skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lastly, you should note that a lot of our business now comes from selling The Public Radio to radio stations (again, mostly NPR affiliates) to give out as fund drive gifts.

Here in NYC, we have two NPR-affiliated public radio stations that often play different content, WNYC AM and WNYC FM, and their parent organization also runs WQXR (a classical music station) and NJ public radio. So even if you only listen to public radio (like I do), an untunable FM-only radio wouldn't be enough. ("Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.")

My ideal "simple" radio would be one that worked like my car radio: you can preset any number of AM/FM stations and then select them with forward/backward buttons. (And once you have a display that can indicate the station, it would be sad if it couldn't also be an alarm clock.)
Definitely not hotdog (assuming that's from stem to stern). Musk wasn't totally clear when describing it, but he said mk3 would be in three months. The circumference of starship is 28.26 meters. For a single weld the entire length of the ship, the roll itself would need to be that wide.

The largest rolling mills in the world are ~4 meters wide[1]. They require backup rollers[2], ie rollers that push down the rollers that push down the rollers that push down the metal. Bending deflection increases with width^2. A 28 meter wide rolling mill does not exist AFAIK and cannot be built in three months.

[1]: https://www.aleris.com/company/rolled-products/

[2]: http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/metallurgy/types-of-rollin...
> What, precisely, are you attacking here?

Please refer, precisely, to my earlier comment in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21109193
> python-based data scientists who can do little more than port new data to existing models open sourced on GitHub

The data-scientist is the new web-developer.
An interesting footnote: the proposal Grumman beat to win the DARPA contract that led to the X-29 came from General Dynamics, who were pitching a forward-swept wing variant of their ubiquitous F-16 called the F-16 SFW.

http://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article26.html

GD really wrung as much mileage out of the F-16 airframe as they possibly could, coming up with all sorts of weird proposed spinoffs from it. They bid on the fighter-bomber contract that was eventually won by the F-15E Strike Eagle, for instance, with a delta-winged F-16 they called the F-16XL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16XL), and they attempted to jam thrust-vectoring into the platform with the F-16 VISTA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_VISTA).
It should be noted a) that Stallman doesn't have much history of changing his mind 180 degrees on stuff and b) that this was posted a day or two after his comments made the news.
>That is the way forward for urban/suburban solar power.

No way. The future of residential solar is coupled with storage. And the future of storage is in DC coupling, not wastefully inverting solar to AC just to invert back to put it in the battery.
1.16/0.28 is a big difference.

If Switzerland had the US rate, ~75 more people would die every year.

If the US had the Swiss rate, ~2800 people would live to see another year.
I suppose my implied question here is why control the market in that way even if they do have the practical ability to do so? If there is a market for simple, good quality products and people willing to pay a fair price for them, why would you exclude it, particularly in favour of a market where more of your revenue comes from dubious sources that could backfire in terms of PR and/or be less reliable in terms of future potential earnings?
And by the way, Linus Torvalds is closer to the open source initiative that to the free software foundation, which he does not like much, but his preferred license is the GPLv2.
Gates didn't write the first versions of Excel and Word, and probably has 0 commits on the source of these projects. Not to disparage the abilities of Gates, but there is no useful comparison here to be made.

Last talk I saw of Stallman, to a very technical audience, he was asked this same question. If I recall correctly he said that he was working to steer the programming resources towards the most important parts for user freedom (e.g., free operating system for phones), but he did not contributed code directly, leaving this task to more talented younger people. He enjoyed programming a lot, and his coding mojo was mostly spent on emacs macros to automate his daily tasks. (this is just a recollection from a talk heard a few years ago, it may not be exact, but that was the spirit).
If he hadn't resigned, Nixon would've been impeached by the House, then convicted by the Senate, after which he would've been and ex-President no matter how much the public approved of him. The leaders of Nixon's own party, e.g., Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Senator Barry Goldwater, and House Minority Leader John Jacob Rhodes, told him he had no hope of remaining President.

If Republican congress members ever turn on Trump to the same degree, he's out no matter his approval rating.
Odd. 200k cad is the norm for contractors in london, uk. Are you sure your skills are simply not in demand in most eu countries? From my calculations when i wanted to move to canada pay is indeed lower than even in east europe (after tax).
I'm not sure why I or anyone would need 'Chromium Edge' on Linux. It is essentially Chromium + IE + Telemetry and MS branded lipstick which is 10 steps back in terms of privacy.

