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The debate I had with someone at work is that these days I can only ascribe legitimacy to an individual that have demonstrated that they are acting in good faith and being intellectually honest. The keyword here is individual. The NYTimes and most subscription news media publishes content by many individuals of varying quality.

In the past, this model had value and individuals like A.M. Rosenthal made a point of carefully curating the individuals that were hired to publish in the NY Times. It's become increasingly clear that as news organizations have faced declining revenue, they've begun to compromise on this curation. The fallout from this starts small and people continue to consider content from the NY Times to have some mark of quality, but eventually it will reach the point where those with integrity will realize that the tools for them to go it alone are out there and they are better off not associating with the individuals the NY Times has hired that do not meeting the historical bar for integrity it once had.

It's not so much that subscription news is dying at the hands of new sources of information, but that it is committing reputational suicide in response to disruptive innovation that allows individuals with integrity to stand on their own.
Really great product. Looking forward to the updates!
This would be a super cool project to work on. Their website has a fun tour of all the engineering components of it:

https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1/build
Did you tell them what you'd discovered? (If yes, what did they think of the situation? (Did you get any sense where the drive came from?))

Idle thought experiment: maybe the enclosures were cloned. (ie, the originals were 3D scanned + cleaned up + etc.) I wonder how much that would cost end-to-end.
You're not doing Sydney->Los Angeles, Santiago->Tokyo type long-haul, are you. When you're continent jumping (excluding Eastern US to Europe) 7hrs at supersonic is long enough to get a movie and relax a bit. When you're getting 16 hour flights on a regular basis, you get used to it, but when you've seen all the movies, you realize how much time you've wasted on a plane.
The Constitution? No, it applies to states as well. The SC has also explicitly ruled that the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment makes the Bill of Rights applicable to the states.
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Entering/exiting buses for automatic passenger counters is more important than ever now. Being able to broadcast GTFS-Occupancy in real-time when only 50% (or less) of the bus can be filled with passengers, is a real issue transit is facing today.
In many places, good faith sales are respected. Say someone bought a TV that "fell off a truck", but then after a year sells it to another person insisting it was legitimately acquired. The second buyer could be a legitimate owner given the they purchased the TV in good faith. On a side note, even if you did legitimately purchase the TV why would you expect the manufacturer to buy it back from you after it was used?

Regarding the realities of the situation in Oklahoma: as of this ruling non-natives on native land outnumber natives more than 4:1. If the government aimed to take or redistribute private property I would expect major unrest as a consequence.
> My personal feeling is that the people who dislike the Touch Bar heard the bad things about it, tried it for a time and two, decided that it's not something good, and spreading the word.

That's a very roundabout way of saying "people tried it, hate it, and told others: UNFAIR." In essence that argument can be used to dismiss anyone who dislikes the Touch Bar because they MIGHT have read something negative about it at some point, and therefore have been corrupted from forming their own first-hand opinion (???).

I'd love to ignore the Touch Bar, but since they stole the F key row for it, I cannot. I am forced to use it to interact with software that once worked fine. Since there's no physical feedback, and the virtual keys aren't correctly aligned with the physical ones: it is a frustration. At least we regained the escape key.

As to why I don't actively use it: I look at the screen, not the top of my hands. The content is on the screen, if you can touch type you shouldn't ever be looking down, so the Touch Bar is an anti-feature put in completely the wrong location (i.e. above the keyboard, instead under the screen) for people who struggle to type.
> The AF447 didn't have automatic protections available due to sensor failure. Flight computers detected the failure and degraded flight controls into direct mode with less protections than under normal operating conditions.

Notably the net result was that when the pilots did the right thing (pitching down) and the sensors recovered, a stall warning sounded.

> While flying on their own, pilots performed below their expected standard

You're talking as though pilot performance is a constant. Notably these pilots had little experience flying "on their own", precisely because of these automated systems, and were thrown in at the deep end, having to take over flying under bad conditions.
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When I say "hit the database too hard" what I actually mean is making too many calls to the database. If I have to make three or four calls just to get all the data I need, performance is going to take a hit. And databases are often the worst-performing part of the tech stack, so you have to craft your queries around the performance bottleneck of the database.

So you have to balance your table structure around getting the data you need in as few calls as possible while also only returning exactly as much data as you need and no more. Because pulling extra data out puts more load on the database and shipping more data across the network is slower.

In general, relational databases (RBDs) like Postgres or MySQL are great for making sure your data follows the correct structure (this field is a string, this is an integer, this field in table1 has to be the same as this field in table2, etc) but make it hard to make changes to the data structure later. What happens if that int should actually be a float? Now you have to write a migration that makes fundamental changes to the structure of the data and hope there are no negative side effects.

