skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s a bit like “soon to be plane owners” that don’t quite pay attention when they are told the spark plug for their Cessna is 50USD, they need 8 for 4 cylinders and replace them rather frequently ;-)

That's supposed to be the promise of electric aircraft: almost all serviceable parts go out the window, just as with electric cars. Construction and maintenance costs are reduced to a fraction of what they are for mechanical systems. And because these are VTOL, ground expenses are likewise reduced.

Batteries are still rather expensive, though, and energy density sucks. The advantages may not be able to compensate, at least not sufficiently to hit a price point that appeals to a wider, non-millionaire market.
That's very optimistic. More likely you will be disliked by your peers for, in their view, actively trying to demolish their reputation. There's a lot of politics in academia and it's way better to just try to be friends and never say bad words of other peoples works. Live and let live. Is this good for the public and "Science" in capital letters? No. But it's how it is.
Yes, profit transfer is a problem, but it’s not nearly as big a problem as you make it out. Companies can’t just make it up on their own, there are accounting rules they must follow.

Secondly, there is a simple and much better solution that would boost everyone’s economies. Stop taxing investment and savings, tax consumption instead.

In the US it would be as simple as taxing capital gains and dividends at higher ordinary income rates, while no longer taxing corporate income at all. That would increase capital for building new businesses, while restoring progressivity to the tax code.
Lots of things are in fairly close proximity to highways, this is not really a solution. Crashing into the tower block next to a highway is still pretty bad.

Lots of things in dense areas also are not necessarily on an easy route near a highway, so if that's the limitation you run into Concorde's old problem of "where can you actually fly this thing?"
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Still not exactly anti-gravity.

Lilium boasts:
"As well as a customized electric motor, it contains innovative liner technology which means the aircraft will be inaudible from the ground when flying above 400m and will only be as loud as a passing truck while taking off."
https://lilium.com/the-jet
I would go for a candidate who came up with an idea, designed the solution, got some other people involved, and executed on it well. Solo projects are good but to really sell your value it helps to show you can work well with others.
> The author of the form can specify which fields are allowed to be changed after which signature, and a validator would have to check that those constraints were observed.

This can work, but it seems simpler to just have separate documents for each party to sign. It's easier to understand and much less prone to hidden failures when someone makes a mistake marking fields. If the value you put into a form is irrelevant to whether I sign it, just put that form in your document and not my document.
Are you sure? I just did the same and SendGrid's cheapest plan seems to be $15 for 50,000 emails, which is $0.30 per 1000 emails, so 3x as much.

Also, this quote seems to be based on using AWS Simple Email Service. Lower down they say:

> We're currently sending weekly email blasts of over 800,000 emails in 4 hours on a $10 per month Digital Ocean VPS with 1gb memory and 1 core processor.
>However engine failure can also occur on fuel-powered aircraft

This. Why would a battery powered aircraft be more susceptible to failure than another engine type?
I went back and counted: 10 empty spots inline with the article that would would be an ad were it not for a pi-hole on the network, not counting any pop-ups or sidebar ads that I might not be seeing.

And to top it off, "from around the web, brought to you by zergnet" at the bottom, which pi-hole didn't catch. It's an otherwise fine article, but if this is what the muggles see, I'm surprised everyone doesn't burn their computers and phones and go back to magazines and books.
Do you hear yourself? At All?

There is evidence of government officials arresting people-- that is not in dispute. All that is in dispute is if it should be characterized as kidnapping or something akin to what is going on in HK with mass detention centers and reeducation camps.

I've lost track of what you're even objecting to at this point, but I for one never denied that there are arrests going on in Portland. If you want to claim they're illegal by all means talk to a lawyer, just see if you can manage to avoid pretending they're kidnappings in the meantime.
> Many companies are working on this problem currently.

They're working on nullifying gravity? Cool.
Sounds scary so long as everything is discussed in such vague terms, which is why those decrying "cancel culture" always keep it in the theoretical space.

When the "conformity of the mob" is a concrete example, such as leftists fighting for basic human rights, eg. access to medicine so that you don't die, not getting murdered by the police, etc, well it's hard to make this sound troubling.
That seems unlikely, since they didn't find any correlation between baseline depression and future goals, only between baseline goals and future depression.

"Greater within-subject increased goal persistence (but not positive reappraisal or self-mastery) led to
larger future declines in disorder counts. However, within-subject change in disorder counts did not
substantially influence future change in each cognitive or behavioral strategy"
For people in the US who are on H1- B and also aren't eligible for an E-1 visa, other than O-1 is there a different immigration path to founding a company in the US?
The H-1B1 is not subject to the latest proclamation/ban so the only issue (if you are outside the U.S.) is getting an H-1B1 visa since the Consulates are still closed but that's not an issue if you are in the U.S. - you can change your status to H-1B1 in the U.S. or change your H-1B1 employer. For recruiters, tell them it's cheap and quick to get H-1B1 work authorization.
> Asynchronous "who's on first"

What does that mean? "On first"?
> If you feel like you get an automatic email, you're not going to respond, because you don't want to talk to a computer.

