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> Whoever is loudly saying something that is unpopular is part of the "aggressively independent-minded" group.

Okay then.

I hereby loudly proclaim that, in the interests of the health and well-being of society at large, we must establish strong governmental oversight of online forums and communications, and immediately ban anything judged to be disinformation.

You are, as you note, free to disagree with me. But you must now respect my idea, and by extension me, because now I too am "aggressively independent-minded", and without people like me, the world would not have any great new ideas.

Furthermore, according to the larger point of PG's essay and your defense of it, you must not in any way interfere with my attempts to spread this message far and wide and enshrine it legislatively. If you do, you'll be showing yourself to be one of the conventional-minded people, standing in the way of my great idea and true progress for society, and the world certainly does not need more of those.
> neutrality is required in order to have justice.

This seems like the opposite of the truth. Surely justice in most cases is looking at a dispute between two or more parties and deciding which party is right and which is wrong and to what extent. It’s very much the opposite of neutrality.

As a very basic example, neutrality in adjudicating a theft of property is to side with the thief and not demand the return of the property.
I would do two things: contact a Congressional office to make an inquiry with the Consulate and submit a FOIA request.
> Did it "fail?" I'd like to see some sales figures on that, and not just the latter-day revisionist history echo chamber that is the internet these days.

The sales numbers are in the article. They pulled the plug after one year.
And that can happen quite easily.

e.g. A work team went out for an event and got genuinely atrocious service. i.e. Legitimately worthy of a 1 star review. Fair. Shit service, shit review.

...except somehow they hyped each other up to ALL do so. So that party of 20 left 20 bad reviews.

I wasn't part of that but when I heard about it I couldn't help but think about this effect. One table having a bad time (happens) might have just killed an entrepreneurs dream. :(
I had a colleague who never could get our customers to sign off any solutions he suggested. The problem was that he wrote essays comparing the pro and cons of different solutions and asked them to chose one. He rarely even got an answer.

When I took over, we decided what we thought was the best solution. Explained it in an email with max three lines and asked if we should continue with that solution. I usually got an OK within minutes.

And you are right, the long essays are put in the "read later" pile, and in our case, the customers just never got around to them.
Is that you, Dave Smith? :)

I cannot believe braindead Biden is a) the candidate, and b) has a very solid chance of beating Trump. The man can hardly get through a sentence. The emperor has no clothes! (https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1286130348888403976?s=20)

Yes, Trump has been a fantastic disappointment. At least he didn't start any new wars (sorry mustache man!). Some part of me cannot believe the fiscal/budgetary travesty perpetuated by the Republicans in federal office. They took Obama's deficits and tripled them. The same deficits and Fed policy they (rightly) harped on for the previous 8 years.

One thing I would say is don't put too much faith in the polls. Republican voters are notoriously unwilling to talk to pollsters. Trump will say Covid is outside of his control and you're welcome for all the welfare checks; the minute they put Biden on stage, some percentage of the electorate will realize he's actually senile. My guess is that it'll be close.
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By now you should know about the EUJC ruling on the Privacy Shield. I am going to keep this one short and sweet - I believe the judgment to be more far-reaching than NOYB is explaining on their website. The reasoning is very simple.
One big difference is that these EVTOL aircraft are small enough that they can use ballistic parachutes for an extra degree of safety. They usually also have more redundancy due to distributing thrust between many small electric motors. There has been a lot more research into autonomous drone flight than autonomous helicopter flight as well, which is crucial for safety and keeping costs low. I could be totally wrong, but I feel like battery, motor, flight control, and composite material technologies are finally good enough for EVTOLs to start making sense. Just like the tech boom of the late 90s there will be a lot of investment, most of which will be lost, but the survivors will have a big impact on society.
Yes, you can continue to work based on something called cap gap coverage but you should get a new I-20 issued by your school.
All those aliens never getting on Morning Joe and always crashing somewhere in the US.
It was very responsive, and then nothing else happened in the background while you held a menu open:

https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/popup-stevedev.html (An aside from The True Story of Audion: https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/)

I'm very nostalgic for those times and maintain several classic Macs, but for the most part I'm glad it's in the past.
Is there no push for this to be stimulated again? In the EU there is a lot of talk about stimulating high-speed rail. Currently it's a total mess though, with each country still having their own standards, high-speed tracks having non-highspeed portions through cities, and simply not having sufficient capacity to support anywhere near the amount of passengers that are carried by air.

