skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not true. It's easier to scale up. You get more efficient.

Scaling up an electric motor is not particularly hard. Some of the largest machines in existence are electric.

Power is not a challenge for electric. In fact, this electrified seaplane has much more power (560kW) than the original radial piston engine one (336kW), and even more than the turboprop conversion (510kW).

A LOT of very confident people on the Internet post lots of very wrong and/or outdated misinformation about electric aircraft (and electric vehicles in general).

Energy is a challenge, but the answer there is to increase efficiency and increase the mass of the vehicle which is battery. Both of those together give you a usable range of about 1000km. The same motor provider, Magnix, is also providing the motors for the 1000km range Eviation Alice.

Just because a conventional aircraft maker thinks something isn't possible, doesn't mean someone can't make it work. It most certainly doesn't require 30 times the energy density. For the same exact reason why electric cars don't require batteries with 30 times the energy density to compete with gasoline cars.
Yeah, I got a little carried away there...
Really? I’ve seen coworkers reading, but it’s rare. I occasionally encourage people to read at work. People tend to not follow through, since it’s often hard to find good books on niche subjects.

At one point I was in a reading group on Quantum Computing (we were working through some classic text book). I eventually stopped since I was bad at making time to do the exercises.
Sometimes I think this is a good idea but generally it seems like refactoring in a way that the code base always makes sense, even to a newcomer, is the correct goal. History can be kept in source control, if it's necessary to follow the history of code development it's probably a sign that the abstractions are not chosen correctly.
What about http://foo/ and http://foo:80/? Are those different URLs?
In the world of smartphones this is pointless
I stood up to my boss, then he got promoted
I use Superhuman and I enjoy it.
I was expecting to see two of my pet hates - returning a null array to represent no items, and returning a single object without an array to represent one item.

I also once worked with an API where you had to send the data in POST format - abc=123&def=456. After much pressure from their customers, they finally relented and added an XML version of their API... where your request could look like this: <request>abc=123&def=456</request>.

Even better, note the & is not an &amp; - you can't even use a standard XML parser to interpret the result.

Also: APIs that have a mix of strongly and eventually consistent calls and no documentation about which is which. Or, an API that was at one point strongly consistent turns eventually consistent without warning.
The Complicated, Problematic Influence of TripAdvisor Restaurant Reviews
Identifying citizens correctly is a someone necessity of government. Google's identifying of who they're advertising to is far, very far, from necessity.

It's like pointing out to the police that 'chefs use knives' when you're stopped carrying a flick knife in the street.
This article is junk. There are many reasons for not offering an API to customers.

I run a small b2b app between two completely non-technical businesses. There is absolutely no need for me to have an API available to them, they’ve never asked for it and have no desire or ability to consume it.

Believe it or not, there is also an expense to offering an API! An API is a product offering like anything else, and products need customer support. API products need advanced support because they are technical in nature, you can’t use a call center for this type of support.

And I don’t really want random joes signing up for my API and doing god-knows-what with it. I’d much rather create a relationship with you so I know what you’re trying to do (so you don’t bring down my servers in the middle of the night or run up a huge bill because you’re use case is a little beyond what I can support).

The other points can just be summarized as “have a perfect API and perfect docs”. Ok. Thanks. Can you show me an example of this in the wild? Didn’t think so.

The better suggestion is to analyze your business and decide if offering an API furthers your businesses’ goals.
Google have been blocking lots of youtube accounts recently for no reason, which means getting locked out of gmail forever
> going FOSS can be an effective marketing strategy: by making something open and free (in both meanings) you get much higher probability of that something becoming popular. That in turn gives a lot new opportunities to sell complementary something or other something.

Right, and then people try to do that, fail to sell whatever it is that they thought they would, and end up putting some sort of annoyance on the code to punish those who are using it.
Building a Distributed Indexer for a Search Engine
Well, there are other Ada compilers around besides GNAT, although GNAT is the only affordable one to most mortals.

