2, I hope China's space program kicks NASA back into high gear, shift a couple of the DOD's billions around and get space race 2 electric boogaloo going.
Stannous flouride (ie tin) in toothpaste is nothing new. Nice that Crest has figured out some shiny new marketing, but ironically the original bog standard original Crest in 1954 was tin fluoride until they moved over to monoflurophosphate for cost reasons.
...isn't the vast majority of a smartphone just a collection of "nice to have"s?

Everyone values features differently. If my valuations aren't in line with yours, what makes yours more major?
Always buy my Elsinore there
I find it hard to believe this sudden flurry of doubt about flossing, just based on my own experience. I have quite packed together teeth and find flossing very fiddly, so am very inconsistent with it.

When I don't floss, after 3 or 4 months, my gums start to puff up and bleed when brushed. When I do floss at least once a week, they don't.

It was especially obvious when I smoked, a few months after visiting the dentist/hygienist I would get bleeding from my gums, at times quite worrying amounts and one of the many reasons I gave up. However, after a few nights of flossing, it would always reduce significantly.
> the Hubble telescope is practically obsolete (and indeed obsolete, since it will be de-orbited soon).

This isn't quite accurate. Hubble has ultraviolet capabilities that are impossible to achieve from the ground (due to the atmospheric absorption). JWST won't replace this functionality. Also, while AO can achieve similar or better angular resolution, it can be difficult to characterize the point spread function (PSF) of the AO system. By contrast the PSF of HST is incredibly stable. Knowing the PSF and having it be stable is key for some types of science.
The main problem with flying wings, and probably this design too, is that they are inherently unstable, and without very precise computer control they are uncontrollable. Compare to modern planes that a good pilot can fly and land with zero computers, given some effort. (They are stable, and with no control inputs at all just keep flying in same attitude as they are currently in)

In a flying wing, computer failure is a certain airframe and passenger loss. I don't know any engineers who write flawless code. Do you?
Yeah, but if you're thinking on those timescales you'd probably be better off using orbital telescopes, or telescopes located on other planets or moons with little to no atmosphere.

Satellites and the commercialization of space will be important to enabling that level of space-borne infrastructure, so even in the really long run the utility of satellites probably still wins out.
Mullvad was alright. Didn't ask me any questions other than payment information.
Ask HN: What different business models in tech?
Like subscription, pay first, pay once etc?
Fair, the analogy doesn't hold onto the functions provided, but RFC 5233 is very clear that the user+detail separation does not provide any privacy protections, nor can it.

The 'user' part is still public information, as is what it's used for. There should be no expectation of privacy for information being used per specification design.

The usability trade-off is a shame, but the solution was half-baked at best, and is primarily useful when combined with privacy-sacrificing public email providers. When you have greater control of your email, distinct 'user' parts can be used, which does provide the privacy aspect desired.
Isn't that what seatbelts are for?
socks4 leaks DNS requests, socks5 can tunnel them as well.
I see open source and capitalism as very similar ideas. It really is summed up in the absence of rules. And I like the analogy from the article

> empty spaces do not remain vacant for a very long time

But this seems to be impling that we need rules otherwise they'll be taken up by greedy companies. I think this is underestimating the role of the individual, who ultimately is the one who decides who gets business.

Maybe instead of being "Google addicts" but expecting the everything to be balanced, maybe we should be more conscious and intentional about who gets our business.
Boy, it sure is convenient that our "natural" longevity (whatever that means) is right at the limits of what humans can reasonably enjoy, huh?

I suspect you have not spent much time around eg people with dementia, who are well within their “natural longevity” but for some have not “reasonably enjoyed” anything in many years, sometimes decades.

Visit a nursing home, and you may find yourself pondering that perhaps medicine has by and large given us many more years than we know what to do with already.

For many entering old age, the concern is not about how many years they have left, but if they’ll be able to take care of their basic needs during them.
If 'Big Tech' Is an Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom?
Dumping toxic waste in the town square is illegal. If what Facebook is doing is so bad, why can't you assemble a political constituency to make it illegal?

Is it possible that this "every FB engineer is a moral criminal" stance is actually a fringe view espoused by a radical minority and not a principle we should consider seriously? I think so. I reject the OP's claim to moral authority.

A thing isn't bad just because some random commentator on HN says it's bad. The law is how we encode legitimate and society-wide consensus on what's bad. I am under an obligation to follow the law. I am under no obligation to behave according to what some random HN commentator wants to ban this week.
> Don't eat sugar. Don't smoke. Don't drink.

Oh but where's the fun in that? :)
I agree that it's very useful to prolong the amount of time spent in earlier, healthier stages of life. The treatments described in the New Yorker article sound quite promising.

