skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's that disappointing. The airlines moved from larger flights to more frequent flights between more destinations. These days, you can miss a transcontinental flight and only be an hour late to your destination, because there are 15 flights a day instead of 2. You are also likely to be able to fly non-stop between any two city pairs. (I looked some up at random, and you can do things like Montreal - Casablanca nonstop instead of Montreal-Toronto-LHR-Casablanca; probably cutting your door-to-door time in half.)

Losing Concorde was unfortunate, but there were just too many limitations to make it viable. Flying supersonic means you produce a shockwave that breaks stuff on the ground, limiting it to flying supersonic over oceans. Flying supersonic means that you have to produce kinetic energy that goes up like the square of your speed, meaning you need more fuel, and you need more fuel to carry the fuel. It barely worked for JFK-LHR (relatively short distance, mostly over the ocean), and there just weren't other routes where it was viable. With no viable routes, it wasn't going to sell in any volume, and there is some critical amount of volume you need to justify the program (some fixed human overhead for every airframe project; if you sell 10000 of them, that rounds to zero, if you sell only 20 of them, that rounds to a lot).

Might be pessimistic but I don't think we'll ever see a supersonic airliner again. The sonic boom kills them. Those people that want to drill tunnels through the earth to get better-than-great-circle distances might be the future. But I'll probably be dead before anyone gets funding to do that.
Are you kidding me? Did the government close down businesses for the heck of it, or by gross mismanagement, or... because there was a pandemic raging? If anything they've been accused of doing to little.

"Pro-state pro-intervention"? If there's anything even most hardcore (but sensible) libertarians think should be the job of the state would be catastrophe management (and defence against invasion and the like).
Based on https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo... I suspect that "attacks on the media" were not the reason for this, or, at least, were not the whole reason. She sounds like a terrible person, and a manager who abuses employees.
Be part of the solution - ditch Windows, switch to Linux and pick any browser you want. Problem solved.
> Professor Aguey-Zinsou said the alloy contained titanium and "other common materials", but declined to name them, pending the issuance of a formal patent expected within weeks.

So ... I guess they don't have an independent verification of their claims.
Ah I didn't know that.

Well I guess someone could just create a new one. Everyone is always waiting for someone else to fix these communities and online discourse.

This would be a good time to organize something new.
You just nitpicked his two examples (and for a nitpick back bartender != liquor store clerk). I don't know enough about econ to have a side here but I would be interested in hearing a counterargument that actually addresses the impact of economic downturn on the class of jobs being discussed here (waiters, retail, cleaners, drivers, etc.)
S3 Glacier Deep Archive is $0.00099/GB which comes out to $1/TB. AWS also doesn't charge you to transfer from Glacier to any AWS service as long as you're staying in the same Region.

Does Backblaze B2 have multi-site redundancy? We have our S3 buckets automagically replicated to a different AZ. That was a must have since we're highly regulated, and our backups need to persist for over 7 years.
Yeah, but those other monopolies in tech? Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter, they get a pass. I would argue these 5 have more power over the tech sector than MS these days.
I never said it was “the same” to the individual, it’s just a similar governance model. The domain of a kingdom and the domain of a corporate social network are distinct, but that doesn’t mean we can ignore that they’re both autocratic in their respective domains.
Stick to mainstream manufacturers even if you've the money. My Mitsubishi SUV has all the safety features I need that don't even come standard in the some of the mid-range BMW models that cost twice as much. Buy a Lexus if you want luxury!
I understood your underlying point immediately. There's no shortage of people actively seeking to be offended by something. Add an out of context image grab and a clickbait title and you can be the next viral enemy of the internet in a few hours.
We definitely know different groups of people.
> Those who want to "celebrate" their Southern "heritage" have plenty of symbols and flags to choose from that don't have inherently racist and treasonous implications.

Such as? What are those examples?

Is there a reason you feel the need to put scare quotes on celebrate and Southern heritage? Are they not allowed to have a heritage?

I don’t want to defend the flag, because the Confederacy was a monstrosity. But I also don’t like seeing people that have never met a Southerner in their lives (not necessarily you specifically, but certainly most people attacking it) thinking they know all about it and all about the people that fly it.

There are ample numbers- by no means a majority, but certainly a large number- of Black people that use the flag because, whatever its flaws and whatever evils committed under it, that flag is the most popular symbol of Southern culture- their culture.

That’s another factor; most people insulting the South don’t realize just how much of their attacks land on Black people themselves.
I don't understand why Microsoft gets such a hard time over this when in IOS you can't even install another browser engine aside from Safari. If you do install Firefox on IOS it's just a wrapper for the Safari engine with all the same limitations, you can't install adblock or other extensions. That seems far more anti-competitive that what MS is doing here and it's been happening as long as IOS has existed.
Scott and the community were fine with an article, even a critical one. What's being objected to is the NYT outing Scott's name in a way that makes it easy for patients to see his online presence, which would more or less make him unemployable.
I always assumed the aliens hypothesis was halfway racist as in "how could a non-white culture build things we don't know how to do, ah yes it must be otherworldly".

