skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supersonic planes have to be thin to be efficient. That makes it hard to give someone a large seat with a large screen and also provide them with large range of food/drink and flight attendants. I would think the math works best at a higher price 60k/flight.
The movie Gravity also starts with a space debris-related catastrophe. At least the concept is gaining traction in popular culture.
I don't see any reference to the 1st Amendment in the parent comment.

Rather, this is a better analog to shield laws, which can protect media from divulging sources in many cases.
Go to the transcript it’s clear as day: https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trump...

> Trump: "Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name."

> Reporter: "George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same."

> Trump: "George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down -- excuse me, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him?"

> Reporter: "I do love Thomas Jefferson."

> Trump: "Okay, good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Now, are we going to take down his statue?

> "So you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people -- and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists -- because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.

First, it’s crystal clear from the transcripts that he’s saying “I’m not talking about the neo-nazis and white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally.” Painting that as one of the “(a) or (b)” options is shamelessly deceitful.

So what does he mean? The city was renaming a park named after Robert E. Lee. Trump is making a totally reasonable point: not everyone protesting taking down a statute of Robert E. Lee is a white supremacist or a neo-nazi. And he’s point is actually prescient. The reporter says he loves Thomas Jefferson. Well, my high school is named after Thomas Jefferson, and just a few years later they’re trying to change the name of the school.

Is Trump wrong that there were people there who were just protesting the name change? Was literally everyone in that crowd a white supremacist or neo-nazi? Maybe but that would be odd. I grew up in Virginia. Lots of well meaning but maybe insensitive people lionize Robert E. Lee. Maybe they all stayed home that day. But it would be fair to guess they didn’t.

Regardless, whether or not those Robert E. Lee buffs were actually present has nothing to do with how to interpret Trump’s statement, because it’s unambiguous. Maybe his speculation was incorrect. So what? That doesn’t mean it’s fair to portray it as an “if not supportive of white nationalists” statement because it’s unambiguously not that.

If the headline was: “Trump incorrectly assumes that good people attended rally, but in reality everyone was a white supremacist” that would have been a good headline. Good commentary about how outdated it is to lionize Robert E. Lee. But instead the media went for an interpretation that was clearly not what Trump meant.
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True, but even now the C# library ecosystem is lacking compared to e.g. JVM/JavaScript/Python ecosystems. And that's definitely because it was historically closed source and mostly (but not entirely) single-platform.
Web Browsers - Pretty much most of the browsers have improved significantly year over year - likely because of direct competition between each of them. They've added features, optimised performance, resource management, etc.
I was thinking more if the economic conditions after brexit/COVID are bad and one's employer starts doing some dodgy things, you have some element of protection.

So I was thinking unfair dismissal, poorly executed/rushed/unfair "redundancy", and general other unfavourable things from a company that is struggling. Or maybe your employer suddenly thinks it doesn't need to care about equality or employment law and the like etc now we're out of the EU, or are taking a liberal interpretation of any new legislation that is screwing over the workers etc.

If the company is going bust after brexit there probably isn't much here that can be done, but if it is just downsizing/cost-cutting etc or instigates some questionable & unfavourable new policies you at least have some element of help, even if it is just giving you some advice or sending your employer a letter from their legal people etc.

Might buy you some time or a better exit-package if nothing else. Having looked down the barrel of two potential-redundancies (that were avoided eventually) in the last few years without anyone to talk to about "is this fair? am I getting screwed? what can I do?" etc, it is well worth it for the peace of mind and the feeling that you have someone who can go out to bat on your behalf if you think you've been screwed IMO. Everyone talks about how the employee-employer relationship is totally skewed towards the employer, this at least feels like you stand a chance if anything bad happens.

Uncertain times.
I’ve had tinnitus since I was a child and can’t stand using noise-cancelling headphones due to this
I saw posts on r/rust talking about making a rust-like language for non system programming. I think Swift fits exactly that purpose, only frustrated by Apple giving it Windows support a decade after it's creation.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS887US887&hl=en...
Yes, you will be able to create your own tags and filter for them or in combination of them. This will allow you to slice and dice your tags and really make the most of the information in your Slack convos.
The World's Strangest Books
In practice I've found that it leads to writing code that you know is unreachable, but you can't prove it to the compiler.
In modern parlance I believe the desire is to move away from the acronym and have BPF just be a standalone name since its functionality goes beyond a packet filter now.
Baruch Spinoza
A substance is prior in nature to its affections.
I've used Gather for a couple virtual conferences this year and I was surprised how much I liked it. It's obviously still no substitute for in-person gatherings, but it does recreate some of the atmosphere of being in a room full of people while still being able to have meaningful small group conversations.
It would be a great feature to log replacement time and adjust life-time price as a product property.
I read that thread, it's quite concerning. Now I'm wondering how to determine if other providers are doing the same thing. I suppose I can test on a new instance, but that can only tell me definitively if they are doing it, not if they're not.
That is true. The same reason why mediaval swords used a similar process, not folding but twisting the steel. The reason are impurities in the ore deposits. Japans deposits have more of them than e.g. European ones. Which kind of enabled more advanced metalurgy in Europe, ultimately leading to stuff like spring steel.

