skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They won't even be able to take it to a bank, but it'll enhance their credibility with VCs. United get a bit of PR, and if Boom does work out they're at the front of the queue and have probably influenced the design a bit by the time it comes to deciding whether to actually pay.
Is silicon cheap enough that we can do what we do for spacecraft and have multiple processors (where the majority "wins") for fault tolerance?
You're entirely correct. I'm guessing you'll get a commenter or two saying something about how critical race theory isn't really Marxism, as if that undermined your point. It doesn't.

The toxic things being taught in the schools, which seem to me to be a transmogrified form of segregationism wherein woke whites must take up the woke white man's burden and be overlords for supposedly incapable blacks. Just as Bolshevik Marxists tended to be intellectuals from bourgeoisie families who regarded the proletariat as generally too stupid to be given power, so it is with the woke whites today.
I'm thinking about Staff Engineering as described in [0]

0: https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes
I started reading about Python long before I began programming in it (partially due to a deeply terrible book on the topic I purchased). I ran across the integer division bit and stopped cold. "That," I remember thinking, "is a language feature they will change."
> Crypto shines where the government is messing with banking and currencies

but isn't any cryptocurrency still directly tied to some fiat currency? Unless everyone uses crypto then at some point it gets exchanged for dollars at which point the low value of the dollar in a place like Venezuela is realized and you're stuck in the same situation but with more hassle.
In what way are Israeli arabs treated differently under Israel law than Israeli Jews?
What if I made a flyer that promoted a "Black lives matter mostly peaceful arson and riot" ? Somehow I don't think Stanford would be saying "chill out it's just satire."
It is indeed. The pattern that OP apparently doesn't like is that the cryptographic material needed to actually verify the other party is somewhat buried, and as a result surely few people do this.

As critiques of signal go, it is perhaps not entirely unfounded, but I'm not sure it'd be my first - or even second - qualm.
I don't disagree, but I think you're overlooking one thing.

There are more kids wanting to be social media influencers than there are doctors, lawyers, or fighter pilots. The chances aren't purely based on how much demand there is for a given job, but also on how much supply. For that one million spots competition is fiercer.
Thank you, I'll check it.
The link to your Intern Software Engineer position 404s and no similar role is listed at https://angel.co/company/codecov/jobs. Are you still looking for an SWE Intern?
Flat-packed pasta takes on 3D shapes as it cooks
> A large % of people now believe that the finance industry only exists to work against them and make an elite minority rich.

And that's because it is true. The vast majority of the financial services industry is designed to screw people over.

The only thing an average citizen can do is let them skim off as little money as possible. Buy stocks in solid companies, and hold on to them for a long time. Index mutual funds with minimal administration overhead. Things like that where you can invest a portion of your life's savings without getting screwed over too bad.
While in sentiment I agree with you, this is not being applied consistently throughout society. We are currently in an environment of maximum consequences, no tolerance afforded. Until something pulls us back from the brink, it needs to be that way consistently or more tensions will be inflamed.
This seems to be the growing trend of anything happening online or within media outlets. "We hold these rights as sacrosanct for all people ...unless they use those rights against causes or people for which we support, including us!"
> Too many people get motion sickness from it and I don't think it's only a matter of more pixels/fps.

What do you think it's a matter of then? I guess I would add latency to the list, but those 3 metrics seem to capture the difference in visual perception between vr and the real world?
Are you saying NASA/Lockheed Martin's X-59 is related to Boom? Or that Boom have similar goals?
Intriguing idea
Might be an obvious question, but is there an engineering reason behind why they have the Avro Arrow / Concorde delta wing? Is that just a thing that makes physics sense for supersonic flight?
It is better to point out how it is counterproductive and offer better arguments on the table. Because we won't bring "balance" by stomping on some other ethnic group, or fall into even more generalization about groups of people.
Another part of the problem is when the criticizers forget that Zionism got a huge boost after pogroms on Jewish communities across Europe.

So, by criticising Zionism in a middle of a self defense operation in Gaza (as they see it), you look like you don't know its roots and look like they ignoring the Jewish right for self defense.
I don’t think there’s a nicd way to say this, but this article is trash.
Just a bunch of factless assertions, sensationalized statements and evident contradictions.

I think moving forward the term “Substack Journalist” will generally be used to refer to the authors of this low quality and factless reporting, that gets dangerously close to misinformation.

The same way that “Soundcloud Rapper” refers to the low quality and amateur rappers that upload their music to Soundcloud (although the latter seems to have some outliers).
Automatic Rust verification tools (2021)
You should post a video of it on YouTube (or somewhere else you prefer). A lot of people might enjoy it... a bit like Norweigan "slow TV".
> I don't know if Arrival has a book

Yep. Arrival is an adaptation of a Ted Chiang short story, Story of Your Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life)
Congrats on reverting home computing back to the amiga days then.

