skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing so far electric has come anywhere close to the energy density of kerosene, and given how important it is for planes to be as lightweight as humanly possible, expect kerosene to remain in use for many decades to come.
Unless, of course, a revolution occurs in battery technology that makes them more energy dense than kerosene.
> There’s already significant land taxes

Real property taxes as structured anywhere in the US are not LVTs, and in much of the US (California perhaps most notably) are not significant, either.
Modern Google apps (Gmail, etc.) are incredibly bloated and buggy compared to the ones from 10 years ago, without any (to me) useful new features, so while I laud one engineer’s principles, it’s not clear they are succeeding at following them as an organization.
The Little World of Don Camillo
> In the real world, picking up a new language takes a few weeks of effort and after 6 to 12 months nobody will ever notice you haven’t been doing that one for your entire career.

I think this is only true if what you're working on is simple, like crud apps.

It takes longer to be intimately familiar with a language's concurrency model, pros and cons of major libraries and frameworks and the ability to make such decisions quickly and without learning hurdles, etc.
Agreed. Singapore Airlines already flies nearly this distance commercially (JFK-SIN). I'm not really sure what difference 30 minutes is going to make to require all these experiments. Qantas themselves fly Perth London direct which is only 90 minutes shorter.

But good PR from Qantas I must say, it's got massive writeups everywhere.
Tbh, it was very easy to slip this one in if someone didn't pay attention as it was integrated with hosting provider at that time. I removed it inside something like month (aka when I got time from other more pressing deals).
> Yeah, honestly I don't really understand the article's point

To discredit Yang's main running ideal.
Cool thank you. I'll definitely take a look at this ones.
Perhaps the article's reason for being is simply that, if you publish a headline with a professional-looking article behind it, then large swaths of people will have their opinions swayed without actually reading through.
> US inequality is up but global inequality is down.

Not sure if you are implying otherwise, but the reduction in global inequality doesn't necessarily require growth in US inequality, although that's the form that this has taken.

Growth in US inequality is to an extent a policy choice: US GDP has grown a huge amount during the same period, but the same period the majority of those gains have gone to those in the top fractions of 1% of the wealth distribution.
Nah it’s just harder to fix wages low when you can job hop so easily.
Agreed. The job doesn’t exist to train you.
There probably is a case to be made to limit the height of running shoes: if anything to reduce ankle injuries.

But one solution to the technological race problem would be to allow only technologies that are accessible to any manufacturer. If patented, open the technology to indefinite free licensing in order to be used in competition.
For running, because the equipment required is so minimal, the costs of the materials should not become too prohibitive to any serious athletes.
Cool project. I like the blogposts and manual that explain the inner workings.
Financial Bubbles: Avoiding Colossal Loss in a Strange Investment Climate
ThinkPad X1 with a good Linux OS is my favourite laptop ever. I've gotten almost 15hrs of battery from it, the trackpad is amazing, and the performance is top notch.
The only person in that situation being rude is the seat kicker. Children don't travel well, but you can't get mad at the parent. Especially for international travel, it's usually the only option. I'm pretty sure I can't get a boat from the US to Europe anymore, and even if I could, a multi-week journey isn't really feasible.

So yeah, when the kid is screaming I feel bad and I try to take him to the galley, but there is only so much standing in the galley you can do.

And I'm definitely reclining my seat on an 11 hour flight.
Arguably, just like nationalization, since control of the government is weighted similarly.
I really don't know what is so hard about throwing an item into the appropriate trash can, but sure I can't argue with those numbers.

Though there has got to be a better way to incentivize recycling than using human effort to play with singular pieces of trash. Especially one that doesn't end up preying on vulnerable people who don't need the pennies but still ending up hoarding empty cans in their house/car/etc.
I doubt mental health is the real problem but there is no denying if these homeless were unnaturally happy, they could be working slaves anywhere and make enough to not be on the streets.

My assumption is finances being the real problem and the general homeless are an age where if you don't have the resources like your peers, well this is the outcome with the outlook of not caring.

Basically, I think getting them off the street will result in them getting back on the street because of their age and financial situation.
> Hotel-chic is very clean, very minimal, very sparse. Just enough to have the necessary conveniences that appeal to everyone, with absolutely nothing personalised for any individual.

It is also terrible if you stay there for more than a couple of days.

Apple is not an hotel, it is a fast food with overpriced menus because they use expensive ingredients, charge 2x the price because of their fancy plates, but what you get it's still an overpriced hamburger.

