skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you can use models and wind tunnels, which, as Walter alludes to, the Wrights, unlike many of their competitors, did. The Wright Flyer was not airworthy by modern standards, but it served their purpose, which was to validate their approach and establish precedence.

The state of aerodynamics in 190x was more advanced than I suspect you imagine, with Lanchester on the right track in thinking about vorticity. Here's an interesting article on the divide between theorists and practitioners (which the Wrights partially, but not completely, bridged - and the theorists were evidently not all communicating with each other, either), and it also mentions the flawed assumption, of flying being like boating, that I mentioned in my earlier post.

https://www.aerosociety.com/media/4846/fw-lanchester-and-the...

It also shows that Lanchester, regardless of his theoretical chops, was not a successful airplane designer! He comes across as putting too much emphasis on how he thought things should be.
Why just the size of a coffee table and smaller? I bought a massage chair with 2 day delivery from there. And a lot of my larger furniture.
Seems excessive, how well is the Korean government in stewarding public resources and identifying areas of the economy to direct capital? Do they have a history of being the proper stewards of this money than a private person?
Isn't that textbook ban evasion?

The company is for sure tracking your IP's and if they see two account with the same IP chances are they could ban both accounts.

I would use a VPN with your other account to be careful, or just in general.

And then they could also be fingerprinting your browser.

I don't know of any safe way to have multiple accounts, other than separate computers and one of the computers is on a VPN.
I'd be surprised if any of our journalists had fewer than 20 tabs open at a time.
HAL was envisioned based on an early approach to AI. Modern AI techniques really don’t fit that model.
I'm confused...did you fix the caching issue in S3 or not?

The article seems to explain why there is a caching issue, and that's understandable, but it also reads as if you wanted to fix it. I would think the headliner and bold font if it was actually fixed.

For those curious, the problem is that S3 is "eventually consistent", which is normally not a problem. But consider a scenario where you store a config file on S3, update that config file, and redeploy your app. The way things are today you can (and yes, sometimes do) get a cached version. So now there would be uncertainty of what was actually released. Even worse, some of your redeployed apps could get the new config and others the old config.

Personally, I would be happy if there was simply an extra fee for cache-busting the S3 objects on demand. That would prevent folks from abusing it but also give the option when needed.
My guess (and that's all it is) is that it's the airflow around the blades -- it's a loud humming noise, present even on an unloaded (no turbine) VAWT. Much the same way that ships' propellers create noise: it is primarily generated by the blade causing a partial vacuum behind the trailing edge of the blade, and the collapse of that vacuum creates the noise.
A clear sign of market failure. There’s a reason scalpers can charge the prices they do.
If someone can execute arbitrary JS they can already exfiltrate any information they want with userid attached, in addition to impersonating users etc. This is a far bigger risk than that they might add a call to document.interestCohort() and opt that page into FLoC?
I've never thought of GitHub like that, but it makes so much sense. With all of the features (like the commit heat-map), GitHub is at this point 2 parts social network, and 2 parts social network for software.
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I am also really unwilling to pay that, "forever" disappeared in two weeks, "yearly" would disappear in the same way.

Maybe if it would really, relay low (below 1$) but that in turn is not sustainable at all.

In short, I really see no good way right now to deal with paid apps. Both as an user and as a potential author.
Have you tried to use your GDPR rights and complain if they were not delivered? You are most likely get a template response, completely irrelevant to your complaint. Then few more templates when you try to "escalate" and finally you get no replies.
That's how those big companies are serious about GDPR.
Then if you try to complain to one of the body responsible for GDPR they'll likely say if you don't like the service, delete your account and no further action will be done.
GDPR is one of those all sizzle but no stake.
BFP is the real deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_fat_percentage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Limitations

(however the statistics on BMI vs mortality as still completely valid)
There are many popular messaging applications(Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp) that are cross platform and handle multimedia content well. This is what is used outside of the US.
And for those who use minio server, the self hosted s3 storage, that has strong consistency, too.
I don't know about that. My memory of shepherds from when I was a kid in my grandparents' village was of a guy being covered head to toe in what looked like terribly hot clothing for the summer. And this wasn't some high-altitude village, either.

I figure I was getting much more sun exposure as a kid running around in t-shirt and shorts then the local shepherds did.
If I were an editor, and someone passed me their amatuerish version of Lolita to edit through, I'd be well within my rights to say that I didn't want to be involved in it.

More broadly, the editing company I worked for could say - even if you don't intend on releasing this and even if our individual editors don't mind reviewing it - we don't want to have to edit it, and we don't want to be associated with it.

