skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of the improved efficiency comes from the engine[1], which claims "50% lower fuel burn compared to turbine engines in the same power category".

The engine company is German and so we can make lots of jokes about German companies' fuel efficiency claims I guess.

Nevertheless, it has been around since 2012 and is used in a few planes already, so presumably there is some measurable improvement there or they'd have taken the claim down by now?

For comparison, this engine has a Specific fuel consumption of 210 g/kW/h, while a P&W PT6A-6 (older, slightly more powerful: 431 kW vs 368kW) has 0.408 kg/kW/hr[2]

[1] https://red-aircraft.com/?lang=en

[2] http://www.all-aero.com/index.php/contactus/64-engines-power...
I like gitolite more.
Like this?

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/19/16333376/us-navy-military...
On which side?
I captured an 85 megapixel photo of our moon last night
Power is by definition per unit time.
Sure, but most people get it through their employer and have a premium of a few hundred a month (yes, some jobs it's much higher).

And yes, if you get a significant amount of care, the out of pocket can be several thousand.
iIUC Mercurial is better for managing very large repos because it supports partial checkout. This large companies with monorepos are more likely to choose mercurial. Of course there are ways to modularize a large codebase in Git (submodules, Android's repo system) but they tend to be clunky and inconvenient.
Microsoft Introduces Indian English, Hindi to Its Neural Text to Speech Service
Expanding on this, oxytocin has many known (and likely unknown) purposes but is most closely associated with context dependent social bonding and exclusion, sex, and childbirth.

Somewhat coincidentally for the purposes of this conversation, it also inhibits chemical dependence (including opioids, which includes oxycontin and oxycodone). [1][2]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009130571...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5089904/

This concludes the reply relevant section of my comment.

Sidenote (mostly me screaming into the void): due to excruciating constant chronic pain from a botched surgery, I took three oxycodone for 4 years (March 2015-August 2019) every single day. It enabled me to work and live a (greatly diminished) life. For all of the harm the crisis inflicted—and the Sacklers did great evil for great reward—there is really not another class of medication that would have kept me functioning.

Fortunately for me, I managed to get a very good job with great healthcare and I immediately used that to have a corrective surgery with the best surgery center in the country. This took me from about 65% functional (medicated) to about 85% functional, unmedicated. That last 15% is never coming back, and I have to live with the fact a doctor permanently damaged my body in an uncorrectable way.

But, over the course of my treatment, the backlash against opioids began to make it difficult for my pain management clinic to provide the treatment I needed even though I was completely compliant (and had the regular drug tests to prove it—so many cups of pee). I would be dead without opioids. I would have killed myself. There are many more like me who still suffer from unmanageable pain who either cannot get the medication they need. There are many people who are not here because of opioids as well so I completely understand the backlash, I just hope we don’t overcorrect.

The Sacklers harm cannot be undone, but their reward can be—expropriate it all (leave them an apartment with running water and a roof so that it’s technically legal).
> disable tracking with Google and Facebook

> go in your account and disable targeted ads

Those are not the same thing.
It's a reductio ad absurdum argument.
Ask HN: Do you own a E-ink tablet to take notes
From my naive perspective, it looks like they’re taking their privacy stance so seriously that they’re willing to lose some revenue.
Teenage Engineering has a great little board to start playing around with https://teenage.engineering/store/po-20
Ask HN: Does Tech belong in Politics?
The title is a riff on Frank Zappa's "Does Humor belong in Music?"

https://youtu.be/CbeFjEHE-XY
Why California is experiencing its worst fires on record
You are correct, I am getting my wires crossed a bit.
Magnetar orbiting a black hole or something.
The Russian ban on Telegram was lifted recently. They couldn't enforce it, because Telegram was very good at proxies, so the people used it anyway. Heck, even govt officials used it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-telegram-...

https://decrypt.co/32837/russia-lifts-ban-on-telegram-after-...
I get a bit annoyed at which is "best". It really depends on what you're looking for.

The US is great if you want a high-paying career working for world-leading company. Typically you'd make enough so that things like healthcare are an annoyance, not a financial nightmare.

Canada is great if your career is not #1 and you want a government that will provide a comprehensive social safety net.

Different stroke for different folks I guess.
Fuck RSA.[0][1]

> The fact that RSA is still in widespread use today indicates both a failure on the part of cryptographers for not adequately articulating the [many] risks inherent in RSA, and also on the part of developers for overestimating their ability to deploy it successfully.

