skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if this will be economically viable, the regulations around it could be so harsh that the idea could not take off.

There have to be rules where those taxis can start, land, in what direction, time frames and over which places in a city. You need some kind of air control and "traffic rules". Drivers need regulated training in simulators and there need to be emergency procedures.

I believe that in the first few years such things won't be allowed near towns and cities. There will be similar rules like flying drones [1], but a lot stricter.

And the time saved by such travel will probably decrease when the sky starts looking like in the 5th Element [2].

[1] https://uavcoach.com/drone-laws-in-switzerland/
[2] https://media.giphy.com/media/Bs2pZhpxf2168/giphy.gif
Well, it's not real C, and simplifying a language makes things a lot more easier than having to stick to a lengthy, detailed standard. Not that the compiler ever argues that it does something different than that, it's named "B" after all (never mind the name clash with the original lobotomized BCPL)

Some simple Algol-/Pascal-ish compilers used for instruction aren't that much more complicated. Sure, they don't fit in that many lines, but if you consider tokens on a x/y axis, it's not that different. Wirth's Oberon-7 would be a good example for something not toy-like.

I do appreciated the terseness, though. APL/K often operate in a specific domain and/or are used interactively, where this is of a big benefit.

It does make me wonder how lengthy interleaved string messages would interfere with this. Would a terse language suffer more from the "context switch" between short identifiers and long strings than one where functionsAreWrittenLikeThis in the first place? Probably calls for more variables, otherwise the actual parts of the code are spread too far apart.
> The researchers ended up with another counter-intuitive result: it's actually 28 percent more efficient to let slower passengers board first.

So is it faster or more efficient ?

What if we have faster-only and slower-only planes ? Won't that be even FASTER ?

Also:
> This test was conducted in a mock Boeing 757 fuselage, located on a Southern California soundstage, with 12 rows of six seats and a single aisle. Five methods were tested using 72 passengers of various ages.

Is this really science or just a math excercise ?
I think you're assuming Chrome's very existence was inevitable, but it wasn't.

Chrome was created partly because Page just wanted to do a browser, but that wasn't enough by itself. Schmidt blocked a browser project for years on the grounds that it was a low priority and there wasn't much reason because Firefox was doing fine.

What changed things was Google trying to work with Mozilla to contribute resources, push the web forward faster and running into huge problems again and again. Political, corporate, technical. The Firefox architecture was over-engineered but also the Firefox guys thought they were top dog and kept dropping or ignoring Google's contributions for what looked like spurious reasons. Frustration grew amongst engineers who cared about improving HTML and with Page having always wanted to do a browser, now there was pressure from the top and the grassroots. When they got a few key hires who showed they could do a new browser with a much better architecture, and move way faster than cooperating with Mozilla, events were set in motion.

But there's a parallel universe in which Mozilla welcomed the Google contributions with open arms, in which Gecko had been written in normal C++, was easier to work on/better documented, where the app architecture was more conventional and thus more amenable to sandboxing etc. And in that world maybe Firefox would be even more dominant than Chrome. I don't think Mozilla realised back then they either could learn how to work with the Google engineering teams, even to the extent of giving up some architectural control, or Google would wipe them out.
What's a better world, one where some people has the means to defend themselves against injustice, or one where nobody does but at least we're all equal?
It does seem to be very hard to be a foreign CEO in Japan, especially if you're a bit flamboyant and are used to be treated as a superstar.

That said, Ghosn has been accused of very similar things elsewhere:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-nissan/nissan-gho...

The real difference seems to be that he wasn't able to bribe his way out...
> So we are supposed to assume that the CEO fled injustice, him an all the reportedly very well-paid conspirators are heroes but this one guy who did the leg work is lying.

Who's saying that? The CEO looks guilty to me, but I don't know the details of the case.
So what’s the deal with Japan supposedly regularly xraying luggage going onto private jets? That’s not the norm in most of the world.

Generally you xray for security, not for customs purposes. Nobody is going to bring a bomb on their own (or rented) private jet.
Cisco launches Wi-Fi 6 access points to keep up with enterprise data growth
The question is, were they any good in their original profession, and why did they move away from it and go to politics?
I'm guessing this means it also bypasses the setting to auto-erase my device when the code has been entered wrong a couple times?
i don't know what they do for money, but i suppose it's not giving away free internet browsers. so it might have something to do with that.
The plea bargain for criminal cases (especially for people with reduced access to defense attorneys) is certainly problematic.

Settlements, for civil cases, not so much, and I think it's an overall positive.
The problem here is that we don't have a common objective to fight for when exiting the plane.

Other people don't care if you exit faster or slower, they only care to exit as soon as possible.

