skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is right to hold it against any race or creed or nation responsible for the past misgivings. It is not as if India pre-colonialism was a heaven for its citizens back then. The income disparity in the Hindi heartland was at its zenith during the 400 year turko-persian Mughal rule, not to mention the racist policies against both the minority Shi'a populace and the majority Hindus.

History is fraught with humans exploiting the system, the planet, the masses, their families either through promises like salvation, love, and progress, or through force like imperialism and governance.

There is a running joke among Indians wanting the Simon Commission to come back [0] given the current state of the ruling class.

In the context of climate change; however, it is important for the nations of the world to take drastic measures or suffer consequences never seen before. Though the Tropical countries are both the worst and immediately affected by climate change, the ripples will be felt world-wide, as a changing planet is going to hit everyone hard, eventually, if not immediately. The only worry is if it leads to mass civil unrest among some of the most populated countries resulting in a global military struggle instead of reaching resolution through co-operation and collaboration. As civilians, we hope for the latter, but the power-grabbers / the usurpers might favour the former, and that's nothing new and nothing limited to the Western hemisphere.

If anyone in the East insists on playing the victim and perpetually blames the European imperialistic designs of yesteryears for their current perils, it is lazy ignorance at best and incompetence at worst, imo.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Commission
I mean... if drivers aren’t in the picture it might work, no?

That said, the odds of that happening any time soon or that Uber / Lyft are the first to do it are pretty low - but markets can be irrational for a long time!

Not where I’d put my money, but plenty of folks have more than me to burn up.
You were only mentioning the problems with MCAS when it comes to sensors and decision making. As bad as that is the fact that the MCAS decisions are de-facto locked in by spinning the trim wheel. Undoing those revolutions manually - after locking MCAS out - takes a while. A while that is not available in the flight states MCAS is most likely to act.
Businesses are made of people, and people have ethics. If you're running one, consider the way you advertise. Are you aiming at making mutually beneficial transactions, or are you just trying to milk you users out of their hard-earned cash? Not all advertising is inherently harmful to individuals or society. Choose the ethical option. It may cost your company some lost profits, but then again, you may gain loyal customers who'll want to reward a honest business.
I have been told that Ice Breakers make for uncomfortable ocean voyages because of the design compromises need to break ice.

They don't so much smash ice with the bow of the vessel but instead use their powerful engines to push the ship onto the ice, which then breaks under the weight of the ship.

This means they require a relatively flat bottomed hull, which doesn't make for a nice ride in blue water with swell.

Newer designs travel through the ice in reverse so that more suitable bows for oceans voyages can be used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_acting_ship
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Most of the countermeasures aboard air force one are classified.
I’m not sure that people are arguing about “supremacy” as much as they are arguing that Go was an attractive choice for the authors vis-a-vis other languages.

Getting into language or tool superiority arguments without deeply analyzing the environmental factors and use cases seems like a pointless exercise to me, and ought to be discouraged here IMO.
Is there a bang to disable personalized results?
There are tests (silly logic puzzles or rehashing cs) and tests (actually useful practice evaluation). Let's assume the positive side of this idea.
Works for me in Austria.
I'd love Google to separate "fresh" and "old" into two different search engines. When using a new framework or a version of a language or when searching for news I don't want old results. However, when searching for a part number, old documentation, information about a person I do want old information. Right now it just seems google purges the old instead of building two indexes.
Well, if we use a "normal" (non solar) plant, using this as a base comparison:

https://www.lenntech.com/applications/emergency-seawater-des...

it's 15 KW for 2000 lt/hour, assuming the efficiency scales linearly (I strongly doubt it does), a 40 lt/hour that would be 300 W (which I don't believe), it is more likely to be in the (not very accurate measure) "around 1 kW" range, which in laymans terms should mean some 6 or 7 sqm of solar panels, possibly a little bit more.

About the cost, you can buy today commercial systems (only the desalination part) in the US$ 5,000 range:

https://www.echotecwatermakers.com/beach_house_desalination_...

The smallest model has 5.4 A @230V which seems just in line with what we calculated above, around 1 kW.

If we assume that the cost of the needed solar plant (the additional part needed to supply the desalination plant) would be around 500 US$ or less, the price to beat is 5,500 US$, but considering that added solar power surface produces power that might be used, I would say that a more reasonable cost would be below US$ 4,000, which is still a lot.
I don't think being-guilty-of and taking responsibility are the same thing. Eg; I don't think I was guilty of starting the argument with my colleague, but I nevertheless have a responsibility to contribute to its resolution.

