skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to say how efficient this plane will be before it's built (or more details made public) but from what I've read sofar the big version, 'Boom Overture', is meant to use turbofan engines. That alone should provide significant fuel savings over the Concorde, which used turbojet engines with afterburners on takeoff.

Even so, supersonic flight is less efficient than getting there a bit slower. Unfortunately, air resistance is nonlinear like that.
Thank you.

Gosh, what an awkward pose, that first picture.
As I understand it, there is a similar situation legally with regard to copyrights, trademarks, etc. If you don't enforce them, eventually, they are no longer considered valid. Note that IANAL and I haven't investigated this in depth.

I think the idea is that most people aren't computers processing laws as if they were code; most humans have to primarily go by what they see happening around them in order to decide what is ok. If they see lots of cars going down a road, eventually they assume that it is public property, even if they never check the public records to see if it is. Similarly with lots of other things.

But, crucially to the Supreme Court's majority decision, you have to have a law saying that this is so (for real estate or intellectual property or whatever), for it to be so, and Congress never did that.
> This part of your comment really, really rubs me the wrong way. Your personal inclinations absolutely cannot direct the apparatus of state on a whim

Last I checked, we lived in a democracy. A democracy is composed of the collective whims of the citizens. I'm simply registering mine. You're free to oppose if you so desire. My point though is simply to illustrate the ideological contradiction latent in the comment I was referring to.

> Either those groups are suspected of criminal activity or conspiracy to commit criminal activity, which is probable cause for surveillance, or they aren't.

Indeed. So, you are opposed to government surveillance of neo-nazi groups that eschew violence, then?
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Think deeply about what you're proposing.
I don't understand why anyone would prefer a volume slider to discrete up/down buttons. I almost never want to quickly slide to a specific volume, it's always "this is a little too loud" or "I didn't quite hear that."

The action I want is a quick relative tick up or down, then listen again to see if the improvement is adequate, then repeat as necessary until it's perfect.

Sliders are good for quickly moving by a large amount to a rough absolute position. But they're utter crap for fine adjustment.

Am I the only one who gets infuriated when trying to get to the exact spot I want by rolling my finger ever so slightly to get a slider to move by half a pixel? It takes forever and it gives you RSI!
One thing that isn't mentioned is that the 'intrinsic' body-building-hard isn't fixed for everyone.

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This wasn't flame bait. It was just an observation. Please realize that it was other people who decided to flame. Just because someone decides to have a bad attitude doesn't make my post flame bait.

I made a general observation about corruption and culture, other people decided to respond to it in a bad way.

If this type of comment isn't allowed on HN it's a form of censorship. Basically I can't say anything negative about a culture or a country because it's classified as flame bait.

This is similar to the way the CCP practices censorship in China. People in my country basically can't say anything negative about it. Thank you for perpetuating that sentiment here on HN.
Oh wow great, I hope this works for me too! I have an LG 4K screen and the LG tool to change brightness and contrast is really terrible, it has some stupid built-in fake Picture in Picture mode which is constantly flashing red borders around the screen when you use it. And the UI is really bad and slow.

This little menubar control looks like just what I wanted.

Edit: Yes it works great! On my LG24UD58. Perfect!
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with my Eizo L568 but that's ancient. And I think it had some special USB-based control method. But really glad to be able to get rid of the LG software now.

PS: You have to enable the contrast with a tickbox, otherwise that slider is not shown.
This is close but not quite the same. Russel Conjugation is a play on the emotional content of the words, and I was describing tricks with statement attribution.

But you are right, there are examples of Russel Conjugation too (e.g.: "Alexander’s supporters were working themselves into a tizzy") as well as other tricks. This article is quite a case study on spin!
Makes sense. We will look into making this option clearer to the user so they have to explicitly choose which option they want.
debugging imo is terrible via the touchbar -- but was also terrible with function keys!

Binding a two character keystroke (cmd-shift-c for step next for me) is vastly superior ux than a function key or touchbar provide ...

i think the location of the touchbar above the useable space in the keyboard is a huge issue with it -- it's just not a useable space. it was hard to use function keys as well for this reason.

the touchbar would be kind of interesting for the creative uses i think if it was a separate physical device that you could put where you want it. a thing with a magnet maybe that you can attach to the bottom of the keyboard beneath the touchpad ... it's there when you are in an editing mentality and wanting to use those sliders -- relax and leave your fingers down close to you rather than raised and prone and stretching ...
This is naive.

