skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know the answer to that question. Comac, UAC, Airbus, Embraer and others all came from government efforts. Bombardier took Canadair off the government's hands to get started, so they might be the nearest there is to 'private free market enterprise'. Boeing live off the the defence contracts but they are arguably totally free market. We know this isn't true and pretend.

The article talks about how the McDonnell Douglas and Boeing merger was evil. But there is no discussion on why Airbus is okay when Airbus is a merger of various European defence interests with different cultural values.

Why is one merger bad and the other not put under the same scrutiny?

Also, why isn't there a supply chain where anyone can enter the market? Pratt and Whitney, Rolls Royce and General Electric make engines, so if you can make your own plane you just bolt on ready made engines. But that is as far as the system integration aspect seems to go.

Most auto manufacturers do make their own engines so they are not 'systems integrators'. However, if you want to make cars you could go to Bosch for the bits they make, Johnson Controls for the bits they make, Pirelli for a few tyres and before you knew it there would be everything needed for final assembly. You could even get a contract manufacturer to make the whole thing.

With computers anyone can build a PC. But there might only be 2-3 supplier choices for a given component. Some PCs are built for a specialist niche, e.g. point of sales systems, or medical. No heavy handed governments made the PC manufacturers merge into giant mega corporations, they did that themselves opening doors for new entrants in the process.

Planes could be more about systems integration, so a given airliner might be able to get a local place to build planes for its requirements from off the shelf parts. The governments could have rationalised the industry to work this way. Imagine if, as per the engine example there are 2-3 suppliers for wings, fuselages, avionics packages, cabin interiors, fuel interiors and so on.

This idea can be easily nitpicked, however, aeons ago the U.S. government legislated so that airliners could not build their own planes.
Soon after buying a 2016 Macbook Pro quicly I learned from personal experience how fragile thekeyboards were. Ater it was repaired under warranty I quickly sold it and bought two maxed out 2015 MacBook Pros hoping they would last until Apple got around to fixing the keyboard. It looks like my bet will be rewarded.

Also contributing to my decision is that the Touch Bar did not work for me at all. I have less than perfect eyesight. I need keys with tactile feedback and that don't move around to be sure I'm sure I'm accurately hitting the right key.

I do still have a non-touchbar 13 inch 2017 MacBook Pro that I use from time to time. I move around a lot and work in many locations. I've cursed Apple many times when suddenly needing to connect to an older USB or HDMI device but not having my dongle collection with me this time... The need to carry dongles seems like a kludge that detracts from the elegrant compactness the computer itself.
Well, not really 90%. The trackpad is too big and introduce false positive that to some user is above threshold. I don't need such a large track pad for christ sake.

The Display cable, while Apple making is 1cm longer, will only make it last a year or two more. That is 3 - 4 years of Display Lifespan. I hardly call this durable.

The Thunderbolt and USB-C design is a bag of hurt, the amount of short circuit , logic board failure due to it is unacceptable.
Should I retrieve a stream of random numbers, wouldn't it be highly probable, that somebody else receives the same, or similar, stream, if they request it at the same time?
The Japanese really screwed nuclear power from a PR standpoint, just when we should be going all-in on it.
A few of these make unwarranted assumptions, though this may be based on the kinds of companies they invest in. Examples:

S1.3b - For several types of software, releasing continuously is an anti-pattern. Not only will it annoy your customers, it will significantly increase the cost of development. Not every tech startup is a website.

S1.4b - Same as above, not every kind of software application can be properly monitored without custom monitoring development, though most can. If someone develops a custom monitoring solution, you should at least understand why first; using an off-the-shelf solution in some cases would be a negative.

