skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The technically-minded will enjoy Prof. Bill Mason's inside detail regarding his time as one of the principal aerodynamicists on the X-29: http://www.dept.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/AnX-29StoryV3.pdf

Also, NASA's e-book on the program is far more useful than these superficial enthusiast articles: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/sweeping_forward_detail....

For anyone wondering, one of the main reasons forward-swept wings never became commonplace, the configuration is at odds with low radar observability.

Dr. Norris Krone, the principal DARPA instigator behind the program, recently passed away: https://aero.umd.edu/news/story/distinguished-umd-alumnus-an...

Some other nitpicks:

- The article indicates thrust-vectoring obviated the need for FSW, but you'll note no thrust-vectoring on western jets outside of the F-22 and experimental aircraft.

- They make a big deal about the degree of instability, but talk about that with respect to longitudinal static stability, not dynamic stability or stability about other axes.

- Both TACIT BLUE and HAVE BLUE were quite unstable as well, and HAVE BLUE, unstable in all three axes, flew well before the X-29.

I'm not going to go find numbers, just pointing out the article sounds very hyperbolic. Artificial stability requires vastly less computational power than the breathless words tend to imply. We should be more impressed with control systems theorists, and flight control design has come a long way since then.
Chance and Randomness in Evolutionary Processes
Happiness is a social phenomenon and can’t be solved by individuals. You can move to your own idea of paradise but if you care about other people your happiness will depend on theirs as well.
"One modern art critic was asked to review some of his paintings without being told who painted them and judged them quite good in 2002. The different style in which he drew human figures, however, the critic said, represented a profound disinterest in people."

But of course he was a Bad Man, so he cannot be allowed to have any good qualities, therefore his art is bad.
Note: they won't be able to tell you without making a burner account. NDAs etc

Also worth mentioning checkout Little Snitch.
this is the correct answer. They can simply use the 4 meter wide steel no problem.
I suspect he’s incredibly good at networking and interpersonal relationships.
I feel like this is just a good way to make women pay as much as men, instead of lowering prices for men to pay as much as women.
Large cities can have very vibrant local communities. I lived in NYC for several years and had very rewarding connections with other people in my same neighborhood, not different from the one you'd expect in a small village.
Lessons from a Car-Free Street Fight in London
This video and the associated paper are excellent. It has really changed my view of things to consider what second and third order violence might be taking place. I suspect it's a sort of half dozen or one and six of the other argument for a lot of social justice agendas today. I think the difference is that the anti-violence argument routes around identity and focuses on harmful acts. And perhaps a significant difference in the agency level of the victims of these acts.
If anyone hates their XLM like OP, feel free to dump them in

phaedrusv*keybase.io

or

GB2J5Q3IVC2UGSD3OD3PQ42QQZUA6W3TIGJGVXX4PAYT6BO3GLDX5YJO
And the NSFW equivalent https://www.reddit.com/r/goneweld , with naughty captions of welding seams.
Clear your cookies. For wsj.com.

There is no responsibility to maintain cookies for someone else's benefit.
It isn’t that simple. In my local talent market, big FAANGs + Microsoft-style companies have been aggressively recruiting female SWEs, creating even starker imbalances in smaller tech companies + startups. It doesn’t seem unreasonable for those companies to completely give up on finding women to hire, because that supply is limited (at least until the educational pipeline catches up).

And it kind of makes sense: it will take a few more years for supply in the industry to actually increase (especially for senior talent), while companies like Google are under the spotlight now and no one really cares about that 10 developer payroll company that Google poached talent from. (Not to mention employment laws work different for companies of different sizes)

To put it in trading terms, if your bigger competitors are sucking up all the supply of X, then you simply don’t worry about buying X if you can get by with Y anyways.
Oh yeah, you may be right. I took it to mean "given that I know code, I wouldn't want to use a drag-and-drop interface". I've had a few pieces of feedback like that before, and sometimes even pointing out the existing coding interface doesn't please those people. To each their own, for sure!
Why Vladimir Putin Suddenly Believes in Global Warming
Here's the link to the NZZ am Sonntag article (I think) this is referring to: https://nzzas.nzz.ch/schweiz/kinderpornografie-das-fbi-stoes...

sadly I don't have a subscription :( but if anyone does, this might make more sense.
Anybody ever watch Steve Cutts, especially the animations he did for Moby? They are crazy depressing. I feel like happiness is exactly what Denis Leary explianed it as. It's a brief moment, like a smoke or a beer.

But on to the videos:

[happiness]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9dZQelULDk

[moby are you lost]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8
Related: One of my favorite realizations back in college was that insertion sort in real life is an optimal sort. The inefficiency in computers is that you need to slide all of the values down a place one by one as you insert numbers. In real life, the values just get shoved down in parallel.

