skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call me weird, but I tend to start by searching for what I think I'm looking for. I was looking for "serialize 25519" or something like that. None of "pkix", "ASN.1", "CRL", X.509, o "OCSP" were in my vocabulary when I started.
Random guess: Is it because people are less likely to be alone at home (family, roommates), making it harder to pull off the act without someone intervening?
I think you may be looking for the expression “a fish rots from the head.”
And is the music industry model better or worse (spoiler - better if you like to experience art, worse if you prefer owning it)
> the allure of wave energy comes from the fact that the theoretical energy available is proportional to the density of the fluid.

But the power generated by a turbine is proportional to the cube of the air/fluid velocity..... and the wind normally moves much faster than tidal flow.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53856776
Spec in SI units:

- 518 km/h cruise speed

- 593 km/h max speed

- 946 km max range

- 10.67 km max altitude
Parallel construction is still a possibility.

Not to mention regimes that don’t actually care about things like evidence being “legally admissible”.
An arrest based on (mechanical) eye witness evidence is not the same thing as a conviction, at all.

The security photo is directly viewable by the police and the accused.
Free Haven's Selected Papers in Anonymity
"Beyond reasonable doubt" means it's unreasonable to doubt it. If you bet your friend (who is incentivized to say that they rolled above a 1) rolls a ten sided die and says they rolled above a 1, is it unreasonable to doubt them? No way, 10% chance of an event happening means it's very reasonable that it'll happen. Same for a d20. At what point is it unreasonable to be concerned about rolling a 1?

> Most people say 90-95%

Most people believe that the 538's 2016 presidential forecast was incompetent because it said trump only had a 1/3 chance of winning and he won. Other papers put it at 10%. People said this was a huge failure because people generally are terrible at intuitively reasoning about probabilities, which is well established.

I'd put reasonable doubt at closer to 1 in a few hundred, maybe even rarer.

Is the link you included talking about the probability of convicting a person, given that they're innocent, or the probability that a convicted person is innocent? It brings too mind the classic stats issues of testing positive for a disease via a highly accurate test, with it still being probable that you don't have the disease. Even a highly accurate test can be entirely unreasonable as evidence of the rare case. We should probably care about making the false discovery rate the unreasonable one. Of the convicted people, is it unreasonable to doubt that a random one is guilty.
Short flights are dominated by ground transport times (door-to-door).

Assume that you need an hour to get to a general aviation airport, and an hour from the other GA airport to your final destination. Assume that you are a qualified pilot and have a driver's license and access to cars anywhere you want to go. 280 knots puts you in the air for not quite two hours, so a full-length flight is 4 hours or so door to door, moving you 560 miles or so.

That's quite an improvement over a 10 hour car trip. But a 4 hour car trip will get you 220 miles, whereas the EFlyer still needs 2 hours 45 minutes to do that.

The EFlyer can't get you anywhere in less than 2 hours, so anything under 120-150 miles you definitely want to do by car.

If you have a bunch of cities that you want to visit often, which are more than 200 miles apart but less than 500 miles apart, all of which have general aviation strips convenient to your destinations, and most especially if you have 4-7 other people who all want to make the same trips... this could be a winner.

Or you could telecommute.
Please, the Eggo corporation would prefer you refer to them as one EGGO or multiple EGGO waffles (tm)
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=7.00&lat=34.1123&lo...

Flagstaff vs. Prescott in Arizona is another good example. Flagstaff has strict output per area limits, Prescott has none, while the density of both areas is similar.
We even have a catroon strip on it https://appachhi.com/blog/putting-fun-back-testing/
"only five years" that's a long time in my opinion to be at one company.
So You Want to Be a Video Communications App Developer
There's also a CTL fork that might be of interest: https://github.com/rurban/ctl
If we're still talking about Python 3, you can also write,

EURO_SIGN = '\N{EURO SIGN}'

Which is ASCII, and very clear about which character the escape is. I wish more languages had \N. That said, I'm also fine with a coder choosing to write a literal "€" — that's just as clear, to me.

