skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were hitting their limits by the mid 70’s.

The mid 70’s was golden era of supersonic research. Supersonic engines are just regular jet engines with a Turbofan. Add in wings swept further back in a Delta pattern like the Concorde and you have...supersonic aircraft that comfortably can do Mach 1.5-Mach 2.0.

Today, I think there is just 1 functioning wind tunnel in the US that can do supersonic research, so sad. If you live in the Bay Area you pass it, just look at Moffet Field on your way north of San Jose.

The Japanese and Australians, due to their remote location in part, have done most of the significant research of any last few years.

Why did SuperSonics not go anywhere with essentially every major civilian project being mothballed?

1. Materials Science: we simply don’t have reliable data for how long XYZ Metal lasts at extreme temperatures of supersonic flight. If you read Michael Crichton’s Airframe from 1996 (great novel), they mention that aircraft are designed with a lifespan of a human. 80 years. It’s insane how long these things fly. The heat is so extreme, the Concorde would fully extend 1 foot (it was made in part of titanium) during flight. Many crashes have occurred, such as Alaska Airlines Flight 261 in 1999 from Mexico to California, because the maintenance time frames of these parts is still not fully understood. And that’s for subsonics!

2. Noise: No way around it. The decision to build aircraft close to cities was essentially finalized in preparation for World War II. You can dampen significantly, but it is painfully loud. Landing outside the city with fast train back is best solution.

3. Fuel costs and burn. Supersonic research got underway right as Earth Day started. Lots of supersonic tech relies on afterburners, terrible mileage. It was bad timing.

4. 2003 Concorde crash where a tire was hit on the runway, and the entire aircraft exploded. This should have not happened for a tire collision. SuperSonics are fragile because of all the design tradeoffs one has to make (currently).
Technical skills with databases are a must. It's basically a database engineer + being able to generate accurate and insightful reports/metrics/visualizations.

More value comes from database engineer skills as well as being able to understand the structure of a business. Little actually comes from the BI platform you choose.
Roku remains a promising stock even after this year’s surge
There are two things that I find a bit elusive with Python:

1. Highlight to run
2. Remoting into a kernel

Both features are somewhat related. I want to be able to fire up a Python Kernel on a remote server. I want to be able to connect to it easily (not having to ssh tunnel over 6 different ports). I want connect my IDE to it and easily send commands and view data objects remotely. Spyder does all this but its not great. You have to run a custom kernel to be able to view variables locally.

Finally, I want to be able to connect to a Nameko or Flask instance as I would any remote kernel and hot-swap code out as needed.
This is certainly a common reason not to get a job. Anecdotally, I've never been given a reason for rejection, other than this one: I can't say they've always told me when it's the reason, for obvious reasons, but I can say it's the only reason that's ever been provided, and it's happened more than once.
Adding more information doesn't make a market less free.
The HN mods generally try to explain why they remove unacceptable comments, if the comment seems like it's from an actual person trying to participate. Also, we summarily one-click-delete lots of spam.

Those would also correlate "telling why content was removed" with "reduced future issues". But the causality goes the other way. Users that are likely to participate better in the future are more likely to get explanations, while spammers get nothing.
I like that idea. I wonder if there is a web server or even a module for the popular ones (nginx, apache) that renders markdown files and server HTML on the fly.
The paper (and I only read the abstract) is interesting, but as others have noted, fairly obvious.

One thing that seems to be an assumption is that the "company" needs to provide the explanation. I think it is even better if the user provides the explanation. The assumption a user can't provide it is probably because we've all seen Terms of Service agreements that are totally opaque.

Back in the day when I was doing a bit of admin work, I decided to simplify our TOS, and then when I had to block someone, I just kicked the ball back into their court: "If you would like your account restored, please point out in the TOS what rule you violated." It worked better than expected. People that cared enough about their access to the system usually figured it out pretty quickly, and we got the knowledge that they actually read the TOS to some degree. They got their account restored and that was the end of it. Repeat offenders at that point were willfully causing problems, so we just left them blocked.

Obviously this only works if a human can understand your TOS. Another interesting line of questioning might be "at what complexity level is your TOS useful in shaping behavior and where does it just become a legal shield."
My interpretation of this is most people don't intend to break the community's rules. That is to say, most people aren't sociopathic trolls.

Most people don't want their posts removed. Informing them of what rules they broke will help them about breaking those rules again, assuming they wish to not break rules, which it appears is generally the case.

