skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsurprising given the 2010 Al Jazeera revelations of the Boeing-Ducommun conspiracy and cover-up: critical structural elements that were supposed to be CNC machined by Ducommun were crudely made by hand and Boeing managers ordered them installed into 737 NG (-600, -700, -800, -900) anyhow. And then when a blue-ribbon panel of Boeing employees went to find out what happened, their findings were buried and no corrective action was taken. 737 NG's are flying around with substandard critical structural components like spars and the areas around doors, leading to several fuselage breakups on hard landings and runway overruns, which has killed at least several passengers to date. In past similar incidents, aircraft fuselages survived intact. There's a very real possibility that one or more 737 NG's may breakup in heavy turbulence, hard landings and runway overruns at any time, and Boeing knows about it, but has done nothing to remedy it.

https://youtu.be/IaWdEtANi-0
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>What I mean is, instead of writing π to instead use "pi", or "summation()" rather than using the capital sigma?

Mathematicians would like to use one symbol for one entity. Is pi the same as π or just p multiplied by i?

As for summation vs Sigma? It'd take much longer to write, and probably a bigger pain to read. Having double summations is extremely common, and triple summations are fairly common as well. If you're doing mathematical manipulations/derivations with these, you'll have them on each line.

The terse syntax exists for a reason - it's efficient. If you read fairly old math books (e.g. from the Arabs, or even more resent), you'll see that they were very expressive. The use of symbols for algebra was a significant advancement in math.
The standard for “being forced” doesn’t have to be “gun to the head.” It can also be “is unemployed”
My friend dropped out of college. My girlfriend is in college. I was talking about how she has a few years left and he starts shaking his head. "I just don't get it. So long and for what? To get a job?"

When he dropped out of engineering school he went to manage a restaurant. Made good money. Then started to build a house. Quit that too. He almost had occupancy on it and said, "I'm done. I'm out."

That's also what college is about. If you come to me looking for a job and didn't go to college, why? Did you drop out? Why? Do you not think learning is important? Do you not understand sticking it out until you have accomplished the goal?

Do you give up before you are through?

Not only that, but of course, I meet folks all the time who think "you don't need a degree to be a programmer." Sure. You don't need a degree to put Ikea furniture together either. I don't need programmers. I write programs to write programs. I need folks who know how to think... for themselves and learn and go out and find knowledge they need to solve problems and then solve the problems.

Until they are done solving the problem.

Not until they've given up.
The keyword idea would be a great fallback for the existing "suggested URL" function in Chrome.

I think it works as intended about 95% of the time. It'd be nice to be able to add to a simple Map<Keyword, Url> table that the "suggested URL" feature can use as a fallback.
>How many people "unfamiliar with school-level math" do you know?

How many programmers can solve a quadratic equation without knowing the quadratic formula (i.e. how many can do the algebraic manipulations needed to solve it)?

That is school level math.
Following your logic we should see headlines like "Hammer kills men"
Welcome to taxes. You could have had something, then the government says you can't and you have to live a different lifestyle. All the options here are morally gross and it is easy to justify either side.

If land values have truly doubled in 8 years it isn't like the family involved is out of pocket. They've made a small fortune. The idea they can make a small fortune and prevent land from being used is also morally gross. The only justification is that a large hurt is diffuse where the small hurt would be concentrated. That is a defensible philosophy but it is also one where eventually everyone is worse off. And it isn't like this is an erosion of property rights; they are being taxed on benefits that they are not responsible for creating. 1.5% land tax so people have to re-buy the land once a generation is as good an idea in tax law as any I've seen.

I agree that having to change a lifestyle because of taxation is pretty awful and the system should strive not to do it. But I've visited places like Hong Kong and seen the density of living there. We're talking an order of magnitude more people. The number of people who come out ahead from that sort of property development is so overwhelming we can't process it using intuition and positive stories about individuals.
>but how is it "screwing"?

Because all you get for $1000 is a one nice stand?
I remember it as a worse Perl, but with a bunch more web-batteries included. It's the latter that got me interested, way back in the day. Deployment story wasn't that different, aside from that cheap hosts were more likely to let you run PHP than Perl.
The reason I invest my time and energy in my job is because working and maintaining a career is generally necessary for someone in my position. Within limits the people (I don’t want extraordinarily unpleasant coworkers) and the mission (I probably won’t do anything I find immoral) aren’t extraordinarily important to me.