No thanks, this won't make me switch. Instead I've just set Firefox as the default browser on macOS and Linux to replace Chrome on my Macbook.
>Suneja hauled his control column all the way back, giving full up elevator to no avail. The nose dropped farther as the stabilizer prevailed. The crew of an offshore oil platform saw the airplane in a nearly vertical dive before it hit the water.(Lion Air Flight 610)

>As the speed shot through 450 knots, the pilots hauled back on their control columns to no effect. Six minutes after takeoff, the airplane hit the ground doing approximately 600 miles an hour. It buried itself into a 30-foot-deep crater in farmland about 32 miles southeast of the airport. Within a week, the Boeing 737 Max was grounded worldwide. (Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302)
From: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-c...
They last longer, and that means the insides get grubby and outmoded
So is homotopic type theory just another way to look at the same thing or is it more expressive than type and set theory?
In other words, does homotopic type theory really help theorem checkers/provers?
It's not visible in the photograph, but this door has a glass window in the center of it.
I would say avoid germany. They claim to be open and all, so it sounds great for politics, but if you have dark skin you are pretty much “not to be trusted”.
My beef with Riot (at least as of 18 months ago) was how cumbersome it was to set up encrypted channels, especially on multiple devices. I'm not at a place where I can do much about that, but happy to support somebody who can (if its still an issue).
Because in practice, they aren't any faster because people just stand in them.
If you truly don't have the money for the down payment, the math of mortgage+insurance+property taxes+pmi+deductions might still work out to be in your favor over renting
Same thing in Russia
How do you picture them rolling a piece of steel 50 meters wide? As far as I know, the widest rolling mills in existence are 5 meters wide.
The significance of Excel in large corporate environments is definitely underestimated by a lot of people who evangelise other platforms and software like LibreOffice as viable alternatives.

On the other hand, IME this is more of an enterprise-scale thing. Smaller businesses tend to be less firmly tied to existing software packages, and do less heavily customised work with Excel specifically, so there's likely to be less of a barrier for them to migrate.
The no-smoking bit was me being a bit, ah, dry. Sorry it didn't come across better.

The home in question belonged to the extended family of my host family while I was an exchange student. I went with them to a maintenance day and did wallpaper. I got a very close look at the walls, not to mention the repeated lectures on what a firetrap it was.

Trust me, it was.
> Businesses will flip their shit if employees needed an MS account.

Not necessarily. Remember that Windows is an Azure product now. They want employees in the cloud paying for Office 365 anyway.
I too want my algorithms to fit in a less than a java method name size
It seems to me that instead of using physics inspired reasoning on the problem, it would be better to model it as a multiplayer game of perfect information. Under suitable simplifications, a Nash equilibrium exists, but then the question becomes: how close is reality to this simplified scenario?
I grew up with a HP48g and for some reason I never considered a handheld APL. That would be the only thing to match HP RPL :)
Man if you everything that’s “said” about germany you’d think it is paradise on earth. The indian dude has nu clue whats waiting for him in that country given he is not white. He’d better go to the uk if he wants a truly open minded european country. Canada is by far cleaner, safer, and better organised than any thi.
Then read this article instead: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26299317
I'm no expert but it doesn't seem very far fetched to me. If we can use deep learning to create a digital assistant, computer vision, and navigation/traversal then we're not very far off from something surpassing a dog's level of intelligence even with what exists today. If that's possible then it seems plausible it could continue onward.

Not saying its obviously possible but it doesn't seem obviously impossible and its a mistake to assume as such.
Yeh but the media on it keep banging on about having redundant engines. I don't think redundancy counts when if that one the fails is a wingtip.
The Th Nk City Is a Tiny Electric Car from Norway
Big companies are not rational.

Organizational inertia is very difficult to overcome. If you have a company that's grown for 30 years as a hardware company and as a result the whole management structure is filled with people who got to their positions by being good with hardware, it's very difficult for them to appreciate the importance of something like software with which they're unfamiliar. Some managers would even perceive raising the profile of a software group as a threat to their own power and influence and may even actively fight it.
Depending on specific circumstance: buy filters, find alternate sources, move.
It is still encrypted end-to-end. I don't know where you're getting your information from.
SpaceX is completely changing the opportunities of getting to space. The reduction in price has been nuts.

According to NASA the space shuttle was ~$450 million per launch, or $16,364 per kg to LEO. The Delta 4 Heavy is $12,156 per kg. For some launches it's even higher- the Air Force paid $15,109 per kg for four launches.

The Falcon 9 is $62 million, or $2,719 per kg to LEO. The Falcon Heavy is $2,351 per kg when expendable or $1,411 when reused.

The BFR is supposed to have 2.5x the payload for 8% of the cost: $46 per kilogram. Even fully expendable it's $2,233 per kg. That's INSANE. It's space elevator money:

> For a space elevator, the cost varies according to the design. Bradley C. Edwards received funding from NIAC from 2001 to 2003 to write a paper, describing a space elevator design. In it he stated that: "The first space elevator would reduce lift costs immediately to $100 per pound" ($220/kg).[1]

If the BFR actually becomes reality it turns a journey to orbit into an airplane ride. A $10,000 airplane ride that will shake your fillings loose, but make no mistake: that completely changes everything about space. It makes putting satellites in orbit around Jupiter as hard as visiting the north pole. Fucking TV hosts will be able to go for a quick jaunt around the moon.

