skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you recommend as a solution? Do you honestly think if MS and a few other companies paid more in tax things will magically get better? Do you trust the government to send that money properly? The problem runs much much deeper. This is only scratching the surface.
According to Boom, they are aiming for fares to be the same price or cheaper than today's business class travel.

Plus I imagine many of the ultrarich that you are talking about would prefer to fly private even if it is slower than flying commercial. Flying private also cuts into the time saving benefit of supersonic flight. You save time pre-flight as you can basically drive up to the plane, get in, and be immediately ready for takeoff rather than needing to arrive an hour or two early. And private flights operate on your personal schedule which is obviously much more convenient than organizing your schedule around someone else's timing.
> - Noise means you can't do US domestic

The companies working on supersonic jets are in process of lobbying hard to get FAA approval for exemptions from noise regulations. [1]

> - Concorde didn't have the range for Pacific

Not their target market, they want to be a successful niche.

> - Costs didn't work for Atlantic routes

They claim improvements in fuel efficiency and their unique selling point (apart from the speed advantage) is the use of "green" fuels (whatever that implies). Also, see previous point: they don't want to be mainstream anyway.

> - And airlines want lots of identical planes, not one special one for one route

Not a problem they want to solve. Niche and all.

While the economics are indeed questionable, these products cannot be compared to flagship products like Concorde. The jets are significantly smaller (50 PAX vs. 92-128 PAX), benefit from 50 years of progress in aviation technology, manufacturing, and operations and they have a very specific use case in mind.

Concorde was the result of a technological dick-waving contest between Western Europe and the US w.r.t. civil aviation technology. Its purpose was as much of a political nature as it was an attempt at testing/demonstrating the practicality of supersonic passenger jets.

It ultimately failed, but that doesn't mean contemporary attempts have to due to the differences in scope, technology and potentially regulatory environment.

I remain sceptical, but I wouldn't want to write it off as a failure from the get-go.

[1] https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/news/flight-te...
- a government borrows heavily and spends on useless things that won't generate future revenue (unlike roads, education which would)
- government raises taxes because they can no longer borrow to spend on things
- companies decide to keep their international profits in international accounts because that money to their country seems foolish at that point.
- somehow that's affecting the "poor" people in the said very rich country?
Anti-Racism is a hard concept for me to grasp. When I was growing up we were taught to judge everyone by the content of their character. To me it made sense, why care about what people look like if they are good people. But now that view is considered racist and judging people by what they look like is "back in style" so to speak.
Deflationary currencies shouldn't be an issue if real prices adjust at a similar pace. The theoretical problem with deflation is mostly that wages are sticky and you can't lower someone's pay very easily. But if everyone has the expectation of deflation it would probably work fine.

Expectations about inflation/deflation are important drivers of these phenomena (not the only ones of course) and if we break the paradigm with cryptocurrencies then it's possible the stickiness problems of deflation could be solved.
Appreciate it. I'm a big fan of Ed25519 as well.
Tauthon is kind of interesting because in addition to guaranteeing compatibility with the latest official 2.7 release they are also trying to back-port as many python 3 feature as makes sense without breaking the backwards comparability.
> "Business users shouldn't be able to use IT change control tools!"

> Wait... isn't this exactly what we're always griping they don't do?

This is something I hate. In IT, we use change control processes - change requests which have to get approved, discussed at the change advisory board, etc.

There are a lot of questions to answer before something goes into Production: Was it tested internally? Did the business area test it and sign off on the change? Is there evidence of said testing? Was code review completed? Is there a backout plan?

I've never seen the same rigour applied to configuration or processes that are managed by the business area, even though their configuration can do quite a bit of damage. Change the inactive customer purge time from 2 years to 2 days? Oops, virtually all of the customers have been purged.
It's not SNL's influence, it's the fact that the brand has filtered into mainstream entertainment as the butt of a joke. Think of it as a signal of a larger problem.
Do they? The FAQ suggests that they are not aiming to do supersonic flight over land:

> Won’t the sonic boom be loud?

> Overture flights will focus on 500+ primarily transoceanic routes that benefit from supersonic speeds—such as New York to London or San Francisco to Tokyo. Overture won't generate a sonic boom over land cruising at subsonic speeds.
I was drawn to the article because I work with audio software and thought I might gain some insight into a new technique I might use.

Regardless, even people with deep familiarity in a topic can benefit from succinct explanations.
Actually he's super into stock options and all that stuff. I think he majored in finance. I was the one who convinced him to do programming (although he's heading towards data science I guess now).

Also we had a falling out since then, so shrugs.
That could very well be. It was quite a while ago.
> There is some competition throughout nature

Competition for mates literally forms and morphs most animal species.
It's a ludicrously large truck, so it seems mostly proportional.

https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/0mRz9/s1/2021-ford-f-150.j...
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Upgrading your plugins is not so much a problem.

