skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt anything on screen can affect flight during lift-off or re-entry. Anything it might had damn well better be locked-out anyway. Lift off's automated and I'd think any significant failure of that automation would be a cue to abort (physical control for that); as for re-entry, by the time you're deep enough in atmosphere that things are vibrating you're really just falling with style, and there's no "flying" to do nor anything to control.
Super big fan.

I had Lenovo's with Linux for the past 20 years.

My 7yo T440p is still working very well and my son is using that one now.

The brand new X1E Gen2 works flawlessly on Linux.

Granted, I'm using Fedora, not Ubuntu.
Fedora tends to be bleeding edge, even for the X1E Gen2 all I had to do is install Fedora from the LiveCD (I'm using the KDE spin) and it just works. (this laptop still came with Windows only, so I deleted that and install Fedora)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1545C_dJWMIAgqeLEsfo2U8Kq...
I would have expected them to use SCADE, but given their choice of stacks that are entirely unverifiable, due to a combination of their complexity and their semantics, I can only assume that "control panel" was basically decorative, and that actual critical functions and alerts were handled by something with much, much higher safety assurances.
The only trick I have heard of to get lower rates is to rent a PO box in SK, sign up for Sasktel and get a SK number (Sasktel being government owned has lower rates I guess). Seems pretty complicated though.
My explanation is that the free market doesn't exist, and nobody really wants it.

In a perfectly competitive free market, wages (and capital gains, too) should correspond to subsistence wages. However, this poses a problem. If all that additional value is created by firms, to whom is it all divided, if everybody gets just subsistence?

In my view, simply, this situation cannot happen. Instead, in the real world, the markets are always full of oligopolies which were intentionally created by all market participants (including employees) to split up all the created value, somehow.

In practice it takes many forms. It is likely that company employees unconsciously form coalitions that sabotage lot of outsourcing. Some of the coalitions correspond to nation states. In fact, should they fail to do it, they will have less income, and will be less relevant, because they will make less spending decisions.

So the result is somewhat random, it is result of dynamic evolutionary pressures that create market friction, and cannot be explained away by forces of free market rationality.
Why is READ-ONLY incorrect? I mean as in the input on the screen have no write ability and it is only used to control the interface that display the information.
Context is everything.

The first case was a collection of half a dozen pictures of white people protesting that they want hair cuts, vs. half a dozen pictures of PoC asking not to be killed.

> that language clearly does promote hate

How does that promote hate?

> I don’t see why it matters if you’re white yourself

I'm criticizing the group I belong to.

Words get misconstrued all the time. You just demonstrated that.

Edit: because I can't respond to your reply to this, @nilkn, I will say here that you appear to be one of the following:

* Not able to comprehend what I'm trying to communicate
* A troll
* A white supremacist

I'm not saying that to attack you, I'm honestly puzzled that you can't understand what I'm saying. I'd be happy to try and reach a mutual understanding with you but something tells me that would be a fool's errand.

What is clear, is that you are projecting your assumptions as my intent. And your assumptions are wrong.
I can buy the muscle memory part, sure but are they really very inaccurate?

I can select very small text on my phone with my bigger fingers. And also with a touch screen you may have more options in a smaller space.

Sure, that may suck for critical things, but there probably are a lot of settings and so forth that could be hidden that are not critical?

But I understand what you meant, I prefer physical buttons as well.
I know.

* https://github.com/jdebp/nosh/blob/79b1c0aab9834a09a59e15d47...

But nowadays people expect to provide actual font files for weight and slant changes, as boldface is not actually overprinting and italics are not oblique. This starts to matter at cell sizes bigger than 8 by 8, and it isn't an 8 by 8 world nowadays. You'll notice that my terminal emulator reads different font files for bold/faint/italic combinations if they are given. (On one test machine I am currently feeding it a combination of UbuntuMono-i and UbuntuMono-n, with unscii-16-mini and Unifont 7 as fallbacks.)

* https://github.com/jdebp/nosh/blob/79b1c0aab9834a09a59e15d47...

It is not alone. The FreeBSD kernel's newer built-in terminal emulator (vt) loads two fonts, one for normal (medium) weight and one for boldface.

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/5f17a06d9cc0a87e26fb...
Encryption is a small part of the problem: you need to deal with mass tracking, coercion, infiltration, and the lack of checks and balances preventing abuse. I want strong E2E encryption as well but it’s just one part of a large problem.
Even for global products, they are usually created first for the domestic market and then extended for international use once they have taken off domestically rather than targeting the whole world from the start.
Interesting point to consider.

If the company is distributed, the idea of company time becomes even more vague, unless hours are explicitly defined.
This article also has some good statistics:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/business/shrinking-stock-...
This is a perfect summary which exactly captures my frustrations.