If the BFR happens, we'll have a mars base just because it would be so cheap it's a no-brainer. Building a new ISS would be about as hard as building a new Sealab.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator_economics
isn't this the company where their reporters bonuses are highly influenced by how much their stories move the markets?

https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...

in such an environment it seems obvious that they're going to stretch stories
Can you name a few (submissions)?
I do my job mainly for the money too. There’s nothing wrong with that.
On-the-fly encryption, Truecrypt as the canonical example, has this property too. The key is always in memory, decrypting text on the fly, but a reboot or period of inactivity will wipe the key.
If they have no other option, then what happens if you ban them from sex work?
I'm curious how you guys are usoing Postgres as a log.

I took a brief look at the code, and while the append-only dataset strategy is sound, it looks like your scenario only has a single reader and a single writer?

In my experience, it's not entirely trivial when you have:

1. Multiple readers who each needs to be able to follow the log from different positions in real time.

2. Multiple writers receiving events that need to be written to the end of the log.

3. Real-time requirements.

From what I can tell — I could be wrong here — your system doesn't need to poll the table constantly, because you also save the log to RAM, so whenever you receive an event, you can optimistically handle it in memory and merely issue status updates. If anything goes wrong, a reader can replay from the database.

But that doesn't work with multiple writer nodes where each node receives just a part of the whole stream. The only way for this to work would be dedicate a writer node to each stream so that it goes through the same RAM queue. So then you need a whole system that uses either Postgres or some consensus system like Etcd to route messages to a single writer, and you need to be able to recover when a writer has been unavailable.

Edit: I see you wrote that "we assign same user to same writer", so you're doing something like that.
Really? I found it very easy to pick up and use. Much simpler to develop with and less mental strain than with AngularJS.
> how did they keep it stable?

I don't see anything unstable there. It's surely very long, and the wing is way behind the centre of mass, so the centre of aerodynamic forces will be behind it too. Cannards look to be put way ahead of centre of mass too.
> nothing new in the west

A believe that's usually translated as "All Quiet on the Western Front"
The Hunter Biden story has been in the public since May, just nobody picked it up until recently.
Think of it like a paper towel tube. It's a spiral.

Single helical weld.
The cult books that lost their cool
That is not correct. This is an essay by sociologist Bruno Latour about the key, not a technical document.
Please post the whole rule. You neglected this bit:

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

Where's the workaround? I don't find workarounds for WSJ. WSJ is locked out. Please post the workaround, or kindly stop badgering people as it is not productive.

If there is no workaround that allows us to view WSJ articles, then WSJ article are NOT allowed here, per the rules you yourself selectively cited.

The rule about paywalls are that paywalled articles must come with a workaround, and that people should not post complaints about paywalls. His post did not complain about paywalls themselves nor does mine. He requests that paywalled articles be tagged as such, a much more relaxed rule than the official rules which are that paywalled articles without workarounds, such as WSJ articles (unless someone would like to post a legal workaround allowing us to view WSJ articles), are not allowed.
I dropped out because I was interested in more advanced topics than the ones my 3rd world college offered, often times I ended up introducing new stuff to the class and lecturing and it just wasn't worth it for me. I had to work to pay for my studies
Hack in the MIT sense.
No, because the warning comes with the medecine
I've thought about my local University's archive, but I'd like something a bit more DIY and accessible rather than donating images to some bureaucracy and the images never seeing the light of day.
Hah I know right? I do wonder however, is there a use case for these furanocoumarins found in grapefruit? Perhaps it could make for more efficient drugs that could (potentially) be cheaper? Or perhaps doctors prescribing ludicrously expensive drugs (like the cancer drugs listed) could prescribe a lower dose and a grapefruit concentrate?
Not all applications.

For example, if I need Wireguard VPN client, I must install it from App Store. It is otherwise open-source app, but without the signature from App Store, it won't work.
I would agree that replying to others with out of context links pushing a counter-narrative is an unhealthy way to engage others.

Like most others in polarizing discussions I sometimes fall into the trap of misinterpreting what the other say and therefore critiquing what I thought they said where more clarification would be good. Do you think that happened here?

I try to avoid the previously trap, and recognize it. With regards to providing informational links in this particular instance I don’t know how we can make progress across divides without providing links to why we have a different viewpoints, and engage in the other persons arguments and supporting evidence.

If you have any thoughts on how the inconsistencies between the parents claims and what seem to be the well published situation on the ground could be highlighted in a better way that would be helpful. Right now I am reading “how to have impossible conversations” by Bogossian and in general studying why my viewpoint opponents think what they think. Benjamin Boynces series on evergreen is incredibly interesting. Hopefully I’ll learn something good.
the minecraft mod Psi works just like that
https://psi.vazkii.net/
That feature could easily be opt-in, without any dark patterns. If people want it, they could check a box.