This is no different, but at scale. AI Dungeon, due to their agreement with OpenAI, don't want to have to work with this content. They've found a pretty awful way of implementing it to save the relationship with OpenAI, and hopefully they'll find a better one in the future.
And that disbelief is part of why its so hard to correct.
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The new title is also terrible. It takes one fact mentioned in an article about broad trends in publishing and elevates it to the main thrust, which it really isn't. Would have been better to leave the original title and let people who actually read it decide what to discuss.
Yes and WhatsApp is not as popular in the US, with messaging being very fragmented between a variety of other Facebook products.
Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font
There's a subplot of that in Kirk Vonnegut's novel Timequake...though it involves a parking garage in the style of Thomas Jefferson.
Qinaps
this is a great explanation of ETH2.0 problems. I've dived into ADA instead https://www.coincashew.com/coins/overview-ada/guide-how-to-b... and so far it feels great. Like free money to just set a server up like this.
Looks good! I like the atmospheric halo around the planet when you zoom out being dependant on the light direction and the angle you're looking at the planet from.

I've tried to get a grasp of how it's working on the 3D side by having a look at the github sourcecode, but seems like it's all managed by the "sceneview" module from the ArcGIS software as opposed to a custom implementation, is it?
Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
The Iran of today is a pariah state. The leader of the Iranian Basij volunteer force, made the declaration that “Wiping Israel off the map is not up for negotiation.” and this has become the de facto policy of its leadership. The central question here is why does Iran need nuclear arms capability at all? If they backed off on their aggressiveness, who would be a threat to them? Iraq was in the 80s, but now certainly not the Israelis or Arabs. Iran has massive hydrocarbon resources to finance any level of wealth desired. They don’t need economic aid, but they choose to behave as a pariah in their neighborhood, and are sanctioned by most of the rest of the world. So yes calling them a 'pariah state' is 100% absolutely accurate and helpful because I think it’s just a matter of time before their relatively young population wakes up realizes it and throws the bums out. As their maniacal leadership keeps squirming to get around the sanctions; they keep screwing their population, which is highly educated, and realize they are suffering for the sins of the theocratic leadership. I really think the best outcome for this is an internal uprising, before the Israelis - and their new Arab friends - decide to take care of the problem.
Last time I heard about this, there was some south koreans explaining this is very not nice, that the laws are silly, and can be weaponized.

For example you can gift someone a expensive building right before your death, because when you do die, they will be forced to pay so much inheritance tax, that they would have to sell the building, since selling the building is quite hard, it is likely the person will just go bankrupt, or go to jail.

EDIT: I misremembered something. The gift wasn't before death, it was on the will. ie: person die, and "target" inherits some expensive crap he can't sell.
Duh! Why didn't I thought of that?! Thanks, it sure works!
WILL, a kind of abstract but measurable power. We don't know exactly what it is, where it is contained, or how it works, but we can intuitively point to somewhere in our world and say, "that person has lots of willpower" or, "that action required lots of willpower to pull off". So it's defined about as well as consciousness is at the moment.

FREE is a loaded word; It can mean free as in no cost, or free as in without restriction. These are interrelated; Restrictions increase cost. Resources diminish restrictions. But no action in the universe is completely without cost nor restriction.

Even when you generate power you're not creating it from nothing, you're extracting it from one form into another, more usable to you. After use it transforms into yet another, waste form, economically unviably unusable to you personally, but not any kind of "absolute waste". One being's waste is another's food.

Even the most powerful systems in the known universe are subject to restrictions of the physical laws. Humans have long theorized the existence of god(s), systems that transcend all limitations. But they have never been observed scientifically. Every system previously thought "ultimate" in any way has been discovered to be a measurable part of our universe. Currently the most "ultimate" thing challenging our comprehension are black holes. Compare them to god(s): They cannot be seen directly. They are the most powerful things we think might exist. They affect everything around them. We know almost nothing about them, besides how they affect the universe.

So then what is FREE WILL? We can intuitively point to instances of it, and it seemes to be some kind of power that facilitates change in the universe. Humans seem to have more of it than other animals, on the basis that we've changed our world in more numerous and complex ways than any other animal. It might be an energy source we can draw from, like the Sun or black holes. Something we're not sure where it's coming from, yet. Once we discover the exact nature of it, what revelations about our universe might we achieve?

Consider that at one point in the evolutionary history of life on this planet, the Sun was this magical, invisible, distant, ambient energy that some organisms learned to harness with a process later named photosynthesis. Plants probably still don't understand the nature of the Sun, but their proliferation of the surface has allowed us to thrive and understand it. And for most of our civilized history we only knew it's a cyclic point energy source that makes everything go more alive when there's enough of it, and increasingly dead when there's too much of it.

