skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were a lot of potential buyers for Concorde in other parts of the world. They backed out when the operating costs came out, and the range was found to be lower than expected (though BA managed to increase it through operational improvements).

Whether supersonic travel is still relevant is another question, but there buyers then, maybe there would be now too.

https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b
That excuses MS how? MS is so big, that the left hand there doesn't know what the right one is doing. Some contribute to good things, others are toxic and spread lock-in. And their gaming division is in the later category.
Nearly an Hour with Nvidia CEO on Future Arm, Networking, SW, Datacenter Targets
TL;DR: I have decided that a word with multiple definitions[1] has only one that I accept. Anyone who does not accept my definition is wrong, and I will double down on pushing my singular definition of a word, because someone is wrong on the internet![2]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love, which includes:

2: warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion
love of the sea

and

3: to like or desire actively : take pleasure in
loved to play the violin
4: to thrive in
the rose loves sunlight

[2] https://xkcd.com/386/
So long as the software industry is expanding, the salaries are growing and software engineers have freedom to jump ships, I don't see unions coming. The recipe to make a union is to lock thousands of grumpy software engineers in a bureaucratic company with stagnant wages.
His full blog series on this explains it better. To my understanding, this “ranking” is only for maintenance tasks. He also sets “maintenance” at 8-12 hours maximum per week. So it’s just an interesting way of making a game out of doing potentially not-fun maintenance tasks.

He also explains that the developers pick their own maintenance tasks for the week, so it’s an additional way to make people accountable for having decent estimates.

When I look at it through that lens I don’t find it nearly as off putting.
How can the universe continue to expand until infinity, if there are no mass-ful particles for time to occur with respect to?
What happens to the Higgs field when all particles in the Universe become massless?
You could also wrap the whole thing in a towel and run it for 2-3 hours (even on red-ringed mode) and the heat would actually reflow the solder in some cases. Source? My Xbox 360 experienced a RRoD that I resolved as a teenager with this "towel trick", and it still runs to this day.
You got it the wrong way around. Ad blocker extensions should be your first choice, this DNS blocking business is really for devices where that is not possible ("Smart" TV et al) and it's getting less effective by the day.
> But so far everyone only points to the screen actors guild as a counter example. Are there many other unions like it?

IIRC, there are in the movie industry. I think writers, directors, etc. all have their own unions. Also given the nature of construction jobs, I'd be curious how construction trade unions compare.

Different companies in different industries can have quite different structures and cultures (e.g. McDonald's vs GM vs Google). The instantiated example of McDonald's didn't mean future companies had to be like it, and I see no reason why the instantiated example of the UAW means that another type of union structure/culture can't be created for another set of circumstances.
I'll have to agree. Having bought into the Tesla Kool aid last year, I decided to get myself one (S). Sure, I liked it and all, and it certainly reeks of German engineering design thanks to Holzhausen, but it's overall service model leaves much to be desired. I only realized that when my SO's Dad showed me the Porsche Taycan, that I realized how much Tesla had sacrificed, in terms of customer convenience and customer service. Tesla is no BMW or Porsche, and I don't think it can be one either - not with Musk's demanding sort of leadership. Designing a sexy car might be possible, but designing the processes behind manufacturing that with no qualms or quality issues, with a constantly changing team of engineers, is not possible. That requires time and patience and a lot of TLC, all of which Musk doesn't have.

It's a good stock to ride the sucker wave on though.
Nothing, unless you're from Norway.[1]

[1]: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/
I assume DNS over Whatever will still respect the HOSTS file? I'd be really surprised to find otherwise, but would love to hear if that's the case! If you don't trust the browser you already have very little defense against ads, no? After all, the browser could always just resolve DNS itself.

HOSTS files may also be simplest (I totally disagree btw), but I can't imagine they're anywhere near the most common.
Memoization is only when you cache the results of a referentially transparent function in software, caching is more general. You have cpu caches, browser bashes, even entire servers can be caches of common web requests etc. So using the word "memoization" is more specific and leads to less confusion.
Here's what worked for me:

Imagine there are 1,000 doors and you pick 1. All other doors except 1 are opened and you're given the offer: keep the door you picked, or pick this other door. What are the chances you picked the right door (vs. this other door)?

People seem to intuitively understand that having only one door unopened is a massive "hint" to where the prize is.

(I learned this idea from Better Explained: https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-monty...)
Next step - day off after every night of oncall shift - even if no interruption during night the stress and being with laptop 24/7 and attentive is enough to deserve it.
Show HN: I made an app where podcasters can make videos to share on social media
X11 connection breaks when machine goes to sleep/standby or the network changes (e.g. VPN).