Their labeling of antifa as a terrorist organization sets the precedent that ANYONE engaging in antifascist activities or in opposition of fascism is a terrorist.
Maybe I live in a different information media bubble but, before the pandemic, the Climate Change apocalypse dominated the public discussions.

Greta and her alarmism was given a lot of airtime. Politicians used the alarmism to get people behind their plan.

The main point of the article is to disprove the excessive alarmism.
I'm glad it wasn't needed in your case but people elsewhere have been bombarded with it for years.
Is this the bash dude?
Trains can feasibly put in ventilation systems that shoves inside air out, and pulls in fresh air. Recirculating air systems are the nasty part with covid. Trains aren't (much) concerned with weight, so can easily pack on the ventilation. I travel periodically for my remote job, and getting on a train on a Monday, working all day, then being at my HQ for several days before working all the way on a Friday sounds much better to me at this point.

Building more rail lines ... well that's another matter.
College*

Not to be a jerk, I just saw you make the same spelling mistake a couple times
They use evolutionary search [0] to create programs for image classification, specifically 'binary classification tasks extracted from CIFAR-10'. They do it from scratch, though they use a pytorch-ish programming language with differentiation baked in.

Looks like a nice summer intern project.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming
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What does this have to do with "internet freedom" (whatever that means)? Statements that would get you prosecuted when shouted in the streets have that same effect when posted online. Surprised Pikachu face?
Honestly though, 1) the array rebuild might take that long time anyway; 2) the stress of the array rebuilding would probably make the other drive fail anyway.
I didn't call it, but I did guess some sort of electrical disconnect.
> I guess if you want to be fair, you need to let the Native American nations to decide, and what if they decide to create multiple nations in the middle of the not-any-more-united States?

The United States should decide... either as a constitutional amendment or as a popular vote. If the tribes have input, that should be taken into account. But it's not like Native Americans have any more right to exist than any other person born in the United States.

In general, states can enforce their borders, but it's safe to say that the Native Americans failed at that considerably, and those wars have concluded and the USA has firmly won. This is not a value judgement, or a statement of what should have happened. It is simply observation.

Ultimately, the tribal system is a compromise to make things work as they are now. But, in the long term, this is never going to work out. Like I said, there is nothing good to come of this. At some point, some generation will have to bite the bullet and allow separation or pressure integration. This system we've created which encourages pseudo separation and shies away from integration really can't work out in the long run. It will lead to factionalism, in-fighting and eventually war or genocide.

A better solution would be to put in place incentives for Indians to leave the reservations and integrate with American society, with the eventual goal to privatize native lands or to make them public like any other land. Again... the system we have now, to hold land into perpetuity will not work.

Ultimately, tribal belonging is currently tied to how 'pure' one's blood is. This is the last vestige of racial preference in this country. These sorts of things invariably lead to bad outcomes in the long run.

Is it sad that cultures die? Yeah, perhaps, but cultures have always died. Thus is the way of the world. As each one dies, more will be formed. Oh well, times change.
Clearly untrue. You've heard of the "rubber rooms" correct?
This was a political reason: supporters of EVs took offence and abused the content reporting system.

In his videos he quite often reads hate mail he's receive from such people who are outraged by even the slightest dig at Elon, Tesla or EVs.
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>> I wonder what would be required to build a model that explores the search space of compilable programs in say python that sorts in correct order.

Oh, not that much. You could do that easily with a small computer and an infinite amount of time.
Yes, and regularly, and so do millions of other Tokyo residents. Cases here are up to ~200 daily new cases with (AFAIK) zero linked to public transit (and this is weeks after our quasi-lockdown ended).
If public transit/trains were by definition a significant risk factor Tokyo's situation would look a _lot_ different.

Now maybe a train stuffed with non-mask wearing people talking constantly would be a different issue.
Seems like an app better suited for the iPad than the touchbar. The Touch Bar is meant to complement a desktop app, not be one.
But then we miss out on Apple's hardware quality, industry-crushing A-Series processors, and (for the most part) rock solid and extremely efficient OS.
The court is supposed to be exactly as you describe as a counterweight to legislators affected by vicissitudes of an electorate every 2 or 6 years. This is a feature, not a bug, of the American republic.
Why they are so scared of citizenry though? Anyone that is criminal or really needs security will just use Faraday Cages with disconnected computers.