I have walked into target, bought androids, pulled them out of the box and connected them to the network over which they would immediately proceed to download gigabytes of malware from the play store.
Nice config. I'll use it to help me enhance my own nvim setup. Thanks for the share.
I sold a company to Naspers once (the parent company of Prosus). Their philosophy is to let their portfolio companies continue to operate independently.

I continued to be the CEO of my company, and I reported to a regional CEO, who reported to the CEO of Naspers. I share this because I found it odd that "CEO" was basically a middle manager ;)
Let's see here... If you suggest there might be biological differences between men and women, you get fired. If you advocate for the "elimination of the Jewish problem", you get, uh, 'reassigned'.
Some people are more sensitive to affected by anti-semitism than others. That's the issue.
Looks interesting! Not to put a dampener on the project but the name clashes with Cake (C# Make) project which could be confusing - https://cakebuild.net/ None the less this looks like a useful tool.
Wow. This is cool. Looks like cutting-edge technology for 1972. (Apollo 11 landing was in 1969) The engines had digital control system connected to digital sensors in the front of the plane.
To quote a since-deleted twitter thread written in response to this article at the time:

> Golding is not trying to play this Rosseau-v-Hobbes game of bringing humanity back to the state of nature and see what they look like. His children are not living in a natural state: they are self conscious heirs to an entire civilization, and they realize quite early on that they live on the razor's edge of life and death. So they create rules and orders to keep their society running. A little democracy that honors natural goodness and leadership.

> A little democracy that does not last.

> And that is what people don't seem to get about this book. It isn't a parable about what happens when you taken men out of society--it is a parable about how men act in society.

The whole thread is worth reading, though it's not well preserved:

https://twunroll.com/article/1260958965082488832
COVID forced the experiment of full time remote office work on corporations without managers having any influence over how long it would be implemented.

So now we know the result of that experiment - just look at the S&P500 / Dow market caps. An over-simplification, I know, but hey, that's price of the stock is the CEO's score card.

Corporate middle management and CEOs no longer have any excuse for maintaining the amount of office space that they do, so they're now resorting to empty, superficial reasoning. Case in point:

> "Cook wrapped up the memo by saying that he's looking forward to seeing employee faces. "I know I'm not alone in missing the hum of activity, the energy, creativity and collaboration of our in-person meetings and the sense of community we've all built," he wrote."

The CEO needs to be an extraverted person, the role requires that type of personality, especially for a high profile corporation like Apple. Therefore, CEO needs to twist his brain into mental gymnastics in order to justify the 10 year lease s/he signed just 2 years ago ( or in the case of Apple, the capital expense of Apple's big, round HQ building).

"Synergy! Cross pollination of ideation! Innovation! Business jargon! MBA buzzwords!" - so says every American CEO.

yawn

Personally, I did enjoy office time pre COVID, but the commute nowadays (I have to take public transportation bc I live in NYC) is not something I look forward to. I also know I have been more productive.

So we all have to suffer a little more so that the CEOs and middle managers feelings feel better, but at least remote work will be more common than ever before.
Have you walked through Pioneer Square or down Third Avenue in Seattle recently?
Why keep IT around if everything is working right now? Because by the time you need them again, it will take months to get a new crew up to speed and catch up. In the meantime, the business will suffer.

If actual combat kicks up, then tanks start getting destroyed or break down very quickly. If it takes a year to restart production, it's a very real possibility to not have enough before they start leaving the factory again.

Did you know that the Chinese state-run media is now hyping up nukes in preparation for a potential US war over COVID? [0] If they are actually working on increasing their nuke stockpile, they are definitely also working on increasing total military readiness.

If the US and China got into a conventional war, how long do you think the current tank stockpile would last? The US isn't going to take that chance and the very fact that they have a constant stream of available tanks is one more reason for China to avoid war.

On the whole, I'd rather pay a few dollars to help deter war rather than spend a bunch of lives fighting that war and in case the deterrent fails, at least we are ready.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/china-state-media-says-country-must...
Wow, 14 years ago.

I hope the current progressive correct-thinkers realize the takes they make today have to hold up over a decade from now, otherwise the next wave is going to cancel them.
There's an "unknown unknowns" factor specifically for including guesses about new features or last-minute changes.

And the great thing about being able to run estimates quickly is that you can tell the CEO how much their new idea will send the timeline off course as soon as they propose it, so they can decide if it's really worth the cost.