The remnants of early European propaganda that justified a lot of their conquest is still strong today, we just forget it's origins.
I'll wait for the vaccine to come out. Then we'll see if this article was just a stir in a pot or real deal. My bet is for stir.

Sure, something will change even after vaccine, but not to such significance as the article's author is saying.
We (Streak) are in the same boat. Looks like we'd be paying approx half a million dollars a month on their new pricing which would be ~100x more than we are paying now. Haven't heard from our enterprise rep but starting to get nervous...

Sounds like the new pricing is for their ecommerce customers given how much value they provide them, doesn't seem to make sense anymore for SaaS use cases.
The thing for me is, so much of Microsoft has shown serious improvements over the past decade. You've got Azure's push in the cloud championing (at least some) truly open source community-driven projects like Kubernetes (rather than Amazon's ECS), you've got Office unveiling their new Fluid document format as open source day 1, you've got WSL2, Xbox under Phil Spencer making a huge push to find more equitable ways to satisfy both gamers' desire for more games and developers' need for revenue with Game Pass, the push to bridge console generations with Smart Delivery, the push to bridge console and PC with unified digital licensing...

And then they do things like this. The Windows core team feels to me like a clandestine shadow organization in Microsoft whose location is unknown even to Nadella. Of course, that's not what's happening, and its startling to me that no one has cracked down on them for this shitty behavior.

Its not representative of how Microsoft, by and large, operates today. It is representative of how they used to operate.
I found the hardest part of sparql is forgeting my sql knowledge. Its a very different query language than sql, but some constructs look similar, and its very easy to confuse yourself thinking the construct does a similar thing as sql when it really doesnt
Ha, I've had the exact opposite experience. I've got a handful of friends who are intelligent and mature enough for nuanced conversation about topics most people have trouble discussing like adults and (not coincidentally, they tend to be the friends I'm closest to). But meatspace is horribly inefficient for getting exposed to a wide variety of ideas; sheer numbers alone make a forum with the right norms almost impossible to beat.

"With the right norms" is the tricky part. There are some fora a couple degrees of separation from SSC that I've had good luck with, but it's really tough to find places like that
I used to do something similar when a site I visited demanded an email address. I just used "mm@disney.com" (Mickey Mouse). Eventually, sites started verifying the given email address so that didn't work anymore. Now I just have a "burner" email address for such cases.
Considering the close relationship with Google and Wikimedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_and_Wikipedia and the considerable money Google gives them, how can one not see this project as "crowdsourcing better training data-sets for Google?"

Can the data be licensed as GPL-3 or similar?
There was never a neoliberal era.

One example: financial privacy.

The AML regime started in the 1970s with the passing of the Bank Secrecy Act, and accelerated after the 911 attack.

Many developed countries instituted programs in the 1990s and 2000s to begin overtly mass surveilling all private economic interactions, or deputizing banks to do so. For example, FINTRAC was created in Canada in 2000.

Financial privacy is a cornerstone of financial liberty. Without it, power concentrates in the hands of the state, which is what we see, with Washington D.C. real median household income increasing 66% over the last 20 years, while the rest of the US saw it increase 5.23%.

Another example: healthcare.

Many developed countries created national healthcare programs in the 1960s, like the US with Medicare in 1966.

These programs steadily grew in size in the decades since.

Regulations in the US healthcare system steadily increased since the 1970s as well. This expansion of regulations was so significant that it caused the number of hospital administrators to increase 3,200% between 1975 and 2010, compared to a 150% increase in the number of physicians:

https://www.athenahealth.com/insight/expert-forum-rise-and-r...

Yet another example: occupational licensing. Only 5% of jobs in the US in 1950 required an occupational license. Today that number is around 29%.

And another example: land-use rights. In major cities, regulations on land-use have accumulated since 1960:

https://eml.berkeley.edu//~moretti/growth.pdf

>>As described by Glaeser (2014), since the 1960s coastal US cit-
ies have gone through a property rights revolution that has significantly reduced the
elasticity of housing supply: “In the 1960s, developers found it easy to do business
in much of the country. In the past 25 years, construction has come to face enormous
challenges from any local opposition. In some areas it feels as if every neighbor has
veto rights over every project.”

No less than the White House's Council of Economic Advisors has blamed this rise in restrictiveness in housing in major coastal metropolises for rising rental rates, and spatial misallocation of labor, leading to lower wage growth and increased income inequality:

https://nlihc.org/resource/obama-administration-releases-hou...