While I don't believe the \N is backwards compatible to Python 2, explicitly declaring the file encoding is, and you can have a UTF-8 encoded source file w/ Python 2 in that way.

I'd also note the box drawing characters are extremely useful for diagrams in comments.

(And… it's 2021. If someone's tooling can't handle UTF-8, it's time for them to get with the program, not for us to waste time catering to them. There's enough real work to be done as it is…)
Resources like this (and as others have mentioned, Dark Site Finder) are very useful for astrophotography, especially for a hobbyist like myself. Many don't realize how relatively close they live to areas with great nighttime viewing conditions.

For example, upstate New York has some great viewing locations, so even if you live in NYC it's an easy weekend trip. Here's a shot I took of the Milky Way taken from such a site (one of the darker spots in the map): https://www.lumathon.com/photo/_qTYviEhy/Colors-of-the-Milky...

Edit: a few more of my other shots of the night sky for anyone interested, various locations, all of which were scouted using a light pollution map like the one posted -- https://www.lumathon.com/dan/photos/tag/stars
Typo corrected. I am not the creator and meant to write "It uses"
Not a huge sample size, but the screen on my X1 Nano looks excellent. Competitive with my 2018 11” iPad Pro’s screen visually, if a bit lower PPI.

That’s one of the highest end ThinkPads though, so I guess that’s to be expected. Have heard that getting a good panel on more mainstream models like the T-series can be tough.
The OP he's replying to was arguing that "physical media" doesn't suffer from the drawbacks of "DRM media" implying that physical media has no DRM (obviously false).
Just an observation and a point of discussion regarding the big studios. Disclaimer, I am not in this space professionally, but I listen to a LOT of podcasts about VR/AR which spills into all of these topics.

Do you see a push away from Maya and 3DS max for a more platform agnostic modeling environment? Blender seems to be mentioned all over the place for beginners. From what I am hearing on podcasts, Unreal Game engine is making a big push into film/animation production in addition to its impressive game credits. As long as you can export an FBX file UE4/5 should be a great pipeline, or do I have it wrong?
My desktop is 2010 vintage 6-core Phenom II 1100T with 16GB RAM, the motherboard is officially maxed out, but I've been told it can take 32GB just fine. It has been upgraded with an SSD and more recently a Radeon RX560, and it really does everything I need. Newer games do need lower settings, but it'll motor through most games at 720p. I added a PCIe USB-C interface card, so I'm not even stuck at USB 2.0 anymore.

I have considered replacing it with something smaller, now that all of my files are on a NAS and I don't need room for 5-6 drives in this machine. But I just don't feel like I would be getting enough of an improvement over what I already have, even with hefty new parts.

My laptop is a 2011 vintage X220i, and that is starting to feel a little bit behind, mostly thanks to the i3 inside. But it connects to 5GHz WiFi and is fast enough for browsing and video playback, so for now it keeps on truckin'.

Actually the best upgrade would be a decently powerful 12-14" laptop paired with an eGPU dock. That setup would handily replace both machines, but eGPUs just aren't a mature configuration yet, especially combined with Linux. Maybe in a few years.
mostly but not completely and the exceptions are interesting.
This makes sense, but it reminds me a lot of how we filter out sensations after so long (i.e., we can't smell a bad odor after a certain amount of time, or we stop noticing a certain annoying sound after so long).

I cannot remember or find the term for this but iirc it's Psych 101.

I found these though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_auditory_attention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulus_filtering
I, for one, have been going at them one at a time for years now
The whole point of the long keys is the search space, isn’t it? If the leading bit has to be 1 then effectively you have a 2047 bit key either way. 1 followed by 2047 random-looking bits.
Great shot!
I think it's quite possible that the maintenance events for an electric airplane are further apart and simpler than for a traditional engine, and those maintenance costs are a very major component of total infrastructure costs.
I do a lot of deep sky landscape photography (https://instagram.com/dheeranet/) and dark skies are essential to that. Most of these are taken from pretty dark spots on the map in California.

