skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally, the sunk cost argument is used to mean "just because you've put a bunch of money in does not mean that your "progress" is worth what you paid for it, and is therefore not a justification to keep putting more money in; you've already lost what is gone so that's off the table."

However, if a company borrowed the money it "sunk", it still has to pay that money back from future sales; if it was raised through equity, continued losses will continue to drag the share price down. Sunk cost is not a free lunch argument.

This is where the "competing for production slots" with passenger variants comes in. The program could only be run cash flow positive at a higher rate of production than the orders were justifying, and that is on the back of the higher priced passenger variants. As it was, Airbus needed to amortize overhead costs over two production lines, the overhead was too much for one production line; worth it in the short term only if you expected sales to pick up in the future. (and you can't shut down a production line and then fire it back up without a lot of extra overhead, so for example, they can't just keep the A380 idea around in case demand develops)

For each piece of the program, there are separate sunk costs. The sunk cost of design does not justify sinking further funds into building an assembly line, if the expected production is not going to pay for itself, even though the design you now paid for is so to speak "free!" And the freighter variant required new sunk costs before it would be ready to sell (the 747-8 itself cost $5B more on top of the already existing 747 platform)

And anything Airbus chose to do, Boeing could disrupt by dropping it's prices/profits; there is a lot of "chess" entailed in marketing these large scale projects. Would have potentially been a different story had there not been competition.
Have seen plenty of evidence of freight being shipped in passenger cabins the last few months too. Some in and on the seats and others with seats newly stripped out.
The measure of inflation is problematic.

We have seen large inflation in stock prices, houses, etc.
If your culture and heritage is "treason and racism", maybe that's not a culture or heritage worth preserving?
Ask HN: How's your quarantine side project going?
( An update to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881 )

What have you been working on? How's it going?
One little weird trick I found is to use the browser for websites.

All the limitations I found on web pages that asks me to download the app are artificial. What is reddit doing that requires an app? What is facebook doing that requires an app? There is even less reasons now to use the YouTube app.
> but the reality is that heavily managed automatic updating is the future for consumer grade software

That's not even necessarily a bad thing (given there are ways around it) ... But that isn't what Microsoft did here.
https://www.businessinsider.com/spain-cucumber-crisis-ecoli-...

i hope you stopped eating them 2011 ;-)
I remember seeing a crackerjack toy collection at the Smithsonian when I went there 30 years ago. Ephemera and everyday objects are a big part of what the Smithsonian archives, preserves, and educates about. Did you really not know that, or are you just compelled to greet every single item that enters your field of view with the same vacant knee-jerk reactionary sneer?
>Bezos could hire a small army of mercenaries and defeat any cesar/king/emperor of the past.

The kind of army that governments would allow Bezos to own couldn't defeat the strongest rulers in the past unless he got very lucky and managed to pull a Cortes and ally with another much larger force.
I was initially hesitant to try it out. But now that I gave it a shot, I am liking it since it is very similar to Chrome but without being tied to Google. I am currently using it as a secondary browser, but if I was forced to switch I wouldn't mind. Extension support is still lacking though.
I am pretty sure that you get the browser prompt to switch your default browser anytime you install a new browser (or any app the registers as a file or url handler). It has your current default on the top with the other choices below, I don't see what is so objectionable about it.

Now the full-screen splash page is obnoxious. There has to be a more tasteful way to inform the user of a large Edge update.
What does the venn diagram look like for [set of people who are crying about LinkedIn app] & [set of people glad about the GitHub acquisition] ???
My wife is a high school teacher and, until we had our first child, was also the swim team coach.

Early last year she made a kid run laps after he low key photo-bombed the team picture by making the "Ok" symbol on one of his thighs.