But I really hope some day the EU will standardise this too, and get more tracks built. I'd love to take a train between Barcelona and Amsterdam. But right now it is 2 hours by plane or 14 by train with 2 changes. And the price has a similar ratio in favour of the plane, which makes the train simply nonviable.
That would explain why a lot of new Chinese clone products start out the gate with 5-10 obviously fake five star reviews.
Show HN: Find the most important drivers in a financial model
For an owner operator, an R22 and maybe an R44 would be able to do SF to Lake Tahoe for well under $250. For a charter service you could probably get a commercial operator to do it for maybe around ~$500 and there are definitely some inefficiencies you could remove there. Lilium is on crack if they actually think $250 is going to be the all in cost for a private flight though. You don't just spin up a new air frame and 135 operation and make money at those numbers...unless you pull an Uber on steroids and open the VC floodgates...
Yeah, so so the drive from Emeryville to Roseville is about 2 hrs via train or car, the car generally being a bit faster, the vast majority of the difference in time takes place from Roseville to Truckee, where the modern Freeway has had significant earthworks to provide a drive that can take place in about an hour, wheras the train takes a much older route that is both longer and ends up having a max speed much closer to 30 mph.

Additionally Amtrak doesn't have right-of-way on those rails, so delays due to freight trains are super common on that section of track.
> If it was a foreign military's advanced aircraft, this is them admitting that, yep, your stealth/whatever technology works great, and we are baffled by it.

Or you want foreign military leaders to think you are baffled by their stealth tech when you can actually detect it just fine.
Some of their products already say "Vietnam" on them, particularly accessories.
Maybe that emdrive stuff actually worked?
Much of California is single-track[1] and the freight trains have right-of-way, meaning you spend a decent amount of time sitting on a siding track waiting for a mile-long freight train to go by.

1: As in a single track for both directions, meaning there are limited places where a north-bound and south-bound train can pass each other.
It's kind of a question of where you draw the boundaries. Chongqing counts ~30M because its administrative area is the size of Austria. The UN World Urbanization Prospects project [0] tries to establish comparability between nations, and came up with a top 10 of:

1. Tokyo - 37M

2. Delhi - 29M

3. Shanghai - 26M

4. São Paulo - 22M

5. Mexico City - 22M

6. Cairo - 20M

7. Mumbai - 20M

8. Beijing - 20M

9. Dhaka - 20M

10. Osaka - 19M

NYC is next at #11 with 19M.

However, if you count strictly by "city proper" (as defined by a very wide range of administrative agglomerations), there are indeed THIRTEEN cities in China larger than NYC. I'm not sure this is a hugely useful metric, however, as economically-relevant city boundaries aren't truly represented by administrative lines of control.

[0]: https://population.un.org/wup/Publications/Files/WUP2018-Hig...
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Update 3: There are two EEPROM corruption bugs in the e1000/e1000e driver, both fixed in 2.6.27, and I was chasing the wrong one. The correct fix commit should be [3].

Still, the problem here is that the EEPROM of Intel 82571/82573 was writable directly via EEWR [4] without an initialization sequence. But according to the fix [3], there's indeed a hardware option to lock the EEPROM from unwanted writes.

Corrected verdict:

* 30% responsibility - Device driver not locking the EEPROM.

* 70% responsibility - Intel's EEWR that write directly into EEPROM.

[3] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a7703582836f55a1cb...

[4] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4a7703582836f55a1cbad...
Buying a case without contents, this problem is bizarrely ubiquitous:

http://chainsawsuit.com/tag/case-mod/
The limitation to essential travel only applies to land and sea crossings but regardless coming to the U.S. to work (by applying for admission in TN status) is considered essential travel.
Never had any strict trouble with it. Maybe it's just that I've used it for a long time but I enjoy the simplicity of using it.

My biggest complaint is performance for certain use-cases. Say if you're trying to pull a lot of attributes on hundreds of thousands of datoms it's going to be rather slow (even though it's supposed to be in-memory already). But again for these kinds of use-cases I'd probably go with a completely different kind of a database either way.

The story around deletions/excisions isn't that great either. Honestly the whole log/history aspect of Datomic sounds nice but never really used it other than for reverting stupid mistakes.

The #1 thing I love is the freedom of querying you get with Datomic. You insert your data in a way that makes sense for your data, and querying is pretty much a completely separate concern. For the most part you don't need to structure your schema around the querying capabilities of your database which I love. Say back in the day I liked Mongo because you could just insert whatever you wanted [0] but eventually you'd hit problems where you couldn't easily query your data (maybe it has changed over the years, no idea).

And the syntax is just a pleasure to work with. I'd love a version of Datomic that kept the same interface but dropped some of the more esoteric features in favor of performance.

Also I noticed some of the people reporting issues used the cloud version. Never used that so can't speak to that. On-prem is free and has all the features. As long as you don't redistribute it there's no problem.

[0] Yes in datomic you do have to have a schema. But it's pretty much a simple global list of possible attributes. If you need to add something later or make a change it's pretty straightforward.
The California Zephyr does in fact make the daily trip from Emeryville through Truckee, and on to Reno and beyond.
I mean, they probably do that.