Data shouldn't leave my devices unless I opt-in on a very specific case-by-case basis.

Giving personal data (like browsing history, identifying information, etc.) should not be a requirement for using technology, which has become a fundamental aspect of participating in society.
$100/lbs is pretty inexpensive but still high enough to cause some to spend some time with Jenny Craig before their flight.
It’s possible. Family of 5 renting (around 3k) in the bay with 100k salary is certainly possible.

Lived like this for over a decade. Now moving onto college.
Here's a Wired article about the raptor engine - it's "a full-flow staged combustion engine, only the third engine in history to employ this technique ... The previous two attempts at such an engine, one in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and another in the US in the early 2000s, never made it beyond testing."

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/spacex-raptor-engine-starshi...
Ah okay, thanks. In that case I just haven't heard of that provider before, finding only that result didn't really inspire confidence.
Well, having used both, Lean really is a lot more ergonomic. Unimath is mostly category theory; other parts of mathematics are woefully underdeveloped.
In my view, using compensation only to make decisions is flawed as current compensation is a lagging indicator. 10 years from now, I am certain the compensation structure that exists today will be very very different [much like what has happened in the world of Finance and Consulting].

In the 1990's and early 2000's, everyone wanted to be an investment banker or a consultant. Its only been the last 7 years or so that the salaries in Technology sector have risen so much. Perhaps over the next decade, software development will stop paying as much (especially on the variable comp as companies phase out equity compensation ro general masses).

I would choose my career based on what I like to do and the quality of life I want to pursue. A lot of that comes down to the cultural integration, especially as an immigrant. What value system do you associate yourself with?
The most recent occurrence of this hydra is usocoreworker which most likely replaced previous Windows Update services components; sometimes it's even impossible to kill it even by temporarily elevating rights of task manager or console (for taskkill use) by 3rd-party tools. It can spawn in the background even if you postponed updates - guess that's the MS insurance that OS will receive updates despite of user settings choice and update feature will be immune to bypassing (but luckily, that is possible - at least for this moment, if you of course try hard enough).

Gods, I miss the good times of XP, Vista and 7 where it was possible to control updates and avoid potentially dangerous patches.
Yes. If you look at the PDF of the "transcript" that was released, there is a note on the document itself that it is in fact not a verbatim transcription, but instead an incomplete reconstruction. It also happens to have ellipsis surrounding Crowdstrike/Biden/server topics.
I don't think OpenAI is a nonprofit as they are planning to commercially license their technologies. Ok, they limit investor returns at one-hundred times their initial investment, but I'd hardly call that a non-profit in the sense of the word.
My son has also gotten into vinyl and more recently... cassettes! I think part of the fun is going to the used record store with his friends. It's a pretty harmless hobby -- most of the tapes tapes are a buck apiece.

Another aspect might be just being different than his dad. I got my first hi-fi system in the early 80s. Today, my "home stereo" is an old cell phone and a bluetooth audio adapter board that powers a pair of bookshelf speakers.
It's only a black swan event if you pay no attention to geopolitics, which unfortunately banking types don't, at least not beyond WSJ/FT headlines.
Top-to-bottom writing is not just prevalent in Japanese but also in Chinese too. Pick up any professionally published book in Taiwan and chances are it's written top-to-bottom.
https://youtu.be/Sdwy9fzQzl4
Scott Manley does a great job explaining such things!
You’d follow an asymptomatic false positive blood test with at worst a whole body MRI and at best a targeted imaging study (if the blood markers are specific). You’d have a further false positive rate from that but it drops off quickly. The cost is manageable. And some of that cost is offset because you catch cancers earlier when they are less expensive to treat. A substantial cost savings will come through first line analysis of imaging by AI, to highlight images for radiologists to focus on.
This is a nice intuitive introduction for the naive. Of course - there is more. @euske explains some extra trouble for CJK. There is also the hell of _direction_ - RTL vs LTR text on the same line. There is a complex bidirectional algorithm that's part of the Unicode standard [1], and it involves breaks up text into runs of RTL and LTR text - but it's not at all trivial, since many characters are actually neutral, like punctuation marks.

What's more, Unicode has a lot of control characters, that don't get rendered into glyphs but affect text rendering. These can be pretty tame, like space and non-breaking space - but some are rather nastly, like pushing and popping a stack of RTL-vs-LTR state (yes, it nests).

[1] : http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/
This build has been quickly put together (UI, etc) after working mostly on the core functionality for a long time. I've done quite some experimenting too with support for videos, but haven't gotten it to work yet (productionwise) due to constraints of CPU and GPU (Cuda). You'd need a beefy PC but it's possible.