I generally like the word “professional”.
I do but I don’t pay for it. I have a copy on boot camp and its been a while since the “Activate Windows” watermark stopped bothering me. It boots directly into Steam Big Picture. I know I know... but at least I’m not using malware infested solutions to keep it working.
This is very true. I am in college (non-american) and feel very weird because of the way a lot of stuff it taught here. Teaching is a different matter, but it is the grading that makes it worse. Questions asked in exams don't correspond to what is useful as far as I have seen programming on my own. Things I've learnt on my own help me understand stuff but papers are made just to ensure that those who mug up get better grades. It's sad.
Windows Sandbox running a Java VM Docker container on an Xen network. VM in a VM in a VM.
I’m curious why the author used phx-change function for the form, I believe a better way to do this would be the phx-keyup function attached the text field.
At the college I was at, there were definitely teaches so afraid of bad student scores that they would pass any student who complained. (Some students at US colleges and universities, from my anecdotal experience, believe that they pay the tuition to receive a degree regardless of academic merit.)
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I help a friends dad with his computer sometimes. A few times per year, he brings it to me and says it’s being slow. Every time, it’s windows update bogging his machine down for weeks, since it can’t seem to update on its own without crashing and causing issues. Last week it took over 5 hours to reinstall an update - several times longer than would be needed to install windows or Linux from scratch.

I might install cinnamon next time he brings it by
Oh, I'm not disagreeing! I'm just giving you the names for these two distinct concepts so they're not conflated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tolerance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
Maybe is not appropriate to "convert" you here, but I recommend self building so you get good Linux support, and then running Windows in a VM. Usually you can run program in WINE, but VM should always work.
I didn't say you were bashing MS, nor did I suggest it. I just don't know what else you want them to do. They absolutely are bending over backwards so that organizations can't continue to use those ancient webapps. There's nothing else they could do from their side. They're going to have the burden of making sure that IE tabs continue to function and remain secure.
United Fruit Company (present day Chiquita) has done messed up things.
> Is there a better alternative than discursive agreements with a single yes/no at the end?

Yes, that's what GDPR is all about, you need informed consent (not just yes/no) and also the collection of data needs to be related of what you are trying to achieve (that's almost never the case with tracking).
Unfortunately, drag force is proportional to the square of velocity... So the slingshot (or railgun or whatever) maybe gives you a nice acceleration at the start, but a LOT of that initial force will bleed off as drag early in the flight in the thick thick low atmosphere.

(Consider the difference in difficulty of riding a bike at 15mph vs 16mph and 25mph vs 26mph... 25->26 requires a hell of a lot more effort, all due to drag.)
Perhaps not a decision you can truly consider until you get there. I've always been quite open to the idea of euthanasia in principle, but now that I live with a degree of chronic pain, I find myself becoming _vehemently_ anti-suicide - I'm not going to let this beat me - and the worse the pain is, the more intense that feeling becomes.

I'm quite aware there is probably a level of pain that may start my thinking in the opposition direction though, and no doubt different people will have different thoughts on and approaches to this.
It's ridiculous to call it an "ordinary desk stand" it's anything but. A 100% perfectly calibrate weightlessly counterbalanced stand is a godsend for those who need it. The rest can get the VESA adapter instead.

Furthermore, this is a product targeting a market that normally spends over $40,000 on a monitor without any mounting gear or stand to do the same work. Apple's display a bargain in context.

If you think this is "an ordinary desk stand" then you are, without one iota of a doubt, absolutely not the consumer who needs or wants the device or even understands it.
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I knew two people who both got cancer about the same time. One said no to chemo. The other said yes to chemo.

The differences in quality of life until death were dramatic. Neither had a longer life than was expected had they not taken the chemo, but the one who did lost hair, physical dexterity, then life. Suffered greatly.

The other one suffered much less, but still died.

The doctors all said take the drugs. You don't have to take the drugs. Do the research. Chemo isn't always beneficial.

Sometimes... it's just hope.
Everyone knows the saying "If you're not paying for it, you're the product, not the customer". Well, when companies I've paid good money to still go against my wishes, I just assume I'm still partially the product... meaning I'm not paying them enough and they've sought other sources of income (or have removed features to simplify the product and devote less human-hours to maintaining it to cut costs).

So what I'm saying is... Who out there is willing to make an OS at a $xxx/license price point that will just fucking do what I want? Any takers?
> (In particular it almost definitely won’t use on-disk storage when needed or support parallelism...)

The parallelism possibilities of shell pipelines was always obvious to me.

But I hadn't appreciated explicitly the trivial disk storage ability - that is important too. Nowadays, the other way may be important too - that you can create an in-memory filesystem and run scripts that work off files way faster.

Another tool I feel we don't use enough, is 'make'.
The piece in the video where they talk about an old building that evolved over 500 years reminds me of when I lived in Germany and we would visit castles and take pictures as our hobby. Most castles start as a single tower on a high point of ground and grow from there.