But there's potentially a deeper implication of your position. Can one simultaneously disown the sins of our ancestors whilst being so attached to the benefits they reaped? If there is no moral connection between then and now, why is it so difficult for me to contemplate foregoing the relative wealth afforded to me by my currency, education, medical health and passport, in order to return the trillions of dollars of labour and natural resources stolen from say India and Africa?
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> The 737 airframe is actually relatively stable compared to many other things that fly.

I agree, so where is your comparison of 737 Max and non-Max airframe? Because we have real data, including death toll, that shows one airframe is not like the other.

> Boeing's mistake was in underestimating the burden placed on the pilots in a runaway trim situation, and assuming that pilots could execute a recovery procedure correctly that remained unchanged from prior iterations but that had also been rarely needed on prior iterations (vs. the MAX, where MCAS failures were common enough that an average pilot might actually need to execute the procedure).

This is not the whole truth as we know in this situation MCAS 1.0 was a critical flight system with a non-redundant data source. The "burden" placed on pilots was that the system did not have sufficient and trustworthy information to prevent a faulty and inadequately designed system (MCAS) from crashing the airplane. Furthermore since MCAS is not required, again, on non-Max airframe it seems your assertion that you have background in aerospace engineering is egregious because you should understand all 737 Max are currently grounded because the 737 Max is not a 737 airframe and should be recertified as such.
"Several past studies have found that media reports of suicides and homicides appear to subsequently increase the incidence of similar events in the community, apparently due to the coverage planting the seeds of ideation in at-risk individuals to commit similar acts"

I've suggested before on HN that active shooter drills- which are apparently widespread now in US schools- might be themselves a source of contagion. Because they provide exactly those "seeds of ideation", both by simulating the events and by implicitly suggesting that these kind of occurrences are in the realm of possibilities and somehow expected.
Etcd may not be, but Consul is in my experience substantially easier() to run in production than ZK, and is also written in Go. I’d say this is nothing to do with implementation language and much more to do with a more understandable consensus model.

( based on having spoken to hundreds of operators of both over the last few years, while (disclaimer) working for HashiCorp and other distributed system vendors, but also having personally run both at serious scale)
Registers on anything today will be way wider than few bytes, moreover on network hardware.

The gate savings on doing endiannes specific circuits are close to zero in comparison to many many other things a typical logic block comes with today.
> Nothing except what you REALLY need NOW to get things done.

Do you really need `g?` (rot13) to get things done ?
It does? As I remember all the main characters are already violent at the begging of the film.
Ask HN: How an engineer can find a business cofounder for a startup?
I like being in the new project/company from day 0 (and I already did that a couple of times). I also prefer to focus mostly on technology.

That said, how would you approach problem of finding a business founder? Are there any other ways than reaching out to my personal network?

I live in EU. Curious person will be able to find my resumé on the web.
Imagine the mental gymnastic you have to go through to convince yourself that shootings are caused by cloudflare....
It's a societal issue, there are literally hundreds of measures that should be taken before even considering banning websites for wrongthink
I don't mind many apps - perhaps that's even a good thing, I can choose the one with the UX that works best for me - but they all need to work from the same system. The app I use has a chance to get any taxi from all the connected systems.
So for example, the Vim keyboard uses practically every key, for all sorts of commands. E.g. typing d) deletes to the end of the sentence, and to do it again I just type a period.

I suppose you could remap most of the vim keys to function keys and so on and do the same thing, but it sure would be a pain to type.

Pressing Esc multiple times might be an issue for terminal vim, but gvim uses different cursors to show what mode you're in.
Laws yes, substantive laws... debatable.

More significant measures like requiring a license or limiting magazine capacity are somehow characterized as over reach.

Would be interested to hear how that is rationalized.
Not in the same way however as the GP meant I don’t think. Most cabs get most of their fares from cruising and getting flagged down whereas Uber / lyft get zero of their fares that way. He’s saying the modern dispatch only method is more efficient and I suspect in this regard he’s absolutely right.
Yes, I agree that you describe a use case that works and is solved for you and many other early adopters. Which is great for the overall acceptance of BEV driving.

Also great to hear you live in a home where you can actually park your car close enough to the building to have the luxury of charging it through your own infrastructure.

I too have these benefits, and, probably like you, I too drive a Tesla vehicle cheaply, thanks to tax incentives and company benefits.

Now let's look at the other 99% of the world:

If you look at the totals, the situation you describe won't hold up in a full electric future. The sum of the energy requirement for all miles driven, against the opportunity to upgrade the network to meet demand, especially in zones where cars usage is dense (cities) and room for net-expansion is difficult or extremely costly (cities).. there is a huge deficiency.

The transportable and storable nature of hydrogen might come as a solution.