Especially essential is planning for dark skies in the direction of whatever it is you are trying to shoot, which is in some cases arguably slightly more important than the dark sky level of where you are standing. If a galaxy rises over a city, it's going to be hard to image even if you're far from the city.

One of the tools I use the most is an app called "PlanIt Pro", which gives you pretty much all the info you need, including being able to show where in the sky various astronomical objects are, their magnitude, a VR simulation of them with the 3D topo map, and lots of other things. It also has a light pollution map built-in, and can show you the position of the Milky Way. I plan many of my shots with it. There's a free version and I can't remember which features are omitted from that but it's been worth every penny for me.
It's not a blockchain domain registry.
Still dreaming that someday we regard light pollution as the pollutant that it really is, though tbh I have little hope.

99% of the people I talk to about this basically wish we could replicate daytime levels of light all around the clock. They want even brighter streetlights, even more lights around the outside of their homes, etc.
Says the comment I replied to

> When I go to a website, I decide to direct my attention to this website, because I believe it will offer something of interest to me.
Electric drivetrains have the unique ability to recover energy, often used in braking for EV cars. Is there any corollary for recovering potential energy for electric planes?
I'm interested in this because I have a maxed 2018 intel mac mini and loaded it to 64gb of RAM. I want to ditch my eGPU and go to Apple Silicon on the next release.

I wonder if the memory performance should be so surprising. Because haven't people been bemoaning the "low" amount of ram in iPhone / iPad?

iPhone had 4GB on XS, and 11. And only went to 6GB on the Pro models. Yet the performance and benchmarking on these devices has seemed to garner praise with each successive generation.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/10/14/how-much-ram-iphone-12-...
If there's a language that doesn't take 32 byte strings and give you an Ed25519 public key or private key, please do point me to it and I will message the maintainer. We're basically all on the same Slack :)
Hah. Fair play to them.
Steaming pile of rubbish.

I fetched £300k+ offers from several relatively well-known London HFTs. For a regular SWE IC role at the bottom of firm hierarchy, not a quant, so I'm sure far from best paid at each of them. Not a single one made into their list! Among HFT names there's just G-Research, sadly I haven't had the pleasure to interview with them but I'm sure even they pay at least 6 figures to most people.

And "Facebook - Median Total Compensation: £86,423 - Median Base Salary: £78,953" - someone at glassdoor clearly has no clue what Total Compensation means. Or maybe even gets paid to not know any better, seeing how pro-employer that site is.

Get your numbers instead from https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&s...
> but in practice just creates legal uncertainty for everyone involved.

Citation needed. Both civil law and common law seem to have their respective pros and cons. At least my understanding of common law is that in common law you need to be familiar with all past related cases dating back to who knows when, which doesn't exactly make interpreting and understanding the terms of a contract any easier.
Unfortunately (As a sort of insider X BT ) the Postal side always had much worse employee relations.

Part of which was caused the very "antagonistic" IB or SD like the US postal Inspectors.

There was a bit guilty by suspicion tendency that went on and I suspect some of this culture was embedded in the organisation.

Certainly having yourself or your staff investigated by SD was considered very stressful even after the "bad old days"
Oh, me too. Just not to the degree that it would have 1/5th the operating costs. Especially considering the fuel doesn't get lighter as it's spent. One-fifth is a very strong claim.
Nice job, I came back a bit later and am now prototyping it for AsyncGo. Looks great!
Rootlessness and rootedness are themes that wind through most of Wendell Berry's works as well. His novels Hannah Coulter and Jayber Crow take a good look at what increasing rootlessness does to a community: increasing loneliness and isolation, but also eventual environmental destruction.
Engines are complicated and the maintenance and certification requirements on such a complex system in the context of aviation is very expensive. Airplane engines must be rebuilt at set time intervals even if they’re working perfectly because of what is at stake if they fail.