For me it isn't about not wanting to speak to a computer, I simply don't want to read a bunch of marketing copy. If a computer sent a short and direct to the point message I would be much more willing to read and respond to them.
Tigase XMPP Server 8.1.0 GA released, with encrypted push and groupchat avatars
As of a few years ago even "Shipped from and sold by Amazon.com" resulted in comingled inventory for me. I was unable to purchase a new Sony phone without getting some other seller's comingled inventory. Which was problematic since that seller incorrectly labeled Hong Kong versions of the phone as US versions.
GameCube’s design wasn’t just intended to fit the use case of packing it up to take it to grandma’s or to your friend’s dorm room on another floor, it also communicated that that was something you could/should do with it. Great design.
The ant analogy helped a lot.
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About double, from a couple of analysis I recall. Not sure how careful they were (note, this is not just for assembly, but for full supply chain).
French Revolution (1789–1799)

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1804–1814)

Louis XVIII, King of France (1814–1824)

Charles X, King of France (1824–1830)

Louis Philippe I, King of France (1830–1848)

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (1852–1870)
> planes are quite repairable

The Qantas A380 from Singapore to Sidney that had an uncontained engine failure was repaired and entered service again, at an estimated cost of about $150m, or about 1/3 of the price of a new one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32
They very likely were exposed to the same kind of anti-immigrants propaganda most governments use against their citizens. It happens pretty much everywhere.

Immigrants can't vote, so they're extremely easy to use as scapegoats because they can't fight back politically. Once a government plants in their citizens that immigrants are the root of all evil, they've pretty much won: anything wrong in the country will be attributed to illegal immigrants so that the attention will be taken away from the government.
It's the same old trick of blaming a weak minority that cannot defend itself using any legal means, and frankly I find appalling that people still falls for it.
The problem is damage to others.

Generally speaking, even if cars crash into buildings the building itself is not immediately unsafe; injured people and a broken storefront, but the building is not on fire or collapsing. Unless something has changed dramatically, planes crashing into buildings generally start fires, and generally cause concern about the structural integrity of said building in the immediate aftermath.

As a result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_New_York_City_plane_crash

> On October 11, 2006, a Cirrus SR20 aircraft crashed into the Belaire Apartments in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, at about 2:42 p.m. EDT (18:42 UTC). The aircraft struck the north side of the building causing a fire in several apartments,[2][3] which was extinguished within two hours.[4]

> Both people aboard the aircraft were killed in the accident: New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle[3] and his certificated flight instructor.[5][6] Twenty-one people were injured, including eleven firefighters. An apartment resident, Ilana Benhuri, who lived in the building with her husband, was hospitalized for a month with severe burns incurred when the post-impact fire engulfed her apartment.[7][8]

> On October 13, 2006, two days after the crash, the FAA banned all fixed-winged aircraft from the East River corridor unless in contact with local air traffic control. The new rule, which took effect immediately, required all small aircraft (with the exception of helicopters and certain seaplanes) to seek the approval of and stay in contact with air traffic control while in the corridor. The FAA cited safety concerns, especially unpredictable winds from between buildings, as the reason for the change.

Most car crashes do not result in 2 dead, 21 injured, and property damage to several residences.
Gotta love all the HN armchair gatekeepers in this thread
Email me separately. Thanks.
Do you have a reference to any practical side channel attack on, say, 2048 bit RSA using the current version of libgcrypt? If so it should be filed as a bug.
It depends on the goal, though. What if you were a Spanish speaker trying to move to India, and didn't already speak any Indian language to a useful level? I'm guessing in that scenario you'd want to learn Indian English.

Same thing if you were a call center representative communicating in English with Indian audiences.

As for non-native English speakers, there are already some choices to make when deciding what to learn. If someone learns US English as a second language, they'll find it a lot harder to understand people from the UK, especially less globally common styles like those in Scotland and Northern Ireland. But if someone learns British English, they'll probably find those styles easier to understand than Louisiana or Newfoundland English, to name two less standard North American varieties. (Cockney is especially difficult to understand for non-native speakers of any kind, so I'm leaving it out of this.)

In this case, we're discussing an Indian commenter's choice to use their local dialect of English when discussing a topic about Indian tech companies with a global English-speaking audience.