Until the native WSL 2 GUI support launches you can use some workarounds like Xpra or X2Go - see https://dev.to/derkoe/development-environment-in-wsl2-137l
Are there a lot of labor unions in China?
I think there are a lot of game developers that would disagree with your assessment.
Thanks MJ
Go vs C: That's 50 years.

Wooden house building fundementals: That's like 200-500 years.
Primarily they are targeting transoceanic routes. Transoceanic demand has increased substantially in recent years. Transatlantic traffic has doubled since Concorde went out of service. Transpacific travel has grown even more, and Concorde was unable to compete there.
Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian’s New VC Fund Invests in Disposable Camera App
Except that unions will bring their own non-compete non-negotiable agreements.
Well, there wasn't a huge incentive for the biggest players to actually fix the problem. As long as Amazon was able to push the cost of returns to others, they only cared just enough that it didn't hurt their brand. This goes for both bad products and poorly advertised products.

Now that there have been some recent rulings that Amazon is liable for defective products they sell[1], we might see a difference as they put actual effort into it since it's more directly related to the bottom line of their e-commerce business.

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/court-rules-amazon-liable-de...
That's practically word-for-word the description of the book I've always given. "We don't understand consciousness, and we don't understand quantum mechanics, ergo...."

It's a pity, because that was those books were my first and only experience of Penrose for many years, and it was only much later that I learned of his much more interesting work in geometry and mathematics, and their use in physics, the study of crystals, etc.
I can see your point, but I think the effects of this regulation are misunderstood here. Prevailing wage is based on locality. H1Bs in California now have to be in the >95% bucket of prevailing wages for their county. Even FAANG engineers would have trouble reaching that threshold as it only takes base salary into account and not total comp.
The wormhole-william binary size is 8.3MB not 1.4GB: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases/tag/v1...
Doesn't it also prevent them from using their real names in their work if anyone already has that name? And don't you have to pay $3k to join + 1.85% of your income (for the majority of actors who make less than $200,000 per year - special rules help the members who make lots of money from having to pay too much)?

Plus you can't work on whatever you want - you are only allowed to work with producers that have an active agreement with the SAG (Global Rule One).
> It's a shame that we don't have criminal charges for government employees that violate the 4th amendment

We do. See, e.g., 18 USC 241, Conspiracy against rights, and 18 USC 242, Deprivation of rights under color of law.

Its just that the people who would prosecute those charges are often not inclined to do so for federal government agents doing so as a matter of policy rather than as rogue actors.
Concorde had a bunch of publicly tours around Asia. There are a few that could make sense-- HK to Tokyo? Tokyo to Singapore?

The fuel requirements from the US to Asia are pretty intense, so I'm interested to see how they solve that issue.

Sonic booms haven't always been illegal in the US (1973?). My dad grew up near O'hare, and he said you'd occasionally hear them when it was still a military base. Its just annoying, but for people who live near airports, jet noise is already annoying? I think as long as jets just boom over specific areas, it would minimize the public nuisance.
The Dark Matter Enigma
I'm sorry your observation leads you to have such a negative view of things. Clearly your lived experience must be radically different from mine.

I've been a software developer for 30 years now, and never got a degree. I do have friends that are doctors and lawyers, and I prefer my career path to theirs. I started working and earning at 18, rather than going through 8 years of expensive schooling. All these years later (your 15 years doubled), I'm still in-demand, still earning reasonably well, and don't experience the levels of stress or work the long hours my doctor and lawyer friends do.

But hey, when I was young, it was just doctors and lawyers who earned big money. Now it's doctors, lawyers, and software developers, so that's a huge gain for software! And still, only about 75% or so of software developers have degrees at all, let alone eight years of school and two degrees like are required to be a doctor or lawyer.

I've spent the last month interviewing for new "Senior Java Developer" positions, and I can assure you, having a degree does not mean one's prospects are automatically good. Or that one know what one is doing, even.
There was some drama about it [0][1] a while ago about standing desk reviews.

[0] https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/StandingDesk/comments/69npx4/drama_...
You mean like Brave, only built off Firefox?
Shorting TSLA tends to be a bad idea.

People have lost a boatload of money doing that.
Interesting. They probably should enforce entropy minimums on the password, and maybe supply e.g. output of `shuf -n 4 /usr/share/dict/words` on demand.

They don't say how long they will retain the encrypted file. Probably long enough, except when they don't. Maybe they keep it until they fold.
How are you defining tech?

If you include IT workers and programmers in certain non-technology companies, I think their position could be improved by unionization.

If you include engineers working for technology companies, unionization is less needed. This group has good working conditions on the whole. Personally when I have been frustrated with corporate work-life, it is usually for reasons that unionization would make worse (office politics, byzantine procedures, unproductive coworkers).