But the point is: even if politicians DO push that and even if the rules and regulations are written down - doesn’t mean that they will be granted a certification.

I mean, funnily enough, they don’t yet even KNOW what they will have to adhere to and achieve and start burning through 300MM USD in investor money...

Boeing, Airbus, Cessna, Cirrus and Piper have dozens of years of experience and KNOW how to get planes certified - and yet they essentially “re-use older certifications”...

Fun times when they get told they need two ballistic parachutes or they need at least 30 min safety backup for hover flight (e.g., each Cessna pilot has to make sure he has 30+min fuel reserve). Your engineers will commit suicide when you surprise them with “oh there was this ask...”

And then the weather - I mean, seriously, there are super strict rules about visual minimas for flights in the US and Europe. If you go instrument rated things get even more complex and bureaucratic. Not to mention that instrument flight is PROHIBITED in Germany below 2000+ft in uncontrolled airspace...

Ah, and I want to see that flying electric lawn-mower make his way across the Alps with 50kts headwind, freezing temperatures at cruising altitude. Pilots landing in Innsbruck need special training for “Foehn” Approaches and when the heavy winds roll over the city and airport you can hear the pilots pushing full throttle in final to counter the 2000+ft/min downwash.
The rail tracks in much of the western states are owned by the freight industry, and Amtrak leases time on them. As a result, the tracks and schedules are freight-oriented, not passenger-oriented.

This means the tracks are not graded for high-speed relative lightweight passenger rolling stock. Also, the passenger trains need to fit into the schedules dictated by the freight traffic.

Which is really a shame. The track from SF through Lake Tahoe runs just past Sugar Bowl and into Truckee, and is about 180 miles. A ski train would be really easy.
That's a false dichotomy. An even more likely explanation is that people misidentify stars, planets, and regular aircraft.
> Why isn't anyone working on improving commutes through dense cityscapes?

Uber, Lyft, Musk's Boring Company, and all their variants... there are tons of people working on improving commutes.

But IMO there isn't a technical problem to solve. It's social and political. We shouldn't be asking about improving commuting, but reducing its necessity and distance.
Tyranny of the majority can happen and so allowing minority populations to protest is part of democracy.
Apple "makes" iPhones by contracting them out to Foxconn, so I wouldn't call the title inaccurate; it's just trying to appeal to more people.
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As a counterpoint haven’t a lot of our mars probes crashed?
Switzerland is one of few countries where "air taxi" services turned to profit.

Hilly terrain makes it hard to make straight roads. Quite a lot of big cities don't have direct road connections.

In a relatively flat USA, you don't have a lot of similar spaces.
The DraStic developers have commented that they don't gain much if anything because it runs on ARM [1]. It's just an efficient emulator. If/when it is open sourced as promised, it will run very fast on x86 systems too most likely.

In any case, DraStic is a completely different style of emulator compared to Yuzu. The Nintendo DS is nothing more than a pair of microcontrollers with (from a modern perspective) primitive 2D+3D acceleration hardware, whereas the Nintendo Switch is a multiprocessor system with a modern GPU and mulitasking operating system. The DS CPUs are actually quite far removed from modern smartphone chips, whereas the Switch chip should be mostly standard ARMv8. Things that apply to one don't necessarily apply to the other.

[1]: https://drastic-ds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1939
Ask HN: Fastest IDE on macOS?
I'm currently using vs-code which I really like but I'm done with my laptop sounding like a jet engine and making my hands sweat.

What IDE could I use that:

1) Doesn't require me to switch to vim or emacs key bindings
2) Has strong auto completion for web development
3) Is more performant than electron style applications
Probably more to do with morality than lethality. Pretty subjective, but there are definitely plenty of people who are morally opposed to piracy but have no problem with illegal backups/rips/dumps of stuff they have legally purchased.
> friend managed to stay in the country despite his i-94 running out.

His adjustment of status was pending so there's a grace period (check with your lawyer). He was basically waiting for his EAD/Advance Parole card at that point!
Depends on the industry. There are industries where high defect rates are an accepted norm. These are not necessarily codified. For example: if you order fresh fruit/vegetables in bulk, a certain percentage always arrive below acceptable quality. That is simply a norm in the industry. You are free to inspect/reject as much as you want, but nobody will want to sell to you if you make a lawsuit out of every bad apple.
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If we have anti-gravity technology and they are holding back on it, then I'll be pissed, personally. It would be the most transformative technology since the light bulb or the combustion engine, and slow walking it just to hold a military edge over your opponents is ridiculous.
I also find it plausible that advancement is allocated based on work/virtue/etc. more in some societies and systems than others.
Most projects of this sort are fairly touchy about that kind of thing, because they're at the risk of being canned if it seems like they are promoting piracy.
Some manufacturers also opt in to similar SN tracking on Amazon. This is a smart way to handle it. Amazon is not nearly proactive enough in dealing with return fraud in part because it tends to externalize those costs to their vendors (the brand) and to third party sellers, who also absorb the cost of returns.
And a ballistic parachute is not super safe in mountainous areas where the ground is not flat. With the typical ballistic parachute there is zero control on where you land. And even in the best circumstances the landing is pretty rough, it's more like a last resort.