Most people might also not be aware that Rational Software started their business by selling Ada machines, where one could enjoy an experience somehow similar to Lisp Machines, just with Ada instead.

Thanks for the link.
I believe the FAA and TCCA have a bilateral agreement so it very well could be the FAA.

https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/international/bilatera...
Puerto Rico’s GDP per capita, adjusted for purchasing power parity, is comparable to Spain, Italy, New Zealand, and South Korea: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?most_...

Puerto Rico’s PPP GDP per capita has been stagnant since 2006 or so, but that’s true of Italy and Spain as well. (Italy has done worse over the last 15 years than Puerto Rico.) Its not a great situation, but doesn’t justify treating it like some developing nation.
Donation link (currently being matched 2:1) https://archive.org/donate/
> You're right, let's burn the library down because one book has a liable chapter in it.

I feel you got the comment backwards: a better analogy would be "if a used-books store full of Dan Browns were to burn down, would we regret the loss of maybe one chapter that has some value?"

Your position seems to be "yes", but I wouldn't dismiss so easily the opposite view: that 90% of everything is crap, and that keeping everything forever "just in case" sounds surprisingly similar to hoarding.

I do not oppose "purposeful archiving" - as someone mentioned, saving outgoing Wikipedia links seems smart. But my old twitter account, where I kept track of missed trains? There are better sources for that, and no one missed it when it was gone.
Fascinating idea. I've definitely written and encountered programs where functions were more complicated than they could've been, in order to support features separate from the "main idea" of the program. Like FPS calculation, Ctrl+C handling, passing intermediate audio data to extra buffers for visualization...

Could "splicing in" code it be implemented using aspect-oriented programming frameworks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming I've never used them though.

> There's a new constraint that has no counterpart in current programming practice — remove a feature, and everything before it should build and pass its tests:
> build_and_test_until

Looks like added tooling is needed, but seems worthwhile.
I'm not sure if "convenient" is really the right word for it. I recently moved to a new job, and my commute is now 20-30 minutes by car. My new office has bike facilities and showers, and isn't too far from public transit, and is generally about as optimal as you can get for non-driving commuting in this city.

I still drive because biking is A. pretty physically grueling in a number of common weather conditions ( greater than 100 degree or less than 32 degree temps for much of the year, carrying my bike up 2-3 flights of stairs... ) B. Going to take 2-3x the time per day, before time spent showering on each end of an hour-long ride in brutal heat... Public transit is a 1+ mile walk/ride on either end of it (same problems as above), means I can only get in/out of work at specific times, and still takes 2-3x longer than driving.

That's before we get into the 2000 serious injury-causing accidents that people get in on bikes per year in my state, many of which are in my county. I really hate cars, but I'm mostly driving slow and on low-speed roads. I'm very unlikely to die or be seriously injured. That's not something I can rely on on a bike commute.

I'm looking to move closer to the office so I can mitigate some of these because I earnestly hate driving this much, but I wouldn't claim that that's going to make biking/walking "incredibly convenient", just acceptably less inconvenient.
A source on China indirectly managing Chinese companies?

That is generally speaking a true statement, regardless of which Chinese company you're speaking of. Do you want a source on that?
Contribute to the ACLU here:

https://action.aclu.org/give/now
This is not necessarily about uniquely tracking users. This is likely about telling automation from manual traffic to login.

Credential stuffing is a large enough problem for account takeover and the cost to a user of losing their gmail account so high that at some point a team has to make tradeoffs about what can and cannot be used to log in.

edit: am Googler, not working on this area. Have background in account takeover/browser fingerprinting.
Individual contributor. It's a fancy management word for SWE or anyone else in a non-management role.
I've seen a lot of skeptics and nay-sayers talking about this project, but I feel like there is a fundamental mis-understanding of why this is significant.