The folding and reforging reomves these impurities from the steel and changes the carbon content, making the stell more flexible or harder and thus sharper but also more brittle. Quite ingenious, if you aske me. Nowadays, Japanese deposits can be exploited with electromagnets, resulting in basically pure iron ore making all that metalurgy more or less unnecessary.

Not that Japanese swords were bad, they were as good as any other sword in killing people. So no katana superiority, but neither any deficiencies compared to European swords.

Also be aware that swords used to be the medival equivalent of modern day pistols. More or less.
The Bizarre History of St. Matthew, America’s Most Remote Island
I thought it was crazy to read a huge article on space junk and no reference to Planetes.
I'm not a metalworker at all (I just spent a bunch of time last year researching it while diving down a rabbit hole of forging YouTube videos). However, I did stumble upon a longer explanation of this.

Folding steel is only required to remove impurities, so in theory high-quality steel doesn't require much folding (if any). However in Japan due to the volcanic nature of the land, the iron deposits are full of impurities which lead to the need for folding. After you've done enough folding you end up with a billet which is basically the same quality as western steel. In other words, there's nothing intrinsically better about the steel in a finished Japanese sword (if anything the starting materials are worse).

But again, I'm only speaking a someone who read about this and other bits of metalworking last year in a spurt of interest in the subject. Wikipedia claims otherwise:

> The folding removes impurities and helps even out the carbon content, while the alternating layers combine hardness with ductility to greatly enhance the toughness.

But in my mind this does raise the question "why don't all modern swordsmiths all use this technique if its objectively superior?"
First time when I put the noise cancelling headphones and turned on the cancellation, I could immediately feel a pressure of sort on my ears even though it is reducing noise.

They definitely cancel noise by 'anti-noise'.
This is the same "Everything was better in the old days" stuff... I just can lol about it.
If I remember correctly, eBPF originally stood for "Extended Berkeley Packet Filter". However, it's usage changed from a packet filter to general purpose kernel hook system.

A little while after that, eBPF stopped being an acronym and started being the actual name. It, as I understand it, no longer stands for "Extended Berkeley Packet Filter".
They cancel the noise by interference, generating sound that’s 180 degrees out of phase with the incoming sound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control)

My guess would be not that the tinnitus gets worse from wearing noise canceling headphones, but that your ears adapt to the lower average sound levels, making them better at ‘detecting’ the tinnitus sound (the dynamic range of your ears adapts to average sound volume https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774902/, but whether that affects the perceived volume of tinnitus isn’t clear to me)
I'd like to express interest. I really like your take on how to group the information available and think that you design is very pleasant.

There is even a movement that thinks building a HN reader is "A spiritual successor to TodoMVC".[1]
I don't know if that is of any interest to you but I thought leave that here.

[1] https://hnpwa.com/
> Not just discussions about politics,

I still find HN to be one of the most politics-free places on the Internet, which is nice. Granted, I avoid almost everything that talks about US computer programmers vs the rest of the world computer programmers, discussions which tend to have not that nice xenophobic nuance to them, but the rest of the discussions are pretty civil.

Also (and of course), I also avoid almost everything related to Apple-Google-Tesla, the conflict of interests in here are too big (lots of Apple/Google employees, lots of owners of Tesla shares), so I realise that nothing productive can come out of those conversations. Surprisingly, I find that Microsoft employees are a lot more open to criticism, and I say that as a person who used to dislike MS massively (I still hold them partly responsible for the failure of OLPC)
Lindy is maybe not the best source. People with knowledge in metalurgy and the use of swords in the historic context would be better.
Interesting that it's not a full year. I wonder if the numbers will be significantly different after more time has passed (i.e. 'the flu season')
How the URL Was Built
> Tech attracts an atypical more autism spectrum biased employee pool. This correlates with meritocratic believes.