Then she gets an angry text message from the kid's mother who believed her son was being punished specifically for making the "ok" symbol. This woman had found a picture of my wife on Facebook where she can be seen pulling her shirt down by pinching the bottom of it between her thumb and pointer finger, inadvertently making the "ok" symbol. She basically said she was going to put my wife on blast and out her as a racist. Ridiculous (Hilarious, even, in retrospect).

My wife didn't respond, of course. She immediately looped in her admin and explained what was going on. Fortunately that was the end of it, but it's not hard to imagine someone getting caught up in a similar situation and it becoming a full on witch hunt.
The delay on the response in America is the real cause of the current situation including the despair involved, countries such as Japan or New Zealand that quickly took effective measures such as make everyone use face mask[0] or early closing of airports are pretty much back to normal already; America didn't close early, and more troublesome some people took being mask-less a political matter, others believe a conspiracy around it, and others render it useless by taking it off every 5 minutes due being mildly uncomfortable.

[0] https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/1277693321037611013
Mac OS and iOS install Safari, Android installs Chrome. It's a system component that was never removable to begin with. And now they updated it.

I'm sad to see any Chromium based browser installed on my PC, but it's hardly harmful that they're upgrading a system component to the latest version.
This is addressed in the white paper describing the project's architecture:

10.2 Machine translation

Another widely used approach —mostly for readers,
much less for contributors— is the use of automatic translation services like
Google Translate. A reader finds an article they are interested in and then asks
the service to translate itinto a language they understand. Google Translate
currently supports about a hundred languages — about a third of thelanguages
Wikipedia supports. Also the quality of these translations can vary widely — and
almost never achieves thequality a reader expects from an encyclopedia [33,
86].*

Unfortunately, the quality of the translations often correlates with the
availability of content in the given language [1],which leads to a Matthew
effect: languages that already have larger amounts of content also feature
better results intranslation. This is an inherent problem with the way Machine
Translation is currently trained, using large corpora. Whereas further
breakthroughs in Machine Translation are expected [43], these are hard to plan
for.

In short, relying on Machine Translation may delay the achievement of the
Wikipedia mission by a rather unpredictabletime frame.

One advantage Abstract Wikipedia would lead to is that Machine Translation
system can use the natural language generation system available in Wikilambda to
generate high-quality and high-fidelity parallel corpora for even morelanguages,
which can be used to train Machine Translation systems which then can resolve
the brittleness a symbolic system will undoubtedly encounter. So Abstract
Wikipedia will increase the speed Machine Translation will become better and
cover more languages in.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04733

(Theres's more discussion of machine learning in the paper but I'm quoting the section on machine translation in particular).
"shoving Edge down our throats" to me implies without consent. But as you say, it could be that the user consented long time ago but doesn't remember :)
The media stopped being about journalism long ago. It’s now infotainment. Our media is destroying the USA.
> I'm assuming that swastikas have much more universal unpopularity than the confederacy flag.

Does the popularity of a racist symbol have any correlation with whether it should be suppressed? Swastikas were a lot more present in the 1940s but that doesn't mean they were less reprehensible.

If a far-right group started using a brand-new symbol to signify their racist ideology, is it suddenly worth waiting for the symbol to pick up steam before prohibiting it? That doesn't make a lot of sense. The people using the symbol are saying "I don't think you should exist" _right now_, not when there is a sufficient number of others rallying around their belief system.

The confederate flag is hundreds of years old. Waiting for "informal social pressure" to kick in is a great way to ignore a problem.
Microsoft in the last few years managed to successfully sucker a lot of people into believing the new microsoft post-balmer is somehow reformed and better. Therefore I think its also worse because of the added deception and astroturfing campaign. I think Microsoft actually never changed a bit. They just swapped the figurehead.
I’ve been working on building an affiliate marketing business. I always wanted to start it but I kept putting it off. With all the extra time I have, I finally got around to it.
'soon enough' hahahhaha
The scala shop I was at Last year was 45+ mins on a 2019 mbp with 16gb ram. You had to turn off IntelliJ so you wouldn’t run out of ram.
I wish this wasn't a feature.