No, it's not going to compete with jet airliners even in the remotely near future. High-bypass turbofan engines have enormous cost advantages over traditional piston engines. It's almost always more economical to use a turbofan engine to power aircraft in anything more than a short hop.

I see this being a classic case of something like Mainframes vs. PCs however. Most people don't equate flying with General Aviation because GA has traditionally been so cost prohibitive, much the same way that mainframes were so cost prohibitive in the 60's and 70's. There are a few airlines, like Harbour Air, and Mokulele, that currently offer a short haul flights (usually over water) where people are willing to pay a lot more money. There are benefits like frequency of flights, but the big ones for me are not having to queue up for security, and being able to bring liquids on board. My wife once brought a can of soup on board Mokulele. Try doing that on Hawaiian.

If this can bring down the cost of short haul flights, particularly those around 200-250 miles, it could be extremely appealing, especially when coupled with ride hailing. I would much rather take a 45 minute flight and get Lyft on the other side, than spend 3 hours sitting in a car stuck in traffic. GA can fly out of smaller terminals and smaller airports. San Carlos (SQL) to South Lake Tahoe is a 40ish minute flight in a GA aircraft, but can be 5+ hours in traffic on I-80.
I believe you are proving my point. For example, the goal of much ancient philosophy was exactly what it meant to live a good life, and the theory of such was very well developed. Most of the culture you take for granted as 'common sense' is directly based on this philosophical development.

STEM at best tells you how to do something, but can never tell you what to do, or why to do it. For that you need philosophy, much more than philosophy of science.
Sorry for the lack of clarity (I've tilted at this windmill, and failed).

E2-std-2 != t3.large. A t3.large only has a "baseline performance" of 30% [1]. That's more like our e2-small though they have more memory.

Instead, I'd compare e2-std-2 to m5.large like you started to do so. An m5.large on-demand is $.096/hr => $70/month, while the e2-std-2 is $48/month. I think your $41.75/month is from the 1-yr Standard RI (a 40% discount). For that, the most direct comparison would be to use a Committed Use Discount on our side which comes with a similar percentage discount (I can't find this on my phone right now) so that's like $29/month.

Does that make sense?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t3/
No worries. The smiley was meant to convey the fact that I was simply being cheeky. :-)

Edit: just happy to see it get traction.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)

"Opera is a freeware web browser ..., developed by Opera Software, a Norwegian software company, ... with the majority of ownership and control belonging to Chinese businessman Zhou Yahui, founder of Beijing Kunlun Tech and Chinese cybersecurity company Qihoo 360."
Current internet was designed for Net Neutrality. They would have to rebuild the internet to do what you mentioned. And they most certainly are doing that. Look up 5G network slicing.
Email spam detection is hilarious.

Basically, you have to take a set of ritual steps to "warm" various email resources (such as domains, addresses, and IPs) to be flagged as "known" and "legitimate". For example, IP addresses: you should send warming emails to a valid address that you control for a few weeks to just show up on lists without having spam marks against you.

It's insane.
That's a pretty big stretch.
All blockchains fundamentally do not scale. Global universal consensus and a global centralized datastore (ledger) is an anti-pattern found nowhere in nature.

If the Twitter team go for a blockchain stack, they're doing so for the mass surveillance and control feature.

P2P is the way: see Holochain, Scuttlebutt etc.
But even when they have a warrant to go after one person, the fact that they can scoop up information from everyone else even remotely near that person, and those people never find out is pretty abusive.

Like, if my neighbor is a drug dealer, and the police get a warrant to search their apartment, maybe that's reasonable. If they use that warrant to search every apartment on my block, that's messed up. If they do that without leaving a trace, so I have no idea when or if it has happened ... then I'm living in a panopticon.
Thats an absolute classic that reads like a spy novel detective story, and, at times, Unix manual. Perfect.
While I agree that overall native apps are a better experience, and strive for using them, many apps on the store are perfectly doable as PWAs.

