skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because its a lot of work and risk. With such a high profile, controversial points quickly become a lot of trouble. Also, there's a lot of overhead with running and securing the site. So, why bother if you don't have anything interesting to say on there? They are big enough to have Wikipedia host their CV.
> it's my impression that helicopters have problems with thin air reducing lift long before they lose engine power.

I believe this is generally true, but it's certainly possible to get into trouble.

The world record for the longest autorotation was set after an engine flameout, after an attempt at the world record for highest altitude reached in a helicopter. [0]

> the forward velocity of a moving helicopter provides more airflow over the rotors and thus more lift

It's more that a helicopter in a hover (assuming little wind) must produce additional lift (i.e. more power) as it's stuck in a downdraught of its own creation. Introduce some forward movement, and the helicopter is flying through undisturbed air (or more precisely, the air entering the main rotor disc is undisturbed), which takes far less power.

This is called 'translational lift'. It kicks in at around 30 knots, and occurs at any altitude. It might be more consequential at very high altitude though, or under very heavy load, where the helicopter might have enough power for forward flight, but inadequate power for a hover. [1]

The FAA have an interesting Power vs airspeed chart, p19 of [2]. If I understand correctly, it means that if your goal is to keep a helicopter in the air as long as possible, you want to stay at around 62 knots of indicated airspeed. Fairly slow, but nowhere near a hover. (edit 'Ground effect' might also have some bearing on that question, but that's another matter.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Boulet

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translational_lift

[2] (PDF warning) https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...
> But orange man bad, I get it.

An interesting perspective that people in the military have that civilians don't is that the president is also the commander in chief.

Even if you don't respect the person, you still respect the role.

And this is someone who can send you to war. You can't get any more serious of a link.
> There are more efficient ways to get low-effort shitposts and memes than Reddit.

What reddit replacements exist out there that have the niche communities that Reddit supports?
Sign up by leaving a comment in my LinkedIn post. This is going to help form the group, it's the first pillar. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/memetics_blockchain-data-howt...
Because you used the expression "orange man bad," which is often used by defenders of the current administration to counter what they see as unreasonable criticisms. Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding you.

Can you provide an example of the allegedly biased reporting in S&S?
One of the biggest things people complain about with Electron apps is their slowness.

When I started using VSCode, it was perfectly snappy and I could see what people were talking about when they said, "But VSCode is Electron, and it's fine — it's just crappy developers."

After about six months of using it and loading in fewer than ten extensions, it has become very laggy. To the point that I have had to train myself to pause my typing after I press certain key combinations while the system catches up.

VSCode is great, but it's not a poster child for Electron.
More power? I would disagree. Maybe more impact, but not more power or influence.
The "thirst for power" is too much of a normie thing for Mark Zuckerberg to be interested in. I feel like he has this genuine delusion that Facebook serves this higher purpose and wants to see it through until people agree with him. I think he would prefer people to consider him as more innovative than Elon Musk than to have 'power'. Whether or not he will achieve this, well...
Good point. I also thought the same thing about SnapChat. I may be wrong about all three!
I think certain hands on skills are an exception to this. I can't imagine Bob Ross teaching me to paint through a manual. But programming is such a text based activity, so youtube is great at the what and the why, but text is still the best for the how.
I wonder could it be possible that we're experiencing a new kind of bubble caused by the confusing data from all the amateurs entering the market and causing the ML algorithms to think that things are amazing. The real world surely doesn't look amazing at the moment.
Considering the things the Republicans and Trump have done in the past years, it's not just about "not liking Republicans".
Probably as something made for developers, it was created to be fast and efficient and avoid sucking down inordinate amounts of resources.

Rather than the usual reason electron apps get made, which is because they’re “easy” and allow web-first devs to put out acceptable-quality desktop apps with no mind paid to those same concerns.

It is entirely possible to release good software with electron. It is also entirely possible to win the lottery.

(Bitter and annoyed? Me?)
I have been using an old version of adblockios which apple made them change (crippling the product).
What "agenda" would that be? All I said was S&S is biased in my opinion... after having read the periodical on the regular for the last 32 years.