Also, I mention the electricity loss on the network because this actually is not well known. This discussion would likely have started with 'with hydrogen, 50% is lost' if I hadn't mentioned it. That's a go-to counter argument for hydrogen, but one that we should not be focusing on.
> My wife and I recently watched a two-night 7-hour PBS special “Joseph Campbell, and the Power of Myths.” Campbell, a college professor for almost 40 years, said that he always advised his students to “follow their bliss” and not to settle for jobs and avocations that are not what they truly want to do.

Follow your bliss -- Such a succint and delightful advice!
> It's fascinating to watch how a company without any high margin business, insane losses and zero assets to their name balloons to a 80 billion evaluation, all on the promise of some vague future business model that does not exist at all. It's genuinely mad.

That is the exact description of Amazon in the 90s though.
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Looks awesome! I like how you can export your notes! That's great. So many featuers.
You have 1 million dollars and you aren't willing to spend even 100 dollars to fight climate change. I have only 100 dollars and you, the millionaire, are forcing me to spend 50 dollars on that cause.

How is that fair?

There is nothing good here, much less perfection. US and China, only 2 countries, can do far more to fight climate change. I want Amazon to be saved as much as anybody else. Deforestation of Amazon is something large scaled stuff and protecting it is also a big task. If we want Brazil to stop Amazon deforestation, we must also make sure that counties like US, China must also take similar big steps.
I don't agree with the "just Python". Hy gets around Python's crippled lambdas and frees you from indentation hell. Hy also gives you real macros, expressions instead of return statements, improved lisp-style comprehensions, :symbols and switch/case whilst removing the need for nonlocal/global.
You realize you just perfectly described the entire Silicon Valley venture capital funded tech industry, right?
Of all the broken design decisions in the MAX, this was the one that elicited an outraged "what?!?" from me. In what possible way could this be a good idea?
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Regulated taxis absolutely _suck_ in every EU country I visited (which is most of them). Even when they aren't fleecing an unsuspecting tourist, they are way overpriced and service isn't great. I cheer for the day they all go out of business.
It is actually still a thing:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11511886

The ability to make the enemy think you are massing forces somewhere is still invaluable and military dummies (complete with devices that will trace fake track marks on the ground) are actually costly equipment.

Some are designed to fool vision, others to fool radar.

Some are pretty realistic:

http://www.militarydecoy.com/html/InflatableMilitaryDecoy/
One answer to this: Google Docs has inflexible presentation options for multimedia and typography, and there are also as newsroom-specific editing needs (different spellchecking and grammar rules, control around who can edit the document at various points in the editorial process, etc.) that don't square with Google docs' setup.
Ditto, getting `Error 1016` from CloudFlare.

Have to resort with using web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190714180208/http://docs.hylan...
> Now we have the same rates we did before with cabs but none of the nice regulations on them, and none of the decent paying jobs.

I ride with rideshare/taxi 10+ times per week for work, I try to make all 10 of those rideshare. I'll keep doing it if Uber starts to cost more than taxi.

Every time I have to get in a taxi, I'm reminded why it was so easy to disrupt in the first place. Shitty cars, rude drivers, 'broken' card machines, drivers have no idea where to go and inexplicably try to avoid using GPS. Taxi driver picked me up from the airport in my home city and tried to take me on a 20+ min out of the way route until I told him I'm going to my fucking house. 'Oh sorry I thought this way is quicker because of the traffic'. This doesn't happen with rideshare, and drivers are usually much nicer. I'm happy to pay extra for that.

People who keep saying that the only thing Uber did was undercut the existing taxi industry, have no clue what they're talking about.
I maintain the right to criticise my nation. I am just a single member, but such individuals are the only components that make up the whole.

If I don't take responsibility then who will?
Yeah, this is a real problem. The PG gem, for example, uses some global variables.

IMHO the only way to do it is to add incremental parallelism which leaves the GIL in place. Racket has already shown a solid path here.

Guilds would have a major performance problem: can't allocate objects without GIL. It's also a tricky mental model and requires invasive changes to existing Ruby code to handle frozen objects.

Places don't share a heap so they don't need the GIL to allocate objects and have independent GC rather than global GC. It's a model which fits better with existing Ruby code. The GVL can be relaxed while executing Ruby and grabbed by native methods.

WDYT?
If you define great as memorizing the streets absolutely. The cab driver test for London is very intense. However cabs in London are unusually expensive compared to most cities and as much of a tourist hub as London is, most cabs don’t take credit cards.

If I’m ever in London and need a quick cab I’ll always choose Uber. It’s a “good enough” knock off and way cheaper. There isn’t a ton of value in memorizing the city streets in the age of smartphones and google maps anymore.