Is the Sun an illusion? Of course not. Is free will an illusion? Of course not. We just don't know what it is, yet.
You say “train companies” as if every major subway/metro outside of Japan wasn’t nationalized in the early 20th century.
> every page with ads (as determined by an opaque and ever-changing method in a closed source browser)

Chrome'a ad detection code is open source; https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs... is a good place to start.
Peter Doherty, more like Pete Doherty!
I just know that these things won't happen right now:

1) Job interview? The big corporate sales prospect I'm courting? "Company policy is that we do all our calls through [some corporate communication tool]. It's on [store that popped up to cater to enterprises, so they could ship more spyware to their employees]" So I cancel the calls, or install that store and their probably-spying app.

2) That chat app or social network your entire family & friend group is on? Crippled or absent on the App Store, full version only on an alternative store.

For #1: "So use a different phone for all business interactions" OK, but right now I don't need to. That is a solution, but right now it's not one I need, and I don't want to need it.

Maybe those wouldn't happen. Right now, they can't. I chose my mobile devices in part for that feature.
Is it just me or does the concept of min-maxing a game like Stardew Valley seem incredibly perverse to everyone else too?
Bummer that this doesn’t seem to support or explicitly plan for the proposed FUTEX_SWAP operation[1] (unless I’m missing it).

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/824409/
That's mostly because of a rule change at the start of the pandemic that made a lot of previously M2 money suddenly classify as M1 money.

If you look at the M2 money stock (of which M1 is a subset), you can see that things are a whole lot less dramatic.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
Something I am not sure about as a layman: What is the likelihood that the documents Signal are allowed to publish, concerning subpoenas, are an accurate account of all the information they can provide? Could Homeland Security/FBI compel them to lie in the evidence they have produced?

In [1], Signal mention that traffic correlation via timing attacks and IP addresses are a work-in-progress as far as their metadata protection goes. They also claim that they do not store IP addresses, or at least they are not set up to do so. I guess they can be forced to record some of these, if need be.

I am not deeply concerned about the metadata Signal could possibly collect if compelled to (although it is unclear what exactly they can collect) because it is likely best-in-class among encrypted messengers anyway. I suppose it is likely that even if Signal were forced to lie or undergo a gag, the chance of whistle-blowing would be much higher given that they are a donations based nonprofit that probably employ more young-ish people with strong principles, as opposed to employees who need a stable job and have families to look after.

[1] https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
> that a particular Roman had a hard time representing a pinecone in a mosaic

It's too bad nobody hired him to represent pineapples, though, because he would have done a great job.
I had trouble finding a good FI planning and simulation tool that could model things in enough detail to finally ditch my spreadsheets... so I built one.

Would love it if any of you want to try it out. It does not involve linking any accounts and almost all the functionality is free. And if anyone wants to become a beta tester for the few premium features, you can use coupon code BETA-6001 for 60% off :)

https://projectifi.io/
No one person is being double taxed. The deceased was taxed once and then the inheritor is taxed once.
It demonstrates one problem that could be eliminated by central planning, but hard to say that it is argument for it.

Equivalent problems of central planning are even worse.
On a side note, I wonder if this could run on iPads, since it's just JavaScript. If I could run Photoshop 4 decently, it suddenly becomes interesting.
Rolling: Tetris with over 20 button presses per second
Except the inheritance is in shares but the tax is cash.
If you use acceleration it can play 1080p H264 videos at 60FPS. Any other questions?
Holding companies to the basic standard of good customer service like we used to.
The system of having a judge/prosecutor with broad investigative powers is unknown in the US, which is probably a good thing given how the rest of the system is organized.

The jury that hears the evidence in a trial is referred to as the petit jury (small jury). It is convened for a single case.

The grand jury is a standing body (also supposed to be drawn from the populace, and with definite tenure) which hears preliminary evidence and in theory decides whether there is enough of a case that an actual trial would be warranted. It can issue subpoenas (as in this situation).

The rest of the US system is weird. At the federal level the people who judge the cases are a whole branch who do pretty much nothing but that. The actual bringing of the cases is the responsibility of the executive. Oh, various departments of the executive have their own "courts" too that rule with no juries. There is no constitutional reason why this whole apparatus could not be part of the judicial branch but I've not seen any interest in that happening. Actually the executive's courts are pretty clearly not constitutional but they have survived enough challenges that they are simply the way they are.

At the state level the same system is roughly followed but in most, or perhaps all states, the attorneys general (who oversee all prosecutions) and Supreme Court judges are elected. Sheriffs too, which in some states are important police, and even some chiefs of police. You might think that this direct election would reduce the chance of corruption but of course it seems to run the opposite way. The longstanding American distaste for competence is the strongest force against a trained, standing set of people to do things.
As shopworn as the term is, this is what is meant by "institutional racism." Racist sentiment is not necessary for people to behave in what is ultimately a racist way.