It's like ordering a 25$ cheeseburger from McDonald because it's made with a percentage of Kobe beef
Pine is not overpromising things and is doing more organic growth which will sustain. That said, I can confirm that I saw Ubuntu Touch running on PinePhone.
In an expensive restaurant adding salt or oil to your meal is an insult to the chef.
I'm almost certain "expense of human lives" didn't come up as a factor on any of the merger pitch decks. Frankly its a huge leap to see that a merger of two successful and relatively safe aircraft manufacturers would be intentionally at the expense of human lives.
Oh wow, my bad.

Still, I’m not a fan—I don’t trust apple to be a good judge of behavior here.
I'm not sure it is worse than getting the same amount of UV from the Sun. But, when I go to a tanning salon, I do see some people who overdue it. I would agree that is bad.
The problem with ‘seize the means of production’ is that it has roughly zero value. When I worked in manufacturing, I saw that we bought capital equipment for billions and sold it 3-5 years later for millions. Everything in between, all the profit we squeezed from it, was due to the combined efforts, knowledge, loyalty, and goodwill of the employees that worked there. A good CEO, greedy as he may be, understands this implicitly. Wall St maybe not so much right now.
I'm not in the usual hiring circuit but went to one or two interviews for having a feel for that world. I always had the attitude of being the guy who will learn whatever is needed to successfully finish the task at hand, and I have work to show for it. It's amazing how's that was worth nothing for people that interviewed me, compared with how many years of react experience I had.
I prefer the style of seat that instead of reclining pulls the seat base and a panel of fabric forwards. That way you get to lean back as much as you like, but the further you go, the more of your own room you sacrifice rather than the person behind you. Feels fairer.
Allegedly Rent seeking billionaires are hypothetically positioning themselves in the supposed space race because the theoretical American -Chinese cold war will be potentially fought in low earth orbit, "smart money gets in quick to suckle at the trillion dollar defense budget." some people might say.
Edit: opinion duly corrected in line with moderation standards
>There's a big, sudden drop in 2000.

actually it is in 2001. Also in 2008. The years of big busts.
Lessons from the Amazon Ecosystem
What cmd-key shortcuts are you thinking of? FWIW every apple filepicker window I come across I can utilise the following shortcuts consistently, which is very nice:

Cmd-Shift-A: Open Applications folder

Cmd-Shift-H: Open Home folder

Cmd-Shift-D: Open Desktop folder

Cmd-Shift-O: Open Documents folder

Cmd-Option-L: Open Downloads folder

Cmd-Shift-L: Open Library folder

Cmd-Shift-.: Toggle Hidden Files

Cmd-[: Back

Cmd-]: Forward

Cmd-Up: Up
Right, which is why our tools all suck.
One thing I don't see mentioned very much is that introversion/extroversion is a very different axis from shyness/outgoingness. I feel like these two axes get conflated really often (like in this article) but they really are two different things. I'm an introvert, I get energy being alone, but when I need to I can be very outgoing and make small talk and all of the things that introverts supposedly hate. I just need time to recharge by myself afterwards. On the other hand I've had friends that got energy from others but tended to be a wallflower (for lack of a better term) when they were around others. I hope people recognize it's more subtle of a distinction than just introvert/extrovert and don't let their self chosen label define them.
Ask HN: What other cheap hardware products contain FPGA's?
Just to note, numerals five and six and lowercase-B look alike in some fonts:

5b6
That's fair - what I meant by it being a different career isn't that skills aren't transferable at all but that you solve different kinds of problems entirely, as distinct from a difference in stack. And if you hired me then as a mobile developer, I'd have quit, so you don't want to hire non mobile engineers into mobile roles. Language/stack is a red herring here in the sense that Java backend development is a lot closer to Ruby backend development than it is to Android development.
Is it really true that all the pension funds in USA - let alone all the foreigners (rich and poor) - together own only 16% of the shares in USA listed public companies.

I call BS.
There are lots of opportunities to make that same type of comp at non FAANG companies. They're just not so clumped together, and don't have a cult-like following pumping them up in every thread.
Have they even solved MNIST at state of the art levels of accuracy with it yet, let alone imagenet image classification? Because until they do, this is just a bunch of speculation and hot air. Power consumption can also be reduced by co-locating memory with compute and eliminating the need to hit the memory bus for the majority of what the chip needs to do. That strikes me as a more immediate and promising approach, compared to trying to model neurons.

I actually took a computational neuroscience course on Coursera a few years back. I was disappointed to discover that modeling more than a handful of neurons accurately in time domain was intractable at the time. It's likely still intractable now, except maybe the handful has gotten a little larger. Another surprise was that we have no clue whatsoever as to how the brain actually learns. We know how it works on a cellular level (ion exchange, spikes, etc), we sorta know how it operates at a very high level, and the visual cortex has seen (see what I did there?) quite a bit of study as well, but we don't really know much else, and we especially don't know how memory works, or even how visual cortex learns low-level features without backpropagation.