Electric motors are vastly simpler devices with far less moving parts. Much less to go wrong, much less to inspect and replace.

These are savings even before you get to talk about energy efficiency.

These savings aren’t realized in the car market because if the motor of a car fails, it is just an inconvenience. All that extra work doesn’t exist.

These savings aren’t theoretical either —- there are smaller scale electric aircraft used for pilot training on the market already. An hour of time in a Cessna costs $150ish/hour, these new electric planes are boasting costs of around $30/hour.
The reason energy recovery in cars makes sense is that you're constantly stopping and starting. In a plane you definitely don't want the engine to stop running while you're in the air.
Him becoming a PM for Google Maps seems surprising to me considering his entrepreneurial background, but I can’t deny I’ve also considered making the jump now and then from The dev life
I didn't even know moot was there to begin with.
> I wonder which of today's web ads will achieve the cultural significance of these old classics?

This is very unlikely. Back in the day ads were a form of content in themselves. They had to be memorable to be effective, since your TV did not have a "click here" button. Web ads are more comparable to junk flyers, and I doubt you remember any of those.
This is heavy load for any machine unless it's configured as a bona fide workstation. Any machine, any OS (with M1 MacBook Air's HW configuration) would trash its SSD while swapping in that case, IMHO.

> I’m not exactly representative, but I think the stddev of usage patterns is high across developers.

When I'm in development mode with all cylinders firing, I have a single Eclipse window in CDT perspective, a couple of terminal tabs, Zeal (or Dash) for documentation and a couple of firefox tabs for documentation not available in Zeal.

Music is either supplied by a single YouTube tab or Spotify, and that's it.

The most unfortunate component is CPU in my case. I try to ooze every single bit of performance from it while running the application. Memory controller comes the second due to transfer operations but, I neither max out the RAM or cause system to do heavy swapping.

I'm always kind of conscious about the hardware resources of the system and minimize my resource usage habitually, without killing productivity.
I think the phrasing they used ("Let’s talk about 1%. 1% is quite large in practice. The core metric we use is “jank” which is a noticeable delay between when the user gives input and when software reacts to it. Chrome measures jank every 30 seconds, so Jank in 1% of samples for a given user means jank once every 50 minutes.") was just to give an example of what 1% meant in practice.

> Also, this article isn't talking about UI blockage. This is talking about the time delta between user input & the result hitting the eyeball, presumably even across any asynchronous threads/IPC.

Aren't those the same things?
This makes sense, but if I'm handing these things around probably some of the code [gasp] isn't in Go. So someone should write an RFC for the case where you don't need algorithm agility, and then devs don't need to know or care in the slightest what 25519 keys actually are, they just need to call APIs to serialize & deserialize them.
It emerged that Bafin employees were allowed to invest their own pensions during the scenario with insider information. That's pretty shocking. It calls into question why they took legal action against the FT[1] instead of investigating the claims more thoroughly.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/8e1948be-6060-11e9-b285-3acd5d435...

EDIT to add link: https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/news/bafin-blames-em...
I think the problem you had is basically that's in uncommon to be distributing bare public keys in the most common cryptography contexts. Public keys are nearly always part of certificates.

I looked at the @bluesky identity post, and it seems to me that what's being described in the granting process is very close to a self-signed certificate.

To link two identities, couldn't you create a self-signed certificate with two SANs that identify your identity on P1 and P2 and post the same certificate to both of them, then send links to the two posts to the ledger?

An X.509 certificate is already a structured method to create a payload consisting of a public key, various claims as to identity of the subject, and a wrapping signature.
Same here, zero freezing and amazing performance. I use Safari though and have not even installed Chrome.
I'm chuckling to myself at "there are not many new language features" because that's what I thought.