Using the second, narrower definition above, tech workers are paid well and we get to sit in comfortable chairs in air-conditioned offices all day long. I mean, if you work for a startup company it will probably lose money and yet you are paid, sometimes handsomely. It's not as if management is exploiting you if you keep getting paid while the startup is steadily going bankrupt.

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I have felt fairly treated by management. If management is not trying to fleece workers, why add the process of a union?
(Lack of) Control and overseeing management in public (and private) companies is a whole another issue entirely, and it affects all the shareholders alike. I don't think unions help here - they just make everything more complicated.

But the point is - if the company granted me some equity, than I participate in the upside and even if certain decision seems not perfect for me as a employee, and they "just benefit the shareholder", I am too a shareholder, and at least I might get some dollars to wipe away my tears.
Don't be pedantic, this is super simple code that is easy to analyze. Side-effects are not the terror that haskell programmers make of it.
If you cannot build a case for protecting the significant creativity and unique expression in the design of an API, then there is little you can build a case for copyrighting.

If techies want APIs to be uncopyrightable, the solution is to go to Congress and seek a carve-out exception in statute. Asking the courts to affirm what they assume to be the case undermines all of copyright. I know some Hackernews are okay with that, but I have friends and family who are artists and musicians, and they want to be able to put food on the table doing what they love.
The only thing we care about is that there's just one authoritative name hierarchy, if somebody in the name hierarchy wants to give you a name without selling it, that would be totally fine.

I would totally be down with say, the US government issuing citizens with a DNS name under their ccTLD somewhere. Done your tax paperwork in reasonable time? Your name is guaranteed by law to keep working for another year. Maybe 1480219643.ny.citizen-names.us is ugly but it'd satisfy this problem for individuals. Maybe they could bolt on a checkbox, $50 extra to the IRS and you get to pick any as-yet unreserved legal name, or they have rules like for license plates.
Depends if you want a convertible or not
> everyone knows that the Unix APIs are often seen as elegant while the Windows APIs are seen as ugly

I think people consider the UNIX CLIs ("do one thing and do it well") to be elegant, not UNIX APIs. UNIX APIs have quite massive (and well-known) warts in them.
In France they usually use the acronym GAFA, which is your GAAF in a different order. Lately there is also GAFAM, with Microsoft added.
There's a Go compatible implementation here: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/. Its a library first implementation so that you could build a mobile UI on it if you wanted to. I made a POC android app using go-mobile. A motivated person could do the same for iOS.
I don't see how you could define separate universes as sharing the same space. The universe is the space, no?
The Complex Cruelty of Comedy
The core team is kept that way on purpose.

They're a decision making group (eg project direction), and the size doesn't reflect the number of active developers on the project in any way.

eg there are a lot more active developers than there are "core team"
Yeah, any day now, just like they were going to self-drive to deliver in 2016.
should have (2018) in the title.

> "There are three main ideas as to why language-learning ability declines at 18: social changes, interference from one’s primary language and continuing brain development."

I wonder which is the most dominant?
Supercook: Recipe search by ingredients you have at home
There's a Freakonomics episode that talks about this -> https://freakonomics.com/podcast/secrets-german-economy-stea...

TL;DR, the prevailing theory is that it's cultural.

> SUEDEKUM: Culturally, there is a sense [that] you have to be flexible when circumstances change, when new challenges arise. This is deeply embedded in the German approach of doing things.

> MARIN: That is part of a cultural thing: people trust each other.

> This culture, Marin says, also manifests itself in management style. Her research has shown that German C.E.O.’s are more willing to grant decision-making power to lower management. And that, she argues, improves quality. Because those are the managers who have the best sense of what customers want. This requires C.E.O.’s to have quite a bit of faith in their managers.

> You may be surprised to learn that German workers willingly accept a wage lower than the one their union negotiated. But they’d learned from history. Specifically, from their own history at the end of the Cold War.
"Unclear laws should be nullified,"

All laws are unclear.

Particularly the most important one, the Constitution.

They are forever in refinement.
A few personal thoughts on the various points raised.

I've been in and around the community for quite some years. The acquisition hopefully was a good outcome for 2ndQuadrant and EDB. But I don't personally see it changing the landscape of providers. There are a lot of companies that offer support, consulting, and services for Postgres. 2ndQuadrant has long been one place I would refer people to in Europe, but less so in the US. While some friends do work in the US for them most of their engineering happens in EU. There is a lot of options in Europe still, from Dalibo to Cybertec to Postgres Professional. In the US you've had Crunchy Data, PGExperts, and EDB for some time (all of them in existence for longer than 5 years now). That has not changed, maybe we need more than this... but it isn't something to the scale of many other monopolies.

The percentage of concentration on core is an issue and my outside of core understanding is that such is being addressed.

