skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion it is disingenuous to call any supersonic aircraft sustainable. Independently of any clever aerodynamic design to moderate the drag coefficient, aerodynamic drag always increases like the velocity squared. Doubling the speed will mean applying 4x the force for 1/2 the time, so all propulsive efficiencies being equal, you will expend twice the fuel to go the same distance - at an absolute minimum. In reality engine efficiencies decrease at high-speeds, and you won't be able to completely eliminate the Mach 1 "barrier" (drag peak), or design an aircraft that is equally efficient in takeoff/landing... so the factor will be bigger than that. But x2 fuel consumption is a hard lower bound.

I don't believe this can be called sustainable. Air transport is already a major contributor to CO2 emissions. We as a civilization badly need significantly more efficient ways to fly, not less efficient ways. To even slightly suggest that this might be helping the environment is deplorable.

Also, air transport is already miraculous. Going around the world in a day is not enough for you? Really? Buy a book.
Anything that needs an "obstacle course" or a "downhill slalom" to modify? Examples:

- Compilers/IDEs that only exist on single machines (expensive mainframes, single user VMs, SSH hosts)

- Compilers/IDES that must be air-gapped for any security reason (including CVEs and expired support, not just PII/PCI/confidential-quarantine reasons)

Things start to feel impossible when you have to use a Windows XP VM because it was the last OS Microsoft officially supported the VB6 IDE, who knows how to install and license the ActiveX controls anymore for development (some of the vendors don't even exist anymore to ask), the VM is intentionally air-gapped/quarantined from internet traffic because it is an XP VM so there's now some fun extra steps with virtual folder redirects and worktree-less clones as remotes to get git changes in/out. (If your VM stopped supporting basic copy/paste from the host machine you feel you might go mad. Trying to grep VB6 code in VSCode to make navigation feel somewhat more sane due to scroll delays in the VM feels like its own growing madness as VSCode believes you to be insane using such an arcane language that looks but does not smell like VB.NET.)

Uh, not that that resembles my current situation or anything.

There are similar horror stories from say COBOL devs with airgapped mainframes.
Startup Announces Drone for Cleaning Water, Collecting Data
The risk is that multiple bits in the same packet are flipped, which the CRC can’t detect. If the bit error rate of the medium is constant, then the larger the frame, the more likely that is to occur. Also as Ethernet speeds increase, the underlying BER stays the same (or gets worse) so the chances of encountering errors in a specific time period go up. 100G Ethernet transmits a scary amount of bits so something that would have been rare in 10Base-T might happen every few minutes.
Google Maps' refusal to show the name of the major(!) street names is infuriating. I don't need that information to determine where I am, I need it to figure out what street signs I need to be looking for so that I can get to where I am going. And the really infuriating thing is that it shows one random useless street somewhere until I zoom in until the street I want is the only thing on the screen.

I fired Google Maps and now use Apple Maps unless I'm looking for a business by name that I think is not mainstream enough to be on Apple Maps.
but "good quality" is subjective which is why it seems like finding a firm that focuses on "good quality" is so difficult
Because different industries have wildly different profit margins so if you taxed revenue instead of profit, companies in some industries would be wildly undertaxed while others would instantly go out of business.

Humans, on the other hand, all work mostly the same.
I was just eating lunch across the street from Apple's headquarters in Cupertino when I read the news.

The John Sculley era of Apple has received a lot of criticism. With that being said, one of the aspects of this era that I'm most impressed with is the work that came out of Apple's Advanced Technology Group. During this time period Apple was serious about advancing the state of research in the areas of programming languages, systems software, and human-computer interaction. There were many great people that were part of this group, including Larry Tesler and Don Norman. I completely understand why Steve Jobs shut down this group in 1997; times were rough for Apple, and the company couldn't afford to do research when its core business was in dire straits. But I wish Apple revived this group when its fortunes changed, and I also wish Apple still had the focus on usability and improving the personal computing experience that it had in the 1980s and 1990s.
You're misunderstanding both my point and how ALE works. Among other things:

1. ALE time limits are set by the policy unless otherwise defined by statute. In CA, for example, if you are displaced due to a natural disaster, your ALE coverage remains in place by law "for a period of no less than 24 months from the inception of the loss" (CA Insurance Code 2051.5(b)(2))

2. There is no statutory ALE time limit on uninsured losses (at least not in CA). In theory (and in practice), you can make a claim for an indefinite period of time if you can prove you'd more likely than not stay in your apartment forever (I have recently seen one such actual claim in SF for 30 years of ALE, for example).

3. If you live in SF, you should expect 4 years of ALE because it might well take that long to rebuild. The building owner may spend the better part of a year deciding whether or not to rebuild, 3-6 months getting estimates, and 2 years actually rebuilding. This happens all the time.