However, you aren't taking the elderly seriously. It's not "wildly pessimistic" to spend time thinking about what happens after people get beyond that point. This is something that happens to everyone who doesn't die first. It's a normal part of life.
and manufacturing blended wing bodies is very difficult to do
Satellite track removal is already a well-understood capability that serious telescope projects already do.

Satellite radio emissions are well-regulated already, and appropriate measures are in place well before the launch is even approved.
I am inferring it from the shape of the aircraft.
That's the minimum to make it a Federal lawsuit. The damages, if any, would be determined later.
There is no alternative for MacBook Pro

It's not ideology for me but hardware performance
It ties you to macOS, though

Other brands do not put the hardware ports on or use fossil hdmi usba or all sorts of garbage. They also do not have the hardware life of a mac. Who but Apple put 4 TB in a laptop? Apple use the silicon two years before anybody else

Who but Apple gives you 160 Gb/s of Thunderbolt? It's just amazingly great. And check their ssd speeds, they are so fast you don't believe the numbers at first

The butterfly is for me, as measured, the fastest keyboard I have ever used

Apple still has some shit going on like magSafe firewire lightning but mbpro does not suffer from that. Just no Linux since 2016

And Apple has the genius bar. In nine years they have never failed. In all cases but two on the sport (ie. hours), once in a day, once in 5 days. You do not have to troubleshoot hardware poopy, Apple does that for you. For free.

So max RAM 1 TB disk is like $3,200 these days
Get one if you can afford it, everything else is misery
> businesses reward specialist labor more

This is a false premise, at least when stated so generally.

Look at Google, a company that is known for compensating workers quite well. They mostly hire generalist software engineers, which I think is due to a combination of reasons:

- Google is a big established company where a lot of the work is not the sexiest in the industry. This means that people don't necessarily want to stick around in the same team forever. This means people need to switch teams every few years in order to keep their job interesting, which is much easier for a generalist.

- Generalists can specialize and go back to different work later if it makes sense. It's harder for people starting out as specialists to do this.

- There's uncertainty as to what projects will be available to work on in the future. This means that specific kinds of specialists may not always be needed.

- Many teams aren't big enough to contain all the specialists you might need for the project. Having people who can wear many hats solves this problem.
The article is titled "KLM and TU Delft join forces to make aviation more sustainable".
Are you proposing that Facebook employees didn't choose to work for Facebook? Or what?
Update on Snopes.com Legal Battle
It would be a significant time investment to be checked out in a radically different type like this, but not impossible. It mostly comes down to the systems, avionics, and procedures which can be radically different already, even in similar-looking planes.
Whenever I'm apartment hunting on Craigslist, I use a thowaway email account for SPAM\scam\phish resiliency.
I use BCC' addressing to respond to 50+ ads simultaneously. Each sees themselves as the sole recipient and all replies are managed in one thread.
I've seen the same thing happen with British exchange students in the US, and they basically speak English!
As others have mentioned: testing configuration changes is very hard.

Why is it very hard? Because when you are the size of Google, there is no second version of prod to test things in, so the usual software engineering solution of trying the new thing in isolation and checking if it worked is unrealistic.

I think these constant failures from config changes should cause folks to re-evaluate how they do config changes though. If we can't just do a green/blue deploy of config changes like this, we probably need some other solution, whether it be the watchdog timers mentioned elsewhere in the thread, or some system that is able to show you the impact of a config change before it takes effect (probably more realistic for single services such as networking, rather than all config changes).
I know plenty of 18-25 y/o people and I am giggling when they use the term "one-trick pony" for their narrow-minded colleagues (or bosses). I am glad they are smart and are not easily impressed. Critical thinking is important.

Personally I feel that some of the gaming lingo fits really well in the real world but it might be just me.
"You don't only avoid holes in your teeth by keeping good oral hygiene, Norwegian researchers have discovered a clear connection between gum disease and Alzheimer's disease"

Ugh. No. Scientists need to stop bitching about climate denialism and anti-vaxx until they clean house. Blah, blah, it's the institution and not the researcher that writes this crap.. Well someone has to take responsibility.
He mentions in the article that he's testing with DigitalOcean VPSs, so he's using VMs with only a single core allocated.
That's the problem. When passengers are seated too far from the axis of rotation they're in for a nausea inducing ride.

Designers could reduce the problem to an extent by building a double deck passenger compartment and putting the baggage compartments out toward the wings, rather than the current standard design which places passengers on the upper level and bags on the lower level. But there are limits to how well that can scale. I'm skeptical that we'll ever see flying wing or blended wing body designs used for airliners. Cargo and military applications are probably more realistic.
Which isn't really privacy related.