What is a problem, though, is that when you google an issue, and find a solution, you then have to upgrade that solution to your version of Blender. That is very annoying because unless you're familiar with Blender, you can't tell if the solution is wrong, or correct but outdated.
Every single posting about this was flagged. As I wrote in one of them, I wish I didn't know why, but unfortunately I think I do.

Sadly I've learnt something about a (hopefully small) portion of the HN community over the last couple of days.
Telsa was selling hype to a lot of consumers willing to wait for perfection.

Boom is selling a tiny handful of planes.

So they have to solve these problems, largely when they launch.

Airlines are not going to run at a loss for a decade while things tune up.
you forgot another big one the Concord faced: cosmic radation. The plane carried a geiger counter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Radiation_concerns
There is a cool algorithm called space colonization that can do a lot of what l-systems do (such as tree modeling). Pretty straightforward to implement and has some nice results.

http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/colonization.egwnp2007.l...
At least in CA, and probably other liberal states, you have what is ironically called the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) that distributes funding equally, more or less, and tries to erase these advantages.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/
Given the fuel needed per passenger per mile, I don't think it 's reasonable to call supersonic planes sustainable, even if they use biofuels or synthetic fuels. As long as not all aviation fuel is net zero carbon emission, we shouldn't build/use planes that are unnecessarily inefficient. Also, biofuels and synthetic fuels have their own environmental impact (land use).

Supersonic planes are incredibly cool, but I can't help the feeling that it's an unnecessary and harmful luxury at this point. Although, that goes for a lot of other things used by the ultra-wealthy. Maybe ban yachts first?
I've not explained well, I don't expect the producer to have an obligation to create a copy, just to exhaust their right to sue you for having a copy. But, if the same work _is_ available in another format then I think it would be reasonable to expect the seller to provide it (it costs them bandwidth, nothing else over what they're already spending).

Audiobooks I'd say are new works. If you buy it on a medium you should be allowed to rip it and vice-versa, however (currently not allowed in UK).
Kind of. But if you own state media you can portray yourself as a "glorious leader", while others as "dangerous dictators".
Google’s Artificial Intelligence Features
Why assume it was the manufacturer silently cutting the engineering safety margins rather that the customer asking them to do it?
Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces
Wow, Google finally decided to do something right.
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Getting things right won't get them the outrage and in turn the clicks.

They know what they're doing
It's a common misunderstanding: vulnerability != exposure

There was a rash of CVEs last year because Alpine or Debian or some base image had some sort of SSH exploit baked in, and a 'security researcher' got CVE numbers for pretty much every major container image. In reality, nobody exposes SSH from a container because that's stupid and not useful. Sure, there absolutely was a vulnerability in those images, but no it was never ever actually exposed.

I think this blind focus on CVEs without context is doing harm to the security process, it's taking away from actual work that isn't being done. For example, installing TeamViewer on servers doesn't have a CVE number, but that almost caused a town in Florida to be poisoned.
Those were issues of infrastructure which weren't built out, but could be built out.

Are you planning on refueling the boom mid-air at supersonic speeds?

Tesla also took an approach that analysts who clearly weren't "car guys" weren't expecting: mainly creating something with massive HP and TQ. Previous electric cars had yawn-inducing performance. Someone buying a 5-series probably at least partially bought it for the performance, when they got behind the wheel of a model S it was like getting behind the wheel of a modified M5.

Boom isn't bringing anything new to the table to solve the issues people have listed. Tesla had a plan to solve those issues from the get-go.
What is it that draws you to those options? What about them makes them seem fulfilling? These are answers only you know, and might be useful in your decision.
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Premium air travel is also much more comfortable than it was in the 70s. First class was more akin to domestic business class today than modern lie flat seating much less the real premium roomettes on some airlines.

The connectivity probably does make a difference for some. Personally, I appreciate the disconnect time.
It should be noted that these problems aren't the only important reason why Concorde failed. Pre-orders were made in 1963-1967 and almost all were cancelled in 1973 due to the oil price shock, in addition to a 500% increase in sales price.

Concorde had a bit of bad timing. It was released during the worst crisis of aviation (until 9/11), and there was already a second version planned with increased fuel efficiency, but that came never to be with all orders being cancelled. And those cancellations also meant that all economies of scale advantages were gone.
IIRC Python in the past deliberately randomized the order, then later deliberately fixed the order. Both in the 3.x series.
I wonder if these acquisitions are like the new art collections of the super wealthy.
I think Concorde was profitable - at least for British Airways.
Yeah, I read "petascale" and thought, oh, we must be nearly there. Then I saw "one cubic millimeter"! Oh my, we still have a long ways to go.
probably the fallout games paint an accurate picture.
> The majority of people work because they need to earn money

That might be the reason they work at all, but that's not why you work for Apple, or a similar company.