However engine failure can also occur on fuel-powered aircraft. And at least this thing has a whole lot of engines so it could afford the failure of a few. The batteries could be subdivided in sections.
The NY Times article referenced in the article (published yesterday) is more interesting. An official admits the U.S. possesses a craft "not of this earth". This all confirms an article I read last year that said the U.S. government was slowly prepping the public for the announcement of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations.
That's Taleb. Taleb ran a fund that bought options way out of the money. This loses money every year, unless there's a big crash. His fund happened to be active in 2008, and made a ton of money that year. He doesn't release the numbers for other years. Not clear if this is a net win over a full business cycle.

Taleb is sort of a counter to Black-Sholes option pricing. Black-Sholes assumes a Gaussian distribution. Given that assumption, a few numbers let you quantify risk. That's convenient, but somewhat unrealistic, and was taken way too seriously by the bond market from the 1980s to 2008. It provided a philosophical underpinning for the junk bond market. (They can't possibly all go bad at the same time, can they?)
> And it's not clear that being able to swim would necessarily save many of the people who have died in major ferry, etc. accidents.

The ability to get off the ship and into the water seems like the trickiest bit to me, particularly if you're below deck sleeping when the accident occurs. Once you're in the water, I think the temperature of the water is likely the biggest factor. If the water is cold then you likely have minutes to survive no matter how strong a swimmer you are. If the water is warm, people could float for days before succumbing to the elements. The USS Indianapolis survivors were in the water for four days and were in pretty bad shape, but I think in the modern era a more timely rescue is likely.
'Firing' is not a physical harm unless you mean it literally.
My analytics also indicate 5%. Just how tech oriented are the folks you have in mind?
I've worked with good and bad offshored indian developers. Usually the good ones are hired directly by the company and they're great to work with and they have a passion for software.

I've also worked with clueless ones very early in my career and the cluelessness gap is stark. Working with local year 1 university students worked far better.

Also big timezone gaps are horrible for everyone involved.
Is it inconceivable that someone who experienced Soviet life in the 70s or 80s might be around on HN? I didn't interpret either gp or ggp as talking about the October Revolution or collectivizing the "kulak" farmers. Just the ordinary totalitarianism where people who think for themselves (we might call them "aggressive-independent") have to go mute in order to not step on ever-changing minefields, or be very careful about who they talk to.
Should we still be a delaware c corp or has that changed?
Steven Pinker’s “The Better Angels of Our Nature” Debunked
> How is a corporation going to get investment in their factory when a competitor could create a similar factory at a cheaper rate in a couple years.

Seems to have worked pretty well for the solar industry.
I can see several seemingly unrelated events which might be pointing to the US opening up about some of its space technology.

1. The creation and chartering of Space Force as a branch of the military.

2. The declassification of existing UFO sightings, as well as a general stance towards future transparency[1].

3. The infamous "UFO patent"[2] that was granted to the Navy in 2016, describing some pretty bizarre technology.

Who knows? Maybe there's been a breakthrough. That would be really awesome if it were the case.

If you are to believe the patent then it suggests that our rivals (China) are also investing heavily into these types of technologies.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[2] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-g...
It would be helpful if this could have been indicated
I think more plausibly it is some kind of radar reflector https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-th...
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I have to disagree with you that the piece brushes over the firing.

The author makes it a point to say that Shor's firing is pretty universally thought of as unjust. They also bring up an open letter written by proponents of cancel culture that says as much.

Both you and the pro-cancel culture folks already agree here.
> The actual footage and pilot accounts are consistent with submarine launched weather balloons, halo artifacts on IRST systems, and similar banal explanations.

This is totally incorrect. There is nothing balloon like or halo artifact like about the tic-tac and Fravor's description. It's just not true.

I agree that many of the people around the ufo phenomenon are cranks and liars, but that doesn't mean everyone is or that all sightings and eye witness testimony are fake or lies or misunderstandings.

What fravor and people on the nimitz described is nothing like what you lumped everything under, it's just not. If you want to call them all liars too, that's fine, but if not, what they described, the eyewitness accounts are not what you described.
You have to run transparent bids for public works, yes, and buy stuff that is guaranteed not to kill your own citizens.

This is actually a great way to root out local corruption and to force companies to innovate, rather than lazily relying on guaranteed local contracts. It also enables them to compete over the entire EU market, on a level playing field. And it's doing wonders for your economies, which have grown quickly and consistently.