0: PoC||GTFO 20 (https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo20.pdf) 20:09 (p 68)

1: Why yes, that is a direct quote.
Cool project! But what is the killer feature of this language? I'm aware that it's kind of DSL for serverless environment, but a DSL without outstanding features over other languages won't attract much attention IMAO. For instance from the example put on the front page I didn't feel it much cleaner / shorter to write serverless app using this language over Python or Node.js. If it's performance, do you have any numbers to support it?
Originally the carriers were terrified of app stores because there would be cell network hacking tools and service disrupting network traffic. A vast majority of malware on macOS now comes from pirate apps stores via torrents. Much of the current App Store design is based on those concerns and the current iOS sandbox is still a long way from preventing those abuses.
> If people can't be bothered and choose to be ignorant, they deserve what they get.

The problem is that those that do care also have to suffer. After a certain point of critical mass, when it comes to tech, oftentimes you can't just take your business elsewhere any more.
Unfortunately, at least in bulgarian Samuel is spelled Samuil (Самуил). Not sure about russian and ukrainian, but they've gotten the slavic translation of the Bible from medieval Bulgaria and a fast ddg shows the family form to exists as "Самуилович".
15% is employee plus employer. Employee alone is 8-9% and phases out at $137,000.

Canada has payroll taxes too, so you'd need to add those in as well.
Man, they are really getting aggressive with Embrace-Extend-Extinguish these days.

High barrier to entry for Linux kernel patching seems like a feature, not a bug.
There is no luckier sign for a new venture than its name unexpectedly turning out to have a weird connotation in some other language. Congratulations!
> which is kind of on margin even classically

Is it though? It requires around 2^128 operations to be broken. It does not seem very marginal to me.

It is not like AES where you have to deal with batch-attacks or cryptographic hash functions where collisions for a n-length output require only sqrt(2^n) attempts.
That said, it would definitely be cheaper to certify a pilot on this than on a business jet, since the flight hours for the aircraft cost much less.
This goes a long way toward explaining the housing affordability disaster in Vancouver.
Azlo and Mercury are more traditional banking. They're fintech companies offering banking services while backed by regulated banks on the backend (a common setup to avoid the years long regulatory hurdle of starting a new bank).

Brex started with corporate credit cards and now also has the "Cash" banking product but its not quite the same. It's more like a corporate paypal account that looks and feels like a bank account. It's also another good choice.
I learned to type, and to program, on a Model F.

My mother also had a Selectric, and I used it sometimes. I mostly remember it being loud.

I don't recall the keyboards being especially different, but I was just a kid. I do know that it utterly spoiled me for dome keyboards, which I always hated; I hauled that Model F around for about fifteen years, before going full-laptop for awhile. I still have it.

At which point the mechanical keyboard renaissance was in full swing, so I use an Ergodox now. Cherry-type switches are good enough, but if someone made an Ergodox type board with Model F type buckling spring keys (fat chance), I'd have my grail.
Wait what? To avoid being thought of as "Burnt" he changed his name to "Bernt". Funny!
Way late to the party.

US is a business-friendly country because it a large population, which for many products operate as one demographic, with comparably high spending power.

It is NOT tax/fee friendly by any means especially for non-US based owners as the author notes. If you go the LLC route is quite cheap to own/operate an empty business for citizens.

The tax code alone is beyond any one person's understanding. Even for the individual, it is far from straight forward.
Perhaps my experience or usage of the browser was different from most, but I would not characterize my experience with Firefox pre-Quantum as "slow and buggy". I rarely noticed bugs and it always seemed to be as fast as Chrome was. Granted, I did have ad-blockers installed and I never ran benchmarks but I never noticed much of a difference.
And here my approach to naming was:

- veto names of dickheads I knew.

Of course, I know good people with those names too but that wasn't the deciding factor.

I simply didn't want my kids name to be associated with a dickhead in my own mind in any way, shape or form.

Very me-centric I guess but I wanted the best personal relationship with my kid.
Unfortunately I should have expected a reply such as this. Everything is seen as a all or nothing proposition.

I think it is pretty obvious that if companies are abusing their position to that extent an appropriate governing body should step in. However there are going to be issues that won't fall under such a remit.

Also just because the government/regulator is failing to step in, doesn't mean you can't be doing something yourself. I was getting very frustrated with Google and its products. So I decided to stop using them whenever possible.

As for moving away from industry giants, this works. Firefox (back in the early 2000s) chipped away at IE's monopoly and broke the stagnation.
The east side of the hurricane is typically the dirty part. The west side will be spared most of the destruction. But it’s only narrowly going to miss Houston. Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Lake Charles are in for a very, very terrible night.
Here is a list of symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder, taken from mayoclinic.org. Attribute any 5 to Thomas Edison (which I will CHECK), and it is a definitive diagnosis for sociopathy aka APD.