And I don't even think "people work because they need to earn money" is completely true, in the sense that most people, definitely people with relatively advanced jobs like at Apple, would prefer working to not working, even if someone gave them free money every month. People enjoy the intellectual challenge, the structure, the community etc.
In my case, and this is admittedly unusual, I drank Huel consistently at work. I then eat a traditional meal (or two ) in the evening. Since WFH I only really have Huel in the morning since the oven is just there and I have cravings. I've also generally eat more due to eating my feelings but that is pandemic specific. I've also spent a lot on coffee shops just to get out the flat.
> However, if Mark Zuckerberg goes back on the drawing board to figure what went wrong, he’ll probably realize that data breaches and privacy awareness aren’t the causes of an impending downfall.

> Instead, a lack of effort in developing their own operating system a decade ago might be Facebook’s biggest regret. And this has come back to bite them today.

Crazy that it came to this.
If Damien Hirst sold 1000 more sharks they would also lose value quickly, right?
If they got Google to turn it off by default, it would be right, but how many users are going to do that or even know about this. The average citizen will continue to fund Facebook until they default it to off.
There's no such thing as a government-run school, at least not in the U.S. U.S. public schools are community-run. The local community sets the funding level, the local community provides the facilities, etc. The state may or may not provide additional funding. The state will also set minimum standards for graduation requirements, which apply to all students residing in the state.

Then you have the issue of accountability. Community-run schools are paid for via taxes - either income tax, property tax or a combination for both. Taxes demand representation - in the case of community-run schools the community votes for the school board members who in turn oversee the operations of the community schools. Where's my voice when my money is simply handed to someone to do with as they see fit? Good luck getting your school tax levies renewed in such an environment.

BTW, my state has been grappling with these issues for the past 15 years and it's a mess. A state law got passed saying the community funding must be made available to students for private schools and the results have been predictable. School levies are failing, and the private schools have been involved in scandal after scandal - the largest being a huge embezzlement scheme. A toss-out of the governor and key state legislators got the law reversed.

So we tried this alternative and it failed and failed hard.
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| They're both extremely well rounded adults now and didn't go through the agonies of public schooling.

That is just your opinion and bias. I can share my opinion and bias. My kids go to public schools and love it. We'd never even think about home schooling. Not that everything is perfect, but as long as they are happy, we're happy.
> One question: IF there is a CHANCE that the entire OS is indeed just a `sed s/Android/whatever/g AOSP/`, is it legal (for a company that large) to do that?

Only replacing the string would probably not be enough, but if they also addressed trademarks and copyrighted stuff wouldn't that be more or less that CentOS does ?
Yeah, and how well can the fish climb a tree?
> Yesterday here were news about PayPal terminating an account without explanation again

In the past few weeks crypto has shut down energy infrastructure, meat processing, and a major ferry service.

It's also burning 1% of the world's electricity and rapidly growing.
For a reason I can't quite explain, this story just hits the spot for me. Such fond memories of that video! Good on them!
Ironically I've found the CLI to be the only stable channel of Lighthouse. What do you see that docker fixes?
Okay so like...question time.

You decide that you're going to write a new HTTP request library in Python.

Do you a) wrap libcurl, a blindingly fast and complete library that has had more man-hours of effort put into it than most other codebases on the planet, or b) write something from scratch?

Because out of the 8 or 9 popular Python libraries in use for solving this problem, only PycURL chose a.
Oh, yeah, I just found that part hilarious since it was apparently written at a time when that was still being debated. The book was excellent, and it was cool to learn so much about it.
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Thanks for the channel tips. I was able to find them all except for HAI. Link?
Haha so glad someone brought this up
> To put it straight, Google’s advertising ID (GAID) can no longer be accessed by advertisers if the user disables it from their settings.

> Now that Google is pulling the plug by making GAID almost obsolete, Facebook is about to stare at a bigger loss. If their loss from iOS 14 was in the range of $80bn, Android the more dominant platform will only increase their losses and woes.

Almost obsolete? This means users have to OPT-OUT of tracking as opposed to OPTING-IN to tracking on iOS.

The two "solutions" could not be more different. I hate all of these new articles saying that "Google joins Apple" in restricting FB. Apple is restricting FB 95%, Google is restricting it maybe 5% at best.
Did they find any variables that could explain whether or not the group turned on each other? e.g. resource abundance, gender makeup, age of people, N people, N days stranded, etc?
Maybe in large US universities?

I work in research in a public university in Canada. IT is basically tech support, fix-my-email. There's no chance they would support hosting our data or any other sort of service.

