skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the sense of scale that your explanation brings. I understand that.

The size of the PDF is not a symbol for the work being done here, though. Reducing it makes it cheaper to distribute and easier for viewers to read their findings. That is my reasoning for putting up another version.
My assumption is that Boom's pitch relied on a relatively quick tech exit, e.g. Boeing or Airbus picking them up once boom reaches a point where either company can scale a proof of concept.

If the demonstrator proves itself next year, that's when to expect an exit. I don't see Boom independently competing with either of the mainstream manufacturers here; they're likely only a vehicle for proving that the concept works, and then the whole package — patents, tooling, team, and all — is sold to a firm that can scale it.

Would be interesting to see if any non-commercial firms e.g. Lockheed use Boom as a way to make inroads into the commercial sector, though. My money is on a buy-out in 2021-2022, and for bonus points, I'll include unexpected buyers who want to make inroads in the commercial space, e.g. if Lockheed wants to add commercial airliners to its portfolio and also see whether any of Boom's supersonic tech makes sense in their non-commercial projects or if Rolls Royce wants to transition away from being just an enginemaker (for Boom and others).

If Boeing buys Boom, it's a lost cause and the tech will likely just end up being mothballed by bean counters for being too slow to scale.
In practice, they do. Bikes are much smaller, much nimbler and much slower than cars. Unless the street is completely packed with pedestrians, fully pedestrian streets work well with ebikes.

This is from experience riding bikes and having people ride bikes next to me in fully pedestrian streets as dreamt about by GP.
A question for those familiar with the passed Portland legislation: Does it contain protections for urban trees, flora, and fauna?

Here in Seattle, the ADU boom, and infill in general, is slowly removing the green from our neighborhoods. As density increases, it is important to ensure that the resulting community is healthy and sustainable.
>If you doubt this, watch how much this comment is downvoted.

>One thing we know, based on over a century of data around the world: increasing density of housing has little effect on affordability

You're not getting downvoted for disagreeing. You're getting downvoted for asserting something that contradicts established economics with no sources, and backing it up with folksy us-vs-them demonization of such iniquities as "developers", "profit", and "negotiat[ion]". On a messageboard that was originally started for entrepreneurs, this is a particularly poor choice of strategy.

Whether it's the NBER

https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/hier1...

or the Reserve Bank of Australia

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3149272

or the whole country of Japan

https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/tokyo-proves-housing-short...

the evidence is in fact clear: zoning restrictions make housing more expensive.

On the West Coast, there is a persistent hope (among some) that restrictive zoning will prevent people from moving to the West Coast, but this is an impossible fantasy; it's simply nicer there, and a net westward migration of Americans will probably continue for another century. The ongoing westward migration may ebb and flow, and obscure the impact of policy changes, but it isn't going to go away, and the best choice for the long-term health of the urban ecosystem is gradual densification.
Tesla is aiming for $100/KWh at the assembled battery pack level rather than just at the battery cell level, so that's a bit of a different milestone, but we're definitely getting there.

> Cheapest EVs in developed countries have passed the $20k barrier, but I don't see everybody falling for EVs.

AFAIK most of the EVs with a 200+ mile range are above 30K, even after incentives. Some of them are not that amazing either. It will take some time for the prices to come down more and for the offerings to improve. I rode in an VW E-Golf when I ordered an Uber the other day. The acceleration was great and it was a nice looking vehicle, but the base model is 32K and the range is just 125 miles.
> Unfortunately no one pays library developers

Shameless plug: We're hiring at talkjs.com. Our entire product is essentially a library.

Also, back on topic, our tests never go stale because we promise full backward compat to our customers, no matter what. Solves a big part of the downsides of TDD or other approaches that yield lots of tests.
Why Angular framework is the next big thing for Enterprise-Ready Web Apps?
> Can you dismiss (most) of my arguments in this post?

Probably I can't, but I am not interested. Nothing that you cite bothers me so why should I work to disprove you? Like yourself said, this is what matters to you, not me. For me, the performance and interface changes brings much more value than what you put in your post, and I did use old Firefox but really was forcing myself to use it since I don't like Google hegemony. The new Firefox is for me a mobile browser that is finally a joy to use.

However, this is not my point. The Register does makes clickbait titles and clickbait articles. Of course this update broke some workflows (https://xkcd.com/1172/), but instead of getting data and saying that "new Firefox update broke this and that workflow, Mozilla is working to fix it" (this is assuming a good editorial asking for Mozilla input before publishing the article, not a tabloid like The Register), what we actually got is "Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build".
And IMO will not fly before 3d printers capable of manufacturing reliable guns become widely available, which will render the whole thing moot. (since at that point you'll never be able to get rid of enough guns to make the police stop anticipating them)
adding a vote for Firefox

It is not lightweight by default, loves to use memory and cpu cores (and now even gpu) when possible. But doesn't use excessive amounts.