S2.6g - There should be an on-premise option. For several industries and applications it is required by the customers and/or IaaS has substantial adverse economics. The correct answer is that there is a financial model that captures these CapEx/OpEx tradeoffs. I've seen too many startups burn millions of dollars per year unnecessarily because they never did the math. (You should always be able to easily deploy across IaaS and on-prem though.)
anecdotal, but i am certainly an individual with adhd and i personally find strains marketed as indica dominant to be far more effective for anxiety relief and just general functionality. it also may just be a random correlation, but i always recalled seeing higher levels of cbd in indica based strains when I lived in Washington and the actual levels of cbd and thc in the product was listed on the packaging. i certainly don't think this is strong evidence that such a thing is the case, in an overarching empirical sense, but i can at least say, with confidence, that for me, indica dominant is much less anxiety inducing
The use case is taking your laptop out of the office and working in other places: the whole point of a laptop.
If they read 3 articles a day, they've decided that quality journalism across multiple publishers should cost 50 cents a year.
I like how I have it on random, then it'll play 3-4 titles from one artist in a row, even though that artist is roughly equal in number as any other artist in my library. This will happen at least once a week driving home. It will also barely ever play probably 30% of my titles but it will play 5-10% of them a LOT.
I hear it might be azure when cloud but mostly on prem. (See one cloud)
With Jony Ive gone, I hope they finally move towards function over form.

From what I've been reading, the push for portraying Apple as a fashion company, came directly from Ive's side.
Everyone will be guilty of some arbitrary crime. But, as per the linked article, there's already a mechanism for prosecution without a just trial in place:

> According to documents seen by the news agency Reuters, information obtained in this way is subsequently funnelled to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.[168] Federal agents are then instructed to "recreate" the investigative trail in order to "cover up" where the information originated,[168] known as parallel construction.

We're all fucked and we're already in William Gibson's cyberpunk dystopia. Minus the cool drugs.
Isn't it more likely white-labelled, ie the same product sold under a different brand, than it is cloned (reverse engineered from a product that's on sale)?
If you go down the route of conspiracy theory you have to also believe that the companies who have already issued a PR response are lying and that all of the employees privy to the truth are also staying silent.

That would be quite a story.
I already have phone in my pocket with Google assistant (yes, you can switch it off, but is it truly off?) Thats why I decided that Alexa is not a big deal.
I think nuclear power is great. Unfortunately we don’t have the means to fix a catastrophe should one occur (and it will, as safe as nuclear is, it it not possible to eliminate the possibility of a serious accident).

‘Safety’ has to be considered in the context of mitigation options as well as options to correct problems. It’s the latter that lets down nuclear - Chernobyl and Fukushima have shown we just can’t contain and correct the effects when things go wrong.

Until we as a race figure out how to do that, nuclear will remain dangerous in my view.
Dhall keeps popping up on HN. Here what I don't like about it:

- Why use '=' instead of ':' for attributes? If you used ':', then '=' could be variable assignment and eliminate the need for 'let'.

- Why is there a need for commas?

- Why quote via ticks?! Gee!

- What's with the '{-' and '-}' for comments?! It's like its author decided to differ at any price!

In general, good ideas, but it's too weird and unnecessarily deviates from common syntax.
> If you use the escape key often, it should be where caps-lock is. Mac OS X even has a built-in setting for this.

Blasphemy. Caps lock should be banished from all keyboards and replaced with control.
One of the services listed is Screen Time. Maybe I'm mistaken but isn't that the feature on iPhones where you can see how much time you spend in each app? Why would that require Apple's servers.
>2) the webcam.

There were many complaint about it. Somehow post 2015 model, all Macbook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air Retina has regressed in one way or another.
Senior people at the orgs are starting to go on summer vacation. ;)
> prevent things like race conditions

Rust can prevent all data races but not all (any?) race conditions. Related question: can you use the type system to catch a subset of race conditions?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49023664/could-software-...
It's worth what people are willing to pay. Seems like there's quite a few people here happy with the price.
Just wait until they find out you can make paper from hemp, at a much higher yield than with trees - and a much quicker regrow rate.

it is not just CBD that can come from hemp
I have an i5 version of this. Bought it from the refurb store in 2014 and it is the best computer I have ever owned. Unfortunately the keyboard is getting a little finicky, presumably from dust. In any case 6-7 years is a pretty impressive life span for a notebook in my opinion.
You would be surprised at the level of quality, but a $30 head unit, still not bad.