I should have said that on Windows Conda is a much more understandable choice.
> To resolve inequality we can't just have the mindset of punish the rich for creating wealth.

I would argue that millions (if not billions) are injected into corr^Wlobbying to make sure that we never fully have this mindset, indeed.

Meanwhile, the rich are way less taxed (proportionally) than the middle class, and in my opinion, that's a problem that stifle Western economies.
probably a case of YMMV depending on your area, school, etc. I'm a bit younger than you (millennial), and I don't remember any outright hostility towards the smart kids. in general, being smart and getting good grades was simply orthogonal to what really mattered. you had to be competent in at least one sport to get any respect. my interest in computers was specifically uncool however, and it placed me below even the theater kids in the social hierarchy.
So the difference is prominence, highlighting this one particular reply because it was written by the platform itself?

I'm still not seeing how this is a big deal. What are the second-order effects?
There is an idea ... that driver-critical, frequently used information (like speed, temps, trip odometer, etc.) can be displayed, offset, in the center of the car.

You can see this "idea" deployed in the Tesla model 3.

This is a clownish, absurd idea that, were it not for actual, extant production examples would be mistaken for parody ... they would be assumed to be in jest.

If you are a designer and you think there is any positive value in this design, find a new job: you are a clown.
Why are they surprised after FB's enabling the genocide in Myanmar? Or the hypertargeting mass persuasion 2016 election Cambridge Analytica fiasco? Corporations gonna corporate.
>In a perfectly competitive free market, wages (and capital gains, too) should correspond to subsistence wages.

Wait, why? You might want to support that claim a little better before you build a whole theory on it. Mainstream theory suggests that in the long run profit will converge to zero, but that doesn't mean that wages, which are the prices set in the labor market, will all converge on the same value. Frankly it doesn't even mean it's not possible to profit while running a business, because the cost of capital is counted against profit when it's claimed that profit converges to zero.
Good writeup! In general, the direction in modern aerospace is to use COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) parts with redundancy and failback for radiation hardening.

If you’re into this sort of thing, I co-write a weekly newsletter about the space industry and often talk about software. https://orbitalindex.com
> It seems to be missing a very big factor: culture.

This. The value a programmer brings to the table is almost entirely their cultural knowledge. It's the same reason why rarely do chart topping hip hop albums in the U.S. come from India or wherever.
The docking is automated as well.
Seems dubious, since the cultural difference between people in the same country is huge and can be much larger than the difference between countries.

The average programmer at Instagram in California probably doesn't have much more in common with the average Instagram influencer or feed-scroller than the average programmer in India (both programmers tend to spend most of their time thinking about computing and abstract math/CS concepts, while the influencer spends it thinking about marketing, social relationships, travelling, etc. and the feed-scroller is all about instant gratification and pop culture).
I concur but to be honest, that is why Twitter has become valuable. Imagine if peopoe like Trump, Obama or the top 100 celebrities, CEOs stopped using Twitter. Who would then really care ? I have a twitter account but I don't feel the need to tweet personally and frankly, no one would care.

So even though people like Trump are technically a nuisance for Twitter, they are also the reason why Twitter has millions of people on it.
> I also don't understand why companies race to have their laptop display touch

Try using your laptop in bed, on couch, browsing something with a partner, etc. The flexibility of Yoga style 2-in-1 devices is amazing in this regard.

For productivity I don't find it extremely useful (maybe if I was a designer and combined it with a pen), but for casual use - a lot of UI these days is touch friendly and feels natural with touch screen.
Also statement from American Journal of Epidemiology,
https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aje...

Backing news article
https://medicine.yale.edu/yigh/news-article/25085/
> Startup time: my iPhone 11 Pro often tales 5-10s to open the camera app

Really? I have an iPhone 11 (standard), and I swipe left from the lock screen. Less than 1 s. Bypasses unlock, no FaceID needed, but you're restricted to only camera mode.

Burst shot, holding down the button, about 1/2 sec.

I can't imagine our phones are that different.

> Autofocus time

Yes, I've found that the iPhone's autofocus to be a little slow to converge. I usually have to manually lock focus and exposure.
touch screens are a bad choice to me

I want the buttons and knobs.

Love the old soviet control rooms posted awhile ago: https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-con...

Need John Carmack's opinion of SpaceX
Ask HN: What to work on – Small idea vs. million/billion dollar idea
Hi all,

Recently, I got really excited by an idea and working on it. Its something that I find very interesting and I personally feel I could learn a lot and the final product would help a lot of people.

But I am not sure (provided the product is really good and helps a lot of people) it will be a big business. My best case scenario is a small section of my target customers would end up paying for it. But I am not sure if the eventual revenues will be in the millions.