Just like many games that people play on the train, which are yet another variation of matching stuff, are easily doable with WebGL.
Even if we accept that companies returning money to shareholders means that they can't find good use for the capital doesn't mean the government will. If anything maybe the shareholders themselves can find better use for the money. After all they have wider avenue of possible investments (things outside of the scope of what the company is doing).
There is also the whole fairness side of things: even if it's a bit less efficient for shareholders to have the money or even if they want to spend it for consumption doesn't mean the government should take it.
Facebook wants to be a family friendly brand.
This isn't true. If you want to keep making these claims, you're going to have to provide a source. For instance, there's plenty of space behind the pilot that is empty. There's plenty of interior space as the batteries are placed below.

Additionally, they are using bulletproof flight-certified batteries which are much lower than the typical good lithium ion batteries used in, say, a Tesla. They're just for the prototype. "“These are batteries that NASA is using, but they’re not batteries that we’d use if we were going to try and make it economical to fly today, because they’re very low in watt-hours per kilogram,” explained McDougall."

The electric motor (not an engine) is 560kW, almost twice the original 336kW radial motor, so it's not in the least underpowered (as you imply).
There's a middle ground where someone isn't wheelchair bound but does have a lot of trouble moving around where people fall through the cracks without cars or other vehicular transport.
Cough, Dart/Kotlin.
Probably one of the most easiest, feature-rich, and unknown SSGs is called, Publii. (getpublii.com)

It's a desktop cms based on electron and has replaced wordpress has my dev platform for content sites.
Microsoft is particularly annoying. If I send mail from my domain via my server in Rackspace's cloud to my @outlook.com address, Microsoft classifies it as spam. I tell it that the mail is not spam--and the next one still gets classified as spam. I've done this several times now, and it is still classifying them as spam. How many freaking times do you have to tell Microsoft that something is not spam before it learns?

Compare to Yahoo. The first one to my @yahoo.com address was classified as spam, but then after I told Yahoo that it was not spam, subsequent ones come through fine.
So, as the old white guy in the room who is also on the spectrum, can someone clarify for me what kind of behaviour was spotted in this instance that should not have been exhibited?

I might be able to help spot things like this in the future, if I know what to look for.
It's weird to see the emphasis on workers rather than emphasizing employers. My employer lets me learn and study during the 9-5. My previous employers didn't. It makes an incredible difference.
While I don't endorse your parent's over-the-top rhetoric, and I do agree that there is value in ephemerality and that it's worth noting that libraries are more carefully curated than a dump-and-archive, I think it's also worth noting that these are generally public pages.

All the stuff Tumblr users intentionally wrote and published publicly, but none of their IP address logs and other incidentally collected information, is exactly what ought to be archived and preserved, in my opinion. This is in strong contrast to incidentally collected data including clear PII like IP addresses that many companies today are hoarding forever, when they ought to be ephemeral.
The precise narrative you just articulated is that of the enlightenment in the 18th century, which is a period much latter than the invention of the printing press and Protestantism.

A good book for you to check out is Rodney Stark's "For the Glory of God", written by a secular historian debunking much of the above narrative.

The fact that many educated today take your narrative for unarguable fact also illustrates the problem. The 'enlightenment' narrative is ironically very self limiting.
I bought a non-electric, but large-wheeled kick scooter a few months ago for getting around NYC.

I absolutely love it. Bikes are a little annoying to stop and start; "walking" your bike for a short stretch requires physically dismounting. My scooter allows me to constantly transition between standing, walking, and riding as environmental conditions require.