But, yes, you have me on the emergency brake assist.
Amazon Liability Ruling Threatens Broader Risk to Business Model
Of the 7 chairs of the Federal Reserve since 1970, 5 were Jewish. The two gentiles collectively held the chair for 2 of those 49 years (1978-1979, and from 2018 onward). [1]

35% of the Forbes 400 are Jewish. [2]

"all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish." (2008) [3]

25% of Harvard students are Jewish (and 22% non-Jewish white) [4,5]

Jewish people are 2% of the US population, so they are over-represented in the listed groups by a factor of 10 or more (while non-Jewish whites are under-represented) - will you claim they are "literally the most privileged group"? Or are we allowed to apply such labels only to whites?

If, based on these facts, you were to make the same kind of statements about Jewish people as you so casually made about whites, do you think you'd also face no consequences?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Federal_Reserve

[2] https://racehist.blogspot.com/2013/04/2012-forbes-400-by-eth...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-oe-stein...

[4] https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-co...

[5] https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
Are there any graphs anywhere showing Internet traffic at different ISPs and networks? Such a graph (especially over a world map) would make it obvious if there was any DDoS, SSH bruteforcing, or other monkey business going on.
Apple documents their dependencies on other Cloud providers. Facebook has its own DCs but I think they’re sometimes colocated with cloud providers’.
They've got a pretty stunning record for not keeping data around longer than needed. They build their products at the hardware level (secure enclave) so they can't even access certain types of user data.

Their business model doesn't involve monetizing user's data, and they've been public and explicit about that.
While the handful of Fukushima related injuries are tragic, they pale in comparison to the thousands of injuries/deaths directly caused by pollution by traditional plants, not to mention climate change.
I've lived in Cannon Beach, OR. And while I respect the quality of this Journalists work (she did win a Pulitzer), the perpetrated fear-mongering on this topic is disappointing.

Millions of people live on or near fault lines, yet we don't see calls to prevent building Fire/Police/Hospitals simply because "they would perish too."

The Oregon Coast is no exception. Those who live there, service personnel included, do so because they love the region, despite being reminded daily with all the "Tsunami Warning" signs up and down the PCH 101.
Thank you so much I'm fixing that as well
I for one would love to hear more about your transition as someone who’s been with Python for a while now but struggling to make Swift stick (last attempt was with SwiftUI, which is awesome but very young).
Zharkova solar-planetary theory predicting Grand Solar Minimum temperature rise
Time zones are ever changing. Maybe they’re looking up a database?

Edit: actually screen time is the feature that measures how long you’re spending on each device each week. I’m not sure why that needs to talk to the cloud unless devs also get the inverse metrics.
Plus one big outage story then makes other minor outages get more headlines... when normally no one cares.

Same thing with hurricanes, when a bad one happens in the US they are more likely to document other minor hurricanes in the Caribbean and Latin America. But otherwise plenty of hurricanes hit those areas and it doesn't make major headlines.
We haven't really found any way to fix the problems that fossil fuels are creating, either. Which might not be catastrophic yet if you're optimistic, but are certainly heading that way.
Not sure which is safer, I believe some research suggests more people die from coal mining then from nuclear energy. See for example this: https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
Why do Americans always call it hemp or, more frequently, marijuana? It's cannabis.
While he was proven wrong, his point was correct: WWI and WWII were economically disastrous to everyone involved except for the US. And in that case only because the US suffered no major damage to its infrastructure.