I also saw a YouTube video where Sam Altman where he says the big startups are made in small but rapidly expanding market and such startups (with great execution) will evolve into the billion dollar companies. I thought his advice was basically to focus on "big" things (I may have misinterpreted this but this is the sense I got).

My gut says to work on the thing I am excited about and even if it doesnt reach a huge user base, make sure whatever customers I get is very excited by it.

My personal ambition is to build a product that people love and which gives me a decent revenue to hire a few people and to continue working on it.

Thanks for reading and sorry for the long winded post.
I vividly recall, in highschool in Los Angeles, right after 9/11, the leader of the class had to announce that our only Sikh student there was in fact Sikh, not Muslim, so please stop harassing him.
Better keep the riffraff out.
I'm not hugely surprised that the OCR of the scan of the transcript of the speech says "intonation technology", but i'm mildly amused that both Stoller and you copy-and-pasted it without question.
This seems like a remarkably small team for the scale of what they're building! For some reason I imagined they'd have legions of engineers.
Africa Covid-19: SA Court Rules Lockdown Restrictions “Irrational”
Mission/emergency critical buttons on dragon are physical (things like chute release) - there is a row of switches underneath the panel.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2...
anecdotally, my family is full of vets and no one cares where they sit at any table, in any room. not sure that is very true, unless they were active combat and might have some PTSD.
Yes it's on the shoulders of the hoi polloi who individually are utterly disempowered to do something about it -- I guess nothing has truly changed since the middle ages except tastes in music and dress.

I've done my part fighting false corporacy bro. It's always the same scenario played over and over a bunch of diddling directors and middling managers cuddling up to their overlords while the team is sold up the river based on their performance evaluations. You'd think we'd learn to DRY but we can't apply systems thinking to our corporate citizenship it's easier to be governed by morlocks.

Speaking of dress have you ever seen an engineering culture where people take their jobs seriously enough to dress up for work, outside of the movies? Huh me neither.

Ever wonder why the root word of investment is 'vestment' as in 'article of clothing?'

For me it was the millionth time I saw my manager wearing the same printed sweatshirt with an illustration of an astronaut that caused me to lose all hope for this industry as a whole.

Edit - I guess you may not see the correlation but it goes to attitude

Software people are so keen to fit in yet not seem organized that they refuse to dress up for work and this is a litmus test for whether they will ever be a strong group versus a collection of free radicals. Doubtful until a new generation able to see through the games comes through kinda like -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404186

The answer is always right under our noses but we refuse to see it. It's hard to wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep as it's said.
on the other hand, zoom has a vested interest in identifying the people in the call (say to allow linking to a linkedin profile or other revenue-generating reasons).
It's one of the big lies of American politics. Whatever David Duke may believe, he's wrong. He's ~~never won an election as a Republican~~ (see edit below), he's never been endorsed by the RNC, and he's been denounced by every prominent Republican. He is not welcome in the Republican party.

And when you see someone in the media saying "You ain't black" or calling a black man "Uncle Tom", it's always a Democrat talking about a black Republican. Pretending that there are no racist Democrats is just ignoring the obvious.

And that list you linked is long, but it's not a list of prominent Southern Democrats. Many of the people on that list never even held office as a Democrat. If you'd care to list the people who actually won office as a Democrat supporting segregation or opposing civil rights, then switched parties, I'd be grateful. I only know of three.

Edit: In fact checking my own post, I discovered I was wrong. David Duke did win an election once, for a state House seat, running against a real Republican, despite the opposition of every major Republican leader, including President Bush and former President Reagan, and Chairman Lee Atwater, who said:

> David Duke is not a Republican. We repudiate him in his views and we are taking immediate steps to see that he is disenfranchised from our party.
Gucci doesn't control the police, no. People who shop at Gucci do.

Do you think that they are not going to see the smashing of their favorite shop as an implicit threat against them personally?

Gucci is a powerful symbol of unchecked gaudy wealth as much as it is a retail establishment. The handbags themselves aren't really the point, which they'd be the first to admit to.
Nikon calls their line of macro lenses "Micro Nikkors".
I might have misunderstood your point. I thought you referred to the fact that the touch screen was based on a non-realtime system rather than it being a touch screen.
If people were interested in stopping the bikeshedding, they would create an editor that let everyone view the code however they please, and check in with a consistent format that doesn't matter. Extensions for source control tools and debuggers would quickly point to the token that caused an issue, for example, rather than the line number.

Instead everyone just creates rules that they like, then force those rules on everyone else as a power move, then use "this is for consistency and anti-bikeshedding" as an excuse to keep their own preferences enforced on others.