There's fair amount added to the core since C89, actually... And if you include the library changes, game over! I had no idea how much had been added.

More challenging is to find what's been subtracted.

This no longer defaults to int:

static i;

And gets() is toast.

Anyone know any others?
Kindof. Currently used for emergency recovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
A developer who is new to a technology absolutely needs to read the documents. No matter how good or bad, it's important because it probably tells you a lot of stuff you wouldn't learn on your own (or that someone else will teach you wrong).

I do a lot of GCP work anymore, and the amount of devs who make service authentication way more complicated than it needs to be is really freaking high. It's clear that the people who kicked off the project are pulling blocks from SO rather than RTFM because the FM has a simple decision tree for how to use authentication. Reading through the docs could have saved these projects each hours of time, simplified deployment and reduced the security risks associated with passing around json auth tokens (or worse: checking them into VCS.
This range is also the sweet spot for high-speed rail which is far more efficient, in energy and travel time. France has even banned short-haul flights for this reason.
Cars don't require a complete rebuild every 2000 hours. Maybe that's the cost they are hoping to eliminate?
BBC radio 4 did a thing about this, even when the post office knew they kept going throwing people in prison. It's so depressing. What's also depressing is that people trusted this software. How did the defence teams never question it properly the first time. I mean if it's a ledger, prove it works.
That is a tempting conclusion, but consider if the software was 100% correct per some specification, and the spec was wrong?

No, the problem is greater than that. Decisions that affect people should not be made solely by computers or algorithms, and those decisions should be made transparent and auditable. If that leads to different/better ways of writing software, good. It's a larger societal issue though.
For an existing electric aircraft (Pipistrel Alpha), the fuel cost advantage is claimed to be 10x of equivalent ICE-powered model.
Potentially on descent, but I think it's a much smaller potential benefit in an airplane, and perhaps tricky because you don't want to extract so much energy that you lose speed and stall.
Sure, that's a logically coherent framework you can choose to believe.

Personally, I like to interpret people's actions in a framework of maximum charity and compassion. Their work benefits others at risk to themselves, so why not take the opportunity to give them credit for that?

You can do that while simultaneously criticizing the financial systems that make doing that work a less than perfectly free choice.
"These savings aren’t theoretical either —- there are smaller scale electric aircraft used for pilot training on the market already. An hour of time in a Cessna costs $150ish/hour, these new electric planes are boasting costs of around $30/hour."

That would be somewhat compelling proof, but you seem to be mixing "price offered to the renting flyer" and "cost incurred by the owner".
It's pretty clear you're trolling now, but FWIW:

- slices and maps are already generic in Go

- Go has great performance, great readability and write ability, and that's valuable for everyone, not just beginners

- Go is a language, not a library

> The fact it took years to plan them instead of including them right away is a nice proof of how ill-conceived Go is as a language.

It's not. Really.
Honestly, the documentation builtin search engine is usually way worse than google's. If I type something like "python 3.4 queue docs" I'm at the right docs page for that exact module and version in seconds.
Array initializers! Lots of changes there.
Oh, things subtracted? Wasn't there a change in typedef vs type tags?
Is it beej or bj?
The performance difference between i7s of 10 years ago versus today is more than 2x per core, and the number of cores have also more than doubled in that time period.

That's over a 4x performance difference in 10 years, it's not quite the good old days of Moore's law, but it's still an exponential improvement.
The problem with these cards is actually being able to get one. Even if you've got the $2k to spend for a 3090, good luck with finding stock.
"I didn’t get a job because I was a bully in high school"
Planes don’t brake (except for a brief moment while landing), so no.
If you are taking someone to court, maybe be cautious, could it be a bug, are there similarities across the all cases here? Etc.
An hour to get to a GA airport is really uncommon in the US, most people live within 20 min. If you're a pilot-owner, then sure, it adds to the time, however this aircraft will most likely be professionally flown.