For non-competes, perhaps this is a bigger issue than I realize. But being based in California I'm surprised to see this. Having worked at one place running and managing Postgres (Heroku) to then go to another to run and manage Postgres (Citus Data) to joining Microsoft to run and manage Postgres, I'm now doing similar at Crunchy Data building and running our multi-cloud Postgres service - https://www.crunchybridge.com. Perhaps non-competes are a big issue for some east coast or for European countries, but at least where I sit I'm surprised by that argument.
There's big money in affiliate marketing and very little in reviews so this gradual erosion is unfortunately universal in review sites.
If you think professional sports leagues and the movie business base opportunities and compensation on seniority I don't know what to tell you. Those fields are almost completely unionized. There's no obvious reason to think that the market for high skilled technical workers would be substantially different.
A single (TCP) connection has a single SYN and SYN-ACK packet of startup overhead. N connections have N SYN packets and N SYN-ACKs. That might still not be very much overhead, but it is more.
I don't know that it couldn't happen - but when an individual tech worker is making a decision about unionizing (in the US), it is always around an individual workplace unionizing. Industry-wide unions aren't very standard in the US (outside of industries with extremely high barriers to entry) and it seems like it would be extremely expensive/time-consuming to make it happen (beyond what I as an individual considering unionizing can realistically do).
you’re right about the goal, but not the mechanism. shoplifting is curtailed because greeting induces a sense of familiarity between the potential thief and greeter, thereby reducing the veil of anonymity, raising senses of guilt, reciprocity, and duty, while lowering the perception of potential success. it’s not foolproof of course, but helps at the margins. random receipt checks don’t do much other than impede flow.
I tried but Wolfram Alpha doesn't take inputs that long hah. In any case even if it works you will likely get irrational terms which will make it only theoretically nice but not practically computable, like the closed-form Fibonacci formula.
You either have principles or you don't. Anything else is haggling over price.
It's for Emirati playboys to continue their game of oneupsmanship while they still have money to burn.
Yeah, of course you're doing him a disservice. Maybe try reading it a second time (and third too, why not), with more patience. It definitely doesn't boil down to what you just said.
You are projecting your intent on the OP. I do not see anything positive or negative in their comment.
They're good names for a couple reasons

1. The analogies made do hint at their meanings.

2. But at the same time, the names are more proper nouns than definitions. For something so abstract, it's better to give it an opaque, easy-to-remember name than to give it a "better" name that maybe oversimplifies what it is.

This is basically the "Functor" vs "Mappable" argument.
Curious, what does Windows bring to the table that someone would prefer it over just Linux? I did the whole development with WSL2 thing for a bit, and it sort of worked OK, but then I setup dual boot and it's so much nicer to have a minimal WM / lighter OS / Windows out of the way.
> If two forms of matter coexist in the same space but they do not interact in any way including inertia

How would you even know that matter is there? This looks like a non-falsifiable statement [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
Also not a physicist but that is the most fascinating idea I've seen in the past year.
Let's compare this to a completely different field: cookbooks.

Recipes themselves aren't copyright protected. However, specific instructions for the recipes are protected.

In addition, though individual recipes aren't protected, a collection of recipes is protected.

There is a line, though, between copying a few recipes, and an entire collection. That line is not easy to define, but that doesn't preclude the existence of such a line.

So – is an API considered a single recipe? Or is it a "recipe collection?" That seems to me to be an important distinction.

If you were to copy one set of API function names that cover a limited area, then it could be argued that you used just one "recipe" and that it would be OK. However, if an entire collection of API function names across a very broad range of categories was copied, then it is harder to argue that you didn't copy any entire collection, and not just an individual recipe.
Wikipedia claims there are LINQ implementations for Javascript/Typescript and for PHP (in addition to C#, of course).
For most drugs the economics aren't about the cost of producing the chemicals but all of the R&D behind the companies. Whether it's 10mg or 1000mg I don't think it's typically a material part of the cost.
Meanwhile there are a number of products emerging in the Postgres space that are focused on SaaS business models.

- https://pganalyze.com/

- https://www.crunchybridge.com

- https://www.pgmustard.com/

- https://supabase.io/

The Postgres consulting/support services landscape may be consolidating some, but I'm not even sure that is a broader trend. Meanwhile there are more tools and services popping up regularly.
If it had happened only once or only a few times, I'd agree. This type of thing happens at every single convention.
Asimov knew it already in 1956, in « The Last Question »:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

Pretty nice fan manga adaptation, btw:
http://fanfox.net/manga/the_last_question/c000/1.html
Much higher in the comments, you can see the original reddit thread linked with the same pictures. Not everyone records their life in the highest quality all the time
Interesting. If there is a new judge appointed before that time would they join the decision or would it only be those judges that heard the case?