There is no tangible reason to fight for having everyone exit at the shortest possible time so nobody simply does it, why should they ?
We all live in ignorance. Our most epic skill is to work with incomplete information. We use to praise people for being able to do arithmetic in their head or memorize large amounts of information. The computers showed that those abilities are only challenging because we lack the "design" for it.

Advertisement, like Instagram or facebook is tailored to give us the impressions the Joneses are doing much better for themselves. Some of this is true, some is designed to tap into this emotion.

I actually woke up 30 min ago iterating over all the things I didn't get in life that most other people had in abundance. It's not the first time I pondered that. After the excuses you mention above I always come back to a thought I had when I was I think 6 years old:

Other peoples lives, their expectations and their opinions are not really all that interesting or important. They could be if they put minimal effort into creating or evolving them. In stead they just copy this stuff from the next guy without review - then dedicate their lives to living up to them.

I consider myself extremely privileged to escape from that formula. I've never written it down before but happiness now starts with having oxygen to breath, then comes having water to drink, food and a place to sleep share the 3rd spot, 4th is having the mind set to think about something, 5th is a sense of safety and the privilege to implement the thoughts, 6th is to be able to share the thoughts and brainstorm, 7th is to have good people in my life, 8th is to be able to pay my bills, 9th a decent set of garments etc

Having what other people are having is still on the list some place but to have 1-4 makes for a fantastic life. 5 includes health and fitness. The rest is really just nonsense by comparison.

What I'm trying to say is that satisfaction is overrated. You get only so much of it, trying to optimize for it just diminishes it.

> the survey question “How satisfied are you with your life?”

Not satisfied? Well good! Time to accomplish something!
An ELI5 of “Industry 4.0”
The thing is, tested C++ standard library implementation cannot assume a specific platform or implementation of libc. It's too portable.

Yes, you could add some platform and type specific speedups, it ends up a big mess.

In C++20 you get uninitialized allocation functions which do not have to initialize.
Moonpig: A billing system that doesn't suck
Are you kidding? Rich and famous man fallen from grace, boardroom coup, individual takes on the state, retired special operators on a dangerous mission, outlaw on the run. Each one of those tropes in isolation is worth several Hollywood blockbusters. Now a real world story hits all of them? Of course they're going to write about it breathlessly. This is one of the coolest narratives ever to actually happen.

The public doesn't get terribly excited over crimes against shareholders. Ghosn's theory of the case is plausible and a good story, so the press will tend to entertain it. And with two oligarchical factions in a pissing match, one having better access to the tools of state doesn't really elevate its moral standing. In fact, they both seem to own parts of different states.

This plotline would be right at home in Billions. Probably get panned by critics for being over the top, honestly.
> If a person brings so much value, than why not compensate that person adequately?

The question isn't only if the person brings that much value, but also - is there any other person who would bring as much value, but would work for less salary?
Do Foreigners Crowd Natives out of STEM Degrees and Occupations?
>>The files will be easily recovered.

From my limited second-hand experience, it's the complete opposite. Data recovery services can't reassemble data from memory blocks of dead SSDs.
This is probably related to the general 'people bond over a shared meal' thing.

As you have more meals together, you are (they bond to you) and feel (you bond to them) more loved by the other people at the table.
Those are the ones you hear about in the press, but the press looks for outrage.

"CEO earns 10x less than previous year due to declining stock price linked to market share loss" is not a headline to set pulses racing. Performance linked comp works OK most of the time. Sometimes CEOs negotiate deals that are terrible for the company, where they get paid lots even if the firm tanks. My experience has been that this usually happens when the firm is in deep trouble anyway, the CEO knows they probably can't turn it around, but will have a tarnished reputation regardless. Getting experienced people to try and turn the Titanic is expensive and many will want a big reward for even trying.

Also, badly run companies do things like sign bad deals. But it's a circular problem. If they were well run they wouldn't be signing bad CEO deals to begin with.
This article examines effects of the US Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and labor market outcomes for native-born Americans. The Act increased the inflow and stock of foreign STEM workers in the United States, potentially altering the relative desirability of STEM fields for natives. The authors examine effects of the policy on STEM degree completion, STEM occupational choice, and employment rates separately for black and white men and women. The novel identification strategy measures exposure to foreign STEM workers of age 18 native cohorts immediately before and after the policy change via geographic dispersion of foreign-born STEM workers in 1980, which predicts subsequent foreign STEM flows. The Act affected natives in three ways: 1) black male students moved away from STEM majors; 2) white male STEM graduates moved away from STEM occupations; and 3) white female STEM graduates moved out of the workforce.
If GPS had ads [video]
Where the deal is, we don't put you to jail for 50+ years, you agree to be guilty and go for 10 years. With the prospect of ending your life in prision, everyone does a deal.
You could try to make every possible request programmatically & save the responses & then rebuild it.
If Google moved to more in-house development of Chromium, there wouldn't be many scraps soon left for proponents of the open web to browse with... It's sad to see Microsoft as well as Opera and Brave picking Chromium for their engine when at least I think Gecko is still very much on par with web standards support. It feels like a more sensible choice, including for their own business safety in case Google does some sneaky move to "streamline their development" and "focus on the next generation of smartphones and Fuchsia OS" or something like that. That would be a power move we used to attribute to Microsoft in the past.