I've had posts removed on subs for breaking some arcane rule before. On some subs it wasn't clear why, so I just never posted again. Others told me why, and even gave directions on how to avoid it again (usually flair related rules). It was easy to successfully post going forward on those subs.
Delusional or not - I think his thinking is reasonable. That said, you should ask him to give perpetual license to the company and it's a win-win.
it’s pretty hard to tell what openindiana does. seems like they develop Hipster but what is that? there wasn’t any clear info after spending a few minutes on the site.
I really like the idea behind these types of decentralized projects. However I want to mention that they rarely take off. And it's usually not due to some technical or marketing related reason. The simple economic reason for the lack of their success is that centralized organization like YouTube can operate much more efficiently than a decentralized one like peertube. Some of the reasons are: Higher organizational efficiency (faster restructuring due to an explicit hierarchy), which allows them to quickly adapt to a changing environment. Benefiting from economies of scale (buying specialized hardware for video hosting in bulk). Being a for-profit organization provides them with a constant feedback loop whether they still meet consumer demands. On top of that a constant source of income allows them to have paid employees. Paid employees are (all year round) more motivated to continuously adapt the platform to changing consumer demands.
Snopes has been used against right wing sites and in favour of left wing controversies. For example, they labelled a clearly satire site Babylon Bee as "fake news". Downplaying Antifa violence. And outright lying about a woman being punched in the face who was throwing glass bottles. I'm pretty sure there are more cases but those come up with a quick search.

Note: I'm not from USA/UK, not white, not right wing, I think Trump is unqualified to say the least. But Snopes, like many other sites, is no longer unbiased or objective. So long.
Dutch Court rules against Facebook in important case
It is a great tool !

Only issue with it is that the source code (of the front-end) is quite hairy to understand and modify. I tried to add support for Github Enterprise (https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/473) and was quite lost.
Stipulating that the patent is worth $100 million. Do you want to be in business with someone who isn't satisfied with $50 million? Someone who sees you as a competitor? Someone who doesn't want you to get rich? Good luck.
Even without considering the recent advancements in areas like autonomous marine systems or fuel consumption optimization, the amount of software required to even get ships like that of the dock is insane.
Ok, I think we're talking past each other. Let me attempt to unravel.

You/SamBam/danShumway are at the abstraction level of technical protocols, parsing JSON files, index servers, etc.

I'm at the abstraction level of psychology and emergent group behavior that overrides those ideal technical structures.

>Distributed services still benefit the traffic from Google,

This sentence is a perfect example of how we're focusing on different things.

Your interpretation: Google is an index, and it links out to distributed servers. Ergo, an analagous Peertube-Index metadata server that lists PeerTube p2p nodes can be technically accomplished to do the same thing. What's the problem?!?

My interpretation of mikece: Google's index/algorithm/ranking/censorship has "too much power" over the web ecosystem and this a common complaint of its centralized authority of urls. Who gave Google all that power? Us websurfers did! How did it get that power even though it just has links to distributed http nodes instead of serving up the data (NYTimes article, etc) itself? [Excluding Google Amp in this example.]

To me, mikece is asking how to avoid another Google/Youtube type of defacto centralization of power which means we avoid central servers from existing to accumulate that power in the first place. To me this means p2p clients all querying each other and mikece is wondering if this is tehnically possible. That's what my speed-of-light answer is about.

Therefore, discussing what's "technically feasible" with indexing p2p video nodes seems to be missing the point if the abstraction level is emergent group behavior.
As another comment pointed out, modern shooters have actually become simpler overall since Halo popularized the limit on how many guns you could carry and regenerating health.

What's actually wrong, I think, is that most FPS's just don't have interesting gameplay. They've failed to learn the lesson DOOM taught: it isn't about the weapons and the shooting, it's about the movement.

What makes DOOM so fun isn't the aiming and pulling a trigger bit, indeed, DOOM can only aim in one dimension anyway. What makes DOOM fun is the way the enemies' behavior and attack patterns interact with your movement and positioning, and how your current weapon's mechanics are best exploited. It's about a complex and dynamic interplay of positioning and distance. Taking on multiple enemy types at once means solving a multiple variable problem in real time. Doom 2016 did a pretty good job getting this right.
An immediate application would be to replace steam reforming processes. (methane (natural gas) in, hydrogen out)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming
The small amount of time spent on writing the parser might have something to do with how well-understood that area of computer science is. If nobody had ever written those books which were mostly about parsing, then maybe writing the parser would be the hardest part.
Mathematicians Calculate How Randomness Creeps In
What's wrong with Carbon? CLI tools still work 40 year later. Tk/Qt/Swing programs still work 20+ years later. Why not updated and recompile carbon for 64bit?
For the same reason the Aborigine word for "dog" is "dog" -- it's just a coincidence.
Whaat ? Is this for real ? How do we combat this ? Do i need to go snowden on my phone, open it up, disconnect everything and use a jack based mic ? I really dont care about the frontal camera, idt i’ve ever used it tbh.
You seem to have this idea that people pick up the Bible, read "Jesus walked on water", and go "Wow, praise God!" In actuality, what matters isn't the claims the Bible makes, but the actual words that Jesus and the prophets speak. These words are packed with timeless superhuman wisdom, sort of like ancient Greek philosophers except on steroids. A sincere Christian wrestles with God and with the scriptures.