Based on your other questions, I don't think it's me coming off as unreasonable. Your mileage will vary, obviously.
Like someone else had mentioned, the list is comprised of channels geared heavily at web development featuring content for early career developers.

There are a ton of channels that dig deeper in more general software and particulars:
1. Algorithms Live! for those that are into competitive programming

2. PapersWeLove for those that are into white papers and the research that underpins some of the systems that we use today

3. 3Blue1Brown for mathematics

4. ThePrimeagen for Vim and other software things

5. Gaurav Sen for digestible chunks of system design components

6. code_report for just programming. The author is going through Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) at the moment

7. commaaai archive for following George Hotz, founder and creator of comma.ai, a self-driving car company. He was a former Googler working on zero days (security)

8. Jon Gjengset for Rust. He's got a lot of great videos as an open-source contributor in Rust projects and was most recently at MIT doing his PhD

9. Bitwise is a bit old (last post was a year ago), but former Oculus lead dev teaching folks about compilers, simulators, FPGA-based hardware, and other low level topics from a practitioner

10. Two Minute Papers for quick high level hits/overviews of whitepapers

11. Engineer Man for great short introductions into various parts of the stack, scripting, Unix, and other abstractions

There are many more and recorded streams from other programmers teaching random things. There are tons of engineers on Twitch representing a multitude of companies like Lyft, CockroachDB, Netflix, and others working on open-source projects.

As a more experienced developer, I much prefer these channels over the ones listed, but my point is that the content is there when people actually search. The YouTube algos may not pick up all of them immediately and is most certainly more dominated by content directed at less experienced devs, but I much prefer some of this to the course recommendations that others are stating. Courses are really good, once you're convinced you want to do a deep dive into something, but most people do not finish MOOCs.
To be a creator with the freedom to create and not have to make money anymore would be amazing.

Look at Jim Carrey and George W Bush for example. They're pretty much set with money, and now they can paint their hearts out.
How many people are not going to MIT because they are financially unable? I’m curious.
Identifying and Eliminating Unintentional Ambiguity in Written Communication
Yes, yes, ignore the catastrophic consequences of climate change and the political unrest that we're already seeing because of it. "We've had all this before, it's fine". Oh fuck off.
It can't right now, it all runs in GCP. You can still spin up Pachyderm yourself in whatever environment you like. We're working on enabling custom deploys in more environments than the one we just have but it's still a little ways out.
“Cellulose is cellulose,” regardless of if whether it comes from wood pulp or celery, says Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a group that advocates healthier, more nutritious food. He says no research points to health problems related to consuming cellulose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Science_in_the_Publ...

https://www.thekitchn.com/cellulose-the-wood-pulp-in-you-146...
Notch is said to be a deeply unhappy person, or at least he was a few years ago. He also made a hard right-wing turn.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/08/31/technology/minecraft-creato...

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/online-conduct-leaves...
Must be busy checking server logs[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9138814
I think it's safe to say that SoftBank was the trigger, by buying up the meme stocks that are relatively safe bets (Tesla, Amazon, etc), which WSB/Robinhood traders had their eyes on. The Tesla/Amazon traders amplified the signal, and their gains posted everywhere on Twitter, Insta, Reddit, etc. encouraged people to plow more money into the markets, especially in the direction of the meme stocks. Then as S&P started gaining, people noticed and just continued plowing money into the index. Which is why outside of Nasdaq, tech and S&P, there are hardly any movements in the market.

Buying options is still visibility, encouraging would-be traders to register on Robinhood and buy some amount of stock. For instance, my old college mate, a current PhD candidate, joined Robinhood and started trading around March. And of course, when he asked me for recommendations, I told him to play safe and go with the S&P stocks and resilient tech stocks. Then of course, he went full on WSB mode, and now he's "eating tendies while his wife is hanging out with her boyfriend".
I’ve started noticing old Reddit is also just broken now for a lot of posts.

If there’s a post with an image hosted on Reddit itself, old Reddit often doesn’t show it.

I have to open in incognito to see it.
> Don't forget Notch. He took his money and bought a mansion and became a DJ.