I wish Mozilla good luck although I'm shaken by these news and how far reaching the restructuring seems to be. I hope it's not the beginning of a negative spiral where they end up lacking manpower in development and QA to deliver a stable browser supporting the latest web standards and lagging behind, because then they're truly out. We should see already in a couple of years.
Yeah I use it with CoC in nvim and find it works as well as VSCode.
I've always thought that part of that culture is remuneration. People in IT sector are more likely to earn well nowadays than most jobs. When one doesn't have to worry about money it's easier to be kind, helpful and open-minded.
I think they could run wires to the motherboard pins on the backside or something too
Nitpick: 5th to reach solar escape velocity. New Horizons, Pioneer 10, and Pioneer 11 have not passed the heliopause yet, which is usually considered the "boundary" of the solar system.
At a previous job I once sshd into a legacy system which had a motd in the vein of: "Don't ever reboot this system, if you do, I will find you and do horrible things to you". No explaination of why. My opinion was that the person who dared to leave a system in this state was the one who needed the horrible things done to them instead. Needless to say, he was already fired.

We started working on solution to run parallel to the existing one, which would receive shadow traffic so we could observe behaviour, find all edge cases and put them in a testsuite for the new solution. After we where confident that our testsuite contained most of the important behaviour we switched traffic to our new solution, keeping the old online just in case we needed to switch back.

Key is monitoring and learning the expected behaviour of the connected systems, to sense if that behaviour is not as expected and being able to act upon that as soon as possible.
That massive a planet might have a thick enough atmosphere to compensate for its distance from the star?

e.g. Wasn't Mars 'warm' for quite a long time and only became really cold once it lost most of its atmosphere due to its small mass?
> because the one thing that I learn as I learn more about computers is that they're basically working "by accident"

So true. Thanks this is good advice. As it happens it is a physical server.

I'm not actually mandated to do anything except replace it with a comparable service but this makes me feel like I'm racing against time!
> On Linux (Arch) how does this differ from https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/code/ ?

to quote the README:

> binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.
There was this AMA on reddit a couple months ago about someone writing about their experience in Japanese detention - https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/cdqx4n/i_spent_20_da...

Given how inhumane it is, yeah, I think I would have tried to escape too
As an outsider there are constantly small details that are off in product and marketing that hint to this. Its really sad to see, I keep using firefox and get a little sad every time I see these signs that this company does not know what it wants to do. In many ways it behaves like a public company without long term direction
According to this article, the lawsuit was settled in September 2019, though it doesn't give a reference and I haven't seen it reported elsewhere.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3487825/mozilla-in-tro...
I am pretty sure I have undiagnosed ADHD(its pointless getting a diagnose in my country as an adult).

My resting heart rate is pretty high, but if I do any intelectual work wahtsoever my heart rate is around 95bpm.

RItalin analogues(in therapeutic doses) bring my heart rate to 60bpm when doing intelectual work while sitting on a desk -- during my deepest sleep my heart rate is 67bpm.

My own bro-science explanation is that I compensate my ADHD with anxiety -- when I'm anxious, I can focus just fine; some stimulants allow me to focus without the anxiety and that's why I feel deep calm and reduced heart rate while using them.
Estonian government supports digital nomad bill
Oculus Quest (standalone VR headset) has released hand tracking as a beta feature. It works surprisingly well but there needs to be a lot of work on designing proper UX for this type of input. For example, pressing a button in VR or on screen is hard to do if your hands are in the air, Oculus so far is using something they call "passive haptics" which is in fact instead of pressing a button in real life, you tap one of your fingers on part of your body/hand. For example to "click" you tap your thumb and your finger.

The technology is there.
If all you want is the JVM JRuby and its Truffle variant are viable options.
Azure, office. Visual studio, datagrip, linkedin, vsts
How could the passengers have known which woman is the one they should let pass ?
Nuclear tipped anything stealth is worrying. The Shvkal [0] torpedo also comes to mind.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval
I've been out of the field for about a decade now. So how often are they running data assimilation into models now? It was basically just 0Z and 12Z back then, because it's computationally intensive. (And of course, you only have radiosondes every 12 hours, and satellites only get you so far.) As are model runs.