So one of the things we would do is go around trying to identify the oldest tower, the place where this fortification started. It was generally going to be simpler and uglier and out of step with the rest of the architecture.

It was also often fairly centrally located. At Wurzburg, I think it was found in some inner courtyard.

At one time, I had the book called How Buildings Learn. The gist of it is that wonderful old buildings didn't start out as wonderful old buildings. They grew into their wonderfulness as owners added onto them.

Time and living well in that space is what makes for wonderful buildings.

Jane Jacobs talks about the need for older buildings in a city and the need for buildings of various ages. She says that when you bulldoze an area and start over and build everything new you are usually doing great harm to the town.

Her description is that these areas "Were always dead, but no one noticed until the body began to smell."

Which means it was never a good idea. People just didn't figure it out until the newness and shininess wore off and the fact that it didn't work and was falling apart in short order started to really show.

It was her explanation for why people were wrong about "This area died." No, it didn't die. It was never alive to begin with. You just didn't immediately see it.

Buildings and cities need to grow and breath and live. They need to evolve organically. If you imagine they are static things, you don't understand them and you can't do right by them.
My vote is for moveable type: Suddenly Bibles became cheap and people could question the structure of the church. News papers came and people could debate the structure of the state. Scientific books and journals.
Oh yes of course that’s the cheapest option and probably good for most use cases, in my specific case I was thinking about a Mac Mini because some of the proprietary SW that I use (Adobe Suite, Ableton Live) probably wouldn’t run very well in a VM (but I may be wrong and I will of course test before spending money)

Edit: besides the VM, I hear Wine supports many apps nowadays so it’s worth trying as well
I’ve always been confused about this too. A couple of big open source contributions and the world turns a blind eye to massive privacy invasions
Your first two "virtual machines" are actually not that different.

Sure, xen simulates the same CPU type as host, and talks to host via block devices and raw sockets, and each guest includes the full OS and filesystem; while Java VM simulates a completely different CPU, and uses host's OS for filesystem and TCP/IP access. They seem pretty distinct.

But you are just looking at the sides of the spectrum, and there are plenty of things in the middle.

- With Xen, you can boot directly into user app, without any OS, filesystems or separate libraries. Is it still "fake system" if the thing you are booting has no chance of running on a real hardware?

- Qemu/kvm, which is normally used to emulate processors, supports "virt", "a platform which doesn't correspond to any real hardware and is designed for use in virtual machines." Does this start to sound like JVM for you?

- There are an actual, physical chips which execute Java bytecode directly (like picoJava). Does this put Java VM into "hardware emulation" category?

- On, and there is UML (user mode linux) project -- it emulates a virtual machine with its own fixed memory pool (like xen), and can use host's block device (like xen), and raw networking (like xen); but it can also use host's filesystem (like JVM), and it uses host's kernel for thread scheduling (like JVM). Where does it go?

- Oh, and there is a Smalltalk. The older versions had garbage-collecting VM (like JVM), but it had its own device drivers (like xen) and filesystem (like xen).

There is a reason we call of them "virtual machines" -- they have lots of things in common.
Some people have photosensitivity. Particularly people with light-colored pigment in their irises.
I mean, I'm not completely unsympathetic, but we charge property tax partly to make sure land is being used well, and not just being sat on while it appreciates. When people live in low density housing in the midst of cities, that has a very real cost to everyone else in that city. The housing crisis is partly a result of this phenomenon, and that hurts a huge number of people.
>Hard problems; but with feasible paths to a solution and a huge potential market once technology gets there. IMHO this won't take more than a decade and possibly a lot shorter.

I’d consider that an extremely rosy outlook, and would argue nobody has yet demonstrated a “feasible path to solution” for level 5 autonomy (or in fact, lower levels). Self-driving seems as far away as it ever has been, much like fusion power.
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If I was going to set up an older person who struggles with computers, would you say plasma is decent, or should I stick with cinnamon?
It’s quite simple really. There are some careers where you can learn and advance far more on your own.

Software engineering is one of them. The amount of tutorials and videos available on the internet far surpasses any curriculum at school.

But on the other hand, anything that requires hands on training that you can’t get at the comfort of your house, like medical or scientific careers, those you probably need to go to a school for.

Further more, in terms of software engineering, I don’t think the school system can ever keep up with the fast pace of the tech world. It’s just a rigid system and too slow for anything fast changing, like the web/app development.
From Wikipedia:

> Science (from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

> Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") includes the study of such topics as quantity (number theory), structure (algebra), space (geometry), and change (mathematical analysis). It has no generally accepted definition.

One of those words is a bit more defined than the other. I’m not sure how the above qualifies as science.
Fake news double speak.