Also... it's stupid, but if I have to wear a helmet to do something, I'm not going to do it. I can't imagine riding a bike without a helmet, because it would be too easy to hit a bump and fall over. On my scooter, however, I feel relatively safe without a helmet. There have been a couple times when I've lost control of my scooter for some reason or another, but because I'm basically standing, I've just kind of jumped off.
I understand drawing that line there, but the "suburb" of a good portion (half?) of Portland is the urban, neighborly sort that isn't the post-WWII culdesac sprawl. I mean, I guess suburban sprawl is the [awful] norm in the U.S., but then there's the non-sprawl suburb stuff like Portland's walkable grid with narrow streets…
Eventually the Rust compiler will be fully incremental, possibly tied into the debugger so it can patch running code with just the diff, retaining state while doing so, but this is probably 5 years out.
Sarcos Guardian XO Powered Exosuit Demo[video]
It's still mostly a bad copy of XRP so although overall "better" than bitcoin is does nothing better than the predecessor (XRP). In fact stellar was created because Jed McCaleb wanted to do a FB airdrops to push XRP but the rest of the team dint like this idea. Their though a giveaway for actually crypto interested people is enough and giving coins to people who don't understand it would not add any value. Quite obviously they where right. But Jeb started stellar and since day one airdrops the token wherever he can.

Disclaimer: I sold the XLM I got years ago for XRP. I didn't participate in the recent giveaways.
I should emphasise that microblogging in Matrix is pretty early, but we built the protocol to be able to scale for it. There are some very basic bridges to Wordpress and Mastodon etc but they could be way more sophisticated.

Moderation has improved loads though - https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation/ has the details. You can't ban users via IP though (unless they're on your server), as otherwise it's a massive privacy leak to expose IPs.
Source: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-and-cbp-are...

For more insight and details.
Tshirts Against Unitary Software Patents, Demonstration in Brussels
Americans are really unaware to how cars ruins cities, particularly how much of the cities after urban renewal were demolished instead of improved to make room for the six lane sroads.
> How would planes would look like if fuel prices increased a few fold?

Like High speed rail
Modern Theme Development in Shopify
What does lazylizard think?
Since the FCC sanctions stingray use for law enforcement I'm sure they make sure that any new mobile radio technology is compliant with police spying requirements.
https://spacetime.am/
This advice might work at Uber or as a consultant but for FTEs it sounds like a great way to get fired. I consider myself a product-minded software engineer, but trying to be this person has been a sisyphean task pretty much anywhere I’ve worked. In fact I have come to view that impulse to challenge assumptions, to strive to do work I’m proud of, as an example of my naïveté as a junior developer. Executives are not too interested in quality software; they are interested in shipping whatever is in their head, whether it’s good for customers or not. In startups they are interested in shipping literally anything at all to meet insane growth targets so they don’t lose funding or get replaced by the board. IME the only time interest in the product actually helps engineers is during the initial interview where you need to demonstrate your interest in the company’s mission. The reality is that despite how brainy the job happens to be, employers do not pay developers to think; they pay us to do the geek stuff they don’t understand. They view us, if you will, as pure functions that take a set of orders as input and produce a functioning app as output—no side effects please. This is why we’re going to be replaced by AI as soon as it’s good enough, and are currently being replaced by no-code products: we are already robots to management.
Star Wars: Asciimation
A similar path might be MIR to Wasm, w/o hitting LLVM at all. Or just interpret MIR directly.
Is there any way to download warcs collected by the internet archive? I'd like to try and back some up and use them for some search algorithm benchmarks.
No, not for safe landing. If a jet couldn't land safely while fully tanked then they would not be able to land in emergencies happening early in the flight.

They rely on the plane being lighter from fuel burn and therefore more efficient to extend their possible flight time, but not for safety.
If you like Hokusai and are in Montreal, I cannot more highly recommend checking out this exhibition traveling the world for a few more weeks

https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/project/culture/exhibit/traveling/ma...

TL;DR: it is about the extensive "manga" Hokusai drew which set the stage for the explosion of modern day manga and comics in general.

A fantastic exhibition. I was fortunate to see it when it visited the Portland Japanese Garden.

(November 16, 2019 - January 5, 2020
Bibliothèque de Rivière-des Prairies (Montreal, Canada))