"The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away." (Matthew 13:20-21)
Exactly how I got into it. At university, realized that despite buying some office pack with a laptop, there was no visio contained. Began with draw.io and never looked back.
I don't really see the harm in re-dating a blog to keep it high in search results. There is a lot of information that once publishes stays relevant and informative for years, to get dinged on seo because it is stale says more about google then the blog authors.
Also they have an image which doesn't tell you if a links url was updated in an edit.
Wait what? I don't have any of these. Sarcasm? :)
I think a better 19th century analogy would be: You chose to keep all your personal documents and correspondences in the basement of the town tavern. Then some time later you have a disagreement with the tavern owner and he bans you from entering, preventing you from accessing your stuff.

I think the lesson is when you rely on hosted services, you’re denying yourself the final say on who has access to your stuff and giving that say to someone else. Make sure you trust that entity.
Disrupt Computer Vision Tasks with Procedural Noise
I get what you’re saying. I think the difference isn’t so much a lack of a “visionary”, as a lack of decent AR-centered speculative fiction to pull from.

The modern tablet, for example, was essentially designed by the prop designers of Star Trek. The proposed HCI for the device category was entirely laid out by actors fiddling with the prop. No one at Apple needed to have much “vision” to see that if they could pull off something like that without technical constraints forcing any compromises, it’d be a great design.

Most of computing for the last 50 years has been like that in one way or another. We’ve had SF writers, artists, and movie-makers leading the way, and industrial designers cribbing as closely to them as they could. (You can still see this today with driverless-car control-panel designs. You think these designs aren’t just directly copying the “cool car” genre from the 80s?)

(If you’re wondering: “so what made Apple a visionary company, then? That word must mean something...” It’s mostly that they evolved or “massaged” technology in the directions required to get these hypothetical designs built. Rather than building the designs that were possible with commonly-available tech, they invested capital into “operationalizing” previously research-level tech, in order to put it into their devices. A phone you can turn to watch movies in landscape? Better turn “accelerometers” from a weird replacement for mercury switches into a one-cent part!)

But AR is a bit different, in that, while speculative fiction has been somewhat concerned with what AR does (and even more on what VR does), writers in the genre haven’t spent nearly as much time (that I know of, at least) trying to figure out what an AR device that people would be willing to wear would look and work like. So, in this case, the industrial design isn’t just “laying around” waiting for an ID artist to pick it up and say “yes, I’ll make it look like this.” And, on the other side, no audience has been pre-conditioned by this material to think “I want something that looks like the thing I know from book/movie X.”

And, even worse for our intrepid industrial designer—even in the movies based on books that do feature AR wearables, in the movie version, the wearable doesn’t tend to appear at all. AR experiences still exist in such movies, but AR devices, if they’re there at all, are implicit; and most of the time, aren’t even supposed to be there, with AR instead literally an augmentation of reality (using holograms or something) rather than an augmentation of perception. (This is usually a choice by the director: actors act better when they can be in the same room as one-another, reacting to a common “thing” they’re seeing; individual-perceptual AR kind of ruins that, just like cell phones kind of ruin slasher movies.)

Now, mind you, I’m ignoring the elephant-in-the-room of AR in speculative fiction: cyberpunk. But I don’t think Apple could really sell its consumers on perception-changing brain implants, could they? ;) At least, not in 2019...
step 1. use a generator instead of a loop
https://realpython.com/introduction-to-python-generators/
Well, I'm at a community college on a reservation and we certainly celebrate Thanksgiving but don't take off for Columbus day. So, I would say its viewed rather differently.
This. The give and take between conscious focus and unconscious mind wandering has never let me down when working on complex ideas.

Before I had children, I found the "unconscious processing" part more difficult, because my time was simply _my time_ to do with what I pleased... so I would often try to work harder, leading to less productivity and more spinning in circles.

After having children, my time is obviously more structured and I've found the regimen of childcare to be a wonderful diversion from thinking about systems and complexity.

Taking multiple walks a day also helps immensely. The trick is not trying to think about my work when walking, just absorbing the sounds, sights, and smells of the world around.
What is the risk? And if it's anonymous how do they find you? You don't have to host your blog on a .de domain.
If you have a data team:
Stitch / Segment -> BigQuery -> Dataform -> BigQuery -> Looker

I work with many companies helping them set up their data stack, and from what I've seen this is pretty much the optimal set up. These tools all require very little maintenance, are relatively cheap (compared to the man power required to set these things up from scratch internally), and scale well as companies grow and complexity increases.