Yes, I admit I thought "codes" was wrong when I first read the comment, but that's because I didn't know that aspect of Indian English, and I no longer view it as wrong. Anyway, it didn't detract from my interest in or respect for the commenter's substantive opinion.
Right. I'm counting on that to happen. This should force the hands of the Indian firms to innovate or perish. That should be very interesting to watch.
Not addressed at you, particularly, but this is why a Twitter subscription plan has legs. The most value out of a twitter feed comes from curation and getting information from domain experts and trained/seasoned reporters. There are more than enough people with opinions.

I highly encourage newsletter authors to avoid the trap of just selling their opinion or meta-analysis, and do original reporting and research. Trying to focus on a niche where one is an expert, too. Those seem most successful and capable getting a sustainable number of subscriptions.
As you can see this response proves my point 100%
I was actually surprised you could do it by train at all. I wouldn't even know how to begin to attempt a train journey in the US. (other than hitting up Amtrak's website and hoping for the best).

I was also surprised at train travel in Norway on my recent visit; I hoped to book a ticket from Oslo to Bergen but it was basically impossible. Only a couple of trains a day, all sold out. I drove instead, which was also a shock, since I spent virtually my entire drive at or below 80kph. The train would have been roughly the same speed -- so, not as bad as your Tahoe example, but not great by continental European standards either :)
> “innovation has a horrible ROI”

This may be so, but I don't think you've really substantiated it; you're just talking about part of the "I", without any reference to the dollars of "R". Sure, $1m puts a plane out of almost everybody's recreation budget. But for a piece of transportation infrastructure with high utilization, it might not be prohibitive. (I mean, a jumbo jet costs hundreds of millions to build, involves significant R&D budgets on each new model, and is still positive ROI, just.)

You said "you fly a bit faster, a bit safer" in a dismissive way, but how much is this actually worth? I could easily believe that making flights slightly safer is worth an extra $1m of capex; I think your original claim would be much stronger if you provided some more concrete numbers/analysis here.
The guidelines ask you not to write comments about presentation; they're much less interesting than the topic of the story itself.
Yes on passport and thank you for your reply.
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google CEO congressional hearing officially delayed
That's really it.
(IANAL) Once your I-485 is pending you can remain in the US for as long as it remains pending, on that basis. [1]

Most people also file an I-765 and I-131 alongside the I-140, I-485 and I-693 forms, and once approved, you'll be issued an EAD/AP combo card which entitles you to work in the US and return to the US on the basis of the pending I-485. This travel and employment eligibility is separate from any previous E-3 or TN status.

Once you file, you no longer have to maintain your previous nonimmigrant visa status, but if you don't, a rejected I-485 would subject you to immediate removal. If you do, you can return to your old status.

[1] https://citizenpath.com/faq/maintaining-status-after-filing-...
I wonder what effect will dominate:

1. BAD: The degradation of airplanes in storage (seems that's fairly well understood, though)

2. BAD: The loss of proficiency and currency by the crews

3. GOOD (maybe?): Less traffic?
Extracting passwords from hiberfil.sys and memory dumps
Wars have two sides. Who's on the two sides of the QAnon... "not conspiracy?"
Not trivial at all to fake reviews on yelp. They don't accept reviews from new accounts, accounts related to the business, plus some algo crap.
Just don't forget that email is generally used for password resets, so if you have the same email for everything and someone gets access to your email, they may be able to reset all your passwords.

I'm in the process of switching all my services to a domain I own, so I will be a little less screwed in case google decides to randomly shoot me (like they do sometimes).
The notice of filing must include salary information.
> Or you want foreign military leaders to think you are baffled by their stealth tech

That doesn't seem conducive to that mutual deterrence which is usually desirable.
You can marry her and she will get a green card shortly.
Did Trump Bomb Syria on False Grounds?
This is not good but sadly any source of massive amounts of user data will continue to be targeted in this day and age. I'm an avid cyclist and use Garmin Edge GPS cycling computers. Luckily they store activities locally. I'm sure I'll be able to sync my rides soon enough ;)
I played with 10.4 for the first time relatively recently. I was using VMWare Fusion, which isn't supposed to support OS's prior to Leopard, and Tiger crashed frequently as a result. So I can't fairly evaluate stability, although it was definitely speedy.

But, in terms of visual design... I don't think it's as pretty as Leopard, but what I find intriguing is how well it matches the hardware design of the era. On a Powerbook or PowerPC iMac, I can imagine how the contents of the screen would perfectly match the hardware that framed it.

I don't think Apple has done anything quite like that since...
You are assuming that abilities potentially unique to humans make us, or our progeny, more likely to survive long-term than a randomly selected species. I don't think that is well supported.

Also, why do you think that we have agency? That seems another unsupported assumption.