Government spending also massively rose, as a percentage of GDP, since the 1970s.

In the US, social welfare spending increased at an annualized rate of 4.8% between 1972 and 2011:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-driving-growth-...

The end result is a much higher fraction of economic output being redistributed by government, and thus controlled by political forces.

In the US at least, any broad-based measure of how regulated the economy is, or how much of it is constituted by government spending, shows the economy moving away from market-based liberalism and towards centralized government throughout the last 50 years.
Too bad you won't get funded with your biz op scheme for the cis white males you are defending.
For about 2.5 months I found myself unemployed during this mess so I picked up Starting Forth and taught myself how to program the Arduino Uno with FlashForth. My achievements are reading a thermometer and controlling a distance sensor. Forth was worth learning and I think it is the perfect platform for this type of work so long as you are willing to figure things out on your own because there isn't much google can do to help when you get stuck. I have a job again but I am looking forward to more embedded programming with Forth.
So 90's Yahoo?
I've recently found that they're really pushing people toward the paid tier. I connected with someone a few weeks ago, and when I look at his contacts, I can only see people who are contacts to him AND other contacts of mine.

Why won't LinkedIn let me see contacts that are 2nd-degree contacts via only him? I have no idea. But this mentor specifically asked me to go through his contacts and look for people I'd like to be introduced to, and I literally can't see a single new person as a result of connecting to him.
You're missing the full story. This isn't the first incident. [1]

This is a grassroots effort coming directly from employees. Her company consists of human beings that work towards business goals. Plain and simple - she couldn't set her ego aside to actually do the work of leading these people.

After the first incident, she issued and apology and stepped down. Then she deleted any trace of her apology, said she regretted "falling on her sword" publicly, and then became co-CEO again. Now she's stepping down again.

This is not normal behavior. And if she could actually lead (which surprise - involves people and gaining their trust) then she wouldn't have found herself in this predicament in the first place. She failed at her basic duty and should not be CEO or anywhere near the C-suite.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo...
Respectfully, HN’s (wise, brilliant) mod team keeps the atmosphere feeling like a tight knit community, but it’s certainly not small or niche
>History Channel says the only possible answer is aliens.

One part of me always enjoyed those theories for the science fiction-ness of it. Some writeups i've seen about it read better than some science fiction books i've read.

The other part of me dislikes them though because it discounts the sheer human ingenuity, craftsmanship and skill that went into these things. It discounts the amazing things people are capable of and discredits our ancestors. I feel kind of the same way about the Roswell ufo tech leading to modern computers theories. They make light of the work of so many people and wave it off as being impossible without aliens.
3 or 4 million people out of 350M would be expected to die. Maybe a bit of empathy would go a long way.

Perhaps it's more a damning evidence for the unrestrained capitalism you hold so dear, that it spells catastrophe and misery if people aren't unable to keep working their bullshit jobs in the middle of the most pressing public health crisis of the last 100 years.
There were a few places I went to in Europe (not Sweden, maybe one day) where I was absolutely shocked how high the level of trust was. If you have trust, you don’t need rules, because you tell people to be safe and wear masks and they do it because they want to beat the virus.

The US is the opposite. The results speak for themselves.
> Think of the "pepe" meme, which is now an alt-right thing and can't be used anymore in a neutral way!

MonkaS dude.

Pepe is fine, even the group that classified it as a hate symbol weren't referring to general usage.

One group of people I watch on Twitch use it all the time in the way it's meant to be used. As a very expressive cartoon frog that can convey emotions extremely succinctly.

And before you assume they're all closet neo-nazis: this group includes members who stopped streaming for about a month after Trump was elected, who frequently talk about eating the rich, and most recently they just ran a charity drive across multiple channels to raise money for BLM.

Context is key here. Lookup racist pepe images, and compare them to a picture of a sad/happy/etc cartoon frog. You won't have much difficulty telling the difference.
Crystal is everything I like about using golang combined with everything I like about not using golang.
In Europe it's used by hard rock fans as a merchandising trope with the American "route 66" myth and so on, we don't relate it to racism but to guys in bikes listening to Motorhead.
If it's static salt, it breaks the use of salt.
Salt was designed such that a rainbow table cannot crack two similar passwords based on hash, exactly what a static salt would facilitate.
Consider Linux. I recommend the "Debian" flavor, with a "Mate" desktop.

It's a no-brainer to install. It works exactly like all the other desktops. And it's faster, more secure, more stable and doesn't try to sell you stuff. It's also free.
>Just how hard it is to change the world was brought home to me yet again by the book Difficult Women, which I read recently during lockdown. Written by British journalist Helen Lewis, it’s a history of feminism in Great Britain, but ought to be required reading for anyone aspiring to create a better world.