Disclaimer: had a London cabbie really take me “for a ride” from heathrow and took a very poor route on purpose. Almost 90 quid later I was not a happy camper.
Oh thank you. Yes, it is all in one note and document management site! I built something that I can use myself. :)
Ada has around 6 implementations available, only GNAT is open source.

The language is at the same level as Haskell, OCaml, C++ or similar.
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What browser would go to great lengths to implement such a sandbox to run a code which the user does not care about and for which they have no use anyway?

People put "no ads" signs on their mail boxes. Do you really think they'd see such a thing as a feature? Crazy stuff, no browser on their right mind would shoot themselves such a bullet in the foot. People would immediately turn to the competition, should such a thing happen.

What next? Document viewers weighting several megabytes? Containing a full-fledged garbage collector?

I'd say let's keep things simple. People like simplicity, and stuff that works and that does not freeze or crash every other hour.
I mean MySQL did that with libaio (which needs O_DIRECT anyway), Oracle on Linux did that and some with ASM (their own filesystem basically), also Ceph with BlueStore (LevelDB as a FS).

Because general purpose filesystems and I/O susbsystems are just that, general purpose.

PostgreSQL regularly woes about the problems of the Linux I/O and fs APIs, but ... to my knowledge they did not do much else. (Other than working around the problems in userspace, and taking the performance hit.)

If you want I/O that doesn't throw you data away, use the perfectly fine buffered I/O on let's say XFS. Fast, safe, sane. If you need more juice, add NVMe, and/or MD-RAID / LVM. And eventually you need to scale out to multiple nodes anyway, and then the performance of the cluster consistency subsystem will be the weak point.
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If you don't know, why are you posting a guess?
That’s actually not true. In Europe there’s steady increase in area covered by forests and animals are returning to places where they haven’t been seen for centuries. It is a continuous effort and it’s not without struggle, but it’s a good example of how it should be. Large economies can and should use their power to force others to improve environmental standards.
Most industrial oxygen comes from cryogenic separation, not PSA, and has a purity above 99%. Liquid oxygen is the second cheapest industrial liquid, after water.
I think what they are trying to say is that almost everything that happens in everyday experience is the result of the residual electromagnetic interactions between the outer electrons of the electrically neutral atoms that make up the world. (Apart from some almost but not quite negligible gravitational interaction that keeps the earth in an orbit around the sun and things like that.)
> Skirting regulation is not ok if you believe in rule of law. If the law is bad, then money can be spent to improve that law.

I don’t want to snark on that idealism, but it is noteworthy that this didn’t happen. Instead everyone suffered in silence about horrible taxi systems until Uber changed everything.
okay, but 5Bn seems a bit excessive
Tell us a bit on how you built it
the electrons in the outer shells of metals are essentially free to move (which is why metals conduct electricity so well)
I really don't think I did. Facebook was cash flow positive after two years, Uber is a decade old. And at the heart of Silicon Valley tech lies the ability to leverage technology and network effects to scale. The biggest driver of costs for Uber are it's ride hailing expenditures, which is to say driver costs, insurance, carrier costs sales and marketing, all of which more or less grow linearly with the entire operation.

They're not really a tech company at all, they're an oversized taxi business that redistributes money from investors to software developers and executives.
How can List be faster than native arrays? (2018)
Yeah let me tell you about something which people in the Quality Assurance industry might call an "indicator": The US Army doesn't do much more than what you're describing for hearing aids.
Might want to check the website for accessibility issues. Your body text is way to small and according to the Chrome inspector, contrast is not sufficient for normal readability.
Imagine it were possible to scale this up and somehow harness the full lightning energy of a thunderstorm. Say 1 strike per second with each bolt representing 10^9 joules. Then that is a measly 1 GW peak, only available in certain places at specific times of day and parts of the year, not including losses and inefficiencies .
Because automation trims excess, which I think is something they want to avoid at all costs.
9 states have magazine limits. Does it make a substantive difference? If not, then what is the rationalization to make it Federal?

Which other Bill of Rights freedoms require a license to practice? Certainly free speech can and does lead to violence. Should we also require a license for that?

Would be interested to hear how that is rationalized.
Yeah, it's been months since I tried searching Google for something and the last few times I didn't find anything better than what DDG was giving me.
>Because teritorial integrity is the sacred cow of modern politics and everybody too scared, what else might happen, if this dogma is to be questioned?

Compromising another country's territorial integrity can very easily lead to a justified war.
I'm curious why didn't you consider FlatBuffers as well.
The amazon does not have a long way to go. There is still much of it left but scientists believe that at some point between 20% and 30% deforastation there could be a turning point with irreversible changes to rainfall patterns that would turn most of the amazon rainforrest into a savanna.