Like, of course NWP models win. It's not just the physics, it's all of the other assimilated obs that are advecting over your area of interest.

But it's the problem is always always computation time, to an extent that most people on HN won't get. Maybe the finance guys. But you have to process a mountain of new data, then run the model very quickly for it to be any use at all to the public.

We should use reanalysis for nowcasting, that would be super accurate. /s
This point is made in the book "The Soul of the White Ant" by Eugène Marais, and is perhaps the primary thesis of the book.

It is a fascinating book, and I can recommend reading it, though having been published in 1925, it is possible some of the information is out-of-date.

https://www.amazon.com/Soul-White-Ant-Complete-Unabridged/dp...

"White Ant" actually refers to termites, though the same principles apply. The book was originally published in Afrikaans. According to Wikipedia:

> [The book] was plagiarised by Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck, who published La Vie des Termites (translated into English as The Life of Termites or The Life of White Ants), an entomological book,[3] in what has been called "a classic example of academic plagiarism" by University of London's professor of biology, David Bignell.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais#Theft_of_hi...

Following reference [4] led to this page which I unfortunately don't have the time to read in its entirety right now, but from a skim seems to have some interesting further information on termites:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070915005006/http://www.biolog...
He broke the law a bunch of times and then threatened a man's family to force him to comply, and got the man locked up. This isn't fighting injustice, it's causing injustice.
Thank you for sharing your story. I am what one would call a lurker but have recently decided to start participating directly too. Your post also gives me a lot of motivation to do that.

I think one of the reasons of the positive energy in this community is because it's strict rules on trolling. If one doesn't get to see low effort replies, sarcastic comments etc, then it reduces the chances of them having a bad experience. Hence, resulting in an net positive vibe in the whole forum. Just my two cents!
Yes, I should have added some qualifier. It's exactly as you say.
gwern https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21254365

Indeed. This study is complete bullshit: https://www.gwern.net/SMPY#fn1

It contradicts every (non-self-selected) longitudinal or cross-sectional study, including far more elite samples (which if their theory was correct would show vastly more dysfunctionality, except of course it isn't and those samples don't), and every genetic study as well, and the reported (self-diagnosis) rates are often orders of magnitude larger than any risk factor ever confirmed and literally unbelievable.
Incidentally, Hambrick's writeup here is also quite bad. Aside from failing to mention all of those reasons why it's BS, he doesn't describe accurately the research he does mention. Consider this paragraph from the end:
> All the same, Karpinski and her colleagues’ findings set the stage for research that promises to shed new light on the link between intelligence and health. One possibility is that associations between intelligence and health outcomes reflect pleiotropy, which occurs when a gene influences seemingly unrelated traits. There is already some evidence to suggest that this is the case. In a 2015 study, Rosalind Arden and her colleagues concluded that the association between IQ and longevity is mostly explained by genetic factors.
How did he miss the fact that the Arden study in question shows, as all such studies show, that intelligence correlates with greater lifespan/longevity when he's written an entire credulous column about how intelligence is bad for you and makes people crazy and increases the rate of mental disorders (some of which, like schizophrenia, reduce your life expectancy by decades)? It's right there in the abstract, it's not hidden away. One would think that would at least merit a brief pause to puzzle over the discrepancy...
Not to mention that having children sits at the very base of human existence. We built societies around the plain fact that children are necessary. Only those who believe that humanity should just go extinct can argue that having children is just a personal choice.
This is super helpful. Good find.
> reaching out to the old developers to see if they have a copy

I think you mean "older devs that are still with the company" but I was once contacted by a former employer for exactly this: they had lost source code for the billing system. I didn't have the source code so that was easy to answer. Developers that have stolen intellectual property from former employers may want to consider carefully how they answer such questions...

Also, I was never supposed to have had access to this code whilst I was employed so I did wonder if there was more to it than just "oops we lost it can you help?". Perhaps they were trying to chase down a leak or something? I never heard back though (they survived).
>Corporations are like giant powerful AGI machines with the single purpose of making money for their shareholders no matter the consequences.

That is patently wrong. A corporation exists to distribute risk, and acommplish a task, ideally in a way that creates value for backers, but it is not a given that all profit creating avenues of behavior are desired or worth the egregious cost in negative externalities, or even that a corporation must generate profit.

And unfortunately those control mechanisms you mention seem to be failing with alarming regularity due to regulatory capture.
Open for publishing, not buying.