Literally there is nothing they can do against big league criminals with this much mass surveillance, so only logical conclusion is that this is only intended for use on citizenry.
I'm not defending it, it's just the trend I'm seeing.
> There are legitimate abuses of market power. But this is not one of them.

I’m curious. How long does a company need to lose money on each unit of work they do, funded by endless foreign vc money, before it’s clearly an abuse of their financial power and destructive for the market?

No company can compete fairly against people willing to lose billions just for market share.
Thanks for that link. Bookmarked because that's going to be really useful when I decide to upgrade my NAS.
I am not an expert in Native American history but the Creek Nation are almost certainly not the originally inhabitants.

This is one of my biggest issues with stuff like this. Why should the Creek Nation get this land and not the tribe that lived there previously? Why not the tribe before that tribe?

Americans often did not treat the natives well but this is an issue with all countries. It was quite common for Natives to kill other tribes and take over that area. It sucks but that is how a country is formed.
I choose to extend the same assumption of good faith and principle of charity that I believe Scott would.

It would feel, to me, inappropriate to do otherwise while defending him.
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I hope it doesn't and I'm disgusted with the romanticization of something so utterly destructive and unnecessary. The right thing is to never travel with plane again. I'm glad I live in a country where flying became taboo long before corona.
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Yes he does, there is basically no difference between written German in Austria and Germany, and he writes in a very modern tone.

Compared to other novels of that time period the writing is actually very clear, it's definitely well suited to (advanced) students of German. My guess is the biggest issue would be vocabulary.
Proof I was right - you don't like SA therefore his writing is bad and it has a secret evil message (never mind you couldn't even understand his point when you tried to write like him in another thread) and a 'critical' reading would validate your view, which is entirely unfalsifiable.
That's good to hear; thanks for the quick response.

(As for the first name thing, just FYI: in my case, my first name + last initial fully identify me.)
From their website: Overture flights will focus on 500+ primarily transoceanic routes that benefit from supersonic speeds—such as New York to London or San Francisco to Tokyo. Overture won't generate a sonic boom over land cruising at subsonic speeds. Its passengers won't even notice breaking through the "sound barrier," which will be inaudible and uneventful.
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> andrewprock already found an example and I agree with his assessment.

But do you have a dispute for the counterpoint from mst? If so, what is it?
Also by how quickly it is discovered/brought to court
Are Racial lynchings a protected activity?

To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were
And cause global issues while you're at it. No, it would be a net positive for the world and the environment for sure.
It's not though. Not in any legal sense.
I agree with the tactile argument. If audio systems are trying to simulate the sound pressure experience in its entirety, then IEMs fall short. For the OCD-fueled desire for accurate sound pressure reproduction at the human-world audio interface, I think IEMs are where effort should be focused. 50 year old audibility studies imply that the perceptible gains are marginal-to-none-existent, but who says that's always the point? ;)
I am entirely fine with you 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 would note that "there are better ways to make those arguments" is quite a distance from your original position.
Your farm looks really cool (from the tiny bits I could find online). My dream has been to do something like that but take it up to the next level (bootstrapping a community).

Just liked your FB so I can follow your adventure.
Yes this is exactly what we are going for. Would love to chat about more of any learnings you have from your digital piggy bank savings concept. Saw your e-mail and will follow up with you there.
Well that's certainly playing with statistics.

Most people are murdered by someone they know, so we're looking at a pretty small slice of all murders.

And that stat is for homicides, not murder. So it includes people lawfully killed.
Do you ever find yourself writing “Depends on” on a PR?
The "Trojan" is simply the rhetorical framework chosen by German authorities. Their initial successful push for computer surveillance was in the form of the "state trojan", a piece of malware proposed to be installed on the systems of suspected criminals. Successive pushes have aimed at expanding out from there, using the existing capabilities as justification.
> the app model where you need to wait for the driver to go to the restaurant to pick up the food, then come to your house while possibly stopping at other restaurants and/or houses on the way

This is a weird set of complaints.

1. Usually, there would be some lag time between when you order the food, and when the restaurant finishes making it. This would overlap with the time required for the driver to go to the restaurant and pick up the food; the app model isn't actually introducing a delay there.