Incinerating is recycling. The article even admits it below.

> One problem with incineration as a recycling solution,

But only 1 in 3 recycling generates more outrage and more clicks. I'm sure A/B testing agrees.
Immuno-oncology and fasting are the future, but polychemotherapies still have their uses.
I think this comment fails to see that this isn't about philanthropy but about buying into networks/access/prestige that these schools (Yale, Horace Mann) provide.

Leland Stanford's reason for starting Stanford in his son's name was to honor his son's memory (who died when he was nine). Perhaps if his son was alive and wanted to attend college, he may have donated to Harvard or Wharton instead.
Oh yes that is always a good thing to do, even though Linux is not currently my main OS, I always tell devs they should support it.
The premise is about current chemical propellants and structural components. If you build a rocket out of nanotubes with nuclear propulsion you could go wherever you want from anywhere else. Except black holes.
I bought a modern 4K “tv” [0] (actually a monitor) recently without any sort of “smart tv” features. There are a few options out there in the high end monitors or, even cheaper, the “Corporate display panel” genre. I was appalled at how hard it was to get a display that wasn’t able to phone home, though!

[0] https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-43UD79-B-4k-uhd-led-monito...
That's why some people say the scandal is really about theft: the parents were getting admission slots at an unfair discount and those slots should have gone to people who donated more.
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Why leave college? Could not afford it, did not enjoy it, thought more could be accomplished outside of it, etc.

There are many reasons beyond just weak character for why someone would not go to college and it's not up to you as an employer to make that judgement call on someone's personality until you've dissected their real reasons for leaving.

This is something that takes a lot of time, way longer than an interview has to offer, so it's best to not make assumptions.
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Ignoring the two kinds of jquery, you're loading JavaScript to your non-TLS website without TLS?

And loading your analytics (quantcast) with inline scripts on a non-TLS page?

That's kinda asking for a MITM attack, isn't it?
Similar response with pembrolizumab for my son, diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in 2015. Side effects really quite trivial for him - more akin to allergy/hay fever than what you see with other treatments. I understand pembro is even better than the drugs mentioned in the article, both in terms of side effects (less) and likelihood of actually working for a particular individual.
The CS program for undergrad in Havard is exactly the same as your closer public college

I'm sympathetic to your signaling point of view, but this statement is definitely wrong. CS curriculum varies a lot between the top schools and a typical public university.

For example I just now looked at the labs for Operating Systems at University of North Carolina and compared that to the work I did at CMU. UNC has students implement malloc and free. At CMU I implemented a process scheduler and virtual memory system.
A friend of mine had a Whipple procedure but it ruined his quality of life (he couldn't eat almost anything) and he died not long after. He wasn't even into his mid-40's, CMU alumnus and worked on XEmacs.
Plus I don't think it got its velocity from Earth, but by using gravity assists to steal momentum from other planets (which, if you don't know how that works, do yourself a favor and read the wikipedia page, it's pretty great).
Thank you. I’m hearing from many other comments in this thread that Wine works very well nowadays, I’ll give it a shot (alongside a Win VM) before investing in a Mac Mini
Adobe Suite, Ableton Live with various VST plugins. I’m going to investigate the Wine route, as I’m hearing that it supports many applications nowadays
I remember seeing a simple demonstrator some years back of a laser pulsing against the backside of a spinning disc, the geometry of things causing the heat from the laser to provide thrust.

I can't find the video I saw, but here's a general link on the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion#Laser_energiz...

This comes with many problems, but it does bypass the rocket equation, while not requiring Project Orion levels of trouble.
It might have, if Linux evangelists had pulled their heads out of their asses and actually made what people wanted instead of assuming everyone was too dumb too use a computer and only needed a pretty web kiosk and email. If they had made the OS function in a sane way instead of the Rube Goldberg machine of cobbled together systems that it is. To this day I still hear people blame Linux Desktop's complete and utter failure on pre-installs and lack of prettiness, ignoring completely the complaints of all the ways Linux Desktop just plain sucks, even when they were made by Linus himself.
> The CS program for undergrad in Havard is exactly the same as your closer public college.

No. Not even close. Unless you're taking about flagships like uiuc and Berkeley (which are not local for 99%).

This may be true in the humanities but is nowhere near true in the mathematical sciences.

My final year analysis course at college only covered a fraction of the content in the FIRST year advanced math sequence at Harvard.

As someone who went to one of those truly local state schools then taught at a #1 CS school: the quality difference in CS educations is absolutely insane. See also the "Java Schools" rant.
He's actually the coauthor of the 3rd version of that book.

Also his GUI library is called NanoGUI. Nori is an educational rendering framework.