Antisocial personality disorder signs and symptoms may include:

Disregard for right and wrong -CHECK

Persistent lying or deceit to exploit others -CHECK

Being callous, cynical and disrespectful of others -CHECK

Using charm or wit to manipulate others for personal gain or personal pleasure -CHECK

Arrogance, a sense of superiority and being extremely opinionated -CHECK

Recurring problems with the law, including criminal behavior

Repeatedly violating the rights of others through intimidation and dishonesty -CHECK

Impulsiveness or failure to plan ahead -CHECK

Hostility, significant irritability, agitation, aggression or violence -CHECK

Lack of empathy for others and lack of remorse about harming others -CHECK

Unnecessary risk-taking or dangerous behavior with no regard for the safety of self or others -CHECK

Poor or abusive relationships -CHECK

Failure to consider the negative consequences of behavior or learn from them -CHECK

Being consistently irresponsible and repeatedly failing to fulfill work or financial obligations -CHECK

Aggression toward people and animals -CHECK

Destruction of property

Deceitfulness -CHECK

Theft -CHECK

Serious violation of rules -CHECK

Edison scores a 17 out of 20, so he most certainly was a textbook example of a sociopath.
I very recently listening to the audiobook of the Carls series[0] by Hank Green. Some top notch fiction, some sci-fi, very 2020-like society, young adult, accidental parallels to 2020 events, discusses social media, money, and empathy, in a very tasteful way. Yes the book was released in 2020, but the script was set in stone way before things went south.

(Tease: the audio of the second book is done with different actors and have a interview with Cory Doctorow )

Buy while supporting local bookshops:

- https://Bookshop.org

- Audiobook: http://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm208662 (referral link)

[0] with the great full names being "An absolutely remarkable thing" and "A beautifully foolish endeavour"
Guide to U.S. SMS Compliance
I grew up in Antioch and am here now. No one here considers Kenosha to be “our community” despite it being a short drive. Let’s be real, the kid had no real reason to be there unless he was looking for trouble
This should probably just be updated to point to The Register's article: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/
What We Learned from Testing 1k Headphones
Apparently I either missed it or they added it afterwards. It contains a really nice example of #lang racket/gui next to the logo.
How is this a "war" on plain text email? It is a true statement and it doesn't really sound like a huge corporate initiative, just a personal comment from one of the executives.
Surely if you want to patch the Linux kernel, then you can deal with text based emails?
Ha Ha,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

"Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."
Yeah...I was thinking the same thing. "Romper Room Gang"

Mac Dre got a lot of respect due to his refusal to inform on the others (even though supposedly he had nothing to do with it). Sad story. He died in a car which was shot at after a show. Very ahead of his time musically.
Martin is latin, meaning little Mars.
The gist of this is that a new OpenBSD contributor couldn't figure out how to open a text email with their current email client. It was set to use HTML messages only. So this developer had to install an entirely new client just to handle messages. Therefore, open source communications must change to use a new system of some sort, presumably like GitHub.

The rest of the thread is rightfully criticizing the claim for its absurdity.
It would be nice to use something akin to Github... I don't care if it's SVN/Trac, Gitlab, or whatever -- mailing lists + patches have their limitations and there are better ways to organize OS development. It certainly isn't a 'war' though.
We should study that person who is capable of 157-days between meals.
Apparently Microsoft engineers can't hit the button in Outlook to turn the email to plain text.
what about adobe though? what if you work in a field where you are forced to use a certain proprietary file format or software? this sounds a bit naiive. go talk to real johnnys :-)
Perhaps the ability to submit a patch in the required format is a fizzbuzz?
I was just thinking this as well when I read that sentence.

Plain text emails are a pretty low bar in terms of technical challenges if one could submit Linux kernel patches.
Thanks! This still took me longer than I had initially thought to get out.
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I wrote about something similar for self-help, more broadly here about how good self help is self-defeating:

https://mlu.red/55070266310.html
This is incorrect. You can almost always take your business elsewhere. It depends whether you think it is worth it, depending on how hard it makes the rest of your life.

If people really cared (as much as they claim) you will make alternatives work for you.
That's on Microsoft to come up with an alternative. A replacement would be like if plain Git was entirely replaced with a modern looking front end.

You can have your pretty javascript applets, but please don't mess with the greybeards.

Linux needs as many people as possible. Don't scare any of those people away.
I used to think the good created by social media outweighed the bad. Now I firmly believe the opposite. I actually think I hate Facebook more than any other commercial operation, ever.
Why not 'trunk'? It's a tree after all... there are 'branches'... SVN got it right.
Huawei Scrambles to Stockpile Critical 5G Chips as US Ban Takes Effect
Throwing money at the problem helps a lot to some extent:

- putting food on the table

- putting kids through school with at least one new set of clothes a year

- having food in your belly makes it far easier to cope with the endless "why" questions of the curious child

Sure, there are social issues to address as well, but don't go assuming that throwing money at the problem won't help at all.
I'd love to send patches from my work account, but even when sending plaintext emails, Exchange, the MTA, does funny things to whitespace.
I actually served on the jury panel for this case. I would agree that his solitary confinement is excessive and cruel, but that article is incredibly biased. He's still incarcerated because there's a fairly strong case for the two remaining charges he faces .. has nothing to do with a vindictive crusade.
time dialation (something completely alien to all before him

No, not so much.