Helped me understand why people default to such an inefficient algorithm when learning about sorting.
> if there's a real security risk

There is, but it's not that great. You need physical access to the device and it won't be persistent (a reboot will clean it).
Thanks, I’ll check those out! :-)
Your argument perfectly applies to 'meaning' as well, as companies increasingly market their products as life styles, communities, families etc. Someone can focus on meaning and still fall into that exact same trap, which I don't think is helpful either.

I think the problem lies with work. Increasingly, people have to work more for less in order to survive. They have to squeeze more out of meager savings, worry about their health and often have little to no time to actually explore their lives or their communities. Suburbanization has made this aspect worse by making it harder to leave the suburbs and placing people into small bubbles of slowly fermenting restlessness.
so things got really serious and we need to get out there as fast as we can
If he didn't design it himself, the people he hired and gave overall direction to did. And they are doing way better than anyone else, which means he must have done a better job of hiring and directing than anyone else.
> She coded circles around (and out-adulted) her younger colleagues.

How would you ever know this?
Ask HN: What are your best finds from a flea market?
You can see Aaron Hsu typing out his APL compiler during a talk here: https://youtu.be/ABG5eSCZPrE?t=686 (readable if you increase the video quality setting)

And you can see both that he is fluent at typing it, and that typing is not the bottleneck when few-character blocks of code are doing large chunks of tree manipulation; thinking or talking is.
Show HN: Dataset for NSFW Transfer Learning
I struggled a lot with purpose until my first son was born. Then life suddenly snapped into perfect clarity. I also had this instant revelation about what "faith" really means to the religious. It was a beautiful feeling to know, without any doubt or waivering confidence what your purpose is. It makes every decision I ever have to make really simple, because it always boils down to what is best for my kids.

Am I "happy"? I dunno. My 10 month old woke me up 5 times last night and as a result today was a stunningly miserable slog. But I have meaning, and that gives me direction and tremendous joy.
I think it's far more likely this person would realize juggling so much is harder than he thought, and it all comes crashing down in the end (including his net worth).
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Why don’t you move there immediately?

Oh yeah, we all know why.
“Compelled Speech“ has been tested in the Supreme Court.

EX: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_State_Board_of...

The US government can’t legally compel you to lie, but may restrict what you can say.
Happiness is a state of mind. I can't tell you how to get there but I do know that you can't expect things and people to make you happy. It's all around us but only you know what your state of happiness is. You have to find it for yourself.
Not all is predictable on Facebook’s social Horizon
Exploring Telegram Open Network
Happiness comes from within. Our social medias are stifling that. Get off them (or at least know how to limit and ignore)!
I thought I felt deja vu :)
Gary Marcus literally gave a talk about this last week in my department's ML seminar. I asked him how sure he was that humanity would eventually achieve AGI and he said 100%. When I asked him when that would be he replied 30-100 years. Interesting perspective.
Sorry mate but that’s just plain wrong... What takes quadratic time in insertion sort is not the insertions but all the comparisons. Otherwise we’d have linear time sort using linked lists.
Just FYI, I believe TN to GC will be quite lengthy for OP since his place of birth determines the GC quota
Older workers will still demand to be paid more than younger workers, since they have more experience.
I have read that when he gets interested in a technical area, he reads a ton of books at a remarkably fast pace, remembers everything he reads, next analyses everything at a fundamental level, and finally comes up with a radically better plan than anyone else has before. I guess you could call that engineering capabilities.
I agree - I feel the "post-happiness world" that they're talking about is really just people attempting to find happiness through money and possessions as defined by other people/groups, and validation of that happiness through social media. The most happy times and happy events in my life may get a mention on my social media; but the truly happy memories and feelings come from things outside of what I expect to post publicly. I think what people need to focus on is what has made them truly happy, without direction from others (NYT or otherwise) and without any public validation of their happiness.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Shows Off New Gymnastics Skills
Unless meaning makes me happy, I don't see the reason to focus on it.

This discussion is rather circular, to be honest. Happiness, by my definition, is a state of having achieved a goal or goals. (I wrote this lengthy thing over ten years ago trying to put hard definitions on words like happiness/satisfaction/pleasure etc: http://www.karmatics.com/docs/dictionary.html )

Maybe you define happiness differently than me, but I have a hard time understanding how it can be considered "not worth chasing" by any definition that makes sense to me.
That kind of thing is why the doctrine of disparate impact was developed. There are a lot of messy edge cases (everything has some correlation with one or another protected class), but if I end up never advertising to men the fact that I'm using a neural network won't protect me.
Ask HN: Was your small company acquired by a FAANG-company?
If your formerly small company was acquired by one of the big 5, what was the process like? What was the job offer like, any negotiation? How did the roles transfer into the new organization? How did the integration go? Any tips on how to look out for my teammates? Thanks in advance.
well constructed course! Comprehensive. Thanks for the effort, I bet you spent lots of time into it.
I still like Naval Ravikant’s definition from his extraordinary guest spot on the Farnam Street podcast[1]:
“Today, I believe that happiness is, it’s really a default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life. We are highly judgmental, survival, and replication machines. We are constantly walking around thinking I need this, I need that, trapped in the web of desires. Happiness is that state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and your mind stops running into the future or running into the past to regret something or to plan something.”