I would also challenge your notion. It is true that wealth is correlated with educational achievement. But educational achievement will not, in itself, lead to someone speaking in a way that is more patrician. Is it the kind of society we want to create where you are essentially "locked in" to your parents' social position? It may even be the case that, assuming two people with the same education, the person from a lower class background is more likely to be exceptional.
If you want to have a look at the study, it is linked from the article.
You could refuse the gift?
I'm testing it now.. gotta work the timer is running ;)
I'm not an expert, but I thought one of the main advantages of vertical turbines was better usage of rapidly changing wind
Kubernetes hot reload and delivering the best possible inner-loop dev experience
https://www.damninteresting.com/a-blight-on-soviet-science/
I used to believe the same as you about the usability of Matrix, but then I discovered the Fluffy Chat matrix client. It aims and looks to be as simple to use as WhatsApp or Telegram. Check it out if you haven't seen it: https://fluffychat.im/en/
It's been well known for a very long time that for some the education you receive at Yale or Harvard is more about how to be a member of that class, to learn the manners, speech, and dress, that will win you the job at companies playing by those rules. The "Gentleman's C" you earn is less consequential.
I wouldn't worry too much about those exact markets, that's cyclical.

I remember in the early 2000s when the internet really made finding collectibles easier, the old computer market got insane, like $1200 for a standard C64 on ebay, because more people were able to bid on it. Those prices eventually came back down to earth, $250-$300 for a nice one now.
Starvation was a Big Deal(TM) in pre-ww2 Russia. Many of the best and brightest were drawn toward working on agricultural problems in their niche. Mikhail Kalashnikov got interested in mechanics and engineering because he wanted to help design better farm equipment and improve yields.
That seems very far-fetched. For one, you can refuse gifts. Furthermore, I'd assume that the tax is based on fair market value, and if they can't sell the building because no one wants to buy it, doesn't that mean that the market value is $0?
I was comparing a big electric car with a fat battery vs a cheaper electric car with a smaller battery + a rental car for holidays. Of course buying a used ICE car is currently still cheaper.
me, too.

:(
A joke that makes some people PAPER millionaires. People are ignorant about liquidity risk and just assume there will be buyers when they want to cash out.
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I feel like I'm the only iPhone user that barely makes use of iMessage. All my chat communications is done via Google Hangouts (or whatever they call it these days), WhatsApp, or Kakao (I'm Korean). I think I have exactly one friend who I use iMessage with.

Then again, half my friends are Android users, so...
Intel's Tiles sound like an engineering nightmare. There's no way they're going to compete with AMD with a "roadmap" like the one they've shown so far.
I keep wanting to read that title as: Vertical turbines far more efficient than large-scale wind farms

But then you read up and it's really: Vertical turbines far more efficient when in large-scale wind farms than they are individually

Whether they can ever be made to be efficient enough to make sense seems to be the question.
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And because an outside force compels me, I am unable to.
Well, would you consider a cozy fire with family to be worth giving one day of your life for? I mean, what do you live for?
absolutely not. I'm sorry makani went under (there's an excellent documentary about them on YT), but when you compare their extreme complexity for a "simple" 600kW unit to newer wind turbines that are now reaching 10MW, you'll see why
Isn't the existence in a more realistic hiring process of a huge weight of objective and reasonable criteria an unjustified, unlikely and politically subjective assumption?

Given that one small element of interview presentation has been shown to involve irrational bias, perhaps it's more reasonable to assume that most others also involve unconscious or explained-away bias? So perhaps hiring decisions are influenced 0.01% by speech and accent, 64.99% by other class, race and gender markers, and 35% by reasonable criteria such as competence? Why wouldn't this be your base case assumption?
Land use efficiency is not the same as economical efficiency. Arguing that we should build vertical turbines because they are more land-use-efficient is silly, because land is cheap where we build wind farms.

The only efficiency that matters is power generated per dollar invested. And if these vertical turbines were more efficient that way, then we would already be using them widely.
That's the right perspective to look at it. It wasn't just increased productivity which brought us to HDLs, but it was the sheer impossibility of understanding or keeping track of the ever larger and more complex designs with schematics. With todays software systems we have exactly the same problem (but computer scientists apparently prefer to retry and reinvent things than to study anything old). UML (and with version 2 also SysML) finally had an equivalent textual representation, but it was much too late.
>For a period of several days earlier this year, a .git directory on the VPS hosting this site was exposed to the internet by a configuration mistake, providing enough information to allow an attacker to access the site's database.

Storing credentials in git. Ahh a classic!