I value privacy more than a robust and fair market. I can understand why others wouldn't, but I'm not the one spending their money, nor are they the ones spending mine.
Due to the inverse square law, it constitutes half an (astronomical) order of magnitude in visibility. For satellites that are already dim, that's a significant difference.

...especially when combined with proper orientation of the satellites.
From the title, I thought this would be about an airline flying using the V-formation like geese or military jets to reduce fuel.
I mean... the world needs specialists.

Would you trust some random generalist to design the airplane you're going to fly in?
Do you have a resource to recommend that suggests reasons and provides data for this seemingly paradoxical observation?
You would spend much more than 10 hours on dentists appointments if you don't do this. Brushing and flossing properly cannot be stated as a loss of anything - time, money, health, whatever, no matter how you try to frame it. Don't delude yourself and others.
> you should never rinse with water

This is going to be a stupid question. What do you rinse with?
I thought, specific to aviation, fuel efficiency was measured as a rate of time / power?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Propu...
Why would they spend time on these in a high school social studies class?
There is a phenomenon in academia I call the "pissing on a lamppost" phenomenon. A well-known researcher mentions his thoughts on (topic) in the penultimate paragraph of a paper on something else. When you talk to them, they say "oh, I don't actually know how to do that, but I think it should work!" So some sucker like me goes & figures out how it actually works, but... BigName has already discussed it so it's not a new result (see citation for penultimate paragraph) so we are not interested in publishing it :)

You can get around it if you show BigName is wrong but if they've been vague enough that's hard.
It has been known for a long time that flying wing designs are inherently more fuel efficient than typical passenger airline fuselage designs.
Only partially. Ever tried bending forward with the seatbelt on in the plane? You can easily reach with your upper body to the seat in front.

In case of a crash, the seats will move forward and then spring back, if you have your body in between of the two seats in front of you while they do this, you can easily get crushed.
Google Trips app to be discontinued on August 5
Do they have any evidence? The prices listed are 13 cents per itunes user.

That seems an awfully low price for apple to throw away its privacy reputation.
"If hard work pays off, show me a rich donkey."

Persistence will make you a master in a skill -- and you can do it almost subconsciously afterwards.

It doesn't give you a broader culture and overview of the world though. Or at least, it rarely does.
> It's about Chinese international students engaging in blatant plagiarism, refusing to participate in classes

This is not only blatantly untrue, but insanely racist.
> there is no nuanced or intelligent position that defends the assertion that you aren't responsible for your own actions

Such a position is a longstanding feature of law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

I get that some people don't want these principles to exist and would prefer personal liability in everything, but I would suggest that these people be very careful what they wish for.
The new x570 motherboards will have them soon the pci 4.0 soon
For the chains I am familiar with those results line up exactly with my preexisting impression of those stores as far as cost goes.

Walmart has staples dirt cheap but a much more limited selection. Market Basket has "proper grocery store selection" and can match Walmart in prices except for the things that really lend themselves to discounts for buying in bulk (like those big boxes of eggs) which they simply don't sell. Hannaford and Price Chopper make up the part of the curve leading to the mid range which is occupied by Stop and Shop, Shaws/Star, etc. and then at the top of the price distribution is all the stores I try to avoid at all costs.

They mention large variation of prices between stores of the same chain. I strongly suspect that this correlates with how wealthy the community the store is located in is (which leads to increased cost to run the store). Where I live Aldi is the high priced upscale store. Where my parents live Stop and Shop is the high priced upscale store and Shaws/Star Market is generally cheaper.

The fact that Walmart ranked poorly does not surprise me. There are no good Walmarts in the Boston area. Walmart doesn't throw a lot of grocery effort into stores with lots of local competition. The one near me is really good. The one in Quincy is laughably bad. Tewksbury is good but I'm not sure if they consider that "the Boston area".
As the Antitrust Case Against Google Kicks Off Here’s Where the DOJ Should Start
Yeah, it's meaningless but also irrelevant to the substance of the article.

The whole thing is a PR piece, calling the A350 the world's most advanced airplane must have satisfied some requirement for KLM.
Are there wing designs that encompass strong dihedral characteristics?
Related:

“premature optimization is the root of all evil”

vs.

“Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.”

I frequently see people use that cropped quote to justify paying no attention whatsoever to performance, which usually bites them in the ass (or would have bit them in the ass, if the standards for software weren't so low these days).
The lattice gives me the creeps. Much better to just get a Lenovo C730 cube. Similar mechanical design, better specs, and 1/5 of the price.
Discount business class in the isle, economy next to window.

Problem solved.
Using MinIO as persistent storage in a disaggregated Spark/Hive implementation