There's no way rational actors would start a war on the size of WWII. Only human insanity can cause another one. While that's no guarantee, it is still a strong preventative factor.
> labor share of income was 65% in 1950, and 63% in 2000. It's 57% today

How much of that is due to robots doing more work? Modern solutions like mostly automated server farms, factories and warehouses generates quite a lot of value. Who enjoys the fruits of robot labor? The people who owns the robots. Robots are not means of production, they don't make people more efficient, they just replaces people.

Example: we replace all cashiers at McDonalds with robots, does that make every other worker more productive? No. The people who own those robots reaps the profits. Can't the workers strike to get better wages now that there is more profits to go around? No, we happen to have a lot of newly unemployed cashiers who would gladly take your job from you!
The iPhone and the atomic bomb were kept secret quite well.
I believe it uses iCloud/CloudKit to sync data from all devices associated with your account.
What's the battery life like on Linux laptops these days?
There are much more safe alternatives that just need a bit more of funding which do not involve as many risks as current nuclear reactor technology.

For example Molten salt reactors have proved to be quite effective back in the 60s already. I wonder why this doesn't get more attention.
Cross device statistics.
Apart from the OS, hardware wise there are quite a few laptops that are better pound-for-pound.

The XPS and Huawei MatebookX pro seem to be better in every way, with the polish that is expected of Apple products.
Think pads cater to a different market, but have all the same bells and whistles too.

The XPS and Thinkpads have great linux support, so it helps bridge the OS downsides to a certain extent.
Coal mining also needs to go.
More than coal/oil/gas?

And please don't tell me you plan to sell wind/solar to China/India

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=3130
I only have a shallow understanding of the economic forces at play in the energy market. But it seems to be that we're just not going to be able to disrupt the fossil fuel industries before it's too late.

Is there someone who's knowledgeable on this subject that can cheer me up with some good data suggesting maybe we can turn this ship around in time? Or should I just start hoping that we miraculously nail fusion in the next 5 years and suddenly find we have absolutely no need for oil / coal / gas?
Actually we do, the next gen reactor types all planned safety in mind first. This is the primary focus, everything else is secondary. Liquid fluoride thorium reactor are promising.
Why would the NSA be doing such low-level (literal wiretapping) work anymore? Useful traffic is almost always encrypted.
If only they'd check their pages for typos before posting. (No ending punctuation on the last block of text.)
Do you recommend any particular devices? Muse, etc?
"Goods are just one part of the overall economy, and an increasing small part of it. A large part of the economy is services that involves humans"

We were talking about immigration not services, remember you mentioned visas?

"Would you consider there to be a goods drain ? or a petroleum drain"

No because I said they were different, if a 20 something emigrates, the country they grew up in has spent years educating that child, keeping it healthy, supporting the parents while they bring up the child, then just as the payback should be starting the child leaves. Its analogous to spending time and money drilling an oil well, and building a refinery, just to see the petrol walk out the door with no money coming back to you.

"Who said ?"
I did.

"India is not some marginalized group in western society that is asking for handout"

I never said it was. You're the one whose got a Bee in their bonnet about British colonialism.

"Your original comment is ignoring what India is"

I've reread my original comment and its clear enough what I said. I've also clarified what I said, so why do you keep ignoring what I have actually said in favour of what you imagine I said?
ryanair's website says their whole fleet is 737-800 and they definitely have airstairs (for eg: https://sjc1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteflight/uploads/defaul...)
It syncs across devices, presumably that mechanism is unavailable during this outage?
No the cluster size isn't fixed, nor is the event rate — the clusters are chosen purely based upon what an "unusually long" time between events would be. That's precisely how the rate ends up canceling itself out. Given this formulation, the expected cluster size is always e, regardless of how you define celebrity. That's what makes it fun.

Now the human psychology part that this doesn't cover is that typically when you have two or three A-listers die, well, then you start seeing all the B- C- and D-listers that also died in the same period that you would have otherwise ignored.
It labels what you're doing during that time, ie, which apps you're using then displays an icon next to it which could explain the web requests since there are so many apps.