Or the CEO of Goldman Sachs, a successful DJ who became a banker.
*For leaking secrets to journalists
You could confirm or deny whether or not you have actually read the book, having presented yourself two posts above as someone in a position to critique it. Is misrepresentation of expertise and talking past the people you're responding to not also a low-effort, bad faith act?
Yandex and Uber to Spin Off Self-Driving Cars into New Company
Currently there is a rumor of a new Quest being released at Facebook Connect September 16.

Walmart and Target also might have "leaked" and confirmed the price of the new base 64GB version to be only $299 which makes things interesting.

And they haven't really only stopped "selling" them in Germany. They are out of stock almost everywhere, Walmart, B&H, abt and more.

Renders of the new "Quest" were also leaked by a twitter account with a great track record when it comes to leaks, the user h0x0d who's account has been closed by twitter :-)
Disagree entirely. Trading chronological sort for whatever drives the most ad impressions and engagements is responsible for the destruction of otherwise decent services.
Google Play Music is being transitioned to YouTube Music, I already got migrated, and I'm now using and is fine/comparable to Play Music, just reskinned. The only annoying thing is its tied directly to my YT account, so all my playlists show up in YT too, but any music I play/like in YT also effects what it considers my preferences and its led to some odd stuff popping up in the personalized mixes. It is kind of neat that I can listen to anything that's been posted as a video.

All that to say its not being decoupled, its being extra coupled. Your YouTube Red subscription comes part and parsel with YouTube Music since its the same thing.
>the worst thing to happen to their feed is for there not to be a huge dearth of mindless content

FYI, "dearth" means "scarcity or lack", which I think is the opposite of the intended meaning here?
I was doing some Django work and came across it.

You can't go wrong with django
How the hell do you eat a live dog?
Tim Cook and Elon Musk each have twitter accounts. All those points apply except running the site. There's WordPress VIP for that.
I think how much of a bubble depends on the specifics of the stocks they're doing this with.

If the stocks they're choosing have high gamma because there's a lot of short interest, then some of this increase could be shorts transferring equity to longs when they cover, which wouldn't be a bubble per say.

Historically low interest rates could also fuel this directly by providing extremely low interest capital and indirectly by pushing investors in general to chase yields in equities. That would be more bubble-like, but it also applies to other asset classes, and it's ultimately a function of central bank policy.
Link to that video: https://youtu.be/Nzokr6Boeaw
> reject the idea you have to write any comments where the code is ‘self explanatory’

I'm one of those, but in your defense I think we need to maintain a very high bar for "self explanatory".

At the same time, I think it's important to be aware that comments not immediately adjacent to what they describe are usually not visible in code review, are often not visible to the person editing the code in question, will fall out of date without an active process to keep them up to date, and at that point will do more harm than good.

I'm curious if you have any particular mechanisms for addressing the above?

I'm trying in my current setting by introducing a mechanism for cross-references (anywhere in the repo, ^^{label} refers to @@{label}) that my CI setup can recognize and surface during code review. It's provided a bit of benefit, but it's underused, and it's too soon to have a good sense of long term impact.
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They cared?

Desktop is fundamentally a different medium from web. It's a pipe dream to expect the web mentality to just transfer over. It's akin to saying a webdev is a great gamedev because they can write code.
Softbank is not financial neophyte for sure. See their long term option deal with Citi to sell their Yahoo stake a decade ago. Their investment in BABA is probably the most successful passive investment ever. But they are very aggressive so will also have a lot of failures. I get the feeling that they tried too hard to replicate their BABA success.
This list needs thenewboston [1]. I got into programming by learning Android development, and learned entirely by watching his channel. He has hundreds of tutorial videos on everything from Adobe suite products to Angular to PyGame and he's incredibly thorough on each one.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston
Your stuff is awesome. :)
He could sell 1b and keep 109b in illiquid assets

Gates still owns a lot of MSFT shares
Its possible to create 3rd party spotify clients by using the librespot library and there exists alternatives but I havent seen any that could replace the official application.