This made me wince; while it's not straight up wrong it's a collection of generalisations about humans jammed together that deserves a slightly more delicate unpacking. Like opening an Amazon box and finding your electronics just fall out with no foam peanuts or other protection.
I’m tired of seeing scoreboard style comparisons everywhere as some sort of gotcha. Any scientific analysis worth its salt will look into the values to start explaining the numbers and put it all into context.

For instance, can we explain where Sweden’s deaths occurred? Large care homes (100+ residents) that were ill prepared? Are they expected to have a large amount or average amount of excess deaths at the end of 2020? Why is it tracking average and why are some lockdown heavy countries tracking much higher (because lack of health care due to shutdowns?) What even represents a covid death or case?
I guess it’s easier to distribuiere up to date versions that way.
So when they don’t switch each one has probability 1/3 of getting the car? Where does the car go if no one gets it?

And if they switch both have probability 2/3 of getting the car? Is this some form of car sharing?

Maybe you should try to play with three cards and one ace. Pick one card (you are the first contestant). Pick a second card (you are also the second contestant). Flip the remaining card. If was the ace start again.

Now, do you prefer card #2 to card #1 and simultaneously prefer card #1 to card #2?
I'd think that it's more likely that all swords are about as good as any other. If katanas really were junk swords to the point where it made a material difference, Shogun would've used imported western sword designs (pre-isolation) and today's modern katanas would have ended up being just western swords.

I'd have assumed thay "any cuttystabbything will do" applies to basically any kind of sword.
I'd be interested to know how often Paul Graham reads HN these days, compared to the past. Last post was 6 months ago. Prior to that, only responses to his announcement of Bel. Other than Bel, no submissions since 2014.

I'd guess he has some resentment of increasingly polarised discussions (and maybe procrastination by users?); I've run a forum for 10+ years and resent a lot of the trends in the way people talk to each other, and I certainly read/post a lot less on my own site as a result. Or could just be changes in priorities in having children?

I've long suspected that he and/or a small subset of valued users have migrated somewhere else, even if to a private Slack/similar. Often feels like some past regulars are missing.
I know it's popular, but I feel this is a mistake.

If we had the chance to disallow tobacco use before it was available, don't you think we should do it? The deaths, medical costs, etc. make it not worth it.

Marijuana has been shown to have negative effects on the brain, I think this is a price that's not worth paying.
I believe the concepts in the first paper are unrelated to those of modern lenses (i.e. functional references). See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17198072/how-is-anamorph...
One option is starting to learn about DL from the big picture, then filling in the details as you go along, eventually going to higher math. I prefer this approach to the opposite where you first learn math foundation and then the implementation and use-cases. I liked the Fast.ai course.
I'd really be interested in hearing which TECHNICAL forums are more political?
Supreme Court inclined to affirm copyrightability holding Oracle vs. Google
I just don't see the value of unions in tech right now. I make decent money. My hours are consistent at 40 per week. If the employer employee relationship sours, there are 100s of other companies, and it's easy to switch jobs compared to other industries.
It’s only anonymous at the polling station - the Returning Officer (senior local government employee overseeing the election) can match the voter’s unique anonymous ID to a specific person.
AFAIK all array oriented languages sometimes return copies and sometimes return views. Not sure if this is what you mean by operations by reference. It's a common abstraction leak necessary for efficiency reasons that causes lots of problems to newcomers (and sometimes to experienced developers too...)
Japan is notoriously mineral-poor, so they had to put in extra effort that is not necessary with better raw materials. Further, I suppose this scarcity means that swords become more of a prestige item, meaning that you can put in more effort when manufacturing one. In contrast, when decent steel is cheap (relatively; we're still taking pre-industrialisation), then you might do something more akin to mass-production.
It depends where it booms. If it's at 10 km above and nobody hears it, or above international waters, it doesn't matter too much.
.NET CLR + BCL was originally released as BSD code, Rotor project, but no one cared about it.

.NET was also available in other platforms where Microsoft saw commercial value, via partner agreements.

http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2006_04/article4.pdf

https://www.sidiary.org/press-Diabetes_Symbian-968.asp
Proponents of child porn argue that it should be protected speech, just as distribution of legal porn is often argued on free speech grounds.

I completely agree that it child porn exposes children to abuse and should be illegal, but it’s important to note how proponents of that medium argue for its legitimacy.
I've always wondered that myself.

Those blades would have been so expensive in relative terms that I truly wonder how much real combat they were used in. In any war the peon's get the worst of it. Anyone rich/ senior enough to have them wasn't going to be on the front line.