I could see a general AI, if one is ever developed, being more likely to survive that long, given we even consider it alive to begin with. But a hominin descendant seems incredibly unlikely.

I guess I don't see why you think contemplating long-term survival would be correlated with longer survival rates.
Strictly speaking, the early us was more of an Aristocratic Republic rather than a democratic republic.

> The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.

Article 1, Section 2.

In the Early US, only white male land owners could vote (the upper class, aka, the aristocracy). Inasmuch, it was not what most people would consider a democracy. The lower class had no representation whatsoever.

So, when you say that a "A republic is a kind of democracy" it's actually not true, at least not for what most people would consider democracy.
American capitalists, especially the car industry, lobbied heavily to make this the case, and also allowed privately-owned public transport services to deteriorate.
The story talks about the CARES Act, which applies to "certain rental properties with federal assistance or federally related financing", specifically:

> rental units in properties: (1) that participate in federal assistance programs, (2) are subject to a “federally backed mortgage loan,” or (3) are subject to a “federally backed multifamily mortgage loan.”

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11320
My bad, I was thinking of errcheck, which is more thorough and integrated into most Go linting tools like Go CI linter.

https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck

In any case, it’s trivial to detect via static analysis.
Now instead of employing children for insane work hours. People will work for normal hours. Atleast now phones will not be made by slave labour.
Sure, the "government" is, as in the elected representatives, which is just a recent thing, but I think you'll find the Franco old guard lurking in many non-elected but powerful positions. And it wasn't so long ago that Madrid sent the Guardia Civil to suppress, with violence and impunity, the Catalonian independence referendum. An organisation that still has links to modern Franco'ist supporters.
Isn't the original literal moonshot (i.e. flying to the moon) more in the category of "things that don't help the working people" than "things that solve poverty/suffering"?

I know the meaning may have shifted over the years, but i've always interpreted it as "audacious and unlikely to succeed", rather than any particular moral / altruistic content.
Thanks for responding :) I hope future administrations take the idea of a startup visa seriously.
The civil war was still going on although Lee had surrendered so a lot of formalities like passenger manifests were pro forma especially for military transport. The passengers consisted mainly of released Union POWs that were trying to get back home after years of hell in Confederate camps and they were in various states of health. The Union army had commissioned the ship to take as many of these soldiers north as it could carry and it was seriously overloaded.
This is bad because it doesn’t scale up the way mass transit does. Only a few people will be able to use it, and those will be the people with the most resources and power. As long as the people in charge can avoid the problems that the little people have, they don’t pay much attention to them. What we need is solidarity. We need systems that work for everyone, not one excellent system for the few and half-hearted make-do for the rest.
One thing to keep in mind is economies of scale:

Cirrus: "new aircraft deliveries for the piston SR Series reached 380 in 2018"

By way of comparison, Ferrari delivered 9,200 cars in the same year.

Part of the problem with aviation has been that aircraft are boutique items and priced accordingly.

I'd imagine even a Toyota Camry would cost $150k if it was a one-off design.
It's not meant to be a trick question - more of a prompt that attempts to trigger someone to have one of the following thoughts "maybe I should be more charitable towards people who have unorthodox ideas, and should encourage other people to be charitable" OR "maybe I'm living in Plato's cave". I'm not trying to get anyone to agree to any particular heresy. Just to acknowledge the fact that every single thing that is taken for granted today (by goodthinkers) was a heresy at some point in the past. It doesn't mean we can't enforce social norms about what is acceptable; but rather that maybe we shouldn't necessarily be so enthusiastic about persecuting badthinkers. Note also that I'm talking about speech here and not criminal behavior.

> The stuff people are getting "cancelled" for are not independent unique thoughts; they're stuff a huge group agrees with, including the current US president and ruling party.

First of all I don't care about "cancel culture", and I don't think I'm persecuted, but also if you think the President and the GOP are the "ruling party" of America then I suspect there might be an unbridgeable gap in understanding. That's only true if you completely ignore the role of schools and universities, elite/prestige media, NGOs, the intelligence services, the judiciary...
Good example is Google vs Amazon/Apple. Google's culture is very much a democracy of sort inside. Apple/Amazon more top down direction.
That's also how most newspaper articles are written. Short paragraphs, often one sentence each.

Also, they're top-loaded with all the essential info, followed by a long tail of lesser details as the article progresses (this tail can be cut short in case of space constraints).
I'm signing off now but I'll be checking in again tomorrow morning and responding to anything I've missed or any new questions/comments. If you posted something and I missed it, please re-post. Thanks.
does this affect green card processing?
Curious what countries this is happening in?

I’m in the Uk and never had these problems despite being a fairly prolific Amazon user.