4. I won't speak for what other people want from their insurance, but the loss I am personally trying to protect against is not the out of pocket cost while I look for a temporary apartment, it's the additional $2K or $3K+ per month that a temporary apartment is going to cost me until I can either find something cheaper, move back into my old unit after a rebuild, or decide to permanently leave the Bay Area. I want to buy myself as much time for that process/decision as possible, because the odds are good I'll need it.
That's a bad bias you have. I could handle coredumps before I started CS. Also CS does not teach you efficient programming - that's a different course.
Isn't the whole the struggles and fiascos are about the suspect of him doing rape or not? How could the totally unrelated email leaks be the reason to grant a pardon?

This world is more rotten than you can ever imagine.
Won in New Hampshire

Tied in Iowa, won popular vote

Polling strong in Nevada.

The momentum is there.

EDIT: Regarding policy, with so many Supreme Court Justices up in age, the next President will likely get the chance to set the tone. Citizens United is the ruling that enabled much of the financial influence in the government, and Bernie is committed to dismantling it.
Any estimate when Inter can be expected?

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1455#event-2995287982
Seems to be a pretty decent overview; covers the usual suspects (multi-stage builds, FROM scratch, non-scratch minmal images, ldd to check libraries), with some nice bits that I'd not seen before (busybox:glibc). I would be curious to see how these base images stack up against Google's "distroless" base images (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless). I also appreciate that they call out Alpine's compatibility issues (on account of musl) but still leave it as a thing that can be good if you use it right. (Personally I'm quite fond of Alpine, but I don't bother when using binaries that expect glibc.)
3Blue1Brown is among the supporters on Patreon which I think is another big recognition for the work of the creator(s).

https://github.com/explorableexplanations/explorableexplanat...
Gold guns that shoot gold bullets
In my "humble" oppinion only three most significant (decimal) digts count if you are looking at growth.
4. Fund federal elections with federal dollars.
I found this fascinating, as a student we are taught to use SQLite and then told to use PostgreSQL for production. I am told that a large amount of mobile native apps use SQLite. Does anyone have any stats on this? Seems like a nice choice, but the searches I have done are all over the place.
Announcing Our New ISA Financing Blueprint and $100M in New Financing
Yeah, but they have two centuries of industrialization plus the preceding three centuries of forest clear-cutting to account for and reintroduction of native species. This is the alcoholic having been clean for 3 days. I'm not ready to take advice on keeping my liver healthy from him yet.
Ask Mike Bloomberg how he thinks Bernie would do against Trump. https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1225440451152547840
> I'm guessing colocation was an added bonus because it is a bit easier.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this:

My opinion is that if there's a preference for a co-located candidate, that simply means their processes are not built to put a remote candidate on equal footing.

Hence the preference.

The fact that they have remote workers does not invalidate the fact that those remote workers are at a disadvantage.

> I think my largest concern was the sustainability of my rate for them in the long term being a small outfit

This is one more red flag: companies that have to work remotely because they have to not because they want to.

There is a world of difference between a company that had to settle for remote work just because they could not afford to hire locally from a company that was built remote first because the founders believed in remote work.

The former will always be on the lookout for local candidates, forever deprioritizing remote workers while the latter don't have any such discrimination in mind.

I am glad it turned out well for you in the short term. Maybe you can follow up on how their remote workers are currently doing.
But where is the DC coming from? If it is a cheap power source (a rectifier plugged or wired into AC), the DC into the lights could be intermittent, and so cause flicker. For true continuous DC, you need a good rectifier or get the current directly from batteries.
Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources
Where this gets interesting is when governments decide that if LED energy efficiency is good, more LED energy efficiency is better. There's a push for minimum energy efficiency standards to be really close to the cross-over point where consumers just barely save money compared to less efficient bulbs if they meet the nominal lifetime specs, on the pretense that it's helping out consumers who are too stupid to realise that the higher upfront cost saves them money - at least in the EU and the US pre-Trump. Given the combination of more complex designs and more incentive for cost-cutting, I can't see those bulbs meeting the lifetime specs, and I do wonder if it'd actually save energy.
Scientists ‘strongly condemn’ conspiracy theories about origin of coronavirus
I thought Doug Ford entered politics in 2010. Before Trump was elected but after he became a Republican attack dog on Twitter, spreading lies about candidate Barack Obama.
It’s not surprising given that those who are able to dictate their desired setup (remote work in this case) can command higher salaries. Would be nice to see the graph of years of experience + salaries for remote vs onsite workers.
> Don't leave bombs lying around

I'd say that's probably good advice regardless of your profession ;)
While I agree with what you are getting at, I have to say that depending on the religion/sect/whatever, the term for their clergy do typically have specific meaning. Typically a priest has devoted their entire life to that religion, from an early age. Its more than just getting their doctorate in theological studies (which a lot (most?) of them have).
> it allows them to crawl websites more easily – before web fonts, many websites used pre-rendered PNGs to show web-unsafe fonts, which made crawling impossible.
To answer "track users across different websites", I think they pretty clearly say the opposite:

> The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to what is needed to serve fonts efficiently.