Then there's the fact that the handle was usually attached by a single mekugi ( bamboo or ivory peg ) which is not strong from an engineering point of view and completely at odds with that engineering marvel of a blade but perfect for swapping out the handle to match the fashion occasion.
They are, if they have a job. Not being sarcastic, it's just that 500 euros/ dollars is an ok amount for a piece of entertainment that will last a few years, so they will buy it now even if they are not playing all day long.
Marriot jammed wifi in their conference centers to make you pay for theirs. Therefore hotel chains are a bad idea. /s

Yes, that kind of thing is a scam to make you pay more than you need to, a.k.a. "profit maximising" for the individual. But we seem to just accept that as natural for companies while shunning individuals that do it.
> I personally hate so-called "identity politics" because it gives people a personal, group-identity stake in things that not only bias their perspective, but often add a strong emotive current to topics that fuels the creation of stigmas and taboos as above.

This is why I'll never understand people who are crazy about <insert political candidate here>. No matter who they are, they will do something you disagree with. It's much easier to recognize what they did is wrong if you were never part of their group to start. Instead, I see people twisting themselves in knots to defend positions they would normally denounce.

And not just too single out politics, but I see the same thing with companies (like Apple). I also don't want to sound holier than thou either, since I've recognized it in myself before. This joining a tribe is part of the human condition, so it's something I have to actively fight against.
Twitter is driven by engagement, which in turn is driven by controversy.
Great way of phrasing it
Remember this post the next time there is a 500 post thread about how hiring is bs or promotions are all politics. That cannot possibly jive with the system being a meritocracy.
That's still basic-level language learning. To speak like a native you need:

1. Weeks, possibly months of professional voice coaching to teach your mouth muscles to move in ways that eliminate all trace of an accent.

2. Mastery of idiom - learning at least the most popular idioms and knowing when to use them.

3. Mastery of social register and nuance - learning the subtle differences in grammar and word choice that indicate social class and educational level and knowing how and when to indicate both.

4. Some awareness of regional accents, so you can hear where someone is from.

Anyone with a reasonable IQ could master these within a year or two - if they worked on them full-time.

But that wouldn't leave a lot of time for having a normal life.

So probably around half the population never loses the ability to learn a new language with complete fluency. What they lose is the free time to do it, and access to the resources to do it well.

Social register can be a huge problem. E.g. UK English is notoriously indirect and passive-aggressive. When someone in a meeting says "I'm not sure that's a good idea" they often mean "That suggestion is literally idiotic."

Unsurprisingly, foreigners get very, very confused by this.

The Dutch on the other hand are far more direct, and English-Dutch meetings can get very... colourful.
I kind of feel like there's a vein of culture in humanity that celebrates opulence. Solid gold plates? Exclusive entrances that only rich people know about? I hope for a day when spending money simply for the sake of spending money becomes passe and humanity acknowledges that the strongest virtue signalling comes from things like what Chuck Feeney, and perhaps to a lesser extent, Bill Gates do.
I used to use ear plugs while programming. Having almost complete silence helped so much with concentration.

Now my tinnitus is so bad that it drives me nuts to use ear plugs, I need a constant wall of noise around me.
>The triple whammy to all this is that all over the planet people have been cleaning their plastics with hot water, drying and then separating it into different rubbish bags with separate collections and additional bins etc. All for a giant lie about recycling that was never true. We have wasted substantial energy and time on something that never worked and helped destroy the environment even more because of it.

I wonder if there is a country where the laws are so structured that you could class action sue for the value of the time lost.
Running Spinnaker on AWS Fargate (ECS)
OP mentioned free speech and Twitter is using free speech in their legal defense.
Discovery of new taste cell deepens understanding of complex sensory system
Less behavior that users are surprised by in a negative way.
I wonder what is a good hardware setup for following this kind of course and seriously play with deep learning in general (outside of an enterprise context where the enterprise would provide the hardware). What kind of budget should be considered ?
> It is going to break down into small microplastics

Can you explain how that would happen to plastic that is buried in a landfill?

Please use some critical thinking when discussing these things. Question what you have been indoctrinated with.
Space is becoming too crowded, Rocket Lab CEO warns
I hate it when I get downvoted to for asking a question, usually when someone posts a vague or unsubstantiated comment.

It's one thing to downvote an opinion, but downvoting anyone who questions an opinion, or clarification?!
Ok, you've got my attention. Where can you have a conversation that requires qualification and is about similar topics?
> Go is quite popular

Well sure, but inheritance and enterprise-style Java were all the rage in the 90s, but they largely haven't stood the test of time. I rather suspect Go will be similar. It has some good ideas, and it's compiler toolchain is top-quality. But I'd be willing to bet that the languages we're using in 20 years time look a lot more like Rust/Swift/Kotlin and TypeScript/Julia than Go.