[1] https://fs.blog/naval-ravikant/
The number of 32bit intel macs is surprisingly small, too. Core Solo/Duo models ran from January to November 2006 (bar one mac mini model that survived into 2007).

I'd be very surprised if there's a 32bit mac that'll run their game acceptably well. I'd be surprised if it's ever actually supported 32bit macs. So why was it 32bit in the first place?
Shadow of the Boomerang
A pathologist friend told me “there’s a good chance you already have the cancer that might eventually kill you.” The danger of early detection of cancer is that we’ll end up treating fat more people than we would otherwise, and cancer treatment is often brutal. I’ll be interested to see what better detection actually does for mortality rates.
Investment opportunity cost. I've written articles about this:

https://medium.com/@usaar33/why-you-shouldnt-buy-a-home-in-t...

https://medium.com/@usaar33/an-up-to-date-buy-or-rent-calcul...
What about domain-specific applications of the technology? I've been in the information security industry for ~25 years and while 'AI' has been increasing in use but is still woefully short of its potential in a few different areas. It seems that someone with deep domain expertise that also has PhD level chops in ML would be a profit machine.
I think when people say they want to be happy what they really mean is they want to find contentment. Contentment is a long-lasting feeling. Happiness is ephemeral.
Giving your photos to a lab to be developed sometimes resulted in police being alerted...although this is based on my hazy memory.
Wood generally falls into two categories: hardwood and softwood. Hardwoods like oak are more dense, harder to light, and take longer to grow, so they are more expensive. Softwoods like pine are less dense, easier to light, and grow faster, so they are cheaper. Within each category there are additional ranges of cost and quality.

New homes in America tend to be wood-framed. Cheap materials are popular in American home construction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softwood
You can choose whether to use social media or not. You can't choose your gender.
> This is basically how SpaceX seems to operate: rather than optimizing a single part of the system (like trying to get the most efficient engine), they try to optimize from a systems level.

A system of local optimums is an inefficient system. Sort of the self-identified takeaway of the book _The Goal_, and I haven't stopped thinking about this statement since I read it.
The victim death count from 9/11 was 2,977, and that appeared to have at least some effect on the American psyche
Fwiw,

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-...
exactly, which begs the question of why would a payer pay this?
An Interview with Milton Glaser (2003)
Frequent false negatives mean it will miss many people who do have the disease, leading them to believe they are healthy until the disease progresses to a point it may be more difficult to treat.
Stop using Facebook.

Like.....what do you expect?

I'm not trying to blame you here but since you're on this website I assume you're more generally knowledgable about stuff happening. We've known about variations of this for so long.
Should you expect to be happy most of the time? I feel like a lot of youngsters self-diagnose themselves with depression/bipolar disorder because they feel they should be happy the majority of the time, then feel there is something wrong with them if they aren’t.

Tangentially related: why are some people always in a bad, meanie-pants mood? Don’t they too believe happiness is a mindset they can just be in if they want to?
It's like watching children pick 3-4 random things off the internet, weave a connection between them, and then broadcast the creation to millions of people. Well done nytimes. Keep it up.
My understanding is that the stick force did not actually invert, but merely failed to increase sufficiently. It’s possible the first derivative of stick force inverted, but an airplane can have positive longitude stability and still fail the stick force curve certification requirements.
The mechanism makes it impossible to forget to lock the door, without also forgetting the key in the lock. Also, locking an open door is usually not possible.
If you think even basic social interactions are lacking for suffering, you’re wrong.
> The algorithm detects the content whether it’s posted online or shared via a messaging app like WhatsApp.

That statement contradicts Whatsapp official statement that all content is end-to-end encrypted: “WhatsApp ... we built end-to-end encryption into our app. When end-to-end encrypted, your messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents, and calls are secured from falling into the wrong hands. Only you and the person you're communicating with can read what is sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp.”

In this case, I believe Whatsapp more than I believe a technically illiterate writer on a government website that failed to understand some nuance. Maybe some Whatsapp users forwarded questionable content they’ve received to the authorities, then the algorithm scanned that content. That’s very different than secret scanning happening within Whatsapp.
This is pretty scary. Wisconsin has been tracking CWD[1] through the harvested heads of deer each fall despite no evidence that prions infecting deer jump to humans. This is different.