Every time I paste something in iOS Mail it will inevitably get pasted as "rich" text where I have to put extra effort to clear that formatting (paste it into a plaintext-only input field, then copy from there).
Every domain. Still not good, but there's a huge difference.
There are lots of enterprise applications that will break in Edge and Chrome, and only work in IE, e.g. anything that uses XML Data Islands.
Prerequisite: techniques for motivation
Why the indirection in the pricing page. Like, if a unit is 1,000 searches/month, why not just put that in the matrix.

Free = 10,000 searches/month.

Standard = $1 per 1,000 searches.
...

Pay as you go:

1,000 - 10,000 searches = Free

11,000 - 100,000 searches = $1.00/ 1,000 searches

The whole to unit conversion really just adds a level of indirection that I don't understand. This was further confused by units having different colored dots depending on the plan, making me think there were 3 different kinds of units.

A slider would be nice, let me slide it to what my search volume for a given month would be, and tell me how much that would cost, factoring in volume discounts.

Additionally, this is a huge red flag:

> If you exceed your committed usage, there are overages that will be charged.

What are the overages??! Why is it not just sliding back to pay-as-you-go pricing, like reservations for say EC2 work.

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As an aside, we use Algolia to power some search features at Discord. This new pricing structure looks to be an order of magnitude more expensive (we fall under the "contact sales" usage here...) Luckily we're grandfathered in or we'd have to consider putting a cloudflare worker in-front of this and leveraging that to do caching of common hot queries to reduce cost.
Didn't everyone do this at some point? Sort of like everyone that started C++ in the 90's rolled their own string class. I remember doing this before "JSON" hadn't yet found its acronym (shaking rake ... get off my lawn!)
Australia is still much earlier on in its pandemic than the US and other countries. Wait until the lockdowns are national, and going on for months, with no prospect of any way out in sight.
Though many web developers rejoice at the increased adoption rate leaving IE behind.
Please. The Supreme Court has 5 justices that are looking for a reason to outlaw abortion. The president and the Senate have put judges on the bench with lifetime appointments that are pro-2nd amendment and anti-choice. Even most democrats won’t go near any meaningful gun control.
DNA Testing of Skeleton May Prove Christopher Columbus Was Portuguese
Are you serious.

Also this was just an explanation of how it's an option, to the person that didn't understand how. You might want to do a full ban, you might not.
I don't really agree with what you say, but I'd add that they did do an episode where the theme was the meta joke of whether or not society had deemed it acceptable to make HIV/cancer jokes yet, as well as 911 if memory serves. Everything in life can be joked about for one reason or another, I don't accept that there is anything out of bounds. Whether you personally find it funny is up to you, but making broader statements about this or that because a joke was made is a sign that probably you're unable to see outside of a fairly narrow field of view imo.
Content blockers aren't allowed to inject arbitrary JS which is often necessary to fix broken websites, unlike uBlock Origin.
What's objectionable?

1. I didn't install it. You (Microsoft) installed (actually updated) it. And because you chose to update it, you think that gives you the right to nag me again about making Edge the default browser? Edge was already on my machine; I already answered that question. Stop nagging me about it.

2. If I just want it to shut up and get out of my face, it won't let me close it by right-clicking on the taskbar.

3. It's slow to load, so I have to wait for it before I can get rid of it (or else use the task manager, which also takes time).