I am not a regular user, my Firefox would often have hundreds of tabs open. But performance is not impacted one bit. Background tabs do not take much memory or slow browser down until you get to them.

Of course with any browser try to use fewer extensions
RELP is very much standard syslog wire protocol(which is just plain tcp anyway), but with some extra stuff to avoid losing data. Just fixing tcp issue here, where data could be ACK-ed into OS receive buffer and the app could be killed before offloading into a persisten storage. Not losing data is very important in log shipping.

The json that syslog wraps data in is actually using the same syslog protocol - nothing is chaging here. It's encapsulated within the same protocol. The only reason to unwrap json is when you need to start structuring your data for BI views, your milage may vary. The key is that these two are de-coupled.

Because you work on a basic level networking / storage layers its very easy to reason and build reliable pipelines according to your needs. As you say — you can't beat that.

PS: The pain starts when you need to deal with multiline logs like java stack traces but then you just work with devs to log everything into json.

Edit: split comment, more info
> I think this is easy to wish but hard to realize, considering the US population is rapidly aging.

The Florida retirement developments figured this out a long time ago: electric golf carts.

If I recall correctly in one they even recently conducted a golf cart based political rally in support of a presidential candidate.
Right, well you sound like an engineer.

Articles like these are targeting retail investors looking to be ahead of the curve.
Linux Might Better Plan Its Code/Hardware Obsolescence from the Kernel
We already have. It’s time to stop blaming people who had nothing to do with the problem but are guilty of looking like someone who did.
The issue is probably me, by using non-Android stuff most of the time but having an Android tablet. So I have a „back“ button on my iPhone, on my Desktop Firefox (and Chrome and so on), but I can‘t have one on my Androit tablet.

So I‘m the one that usually swipes (that somehow doesn‘t work either...) or click the back button (because that‘s what I‘m used to do). Even feeling dumb not realizing there‘s this „back for everything“ physical button on Android, it feels unnatural to me to use that one.
The title of the article is unambiguously not talking about collisions between satellites: "Impact of Satellite Constellations on Optical Astronomy[...]".

Many words have multiple definitions which require you to use context clues to figure out which definition applies.
The "then disaster" part maybe could be fleshed out a bit more - from other reporting, it seems the proximate cause of the explosion was that they had a welding crew fixing the security problems, namely a missing door, and they accidentally set off fireworks also stored in the same warehouse (!).

So ironically, it seems that it was the attempt to secure the stuff that ultimately caused the disaster.
The reason to not have a C Corp if you are small is double taxation - if you are small you would be paying payroll taxes, corporate income taxes, and personal income tax all on money that is going to you.
I am afraid the ordinary people are hitting on physical realities though. The jet fuel required will never be cheap enough for them to fly supersonic jets. Maybe rocket travel
yes, though, because you can scale that way more than the jet.
An Agent-Based Model Tackles Age-Old Questions About Ethics in Society
There's also this link with more details about the migration from the old Firefox to the new one:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-android-upgrade...
Yes, one of them happened very close to my childhood from home, but I don't understand where there's a disagreement.

It should be noted that aggressive policing - distinct from increased police presence - has been shown to contribute to violent/major crimes rather than decrease it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5

Significant community trust has been built by police in Detroit by keeping their limited resources focused on what helps prevent violence rather than broken windows policing - I believe the community would agree and the police leadership here have voiced support for this as well.
> An eight figure net worth is not even close when it comes to considering starting an own bank.

there are many credit unions with < $1 million in assets.

https://www.bestcashcow.com/credit-unions/page-499
Star Citizen raised 300$ million in crowdfunding.

Sure, you probably will not get to that level for a science project - but at least some extra money would be good.
Wow, talk about missing the point. That analysis looks at the correspondence between equilibrium compactness and price. It does not look at the marginal change in price for a marginal change in density.

I hope you can see the logical flaw in your statement "density increases housing costs".
> You can't compute the trajectory of a thrown baseball using only a single transistor.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. You can catch a ball by keeping a constant angle. That seems like something a one-parameter model or PID may be able to do. Dragonflies catch evading prey using just 16 neurons: https://www.pnas.org/content/110/2/696.full You may need a lot of neurons to learn something, but the found solutions may be quite small... Something to think about.
Looking at what people are saying and thinking:

Some people become cops because they want to help people, Some because they want power.
Cops that are good have a tendency to end up dehumanizing members of the public whom they are meant to be helping due to a number of factors(ie. continuous exposure to negative elements).