Someone else mentioned NoSQL databases, which offer a lot more flexibility at the cost of the data integrity that RDBs enforce. If you suddenly want to store a float instead of an int, go ahead. No one is stopping you, you just need to make sure your code is updated to handle the possibility of getting back an int or float (or coerce the value to the right type and pray).

Basically a database is integral to almost all applications but they're complex monsters with their own structure and rules and performance implications. If you're building an application you really have to know the data structure of the final product before you even _start_ configuring the database.
Emigrant is not the right word. Most of the Bulgarians living abroad, including me, keep their property in Bulgaria and don't sell. They don't cut their connections in the home land, and many of them return at the end of the day.
You can think whatever you want. You can even think it with a bunch of people and hopefully not have to feel scared to think whatever is you will think, nor fear talking about whatever is you want to talk about. Even if that thing has something to do with creating real, actual change within our lifetimes.
I'm really curious why they named "Xbox Series X". It's hard to remembering whether it's latest or not for me (non English-native, Japanese).
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There is partial firehose access, that's true. That's probably much more common than full access. I bet you could get some surveillance done with only partial access, though.

And there is also such a thing as imports, which I think lets you pull historical data based on terms you want to find. I don't know if that gets a sample, or everything that matches.
I accidentally tap it all the time. All it takes is a key press that’s slightly too high and the edge of my finger grazes the Touch Bar and BAM whatever shortcut was there runs.

I wanted to like the Touch Bar. I actually did for the first two weeks. Then I slowly grew to hate it once I realized I accidentally touched it more than intentionally.
I wouldn't overlook the geopolitical aspect, specifically on the russian front.
The point is to be able to have way less exclusion radius, not 10 km but 500m, as nothing will fly out of there.

Chernobyl occured because of graphite/fuel configuration went wrong. In this fuel it just cannot go wrong as it never changes.

As for temperature being too hot, pebble reactors have a so called melt-plug, which will melt at temperatures much lower than would be threaten the pebbles

Once the plug melts, pebbles fall down via gravity into lower part of reactor where they are dispersed in a way that stops energy generation and they can be cooled by natural convection.

Walkaway-safe is huge deal. You can't overheat this reactor even if you set out to do so.
The current climate should be plenty inspiring for those with the capacity to form heterodox ideas.
- This is the average. Going along with your second question you can get a sense of the distribution by looking at the payouts and probabilities in the official rules (https://www.withyotta.com/official-rules)

- It's purely probabilistic so it doesn't need to be tested. It's just random number math.

- Wins are deposited into your Yotta account and are immediately available to withdraw if you'd like

- It's an actual random number generator
I am confused by the negativity expressed in this comment section. This article presents a fairly positive outlook on how things are changing in Bulgaria (when you wrap your head around the idea that for a small country it is not the total number but the structure of the population that matters). The article mentions a number of serious outstanding challenges, but it also lists multiple reasons to be pleased with how things have changed.
What happens after 99 years? Are they expected/obligated to renew for a reasonable fee? What's preventing them from refusing to renew the leases after 99 years, and keeping the property (and whatever improvements on top) for themselves? It might not be an issue for the first or second generation of owners, but you'd expect the uncertainly to hurt the resale value of the property as the 99 years approaches.
I think anybody would be hard-pressed to argue that the Tu-144 saw meaningful commercial passenger service. Neither has Boom yet, to be fair, but it at least isn’t provably a failure at this point.
Their engines are a version of the General Electric J85 that dates from the 1950s. It's been very widely used in both military and commercial aircraft. One version was used in the Dassault DA-20 executive aircraft used at the start of FedEx after FedEx cargo door, etc. modifications.
Which is why the FCC is a complete mess of regulatory capture: it's a revolving door between FCC positions and big money telecom positions.
Decline in stock prices often indicates issues with the economy which also result in companies trimming the fat across the board. This usually hits the more fungible staff first. Likewise, decline in real estate will force rental property owners to sell up, reducing the supply of rental properties - good news for renters looking to make the jump to home ownership but less so for anyone not in that position.

True that rich people (if they're not being stupid with their money) will be better positioned to buy cheap stocks after a crash and will multiply their fortunes in the long run.

I like your bright side.
That only applies to criminal matters and only in terms of punishment. Congress could decriminalize drugs and make it retroactive for people who have yet to be convicted or charged.
I can't speak for all of them, but I'm pretty sure they're not an investor in the company I am familiar with. That's a fair point to bring up.
Most simply, some people value their leisure time as much or more than their hourly wage.