[1]: https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/wildlifehabitat/prevalence.html
If only y’all could have just used llvm
The _hardware_ part is a part of Experience + Devices. The software part is in Cloud + AI (AKA Azure).
If you're kicking people with cancer out of the medical system on a screening test, you're going to have a bad day.
As someone who was raised a nudist this is actually hilarious and if I was a kid now my parents would've probably got a visit from the police.

Ugh.
I lived in Brooklyn for a while. For the first 6 months, no one in my building talked to each other until one day my roommates and I took a couple of chairs up to the roof to have a few beers. Quickly, the neighbors came out of the woodwork and it wasn't long before the whole building was just a big group of friends.

Compared to living in a building in Seattle for two years where I only ever met one neighbor, who was an old lady that need helped down some stairs when the fire alarm went off. People mostly avoided each other in that building.

It's a bit hit and miss, but if you feel like you are a part of a strong local community (even just a building full of friends), it is incredibly rewarding.
I wonder. Unless you have this syntax (and their semantics) memorized so that it just flies from your fingers, it does seem much easier to me to use whatever your language of choice is (Python, Java, ...) to whip up a script. Sure, awk will be terser, but in my case at least, the bottleneck will not be typing, it will be looking up awk features and syntax.

Maybe if you do this every day though. I only have need for things like this once every few months.
A discussion from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17171101
The discussion point was already made above, in that we make certain things illegal because even though it may make economic sense, it results in massive damage to things such as the environment, vulnerable populations and so forth. The poster chose to respond by saying it was a perfectly valid reason to discriminate, which goes against the law for the already stated reasons.

There was no additional criticism offered here. No one has made the point that 'it's the law therefore it's good', and you're massively misrepresenting the arguments here.
Actual accident rates don't appear to back that up; accident rates (per million flights) are drastically higher for both the original 737 and 737 Classic versus the 737 NG: http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
it’s a lifehack. ish.
A jailbroken device allows apps to do things that a non-jailbroken device does not.

I maintain my company's in-house mobile app crash reporting system and I had to remove jailbreak checks from our iOS SDK. It turned out that some of the checks were causing crashes themselves due to buggy anti-jailbreak-detection code some jailbroken devices had in place. e.g. checking whether a file could be accessed that normally iOS disallows would end up causing a crash instead of just a permission error.

Instead, I just do some basic server-side detection. Basically, looking for libraries loaded into the app (e.g. cydia) that are only present on jailbroken devices. Some jailbreaks don't even try to hide their presence.

I don't know what iVerify does. I hadn't heard of it before. I'm curious how it avoids crashes though... perhaps it avoids invoking any dynamic system calls.
Though no doubt terrifying, the crew of ETH302 failed to reduce thrust; doing so may have allowed them to save the airplane.
I see there any doc/ site / book which you have seen that covers 5G properly?
It certainly will _feel_ persistent if you're successfully attacked with this technique.

If your iOS software is swapped out for a version with a backdoor, then the attacker will have collected your passwords and authentication tokens to services you use. If you reboot to clear the backdoor (and let's be honest: no one reboots their phones), then you won't also "clear" your attacker's memory of all your passwords.
I wonder if Apple and Google employees review my photos stored in my cloud accounts?
To me that's a good thing and a reason to work less in the office. Your brain is still working on the problem while you're out doing other things. I've had multiple occasions where I didn't find the solution to an issue while staring at the screen, but rather that evening or the next morning while at home.
Why did you arrive at this confusion?

Why would you assume your observations are relevant to the use case?
What happens when you have a family? A MacBook Pro costs the same but does childcare? How about a home with a reasonable commute, good schools, and is large enough for a single family?
> You need physical access

I don't understand why people keep downplaying this. The whole point of a secure phone is that the data can't be accessed even with physical access.
SPOILERS BELOW (Love, Death and Robots)

There's an episode of Love, Death and Robots called Zima Blue, where a robot that scrubs the tiles on the side of a swimming pool is progressively upgraded over many years by engineers until it becomes a fully conscious android. It then obsessively pursues the meaning of life through ever larger art projects, some reaching planetary scale. It eventually concludes it has found the meaning of life and in it's final art project it disables all it's higher cognitive functions and "downgrades" itself back to it's original tile scrubbing form with just enough awareness left to take pleasure in the singular menial task.

EDIT: I just found out it was adapted from a book called Zima Blue and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds
dzaima/APL is implemented in Java and can be built as an Android app; steps in the readme here: https://github.com/dzaima/APL and downloadable APK and screenshots here: https://github.com/dzaima/APL/tree/master/AndroidIDE

(I think; I've never used it)