Currently the zeitgeist is defund the police, by either abolishing them or making the job lower paying and using those funds for social workers.

I do not see the current proposed solutions fixing any of the problems.
Perhaps as a reminder of the fundamentalism and bullying that can happen in our field. Some methodologies almost seem to take on the quality of a moral panic. It's fascinating to me to see how they are eventually punctured and deflated.
> Having 3rd party stores will not prevent you for using the Apple App Store exclusively.

This is an interesting question. Let's say Apple will be forced to allow the Epic Games Store on iOS. Would Epic be forced to offer Fornite on the App Store in addition to the Epic Games Store? If not, bluesign's kid might very well force him to use another store.
There would be usually multiple syslog sink servers so there is never a single point of failure. This can be configured in various ways either dns round robin, load balancers or even multiple destinations configured on the client side, rsyslog can iterate over a list in case of failures.

If there is log storm coming from misconfigured app depending on your traffic levels the sink servers should give you a lot of space for an on-call engineer to be notified that something is off and adjust / rate limit / drop accordingly.

Edit: udated with more info
That framing as a way to misrepresent the fact auto industry gave people what they wanted. Many newly developed parts of Europe are the same way, because that’s what people want.
For bugfixes, I just write a failing test.

For features, I need to take the time to think of required behavior. If I just focus on the implementation, the tests add no documentation and I'm not forced through the exercise of thinking about what matters.
That is the whole purpose of a free economy. It's a race to the bottom only as long as the customer needs are satisfied with the product, which is exactly what's good for society. Sure you might have several stores, so what? It's like saying there should only be one car dealership because dealerships take too much space and it's not convenient to go in many places to check cars.
> But to clarify, Microsoft ultimately won the case on appeal and had the initial ruling against them overturned.

To further clarify, the EU antitrust authorities decided not to let off Microsoft with a slap on the wrist for their bundling practices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
Btw, the Holo interface we saw in Android 4 was very influenced by this type of design. It was rather stylish, even if difficult to use consistently. But of course since then it was replaced by Material Design, starting with Android 5.0
Below: Interactive TUI System Monitor
I'd be okay with the order if the trains were specifically routed away from densely populated areas - similar to how nuclear waste products are transported AFAIK.
If my home fire causes my neighbor's house to burn down and kills his kids, the damage is beyond calculation. If everyone on my block has shitty fire prone houses built to the edge of their property line with no exits, we have a city-wide disaster. This has happened many times all over the country before building codes.

> Instead the government should require you have insurance to pay damages to third parties incase a fire/collapse/flood happens caused by your property.

I don't want any F*ing insurance requirements.
well no need to click the link now
Sure, but it has to do with something potentially much more interesting. Sometimes, things that remain hidden become public due to sheer bad luck, like seems to have happened here.
flood plains are usually more to do with elevations. If all of my home's runoff goes to my neighbor, its just runoff now. If their home doesn't have drainage (proper grade, etc), then its getting flooded regardless of your drainage. Your drainage may make it worse, but the reality is that the damage is already done. This may apply for more recent builds rather than homes 50-60yrs old.
Are you saying a grandma starts a PC and immediately knows about SourceForge?
I should say that I do assume there were no bad intentions and believe the data/poll is still useful, though I don't think it describes the sentiment on "Should we reform the police and how?" between demographics very well.
What if the phone is in the hands of millions of people in the first place because it is full of apps? Didn’t the Mac cede it’s place in PC history because Windows had more software?
For people that don't code, I think what you're describing they know as MS Excel. They don't know what a schema is and possibly can't define what user roles would be for what they need.

Generated code is great to start with and then someone requests a change to do something, for example add a column, and you need someone to maintain that code from the database thru the backend up to the UI to add that column.

I think no-code is really geared towards verticals and not a generic base of an application.
SlateStarCodex's "Against Against Pseudoaddiction" is an enlightening read for some of the complexity involved.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/16/against-against-pseudo...
> I am thinking Apple is like a union for their users.

While I'm decidedly not Epic's side on this I think this is a misleading and dangerous argument. In a union, members get to vote to change the rules to benefit the membership. Apple never asked for my input on App Store rules.
My town may have something atypicial about its finances at 50%, if you look at the budget of San Jose it seems about $400m for city services and $200m for police and fire. I didn't pick it apart further between police/fire, but IIRC fire tends to have much smaller budgets than police depts. But I would say that's still shockingly large vs the budget for other city services.. (that's setting aside some large chunks for airports etc..., I was also a bit surprised SJ had a $4B budget and how much was for airport services).