The only caveat is librespot only works with premium accounts.
This sounds like a just-so story. Just as likely they are running sensitive projects inside of Google that interface with the government. I am far more likely to believe that than a billionaire simply enjoying their money for its epicurean aspects. Attaining a billion dollars requires the will-to-power. That's not something that goes away.
The Quest is unfortunately still a bit unique as the only standalone 6DoF headset. Edit: not truly unique as pointed out.

The Index is more than double the cost for something that requires spending more money for a computer to run the whole setup.

...not that that's for nothing, the results are better than any of Oculus' products graphically. But it's a different product.
GPG adds something that they call MDC, which is kinda similar to a mac in authenticated encryption schemes. It is enabled by default.
TSLA calls have been ridiculous the last few months. Buy >50% OTM calls with expirations 1-2 months out and still make money. No wonder it looks like free money.
Google has created/acquired many useful products other than search. Useful doesn't mean interesting though. Especially if you have essentially infinite money.
Disagree completely. Bill Gates is easily one of the dozen most powerful people on earth due to connections and money. He is not beholden to shareholders and can apply his considerable influence wherever he likes without getting board approval.
Google+ died.
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> I also don't think taxpayer money should be going to VOA or PBS or NPR for the very same reasons.

VOA is literally a federal government foreign propaganda service that is operated (in theory, mainly as a defensive countermove against hostile government propaganda) to advance US government information interests abroad.

Now, it's usually operated in a standard journalistic manner because the US government has both seen truth as the best the long-term defense against hostile propaganda and seen VOA being seen as trustworthy as the best way to not get target populations to learn to ignore it.
I can relate. But would pixel-based designs really work well on today’s hires displays?
source on retail investors? I also believe retail is having a larger effect, I just haven't seen this number before.
Sounds like https://developer.apple.com/documentation/app_clips except less proprietary, and smaller…
If that’s true, that’s 34B in the total options market, this 4B is targeted at like 5 companies.
The simple fact that they are not integrated together makes it easy to misuse them. http://world.std.com/~dtd/sign_encrypt/sign_encrypt7.html
His foundation has massive political clout, especially in developing countries. And he has no shareholders to answer to.
As long as the music files are still available for purchase, then I’m fine with the situation as is.
Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
Plotters 0.3 supports 3D plot rendering in pure Rust
For anybody that needs to scratch the nostalgia itch after reading this post I highly, highly recommend the free web series "Double Fine Adventure"

It chronicles Tim Schafer (ass't designer on Monkey Island and designer of numerous other LucasArts classics) and Ron (early on, he eventually leaves) building out their kickstarter adventure game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVwg-9WL3dE
grep was standardized around 1990 by POSIX.2. In the last 25 years, I haven't had any problems with the POSIX compatible flags of grep, so maybe those points are not so relevant.

Using grep for '$' without being aware that grep patterns are regular expressions ((g)lobal search for (re)gexp, and (p)rint), and redirecting the output to the printer without first seeing what it might be (e.g. with .. | head -50) is pretty stupid.

Consider that this person's idea of solving the problem of "move occurrences of $ character to a different location within the line" in a bunch of files was to begin by searching for lines containing those $ characters and sending that to a printer. What? How is the hard copy going to help? Are you going to sit there manually typing in those paths and looking for those line numbers, to do the edit? If that is really the VMS way, who wants anything to do with it?
Great reply, thanks. I personally really liked this portrait and wanted to suggest to other commentators that it was intentionally quirky and not a stitch-up
Most podcasts have some sort of subreddit or similar web presence. If you're ever looking for a community never underestimate typing "reddit.com/r/(thing)" or "(thing) forum" in Google.
Legally it depends on intent, which would be very hard to prove. Unless senior execs wrote emails saying “let’s buy option to manipulate the market” or colluded with other market participants, it is safe. However, it is not “always” safe.
Lol. You think there is a single member of congress that tells their secretary "take a message, ill call him back" when Bill Gates calls?
There's nothing stopping any American household from raising their child in a good environment today, except parents' own mediocrity.
170 comments yesterday in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24365479
He can borrow against it and do whatever he wants while maintaining ownership. Whether that's a good idea is debatable.