My guess is that it's a glorified analytics system for Apple which they retooled into a useful service for end users.
Surprise: Undead Session Cookies
Yep, and you'd likely see Bloomberg running it as a feature special.
I would want to know which of those developers have lower compensation because they joined a startup or something similar with the _possibility_ of a much bigger payout in the future. Or moved to a much lower CoL and accepted a smaller comp.

My point is: your observation that FAANG developers do accept lower comp for work elsewhere is not very convincing.
Perfect, you don't want someone to mistype the code when they have to send the commies to GlowLand.
We can turn this ship out by educating our peers. I have convinced countless people about reconsider their view on energy. Keep doing it and we will succeed.
Impact of SKS Keyserver Poisoning on Gentoo
Dhall heavily borrows both ideas and syntax from the ML family of languages. E.g. Haskell, OCaml, Elm, Purescript

Colons are used for type signatures.

Commas are presumably required because you can have multi line and nested records. (don't quote me on this, not a parser expert)

The comment syntax is from Haskell.

Not saying this syntax is familiar to everyone, but it is familiar to some. The lineage of the syntax might help you understand where the language is coming from
Freakonomics did a wonderful episode on the subject of government bailouts/investment, Is the Government More Entrepreneurial Than You Think? [1]. One relevant quote:

> MAZZUCATO: What the U.S. government actually did with Tesla was the opposite of what they should do. They said, thinking they were quite wise, “If you fail to pay back the loan, we get three million shares in your company.” And you have to ask yourself why all these Goldman Sachs guys who were in Obama’s government didn’t actually come through when they were needed, because they should have said the opposite: “If you do pay back the loan, we get three million shares.” And the price per share, when the loan was taken out in 2009, was $9 a share. When it was paid back in 2013, it was $90 a share. That difference multiplied by three million would have more than paid back the Solyndra loss and the next round. Then the question becomes: how do you share not only the risks but also the rewards? So we don’t get what we get with the banks, which is that when things go bad the state has to bail them out, and when things go well, the banks take the profits.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mariana-mazzucato/
I don't think anyone who didn't live through Tschernobyl, WAA, Castor and the NATO Double-Track Decision with the SS-20 scare can understand why Germany doesn't want nuclear power.
>Unfortunately we don’t have the means to fix a catastrophe should one occur (and it will, as safe as nuclear is, it it not possible to eliminate the possibility of a serious accident).

meanwhile, coal powerplants are spewing out co2, heavy metals, and radioactive particles during normal operation.
In the original comment you mentioned the open web put roadblocks in the way of progress due to idealism. So, if you could say what those roadblocks were, and how the idealism supported them ...

Presumably you're not accusing "open web" activists of having ideals that favour inhibiting bandwidth, or hosting content on slow servers, so noting that proprietary ["closed"] services had those facets is irrelevant to your original comment.

If you felt that people wanting to use PNG, because GIF was closed and contrary to [the nebulous concept of] "open web ideals" has retarded progress on the web, then that might be an example? I'm struggling for an example, because I don't know of any examples, which is why I asked you because you spoke implying you know [many] examples!
These things are so much more painful to deal with when it's July 4th.
For those out of the loop, this week has seen an outage from a bunch of major US internet companies: Cloudflare, Slack, Google Cloud, Azure, Facebook (including Instagram and WhatsApp), and now iCloud.
> I'm on the technical advisory board of round2cap.com where I also do technical due diligence.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4auliazw2d3kcio/Screenshot%202019-...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Still much prefer HJSON (http://hjson.org/) for stuff that people might need to touch.

If it's truly for end-users (read: non-admin/dev types), you probably shouldn't have them touching configuration files _at all_.
CppCon '17: Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-Friendly Hash Table, Step by Step
Its depressing that people voting for "green" parties are actually supporting more pollution.

Nuclear power is the only way to be honest.