> When millions of websites all link to the same fonts, they are cached after visiting the first website and appear instantly on all other subsequently visited sites. [...] The result is that website visitors send very few requests to Google: We only see 1 CSS request per font family, per day, per browser.

I guess, what would you want to see that would assuage your concerns, beyond what is written in the FAQ?
Google parent pulls the plug on power-generating kite project
Socialization is good, but that doesn't mean the way schools provide it is optimal. A peer-dominated social environment all too often results in a Lord of the Flies scenario of children playing petty power games. And when the only interaction with adults is as impersonal authority figures, children are left unprepared for the world of adult interaction.

Something I've seen actually work really well for socialization is homeschooling, where children are exposed both to children of a variety of ages (younger and older) and the interactions with adults are more personable. They also more often get to see adults interacting with each other as adults.

I suspect there is probably a profound benefit to children who have adult figures in their own lives (aside from their parents) that they can look up to as a models of successful behavior - as opposed to merely having pop culture and other kids to model themselves after.
Blockchain technology improves coronavirus response – Chinadaily.com.cn
Let's start a css-less tech trend, shall we? :)
That's why we need public funding of elections... Bloomberg can spend a billion, and who benefits the most? MSNBC, CNN, Facebook, so of course when he's not paying they STILL prop him up because the longer he stays in the race the more $$ they collectively make, who cares if it destroys America in the process as long as there's a paycheck.
Download batches on initial extension load, and periodically thereafter, and cache them locally?
Ask the Supreme Court justices who decided money is speech and deserves the same protections under the Constitution.
Don't forget about SpatiaLite! Having a GIS-capable lightweight database, without relying on a typical DB system is pretty nice too.
>Winning elections is about convincing people, not brainwashing them.

Are you suggesting that political advertisements don't use the same sorts of psychological manipulation as non-political advertisements? Or you do consider psychological manipulation to just be a form of "convincing"?

>Your perspective is that voters are dumb animals who flock to whoever spends the most on ads.

Voters are human beings, most of which are highly susceptible to being manipulated through an array of time-tested psychological tricks that advertisers have been using for over 100 years.
I work remote so I have more free time.

No commute, can work from many places, can do chores between work, etc.
Hospitality as well.
Is your second recommendation "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" or "Influence: Science and Practice" (both have Robert B. Cialdini as authors)?
I'm very sorry to hear this. He was the instigator of Dylan and it's not wrong to say there would be no Clozure Common Lisp (my preferred development platform) today if not for Larry Tesler.
Anecdotally, people use their Macs a lot longer than Windows users. In part because of the price difference.
Because of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370387
Whatever happened to prosecuting perpetrators? I guess there’s no $ in that...
Right the media is 'free' enough to report on it... Krystal Ball, Cenk, TYT, sure they HAVE talked about it, but the major netwroks like CNN and MSNBC? Not really, if they did he might not get so far, and then would stop literally throwing cash at them by buying ads. Public funding of elections needs to end, and Bloomberg is literally showing what's possible.
Python's datetime appears to have one constructor with several optional parameters, whereas .NET's System.DateTime has several separate constructors each taking a different set of parameters. The MSDN documentation is accurate and correct; your critique applies to the underlying code (which is built to be backwards-compatible to .NET 1.0, which I don't think even supported optional arguments).
Why would he want to change the rules? They've spent so long trying to bend them for their own advantage.
Unless the camera moves fast and then it looks like a slideshow. Whenever they pan across a landscape it makes me grit my teeth.
Thanks for the detailed response. Super helpful!

Will run this by the team tomorrow.
it's still not in beta: i mostly wanted to focus on the "people are thinking about it" part :)
Paid shills tend to have a strange effect where they polarize people in the other direction than intended since their arguments are not always well founded and honest, and they will always suffer from some form of groupthink. It's a slingshot effect--at first people fall for the farce, but soon they realize they have been mislead. It could even spoil the election and get some to vote in the opposite direction.

I think it's also pretty easy to spot these days and we're armed much better to fight it at the platform-level.

I don't think this will end well for Bloomberg, he has a long way to climb, and his name is literally associated with big money. He may have already reached saturation, and this is a dying move.
I guess a lot of "real" priests who are supposed to have studied in London universities are well read. They can talk to you about philosophy in breadth or depth, and about great works of literature. Not to mention comparative religion.

If other well read people really want to suss out a fake, they can do that quickly.