The reason why we don't know this is because we can't really know this with today's research approaches. To see why, try to apply these same approaches (i.e. sticking needles in the brain and collecting signals) to something much simpler, like a digital CPU - you'll never be able to figure out how it works no matter how hard you try.

And it's not at all clear what a "better" approach would look like. These neuromorphic approaches, therefore, are akin to a cargo cult: they've replicated the hardware, sorta, and now they're expecting that gods will deliver the miracle and high-grade intelligence will "emerge" somehow. But I'm pretty sure it wont. You can't fix what you don't understand.
More inane pseudoscience about the moronic introvert/extrovert dichotomy. A two week study with 130 students and we’re supposed to learn something? Change our behavior? This is just astrology for people who love Ted talks.
Embracing Uncertainty
"The MAX was otherwise a very safe plane was it not?"

Huh? The MAX was the most unsafe major new plane in ... something like decades. You can't make a statement excluding all the bad and then trying to say it's good. The bad is exactly what you're getting at here.

And even apart from that, the 737 is an obsolete, decades-old design. The only reason they're still making new iterations of it is because of type ratings requirements; if you actually wanted to make a great plane, you'd never base it on the 737. It has ancient analog gauge displays (which are now simulated digitally), doesn't use electronic flight controls, is too low to the ground leading to increased potential of foreign object debris into the engines, and as a consequence of this the newer more efficient jet engines don't even fit underneath the wings properly and hence had to be shifted forward into an unstable position that necessitated MCAS.

There's no two ways about it, there's nothing good about the 737 MAX, even apart from all the crashes.
tactical advantage, and staging.
I looked at the issues page and was not surprised that Microsoft, in its Seattle-centric view of the universe, did not cover many international glyphs.

Any comment on how many of these coding fonts suffer these issues? I am glad to see the screenshots in the article at very least thought to include Greek.
I think calling Juicero a shitty idea is too strong. It didn't end up working, and probably it was knowable in advance that it wouldn't, but the difference between early-stage Juicero and early-stage Keurig is smaller than most people gave it credit for. There's a strong and robust market (at least in the SF Bay Area) for weird expensive juices.
The hotel "because I don't want to do laundry" is the worst choice immaginabile

If you can afford hotel prices to actually live inside a nice one (more than 12 sq meters), you can afford 5 people doing your laundry and other chores at your house
I don’t... I don’t want to rebuild my kernel? I want my goddamn computer to compute. I want to get my work done, then maybe order Chipotle. At least the Mac sleeps properly when I close the lid, unlike every Linux laptop I’ve ever had.
The WaPo (actually The Spectator) methodology is clearly inapplicable, because they adjust for average US PPP, instead of within-state PPP, which doesn’t make sense if your goal is to compare different states to one another.
The conclusion is that computerization and automation are not the root of the change, which is at least contrary to popular wisdom. In an era of increasing returns to capital, relying on wages may ultimately be a losing strategy.
I think you mean there would be no internal combustion engine. According to Oxford, an engine is "a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion". So an electric motor is still an engine.
Here in Norway the deposit is closer to USD 0.50 than USD 0.05. I just keep a bag for returnable cans and bottles and all the shops where I return them have disposable wipes so that you can clean your hands after returning the cans and bottles. I don't use any water to rinse out the cans. We just return the bottles and cans about once or twice a month, perhaps a little more often around Christmas.
Something I've thought about lately is that money in itself is rarely the end we really have in mind, despite our focus on it. Money is usually the means to achieve some end (like financial security).

But more often than not I've realized that while all of my friends are working toward this idea of financial security, very few of them have defined what that actually means. What lifestyle do you want to lead and how much money will that specifically require?

The more I've thought about that, the more I've realized that "financial security" is actually achievable on a fast timescale if we're willing to focus on things like budgeting and perhaps relax some constraints (I want to have a boat, nice car, live in California/NYC, etc).

The things that make me the happiest are having fun (which doesn't require much) and spending time with my family. I could easily find a way to do that indefinitely without needing a post-IPO payday.

Now I'm left wondering where I got the crazy idea that I needed one in the first place.
As far as I can tell all that articles says is that there are languages that use a single term for green/blue, not that speakers of those languages are incapable of identifying the difference between the colour of a leaf and the color of the sky. I can distinguish between the colour of the sky and the colour of blueberries (and treat them as categories of colours) even if I use the same word "blue" for both.
Thanks for the read... That was exactly how I've felt only I was not able to articulate it so well.

The best dev I know didn't go to college (he tried to be a traffic controller when other people would have been at university). He's exactly the kind of person who would be doing "elliptic curve partial nonce bias attacks" over the weekend.

I've seen him have to explain stuff like endianness to people with masters degrees.