The university expects that researchers self-fund their own stuff using grants. Need laptops for your grad students? Grant money. Need a server, bunch of disks and a sysadmin to care for it? Grant money. Which is only realistic if you're a huge lab with millions a year in grant money. And even then, what happens whn this grant runs out? Your new grant does not pay for hosting some 10 year old data, all money is earmarked for your new project (literally, it would be illegal to spend the money on another project). So the old hosting quietly goes away.
United Plans to Buy 15 Supersonic Planes
Perhaps they continue to vote for 'FFG' on the grounds that unlike SF, they're not apologists for mass murder and terrorism?
What did you do for socialization and interaction with other kids? Have a friend who homeschools and they struggle with that.
They are doing it to kill off competition, not because they care about privacy.
> I maybe in the minority in this comments section but I genuinely enjoy working from office.

I'm going to respond tongue-in-cheek: I also like working from office -- when it's empty or barely occupied, and I can control my whole environment and decide myself when to interrupt my work.

Getting away from a tight apartment, disturbing the routine a bit is nice.
No it didn’t. It sold a lotus Elise, because it was the cheapest way to deliver a car, and the MVP to showcase electric. It did not at all sell hype to consumers waiting for perfection
The planned routes are EWR-LHR, EWR-FRA, and SFO-NRT.

United had pulled out of JFK in 2015, but just recently came back, because it turned out JFK's "prestige" factor impacted their business. EWR is a major United hub, but the idea of EWR being blessed with the "prestige" of supersonic flight is a bit funny.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if it gets moved to JFK as United rebuilds their operation there. A lot can happen in 8 years.
For the European users: https://archive.is/iHdFs
“How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct” hit the front page in May.
Huzzah! I was looking for algorithms that organically grow meshes last week and couldn't find anything past the flood of generating approximate trees for games. This is a great resource.
After exhausting all other options.
Yep a lot of irrational behavior around Covid driven by both ends of the partisan divide. Either you live in camp “Covid doesn’t exist” or the other “keep things closed at all costs”. And lots of social pressure to not advocate the obvious, rational approach. Advocate for sane approach to in person school in our town and you can get yelled out for being a kooky anti masker.
Companies will build planes for whatever the market demands. We need regulatory agencies to impose carbon taxes on fuel usage so that inefficient planes are prices accordingly.
Show HN: Visualizing the link between your values and your demographic
Republicanism, lots of little democracies competing against one another for citizens, yet united when it comes to things like national defense. The US was originally designed to be a constitutional republic but a growing federal government has degraded it to more of a simple representative democracy.
Tesla has at least partly solved some of those, no?

- Charging network: don’t they have their own network? I’m sure it’s not widespread enough to meet everyone’s needs, but it’s not nothing and helped get the ball rolling.

- Battery tech: has been gradually improving, range is now in the hundreds of miles which is enough for many uses.

- Too expensive / everybody wants an SUV: starting with luxury and sports models and gradually following up with mass-market models addresses both of these.

So I think the analogous questions for Boom are good and valid questions. Tesla had decent answers and Boom should too.
I see the point. The Emacs way can also be seen as object-verb, it's just that object is given via selection. I don't have any objections to what you said, maybe I was wrong about Vim/Emacs difference.

But. Kakoune is still something bigger for me. It does take text editing to a new level and it does make it more efficient. It is similar to Emacs in the sense that both follow the sequence “select and apply an action”. But Kakoune has richer selection primitives and has actions that work on multiple selections at the same time; this can be done with macros, but it's by far less convenient.

In your example, you can record a macro and apply it to all the lines of a table. Will you have to do it for each line one by one? Can you say, “run the macro on each line of this paragraph”?

> You have instant feedback while recording a macro too?

Sure, but not on all the places where you're going to apply it at the same time. And your macro may not work correctly on some of the lines, you will not see it while recording it. With multiple selections you see it immediately and can undo the last action and try again.

Multiple selections stay there after you apply actions on them. After you apply something, you can see the result and slowly think of the thing to do next with them. With a macro, you will have to type in the whole sequence when you record the macro.

Macros can achieve the same things, but they require more mental effort and are harder to get used to. And when you're focused on your code, the mental effort it takes to used your editor matters.

In the same way, multiple selections are an improvement over Vim's tradition of shooting regexes at your text; for the same reasons: interactiveness and instant feedback.
It was a big source of internal pride when I was at Microsoft. As far as tech companies go, Satya’s version of Microsoft really does give a damn about people, including it’s employees. Great place to work.
...or the bank launders over $10 bullion, pays a $700m fine and everyone walks away free.
I'm sure you've spent lots of money, possibly your parents, to be told what to think.
Well, in this way at least, they are quite like Elon Musk's startups.