>By “difficult”, Lewis means three things:

> It’s difficult to change the world. You have to make sacrifices.

> Many revolutionaries are difficult. Progress tends to start with people who are obstinate and obnoxious and deliberately rock the boat.

> Doing good doesn’t mean you’re perfect. The heroes of history were rarely as squeaky clean as they’re later made out to be.

>Lewis’s criticism is that many activists appear to ignore this complexity, and that makes them markedly less effective. Look at Twitter, which is rife with people who seem more interested in judging other tweeters. Yesterday’s hero is toppled tomorrow at the first awkward remark or stain of controversy.

#MeToo is going to burn itself out. It's a witch-hunt. The only good that could come from it would be a society where failures aren't permanent brands, but I don't think that's going to happen. The twist that cancel culture prevents change is ironic. Then again, I wonder if the people who are super into cancelling were the type to revolt to begin with?
Biblical archeology is hopelessly compromised as a field. The people most interested in pursuing it and funding it are the people least interested in discovering the truth, rather than confirming their own beliefs.
IMHO the worst part of Edge is the UI and relative lack of configurability. I suppose you'd like it if you were already used to Chrome/ium, but I abhor the dumbed-down featureless "flat" trend that's infected everything "modern" these days, along with the lack of things like user stylesheets and zone-based security settings (both of which IE has had for a long time, and which I have used to much benefit.) I'd be far more welcoming of a new rendering engine in the normal IE UI, along with all the configurability it had.

(Disclaimer: long-time IE user --- as well as Firefox and (pre-webkit) Opera.)
Not to mention Google has been shoving Chrome down our throats for a long time too.
Neoliberal doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. Most of the Americans who call themselves "conservatives" actually ARE neoliberals and don't even realize it.
It's still fairly small and niche, at least compared to most other platforms. I think it'd be about the size of a medium-popular subreddit?
I agree that TDD sometimes cause complexity.

But TDD done right usually use coarse-grained tests which usually require less flexibility because it's almost end to end, and require less layered architecture. It's more like a description of the desired business behaviour.

Even better, TDD done right requires people to write those business cases as test first, then implement with minimalist approach - this enforce people to write straightforward code which happened to just support what the business requires.
I really like your last thought and I agree with it. Essentially this would increase diversity and just sheer mass of thought, innovation and likely happiness. Mostly on small but sometimes on bigger scales.

The getting there part is what many disagree on though. I certainly don't know how and I suspect most people don't really know either.
>people shouting about racist loser shit

This is exactly what I was talking about here[0]. You don't want a place to post freely to exist because you already have a preconceived idea of what people will say, and you are against that. This kind of attitude is hidden behind so many of the "but you can already do X, kinda" responses I've seen before in these discussions.

Why not just lead by saying you don't think a government maintained platform for free speech should exist because you don't want to hear what people who want it would have to say?

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716909
You're being downvoted, but no-one cares to say why they disagree with you. FWIW, I think you're right that "there's no reason why revolutionary times [c]ouldn't follow again". History is strewn with revolutions, plenty of them (like the Russian revolution) motivated in part, or in whole, by huge issues of inequality. I don't see how anyone can conclude we'll never see another one, or that it won't affect us personally.
While the Nazi flag may be a racist symbol, the Swastika, however, is not a racist symbol. Billions of people understand its religious significance.
Even more so in this advertising livery:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEXw14EWsAI4oAS?format=jpg
I would love to see this. I have to think that qualified people (organizers, etc.) have already started to do this, and I'd love to know how to find them.
> That's a hilarious sort of tech delusion

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Yes some implementation consider atomic time apart from thermal noises when generating them.
The more things change the more things stay the same.

I'm imagining good ole bill smiling away, "that's a good boy satya."
....Microsoft pushed their new native browser out ....the horror!!!! I guess we should be mad at Google and Apple for forcing their browsers on us too.
For me, at least two reasons:

1. As you say, to see more information about where the paper comes from.

2. It's easy to get from the abstract page to the PDF, but not vice versa.

Personally, I also think it's good for people to get into the habit of linking to a text description of data-heavy resources rather than directly to the resources. PDFs aren't that data-heavy, but there are plenty of other things that are that could do with a text landing page, and I think it's good to get in that habit.
Not LinkedIn; Microsoft.

We should blame the real owner. Maybe they'll pay more attention if these practices become tied to their overall brand.
For comparison, the old free plan used to be 10k records plus 100k searches. That would be $100/month now.

I think the new plan makes sense if you're selling to sites with purchase intent, but for searching knowledgebases it seems like it's way too expensive -- the value per search just isn't there. Especially when using instant searching and counting each slightly debounced keystroke as a search.
> Conservatives get bashed on hacker news. We get it, there are plenty of neoliberals here.

“Neoliberals” are a (center-right) subset of conservatives.