You missed this in my GP comment: "Hendrik Lorentz proposed that the motion of the apparatus through the aether may cause the apparatus to contract along its length in the direction of motion, and he further assumed, that the time variable for moving systems must also be changed accordingly ("local time"), which led to the formulation of the Lorentz transformation."
The WhatsApp acquisition didn't exactly improve the messaging landscape either.

On the browser side one company has really been using their market position in a different market (ads) to outcompete at least two commercial browser engines while the independent open source one has been reduced to fraction of what it once was.
The satellites deployed now and in future aren't reflective nearly as much. Only the early launches were.
This isn't exactly new, in terms of Microsoft email tools being a pain to use for submitting patches without HTML munging. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's been a problem for over a decade. The only new part here is them making suggestions.

That said, from my experiences hosting email lists, that might indirectly be the higher bar to entry. So many providers' anti-spam policies basically treat discussion lists as spam, especially if you are so bold as to have multiple subscribers who use that one list. Gods forbid one of the users manages to delete their address or let it go stale without unsubscribing first and the list software lets a single email get bounced.
The last time I checked there was many competitors to Adobe in almost all the products they offered. You aren't forced to use their software at all.

In any event you can slowly move away from using a companies products. It isn't a all or nothing proposition.
I'm not impressed with the dynamic programming part, which is what I'm trying to learn right now.

It simply lists it under recursion and after skimming, I see no mention of bottom up DP (iteratively) and there's only one problem about it.

I'm still looking for a good resource, but this one gave me quite a bit of insight [1]. Since it reuses the same problem over and over again and tweaks it, which gave me a better view of DP.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTjRGe0wRvI
Haha thanks! I asked my wife why she didn’t tell me lulim meant chicken coop and she said they didn’t talk about chickens much in Hebrew school.
I think it is pretty easy to allow consistent viewpoints which hold that crack and copyrights are different things.

But, yeah, I think we might find some common ground on legalizing drugs and treating addictions as medical conditions. banning them hasn’t really had fantastic outcomes.
I've noticed netflix shows have this second, sometimes third season, neutering. The first seasons of a lot of netflix originals are great, the ones that make it through that first season cancel thing tend to have a 50/50 second season, then if they get a third, the whole thing turns into a pale imitation of why they were enjoyable way back in season 1.
What amuses me is that all Apple is doing here is putting up a dialog asking if the user wants to be tracked. And Facebook knows just how much users hate being tracked, so they are avoiding the API that results in the dialog.

Yet their rhetoric is "tracking is great and people love it! they're going to be so sad once tracking is gone!"
Fair enough, though I was comparing him to his peers and friends.
Does your OS's builtin file manager not support this?
There's a certain irony I found that some of the emails in the thread get mojibaked due to the mailing list server apparently not knowing how to indicate the charset properly.
Key highlight:

> On October 1, 2020, if you haven't changed the default branch for new repositories for your user, organization, or enterprise, it will automatically change from master to main. You can opt out of this change at any time
You totally can configure Outlook (and every other mail client I assume) to use text emails.
At least in the past, on Outlook, that used to still munge attached patches to Windows line-ends instead of DOS, which was still a problem.

That's Microsoft's fault, but if you are at some smaller shop trying to submit a patch, it can be a royal pain in the neck, especially if the admin is a Microsoft fan and only wants to run Exchange protocol.
I guess I've never owned a tower that ventilated on the top or bottom. I don't like top fans because gravity means things get in them, and bottom fans don't work on carpet.

Usually 4U cases have a lot of fan mounts so rather than a few large radius fans you have lots of small radius fans. It used to be that all small fans were loud but in the past decade or so you've been able to get smaller fans at just about any noise point you want.
I actually meant to do it systemwide, for when you're writing or googling things not in English, or when you want to write a fancy ⅝. The day I have to start putting diacritics into computer code is the day I quit programming:)

I think it's no good for Japanese, but I know very little about Japanese input. Romanji is still Japanese, right?
Is Chicago Being Looted Again?
If you've a following on instagram and you decide to leave for whatever reason, you can't take your followers with you. Maybe some will jump over if you link them to other platforms

If you've an iOS app and you've run afoul of the app store, you can't take those iOS users with you without asking them to switch to another platform or asking them to use a web app instead (both of which are forbidden, I think)

If you're on gmail and your account gets suspended, you can't set up a magical redirect that sends all your mail to another address. Can you even use Google Takeout?

These are all extremely popular platforms with strong lock-in effects through various circumstances.

In too many cases, the switching costs are so high as to be destructive. Yes you can technically switch but the price is dire. That doesn't count in my book.