But even during a 4-hour dinner party there'd be no reason to go in weapons hot: it'd be small talk and light conversation.
Looks at Apple as it was a few years back
Excellent explainer, thanks.
[ctrl]+[home] keyboard shortcut doesn't work on this page in FireFox. I had some trouble with [ctrl]+[end]. It's quite disappointing to see basic webpage/document functionality broken on a site claiming to improve the web experience. Maybe I'm just an old-fashioned web user.
At my employer we have zones and your salary is adjusted based on COL compared to say SF.

I’m doing well as a remote worker, but I’ve been browsing job boards and many advertised ranges are about half of what I’m currently earning. It needs to get better.
If Bloomberg get elected and successfully purchases the presidency, I’m moving my family out of the US. I will no long contribute to our collective GDP or pay taxes. I’ll vote with my feet if I can’t vote with my rights as an American citizen.
I’m not sure if you’re asking out of genuine curiosity, but — the entire Catholic tradition is built around the idea of the Church, an organization. Ergo faking the credentials of a member of this organization would indeed be a problem.

The idea that a preacher / priest / Christian teacher doesn’t need authority from the Catholic Church comes from the Protestant tradition (which has been much more influential in the Anglo-American world) and is why you get much more variety in the forms of American Christianity.
Interesting timing, given the recent articles about Lambda School.

It appears they are doubling down on the ISA brokering with Edly. (Which had deleted references to Lambda after they were exposed.)
... but the have no problem fucking our Democracy.
You're right, I missed that. Vi's predecessor ex, which also had these operations, is from '76, so it also couldn't be it. However, Emacs's TECO, which also had yank, is from '62/'63, so that might've been one.
Is there any evidence suggesting this Seth Rich story is believable? There's certainly ample evidence suggesting it is not. The (FOX) article that peddled this story has been retracted and Seth Rich's family is suing the network over it.
PGAdmin 4 demo: Try it in your browser!!
I have explicitly said that I will refrain myself from browser as it is uncomparable. The whole browser based infrastructure is so bloated (from browser which can be treated as vm, to bloated, text based, human readable language (thank god for someone to push webasm - I said it is necessaty in 2001 but everyone was fine in hacking together js for next ~20 years, now it came to the electron absurdity of 100mb+ applications that run js on packaged browser on operating sytem that runs on cpu, the overhead is just incredible) to text based protocols (http! rest!). Nodejs? I wont even start. The waste of cpu power, electricity, hardware,... is just fantastic.

On the other side, android sdk/framework/whatever looks like bunch of academics pouring their frustrations into one library - if you want to learn all patterns just dig in. MFC 6 in 1998 was more organized (https://t1.daumcdn.net/cfile/tistory/11781B244C45903F42 please try to draw this one for android! No vision, just chaos. Oh you loose context with orientation? How nice...). Android development environment catched what Windows Mobile had in 2000 barely when they pulled in IntelliJ (which is copy of visual studio) while for machine code they still lack behind. Please, DONT believe any of this, DO check VS 6.0 and Windows Mobile. Everyone is reinventing everything without/ignoring past and its mistakes, repeating them over and over again. Loosing 20 years for the sake of another corporation gaining monopoly is so crazy that you need to see it with your own eyes.

Cloud. We had mainframes. Enough said. We are moving to those again, for short term profit for users and long term profit for providers. I wonder when affordable server hardware will dissapear from market.

While I think that hardware industry is moving forward, the development is racing backwards or barely catching what we had 20 years back. Drowning itself in lasignas and stacks of different overheads, from overdesigned interfaces to VMs. IoT is still sane (due to lack of resources to waste) but the common software development just went crazy.

I do suspect that at some point, hardware will stop supporting bloating due to physics limitations and optimized code will come back, but I wonder who will still remember how to write it? Ah, we will reinvent it again?!

But nevermind the rant of an old fart. He just doesn't understand waiting on cpu 1000 times faster than what we had at 50% while loading megabytes of web based software doing what he would implement in 100kb. With 0.0015% of cpu load. It is just him. He doesn't understand the hype.
That sounds awfully bad, even my cheapest of the cheap bulbs last minimum 2yrs. Are you aware how's the quality of power coming into your house?
Someone writes a long comment accusing the interviewee of intentionally omitting information, and forgets that the interviewee talked about that information at length?

My working hypothesis is that the commenter probably only skimmed the article, if that. But the really unforgivable part is that that incorrect comment was then voted to the top of the thread. It looks like a lot of people are voting before reading the article.

I'll keep within your guidelines, but my intention was just to point out the irony of the commenter falsely accusing the interviewee of doing something that the commenter themselves was doing.
Twitter Is Real Life
The change isn't especially surprising. Given that the survey allows for even <50% remote work to be factored in, I expect that there's been an increase in the number of better compensated/more senior people who work remotely as opposed to being primarily contractors, support staff, etc. The article speculates about this but it seems pretty obvious among a lot of people I work with and know.