Yeah, I'd call the combination of those things "objectionable". I might call it stronger terms, too.
> If you jokingly told someone to kill themselves

I jokingly told an inanimate piece of software to kill itself, AI's are not people, they're machines running lines of code. But I see no point continuing to justify my "cultural" differences in the use of speech other than to say that I've known enough US folks to know that your reaction is something of an outlier. If this is truly how you feel, then I'd be curious to know how the US managed to survive having George Carlin or Bill Hicks on their tellies.
So, an argument that I hear regularly is that having a mandatory centralised and cryptographic ID system really expedites certain ID-related tasks. Can anyone in Estonia comment on this? Within the US and U.K., there’s no mandatory ID, which I think is probably a good thing for civil liberties (no papers please, for instance), but also fosters certain industries such as credit reference agencies and has all sorts of weird side effects from bootstrapping things like SSNs and NI numbers into secrets. Are there companies like Jumio and Acuant in Estonia, or has the government rendered them pointless?
Can you share how you did this? I would like to try it.
Wow - that's like 3 negative "modifier" words. I don't actually know what you're saying with that sentence and I've been reading it for about 3 minutes now.
I'm so happy my last flight was on a 747. It's truly stunning if you haven't flown on one before.

I also had the pleasure of visiting the C17 plant in Long Beach. Blew. My. Mind.
Time-Lapse of the Sun’s Last Decade at one second per day [video]
> a Mac Mini-like device with an Apple A12Z system-on-a-chip (SoC), 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of SSD storage—delivers an average single-core score of 811 and an average multi-core score of 2871.

> compared to Microsoft’s Surface Pro X, which has the fastest available Qualcomm-based ARM chipset and can run Geekbench natively—not emulated—it’s amazing: Surface Pro X only averages 764 on the single-core test and 2983 in multi-core.
Right. The emulated performance of the Apple silicon is as good or better than the native performance of the SQ-1-based Surface Pro X.

I'm so confused. The title is that the apple arm chip destroys the Qualcomm chip in benchmarks. And then the author concluded that the benchmarks show apple doing at least as good if not better.

But... Am I interpreting these numbers correctly? Looking at the numbers it seems to show apple having faster single core performance and Microsoft surface having faster multicore performance. If my understanding is correct then I can't figure out how the author concluded the apple performance is as good or better.

One point the author emphasizes is that apple is getting these performance numbers despite the overhead of emulation. I'm interested to see what the native performance is given the close performance benchmark numbers with emulation. However to conclude that these specific benchmarks show apple destroying the surface chip does seem to me like a bit of reality distortion.
Sure, but there are different levels of "roll your own". Mysql or Pestresql + a text field and a microservice front end for access control and JSON validation (if you don't want to use the included components from those respective projects that handle those for you) is easier and friendlier most of the time than a microservice on top of sqlite on a local disk, which is friendlier than replacing sqlite with BDB, which is probably friendlier than rolling your own storage format.

Once you've abstacted it to a service, your API is what you and your client (should) care about, and many of the arguments for more specialized implementations no longer apply. Personally, I think the only reason I would go with something like sqlite instead of Postgres/Mysql behind a microservice is if I was baking the date into it with each release, so the sqlite data files are shipped with the version released. Even then, I'm not sure there's any reason I would do anything other than sqlite though. Even if I had need of lots of JSON files, I would probably have my build procedure process them into an sqlite file I tested and shipped with, if only because I would then avoid having to deal with all the problems this guy encountered by trying to make his own database.
GDPR is a joke. The spirit of the regulation is good, but nobody is interested in putting any effort into enforcing it.
Actually, no. The headlined issue is about what the fallback is when there is no file, or a file that doesn't specify a setting.
Show HN: Adding templates to your static website with mynt and jinja2
Here, have a read. Warning: if you haven’t done low-level development, you might walk away wondering if your entire life has been a lie.

https://danluu.com/file-consistency/
> Because if we put down our pitchforks for a second, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, which also owns a major browser and the world's most popular operating system. Microsoft sure as hell doesn't need to sniff your clipboard in LinkedIn, if it wanted to do something for nefarious purposes.

The original report is a combination of iOS and MacOS so Microsoft does not have any kernel level leverage.

I don’t doubt it’s not malicious. More likely a holdover from an older or related feature.