2. Restaurants that do delivery themselves also use the same driver to deliver multiple orders at once. You're definitely better off with a dedicated driver, but the restaurant is much worse off. Again, this would not appear to be related to the app model. We order pizza and pick it up ourselves, because if the pizza place delivers it, it arrives stale and we pay extra for delivery.
Then what mode of transit isn't implicitly or explicitly state supported? Even when I walk somewhere I use the sidewalk.
Thanks for the suggestion! I love the interface.
I am thinking about it. Think about what you are proposing. Do you really want to take the position that the government cannot monitor any group until it commits a crime?
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> were using a weird rhetorical trick where you pretend that the other commenter was calling the blog ugly, instead of the article.

There's an irony of seeing this behavior mixed in with comments about how Scott's language "uses associations" in a harmful way.
It would be nice to be able to specify that web fonts and other media elements come from the same site that serves the requested page.
Of course not. But not every racist group has engaged in lynchings. Do you think the government should refrain from surveilling racist organizations until they do their first lynching?
You mean the Bourne shell dude, and no, that is Stephen Bourne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Bourne).

bash and the Bourne shell aren't the same thing. More or less, this is the history:

* in 1979, sh (Bourne SHell), created by Stephen Bourne, is released as part of AT&T Unix

* in 1983, ksh (Korn SHell), created by David Korn, an enhanced version of sh, is released by AT&T

* in 1989, bash (Bourne Again SHell), created by Brian Fox, is an open-source alternative released by the GNU project
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I'm not saying that the KKK is not a terrorist organization. I'm just saying that they are not legally classified as one, because of the first amendment. The courts consider it unconstitutional to label any domestic organization as a 'terrorist organization', in the legal sense.
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>For all we know, we're hearing the vocal minority of people, instead of the actual voices that need hearing.

Yes, and they have the right to protest too if they feel like their own voices aren't being heard. That's the beauty of freedom.

You can't seriously be against people protesting simply because you don't want to do it too. It's like arguing against voting because some (or even most) people don't vote and those who do are usually more "vocal" or political. It's a very dangerous mentality
As a (pre-Covid) extreme frequent flyer, supersonic and other rapid point to point initiatives are thoroughly unenticing.

Part of the reason I loved long flights was the ability to put away the laptop and zone out to a book or movie with some wine before landing, dealing with immigration, hotels, Ubers, and days of frenetic, high stress meetings afterward.

The prospect of trying to optimize how fast we can jump from one business trip to another is uninspiring.
There are a lot of insecure updaters. I remember reading the list from evilgrade a few years back. It was shocking.
> But what if the court were being intentionally obtuse and kept interpreting laws in face of the facts and the intent of congress?

This would apply for whichever organisation is responsible for interpreting the existing law: there has to be some such organisation, with significant political power: especially where this power is centralised as in the US Supreme Court, rather than distributed.

Giving the executive this power, of unlimited re-interpretation the words of its previous incarnations, seems unwise and worse. Should congress be able to say about the negotations of its predecessors, "ah, in retrospect the previous session didn't mean it like that"?

This is recognised as judicial independence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_independence#Theory_o...
So can I round trip it to JSON yet, no, bummer...
It's interesting... you'd think the military would have gone down this path already, and perhaps came up short?

The ability to fly supersonic NOE (Nap-of-the-Earth) into enemy territory without leaving a trail of very loud sonic booms seems like it would be something of interest. B1-B Lancer's exist to do exactly this, but are quite noisy.

Which either means I'm wrong and the military doesn't care about being quiet, or Boom will eventually reach the same conclusion... or Boom has something truly revolutionary that nobody else has achieved.
>Why should the Creek Nation get this land and not the tribe that lived there previously? Why not the tribe before that tribe?

Because the US government entered into a treaty with the Creek Nation, who were the inhabitants of that land at that time.
I get the sense that there's quite a bit of humor embedded in these works. I don't understand most of the references, but there's one that I got right away.

Click the map of Italy. Roughly in the lower-right-center, there's what looks like a gray volcano. Zoom in and read the caption:

Vesuvius

And just south of it:

Pompeii (clausa)
Pompeii (closed)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_...
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This would be a great point if not for the heavily skewed application of this technique towards the police, as a sibling comment gives examples for.
Exports from Germany imported to poor member state you mean
I know NYC lawyers in their late 20s who are leaving their leases in the city entirely while continuing to work remotely. Rent is so absurd there, and most benefits of being in the city have been nullified by indoor isolation anyway. As office work eventually starts to spin up they plan to fly back as needed. Apparently multiple round trip flights per week is still much cheaper than living there.

I'm very interested to see how many will try to sustain this after the pandemic ends. There has historically been massive resistance to remote work at law firms.