And before anyone argues, I've seen it happen multiple times. I swear people become team leads solely to force their preferences on others. They certainly are fond of power trips, in my experience.
Upon thinking about this, it seems like it's a different problem in that the people are moving while the screen is not. So maybe the screen should have a camera and try to adjust the direction to the way the person is facing? Obviously if the screen is upsidedown that's not great.

(I don't think that anyone does this, but it's a neat thought.)
> Zuckerberg’s decision was supported by the majority of the company, but that people who agreed with it were afraid to speak out for fear of appearing insensitive

I find that interesting and dangerous.
>This machine doesn't have great battery life regardless of what OS you are running, but after properly configuring the GPU, battery life on linux is on par with Windows if not a bit better. I've also undervolted the cpu, which is easy to do and provides even better batter life.

You can gain a couple of minutes using a WM instead of a full fledged DE

>Docker is still a pain to set up on 32. There's no docker-ce repo, but you can install from the Fedora 31 repos, and to get it to work some system and firewall configuration is required. This is all pretty well documented in a github issue now, but it took a lot of troubleshooting at first.

My solution to this was to use podman[0] instead.

0: https://podman.io/whatis.html
Perhaps the only way to fix it would be get into fastboot mode and enable USB debugging, then look for that arcane settings file on the file-system which your OEM decided to use for configuring wall-papers and fix that file. I see no other way.
Frequently acquihires are about opportunity, not cost. I’ve seen acquihires at salaries above what the company would offer to organically recruited employees, because the company is just desperate to recruit. Paying higher salaries can be less costly (once you factor in recruiter salaries, cost of interviews, and opportunity cost of all the time those open positions sit unfilled) than hiring through normal channels.

I guess it’s still fundamentally about cost, but not necessarily first-order costs as you describe.
I think the context backs up my position. There was no justification for calling an entire race of people savages. The image made its own point and didn't need to be coupled with hate speech. That definitely promotes hate and should've been removed, and you should've been (temporarily) banned, just as you were.

Everyone who promotes hate speech thinks they're just being misunderstood. You're not the first.
It's a play on the fact that native americans have traditionally been referred to as savages, and this was my commentary on "the pot calling the kettle black".
If you don't run a viable business, should your business continue to exist? Which one do you want, socialism or capitalism? In a capitalist system, failed businesses are allowed to fail and don't get free money from the government.
> Why can't we just hold a button and unlock the phone directly into the camera?

Because you can swipe left from the lock screen directly to camera mode (and only camera mode), bypassing unlock so it's super fast. Not holding down a button but achieves the same thing.

This is what I do when something's going down around me and need to quickly capture a shot.
Perhaps they should make a .gov website for official communication only. The government shouldn't be using Twitter for this purpose.
I believe that particular figure originally comes from http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/2010/pr267_10_report.pdf and https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/20070307... .

40% is at the upper end of the estimates, and any specific figure should obviously be taken with a pinch of salt, given the difficulties inherent in obtaining precise data of this nature. However, there is little doubt that LGBT people are substantially overrepresented in homeless populations. This is the case in many cities and countries, not just NYC.
No loyalty nor generosity in the game business. Everybody out for a buck. Eat or be eaten. I think that summarizes it?
Neither the article nor the headline say soft brick. Besides, "soft brick" is just someone not wanting to admit that brick has an understood definition but they like the word brick and want to use it.
I still have zero intuition about cost disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease The only notion that makes any sense to me (so far) is Graeber's bullshit jobs thesis.

Being a life long patient, my observation is that healthcare workers have become A LOT more skillful, knowledgeable, educated. The natural trend towards ever greater specialization and all that.

I know nothing about lawyers, so can't comment.
> a majority of Americans will never believe that this drug is not a legitimate treatment

I don't think that's true at all, and I'll be the first to say it:

I don't think there's any good evidence for HCQ at all, I think it's junk science, I don't believe a word about it that comes from this administration or anywhere in the right wing media. It's all pure spin to cover for some outrageously irresponsible rhetoric.

But show me a real, controlled study with significant results, and I'll recommend this drug to everyone who needs it.

But you have to show the data. And that means, yes, sometimes you discover you've published bad data and have to correct it. THAT is what science is about, not proving the absence of political bias.
Windows 10: Microsoft begins automatically pushing Chromium Edge to users
This is a garbage analysis that ends up with a plug for vitamins and t-shirts. You don't write off a journal for making mistakes. Retraction is part of the scientific process.

What this YouTuber failed to mention is that there were already a couple of other studies before this one that reached the same conclusion - that there was no evidence of it working for COVID-19, or that it potentially made things worse in the most sick patients. The retraction of a single paper doesn't invalidate the body of evidence (albeit small) provided by other papers prior to it.
The picture looks like those don't have any tactile feedback either. Though maybe just the picture.