I find this become more true the more someone is compensated and the more they have to work.
Yep. It's not at the level of Photoshop but it does a pretty good chunk of the intermediate-level features that you might need for more complex projects (e.g. layers)
Twitter is a private platform. You have no free speech rights on Twitter. You have no rights at all, other than the Terms of Service.

The Bill of Rights protects you from the government. Twitter is not the government.
Feminists. Anti-war activists. Civil rights activists. Martin Luther King Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Volume control taking 2 taps is a bit crazy to me, but I'll bet in testing they found that people brushed against the volume bar too much if it was always there. I accidentaly graze the "play" button often. I'd love to see if "buttons with screens on them" might work out better for me, then I could lock the top-right ones to the media controls. Maybe leave a small slider on the top-left or middle.
Yeah, I know that you can show images of the function keys, and I've tried to use them, but it just doesn't work for me. I've learned that I rely very much on tactile response from the input devices I use.
I study aerodynamics, and haven't heard of problems from scaling down the models.

The main problem with supersonic wind tunnels is ensuring there's no interference from shock waves bouncing off the sides of the tunnel, which is why the X-plane program used actual airplanes. So wind tunnels are rated to a certain Mach, and above that, like for hypersonic, actual airplanes are still used.

FYI: I believe the DC-3 was the first passenger airplane designed with a wind tunnel, and as a result was efficient enough to be the first twin-engine commercial passenger airplane to fly over the Rockies with a safety margin to fly single-engine, and adequate to be the first proposed Shuttle wing design.
I am a Russian who moved to Australia. My parents kept voting for Putin for last 20 years, were never politically engaged and never supported the opposition.

If Bulgaria situation is any similar then for those older people that agony is of their own creation.
Related: the first known music played by a computer was earlier that year in Australia.[0] Article includes modern recreations of the music.

[0]: https://theconversation.com/how-australia-played-the-worlds-...
You are right, but I would like to point out that this very article lists multiple ways Bulgaria is already improving. It is not all doom and gloom, even if there are outstanding serious problems.
You would leave a long trail of broken windows and reports from the moment you went supersonic in their territory, charting your trajectory. Threat detection is a network, not a single point.

However, if you're moving fast enough and the target is close enough, your premise is valid. They would not have time to react. Cruise missiles tend to be used for those mission profiles.
It means you're infectious, and measurably so.
yet another failed nation/state....
Yeah, personally I think companies are better off using their best people in the hiring process; the old "A players hire A players" thing may or may not be true, but "B players hire C players" certainly is.
There were lots of very clear warnings about the whole Theranos situation at places like HN, well before the story hit the most elite media. The red flags were quite visible, and people did point them out. For that matter, Scott Alexander and the rationalist community in general are more insightful than even the most famous policy wonks and pundits. They don't do paid-for investigative journalism? Maybe, but so what - public policy commentary is just as impactful on its own terms.
But what if you just enjoy flying? I still get a thrill out of it even in cattle class. (Getting up at 3am to make the 5am flights they put us on is a whole different matter, though...)

Edit: These are 1.5-2hr intrastate flights, though. If I were going nonstop to London every week I would be all there for the supersonic. Actually who am I kidding, I wanna fly supersonic just for its own sake.
this is because the Bulgarians, unlike the Germans for example, are capable of (social) self-criticism and self-irony.
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I did not make such a concession and I'm quoting you so the record is clear (quote is from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23786584)

> I [mst] am entirely fine with you [memexy] believing that there are better ways to make those arguments - in fact, given any specific argument is almost certain to be imperfect, one would assume that there are.

> But I [mst] would note that "there are better ways to make those arguments" is quite a distance from your original position.

You [mst] made that conclusion, I did not. So I would appreciate it if you refined the phrasing to properly reflect the understanding that you are reaching the conclusion, not me.

I will also note the sophistic device being used here by mst of jumping up the thread to shortcircuit the evaluation of the actual evidence. This is quite deceptive.

My actual final response (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23786943) is now hidden away behind "more" button and unlikely to be visible so posting it here for visibility.

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Yes, and you [mst] provided an example of such associations with "youth", "stupidity", "anger", "fear", "transphobia", "homophobia", "atrocity", "anger at others", "anger with self", "dislike of others", "opposition to others", etc.

> When I was young and stupid, I used to believe that transgender was really, really dumb. That they were looking for attention or making it up or something along those lines.

> And then I grew older and wiser and learned – hey, transgender isn’t stupid at all, they have very important reasons for what they do and go through and I was atrociously wrong. And I said a mea culpa.