If you don't have a data team:
Segment -> Amplitude/Mixpanel

If you don't have a dedicated data team, you can do a lot with tools like Amplitude and Mixpanel. Get your engineering team set up with Segment and tracking all of the important interactions within your product, and set Segment to pass those events to Amp/Mix. Self serve analytics in these tools is then pretty easy and will serve you well until you start hiring a data team.

Full disclosure: I work for Dataform (used to be a customer, loved it so much I decided to join them)
> Chunking is the term I used because that's more relevant to the data science

If your intended audience are data scientists then why didn’t you mention Dask?
I've worked with a lot of them over the years. Big/breaking codebase changes without consulting anyone, not waiting for requirements to work out, not playing well with others, not being willing to mentor less experienced team members... the list goes on and on and on and on. I do not like working with 10x programmers. They're the engineering equivalent of putting your bills on a credit card. You have to pay it eventually, with interest.
If you want long term support, buy windows or get linux. Mac is for cutting edge beautiful experiences of the future, not legacy of the past. It's a trade-off. Supporting old tookits makes your Mac less pretty.
I'm not sure that "Why?" is always going to be a physics question, but certainly even after we understand the smallest building blocks, we will need specific models of arbitrarily complex systems where the basic rules are computationally infeasible or resistant to simple analysis.

Of course, understanding the true and most basic workings of nature will also take a lot of work, just not a literally infinite supply.
It's a reasonable critism. The base of the stack is a proper dev library. The top part evolved from an example to that library and didn't get the same refactoring love to make it accessible to other devs.

Main problem from our end on your issue is we don't have access to a Github enterprise instance to test anything.
It's a sorry state of affairs, that the existence of "fact" is such a hotly debated political opinion.
And if the claim is true and provable, Facebook ($55 billion revenue 2018) will probably be fined $1-4 million which will sure "teach them a lesson" to never be bad again!

Google, Facebook, and others must just have a budget set aside for these issues - costs of doing business I guess as they profit more than they are fined.
I see no reason that whether material is objectionable only applies to pornography. However typically when someone tries to call something not pornography objectionable whatever the case is about is thrown out, eventually, on first amendment concerns.

> Regardless, Ninth Circuit precedent is what it is.

Careful. Bad precedent should not stand just because it is precedent.
It says a lot about the current political climate when people feel the need to add a disclaimer like that.
You may like websequencediagrams.com

The site is only for sequence diagrams “swim lanes” but at that task I’ve found nothing better. I love describing the relationships textually and then selecting the best style for the job.

Many tools fail at basic style annotation so I can abstract the style. Even that would be an improvement for drawing diagrams.
Evo Morales tried to run for a 4th term against the law (Bolivia has a 2 term limit, but Evo claimed the first one didn't count). He called a referendum to change the term limits and got shot down. He ran for the elections anyway and "won". The day after the electoral body of Bolivia confirmed that election was rigged. The military then asked him to step down.

I can't understand why Evo is viewed so favorably in the USA.
Plus, just being aware of how these elements interact with screen readers, and what you need to do for them and keyboard users can make you more aware to write better, more accessible HTML in the future.

It’s a bit strange to me that in my last position all these great JavaScript engineers were still using div’s for everything when there’s so much you can harness directly from the browser’s interpretation of these elements to give you a pleasant and consistent user experience for your clients.

Besides that, it makes trawling through your elements in your web inspectors a lot easier to read when you actually have lists, sections, headers, buttons, etc.
You can't abstract around how our brains are wired and they are wired in a way that wants to define ingroups and outgroups. Unification is a futile concept. Humans will just figure out how to create ingroups and outgroups based on a different basis. Maybe they'll use clothes branding, like back in high school. It would be better to go with decentralisation and fragmentation, so you have lots of small groups, but everyone from that small group would be part of the ingroup.
I’m glad I’m not the only one wondering what was up with that.

Also, snopes is not an innocent reference site. Their “debunking” of satire like Babylonbee can cause those sites to be deplatformed.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/facebook-and-snopes-fact-...

Yeah. It is hilarious. Now they do label it as satire but at that point it was straight faced ”No! CNN has not bought a washing machine”
Wonder what’s going to happen tomorrow ...

“Further, Mr. Liebowitz is hereby ORDERED to appear before this Court in person on November 13, 2019 at 10 a.m., and there and then SHOW CAUSE why he should not be incarcerated until such time as he complies with the above-described orders (and, if applicable, the instant order).”
That was a separate lawsuit and as you mention they already won it.