Edit: I guess looking at Oakland/Chicago, it's 50% or close to it too though.

https://www.gq.com/story/cops-cost-billions

"Oakland PD receives nearly half of the city's discretionary spending( $264 million out of $592 million), dwarfing every other expenditure, including human services, parks and recreation, and transportation combined. A whopping 39 percent of Chicago's 2017 budget went to police, and still the department got even more money, peaking in 2020 with a 7 percent increase to nearly $1.8 billion. "
Hi! You should consider contacting Stephen Aylward at Kitware. His corner of the company specializes in connecting clinicians with expertise in point of care ultrasound with machine learning programmers paid through Kitware, funded by NIH grants. I worked for him for the last three years, focused on assessing intracranial pressure with ultrasound and assessing pneumothorax with ultrasound.
Clearly packages like MySQL and PostGreSQL made sure they work on NFS or they would very clearly tell you not to use it because they’d know it’s a recipe for disaster. The issues I am referring to typically are with things like homegrown shell scripts or research software.
> one of those jobs is spotting near Earth asteroids with a collision potential

What actually happens if they spot an asteroid with collision potential? Is there anything we can do about it?
Varying susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers herd immunity threshold
The 200k/yr also had a multi-year look back. So you weren’t accredited until year ~3 of making such a salary.
The way to approach that in logstash is to use fingerprint plugin which can do various formats (including uuids), MURMUR3 seems to be the fastest here.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-fil....

Edit: typo
>>And growth shouldn’t be used as an input to an estimate of demand because growth itself depends on supply

This is famously untrue with housing. Because it's so hard to match units demanded to units built, housing growth nearly always precedes demand. How? By leaning on estimates of demand (in-migration, etc.), which I mentioned above. And those estimates are almost always severe overestimates.
Bertrand Meyer had the right of it, but I had to figure this out myself before I ever saw him quoted on the subject.

Me:

Code that makes decisions has branches. Branches require combinatoric tests.

Code with external actions requires mocks.

Therefore:

Code that makes decisions and calls external systems requires combinatorics for mocks.

Bertrand, more (too?) concisely:

Separate code that makes decisions from code that acts on them.

Follow this pattern to its logical conclusions, and most of you mocks become fixtures instead. You are passing in a blob of text as an argument instead of mocking the code that reads it from the file system. You are looking at a request body instead of mocking the PUT function in the HTTP library.

The tests of external systems are much fewer, and tend to be testing the plumbing and transportation of data. If I give you a response body do you actually propagate it to the http library? And even here, spies and stubs are simpler than full mocks.
Rickety ships being used to ship explosive precursors by people trying their best to hide their involvement in that activity, to people implicated in illegal arms trading, seems like a pretty important story.
The comment about universal counterexample was coined by Arthur Sale, then a professor of CS at University of Tasmania. In particular, he was referring to the B 6700 and C's presumption of NULL being a zero just would not work with that hardware, which had its own unique way to describe null.

Another less dramatic example was the Burroughs 5500 and the fact that addresses were in decimal (bcd)--no binary in sight.

Yes, I know of no running Bliss, but I would put that as due to DEC disappearing.
This opinion seem to ignore that it essentially opens up the entire hardware platform for people to use. This would completely change Apple as a business.
And one of BLM’s stated goals is to abolish the nuclear family. They are doing far more damage to black communities than anyone else right now.
While doctors do share some blame, they were actively targetted by Purdue with brochures, slick salesmen etc.How is was allowed is the real issue for me.
I'm not the parent poster, but I think it's quite possible we see JavaScript, TypeScript, and maybe even CoffeeScript and ActionScript frontends that target WASM backends. Right now it's possible to support subsets of the languages. As WASM is fleshed out and tools like Nectar/NectarJS and wasm-bindgen improve the workflow might change more than the source language.

Mostly unrelated to JavaScript, there's also an effort called JWebAssembly which strives to translate JVM bytecode to WASM's binary (.wasm) or textual (.wat) format. So WASM apps could be written fine in Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, JRuby, or any other JVM language.

I think where WASM definitely replaces JavaScript is distribution over the net to browsers for heavy web applications and in Node apps. It's just way more efficient. JS might still have a place for a little bit or bauble on some sites that are mostly static HTML, but things that use huge stacks of JS libraries will have those precompiled to WASM for distribution.
ReMarkable 2 shipments delayed again
I have one of those too ( different bank ) and it sucks because it does not play well with F.lux.