The real story here is how easy it’s been for apps to spy on your clipboard. Seeing it in something by a large company like Microsoft just adds to the sensationalism. The TikTok version of this story is the real deal.
Yes I conflate the Confederate flag with violently taking someone's life away irreversibly. Because that's the meaning behind that symbol.
I wouldn't have been bothered by this at all (including the splash), if Windows hadn't reassigned Edge as my default PDF handler. Delving into the dark guts of the default programs settings, and finding a way to convince Windows that it was alright for Firefox to open PDFs even though it hadn't been installed from the Windows Store, took a far longer context switch than it deserved.
Except trillions in value, millions of jobs via direct employment and indirect employment.

How are you posting to HN if not because of products created by BigTech.
Harvard Grad Fired by Deloitte After Violent Rant
Routing through where? If you put your proxy in the cloud then it definitely won't work as most providers block known cloud host IPs like AWS, Digital Ocean, etc. I placed my Raspberry Pi inside my home network so that when I'm traveling my traffic still appears to be coming from my home, which is what Spectrum and others are looking for to determine whether to show you the entire channel listing or just a small slice of available channels. If you're not showing a residential IP in their network then it doesn't matter what setup you use, it still won't work.
I'm actually just watching Aliens in the History Channel, lol.

What would be the other plausible explanation though? Considering fermi paradox etc...
I think the article explains this quite well. There is no consensus.
Proposal to add clause to license prohibiting use by oil and gas extraction
Winners and Losers at the Edge
Cloud portability? Containerization if your app isn't built with serverless in mind, serverless if it is. Is there anything snowflake-y about the Big Three's offerings for container orchestration and true serverless?

And for not-infrastructure cloud services, aren't they pretty interchangeable? I recently evaluated four different cloud speech-to-text services. Sure the APIs differed, but you know, it's an API call. I see nothing to complain about.
> Now you might say that it doesn't matter how those people feel. They're not us.

What?? How in the universe are you getting there? Talk about a strawman!

The real explanation is much simpler: They didn't know the flag was racist. Because, despite attempts to rewrite history, until recently most people did not know that flag was racist.

I mean, even the producer of the show, who went out of his way to hire black actors, did not even realize that about the flag.

Today, things are different, I think most people know the flag is racist. But in the past? I suspect the vast majority did not realize it.
> What is "terrible" about advancing science and putting humans in space?

Neither of those was a reason for the project.
Would browser bundling actually get them in trouble in today's world? macOS, iPadOS, and iOS all come with Safari bundled (and alternatives prohibited in the latter cases). Android comes with Chrome. Some Android devices (Samsung) come with other browser bundled. Chrome OS is itself a browser.

A browser is a basic necessary OS component (heck, you need one just to download another one).

What is objectionable is the in-your-face nature of this update.
Part of it was regulation where properties will lose value over time, and after 30 years it is considered worthless. The value of the land may have gone up in price if you live somewhere desirable like Tokyo but the building that sits on it is considered worthless, possibly of negative value even as it costs around 1 million yen (10kUSD) to knock it down.

This was intended to promote new construction of housing, the unintended consequences is that homes are thus not built to last and home maintenance is rarely performed.

Though in recent years, there has a been a slight boom of people purchasing second homes to renovate rather than build new.

> Doomed from the moment construction begins, the average Japanese home depreciates from Day 1 — losing half its value in 10 years and becoming almost entirely worthless in 25. This depreciation comes hand in hand with the infamous mantra that a Japanese home is limited to a lifespan of 30 years and causes somewhat of a chicken-and-egg conundrum.

[0]: https://www.rethinktokyo.com/2018/06/06/depreciate-limited-l...

[1]: https://www.rethinktokyo.com/faq-secondhand-homes-renovation...
The difference is they are comedians who were commissioned to tell jokes to an audience that is expecting to hear jokes. Meanwhile you told an Amazon employee to kill themselves because you didn't like the output of the technology their company offers.

Again... there are humans behind these Twitter accounts.