> The point is not "accepting people different than me", it's "having suitable principles to still fight in favour of people I might otherwise rightly or wrongly dislike".

> You completely removed the part where he not only didn't act antagonistically towards them but actively opposed other people doing so as well.

What word other than "sinister" would you use to characterize the cluster of words I quoted which are implicit in the writing I quoted?

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I think there are a few issues with this article.

Firstly, body-building hard ignores the fact that a competitor can't build up muscle overnight, and every day they spending building their strength is a day you continue building on yours. They need to be able to catch you, which they can't do.

Another analogy would be a marathon run. If you're already half-way through the marathon when others are just starting, the competitors need to have a strategy or capability which lets them run faster than you.

It's another way to look at why you need to be 10x better than a competitor. You need to be moving faster than they are.
How can I rapidly ascertain (within the first minutes of meeting for the first time) if I'm talking to such a doctor, vs someone who's going to complacently sit around and pontificate about what's possible without actually actioning anything?
something like now in progress

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/How-SoftBank-s-s...
It looks like the current base rate is a very competitive yield, and I'd expect the odds to be lowered soon, since their lottery gives the equivalent of about 3.6% in interest in addition to the 0.20 base interest. Another startup (Level Bank) using the same banking partner (Evolve Bank and Trust), launched with 2.1% APY in February, but soon had to lower it to 0.5%. This comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adammoelis) by the CEO suggests they are subsidizing the lottery temporarily.

The variance should be relatively low for deposits in the 5 figures and above. See the results of my calculations below, based in part on the spreadsheet linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781247

If one holds $10K in the account, one should get 400 entries a week, and the expected number of times to hit each prize under $1 is between 1 and 9 times every week. I calculate the equivalent interest rate from the <$1 prizes alone is about 2.02%.

The $10 and $15 prizes should be hit about once every 2-3 months, and add about another 1.16% to the expected winnings.

Since the $300 and up prizes are split amongst all winners, it's hard to calculate the expected value, but assuming 10 million entries a week, the EV of the larger prizes is adds about 0.42% extra per year, with the vast majority coming from the expected value of the $5.8 million prize.

I believe that would be very unlikely for one to get below the equivalent of 2% interest over a few months if they held tens of thousands of dollars in an account, with the median outcome being around 3.4%. One could run a simulation to confirm this.
Is this a bad thing? We get to use the money from the export surplus to modernize other industries. It is not surprising that a poorer country will be in the agriculture business as it develops. For a positive change, see how the software industry in Sofia has been growing. It will take time to revive mid and heavy industries.
https://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/170324152006-boom...

This is a tech demonstrator and not quite a "scaled prototype." Two occupants vs ~40 makes it pretty much a completely different aircraft. What it's probably demonstrating is some key design aspects like inlet/engine interactions, sonic boom mitigation, thermal resistance on various points, and overall validating simulation data. It won't show anything about extrinsic performance like range or takeoff distance of the final passenger jet, at least not directly.
>> The performance cost of an extra index for insert/update/delete queries is only a concern when you get to the point where you do need to manually manage indexes - but for most database tables with less a few million rows there’s no reason for the server not to automatically add indexes on columns used in predicates. It won’t be perfect, but it’s better than allowing slow queries to always be slow.

You'd be surprised. The thing that really drives index explosion is the number of distinct queries. IME, inspecting and reducing distinct queries is one of the easiest ways to optimize and it can typically be automated. I've migrated systems from millions of distinct queries down to hundreds or dozens. However the objective of the optimization is typically driven by requirements external to the database and may vary over time. Thus difficult to align with an optimizer.
If the Touch Bar was adjustable sensitive to force, it would be almost perfect in my book. My biggest objection to it is that it establishes a different UX between laptop and desktop.
Does this not invalidate the claims by many small companies that data has good days privacy laws and that your data is safe there? Could we arrange a petition where users of those services can sign up to say they will change providers if the law passes?
Within reason right? I'm hoping that 'the right to consume anything they want for any reason' wouldn't include those things that cause sudden violent behavior and inability to feel fear and pain.

I forget which particular drug does this, but a search brought me to meth and I found this article which says people feel 'invincible' and 'paranoid' and can't be stopped with non-lethal means.

https://www.cpr.org/2020/02/05/suspects-on-meth-are-hard-to-...
> I tend to mentally divide code into roughly two types: "computational" and "plumbing".

I think of the "computational" type more as a "deterministic data transformation" type. That applies to transformations of any data whether text, images, or the state of a machine.

I think of plumbing as the movement of data without any transformation, or if a transformation occurs, it occurs at and abstracted layer that must be unit tested itself independently.