I don't know him well enough to ask, but I think he is stuck working for us because 80% of jobs are off-limits without a degree.
"Extended stay" places have at least limited kitchens. I often stay at them for the typically more comfortable sitting area but having a fridge can be useful too. I mostly don't use the kitchen though.

AirBnB did make renting vacation homes and the like more convenient. Even if hotels aren't really broken, the vacation rental services were very fragmented and mostly not great.

A lot depends on what you're looking for. On vacation, I do sometimes like something with a bit more "character." TBH though, most of the time I just want reliable with a 24 hour desk, the ability to leave luggage before I can check in or after I check out, etc.
We should ban facial recognition technology everywhere
first you have to realize you want mac OS. then the options are clear. get a used prior model MBP.
Myself and my colleagues have spent the last two months working on TinaCMS, and have learned a lot along the way. We believe Tina is a novel solution for managing website content.

For one thing, as the title of this post mentions, "Tina is not a CMS". Our team also works on the Forestry.io CMS, so we know how to build one of those. As we embarked on the Tina project, we felt that another one-size-fits-all CMS wasn't the solution we wanted. This is why we architected Tina as a suite of libraries to enable frontend devs to quickly compose a more form-fitting content management strategy for their clients.

Another interesting innovation that we discovered along the way was that, by having the CMS live on your website instead of in a traditional CMS dashboard, the correlation between source content and rendered website becomes much more intuitive to those who were not involved in developing the website to begin with. With a traditional CMS, users must have some mental model of how their site is composed. They can ultimately figure out that, for example, they can change the homepage title by clicking on Settings > Homepage > Title or something like that, but requires some trial and error and a lot of implicit rules to remember. With Tina, the editor will edit the Homepage title while viewing the homepage; the information will tend to be where they're expecting it. And by having a short-feedback, on-page experience, even more esoteric rules will reveal themselves more intuitively.

We have been thrilled so far with the response to the public release of this project. We hope to continue to improve and extend the capabilities of TinaCMS, and I'd like to thank everyone who has expressed their enthusiasm and support!
In this HN article:

Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303446

(https://www.thanassis.space/myowncpu.html)

Thanassis Tsiodras takes an old, cheap Pano Logic G2 (thin client hardware box), and repurposes its FPGA to create a custom CPU...

Well, I'm curious... what other cheap FPGA-containing products might there be out there?
Pretty cool - but the music is rather distracting.
Meanwhile what will demonstrate Yang wrong—conveniently for him—is just waiting a decade.
and the current people in America often says 'go back foreigners' .. whereas they themselves were the outsiders..leaving the past as mistake the current generation of America should allow talent (who can contribute to society in anyway and not try to create havoc) and should not create rules to restrict based on religion or belief system.
This. They used the empty economy area for physical workout. Good luck with that once this thing is packed and people will start walking around. This flight looks like a horror story and this "experiment" is an ad.
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis – Ep 8 – The Buddha and “Mindfulness”
At a glance, it looks like both have mandates of some sort that keep states/countries from going full-on free rider, which is what I expected.
That seems a bit hand-wavy to me. Firstly, that was precisely the title. You are talking about the meaning of the title. Secondly, I did understand the title, and I am not speaking of the word 'red'. I am speaking of the semantic category referred to by the word 'red' in English. Thirdly, it is clear from the article that not all semantic color categories match cleanly and bijectively across languages. Fourthly, the assertion that 'red' does match bijectively across "almost every language" is not made in the article, and no explanation of any reason for any such claim is given. Fifthly, there is no information in the article that affirms the why of any semantic matching (or mismatching) occurs across languages: a theory of biologically-based thresholds in retinal perception is mentioned, but as a hypothesis, not as useful science. The article merely discusses the history of the similarity (and dissimilarity) observed in a series of studies.
Sure. But he did say this was the mobile site, where you may have connectivity issues or low bandwidth. At home, I would never notice. Hell, I usually have good connectivity on my phone too, BUT often when I’m on the train, I have sketchy speeds and during these times, I do notice slow/overly bloated sites or web apps.

> Anyone can easily build an image-serving website. What's hard is to build an image-serving website that pays for itself. I wouldn't be so quick to judge.

That’s very true, but again, you don’t need a bloated slow (comparatively speaking) app to serve advertisement. If the total time had been 10s (ie 7.5 for adverts etc, 2.5 for content), he probably would have thought eh slow but whatever
Do you wake up early or late, local time?
I had no idea before I took the pill that depression was even a side-effect but within a few weeks after taking it the effect was obvious. I already had depression but it was clearly much worse on the pill and then I found it was indeed an effect of the pill. I don't know how so many women take the pill when the side-effects are so awful.
Utilizing Transformers for Time Series Forecasting