I've been using this tech for years as a consulting engineer; this is just the dressed up version. It's been useful and effective for me, at least.
Damore held and advanced his beliefs while working for Google. Bobb went on his "rant" (actually just one instance) back in 2007 and has recanted his beliefs. So the disparate treatment is based on disparate behavior, which isn't on its own an inconsistency nor necessarily a policy change.
TSMC Announcements: 4nm Will Arrive Sooner, 5nm Capacity to Expand, and More
Google finally decided to do something right under pressure coming from Apple. I can't praise enough for Apple though. Yes, of course, Apple's product is not user, so naturally its interests may align better with users. Still, this push for privacy is going to have a long term impact in the industry.
Hello World of Programming with Linear Algebra
So, it took some digging, but here is the text

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:luIscB...

As you can see, it's a quite well written critique of Israel, and it is definitely NOT anti-Semitic.

I find it quite ironic that it took Google's cache to find the thing Google itself wants canceled
The problem is sticking to applicability in probability/stats only gets you so far. I'm in that rut having a firm grasp of how it is applied but not being able to actually apply it in the real world because the real world scenarios are all different.

It's easy to make trivial mistakes without a firm grasp of the theoretical side in my opinion. It's important to understand the implications of the choices being made and the theoretical limitations of the models being created.
Same with Microsoft.
I'm not the GP, but yes it is. The umbrage that the GP seems to be taking is that Signal doesn't require you to verify your key, nor is it particularly visible.

As I understand it, Signal takes a "trust on first appearance" approach and only really starts bugging you about verifying keys if they suddenly change.
“Good artists copy, great artists steal”
Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment
> Have you done such an upgrade with a million line codebase?

Yes. With a transition plan everything was ratcheted over to python3 syntax, then test compatibility. Now developers no longer have to remember the nuance between python 2 and 3 and how to write compatibility layers for both.

Now we no longer need to worry about maintaining or working around issues in dependencies that haven't been updated in a decade, and we don't need to teach python 2.7 to new developers.
That's several steps beyond what most in society are capable of foreshadowing.

A society of mad kings (on all political sides) who want anyone not like them "taken away" with little solutions on actually fixing the problems that caused the disagreement.
Nothing at all. These are all very valid things to do in the right circumstances. But when a certain idea gains hype in the industry, people try to fit it into all sorts of areas and I was making a generalized statement on that.
There is some precedent for this kind of nonsense. The NCAA banned the slam dunk in 1967 because Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was so unstoppable that they wanted to slow him down. The NBA allowing the zone in 2001 was done so teams could double and triple-team Shaquille O'Neal before he got the ball because he was so impossible to guard.

I'm definitely not saying they should do this, of course, especially in the Olympics. Crippling dominant teams and players to promote competitive balance in team sports tends to be a more practical measure to keep fans of the crappier teams interested and paying.
Minutes matter.

An apache helicopter has a cruising speed of around 165mph while the A-10 has a cruising speed of around 340mph.

The army had a helicopter design (Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne) back in the 1960s that in it's final prototype tests was going 255mph. The Air Force got upset and politics killed it off. The Lockheed/Sikorsky S-97 Raider seems to use a lot of the same design ideas (pusher propeller, fixed rotor, small wings) and is very fast (250mph cruise speed), but almost 50 years later. Maybe politics are less of an issue this time around.

I suppose the v22 Osprey could play the CAS role, but it seems much too expensive. You can buy almost 6 Apache helicopters for the cost of one v22 (13m vs 75m per unit). That cost is an issue because -- adjusted for inflation -- the A-10 cost 16.5m per unit and can withstand much more damage before needing replacement.
In my experience zoom meetings work a lot better if you meet the people in person once in a while. Human nature is someone you know in person is more trusted than an image on a screen.
Ask HN: Help me find this site
A couple years ago I found through HN a small webpage that was dedicated to showing hype cycle graphs and usage graphs of different technologies.

For example, you could go to "web development" and it would show a hype graph for a new technology (e.g., polygon), and on another of say, web browser, you could see a graph showing Vivaldi as an emerging technology and Internet Explorer as superseded.

I haven't been able to ever find that site again! Hopefully some of you know it?
> but with an easy option to support the artist by buying their creations directly from them as a NFT.

Why not buy directly from them without an NFT? What does the NFT bring to the table? Isn't what your describing what places like Etsy already do?
I understand your point, but

> Fitts’ law states that the amount of time required for a person to move a pointer (e.g., mouse cursor) to a target area is a function of the distance to the target divided by the size of the target. Thus, the longer the distance and the smaller the target’s size, the longer it takes.

Tabs are clicked on a lot, therefore they should be bigger.
If this works out, we can probably envision a future for travel where there are different price points for different travel times.
Traveling to the other side of the world?
Cheapest ticket is your traditional 18-22+ hr flight.
Next is your 9+ hr flight.
Most expensive is the 1hr trip via a rocket ship.
I feel a little less repulsed knowing that the (too petty to go through the legal channels and get a subpoena) requests made to view footage will be available to (and subject to audit and scrutiny by) the public.
Honestly they’re mostly the CJ ones
Atlassian products: Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence. They are the tools I use the most and they bog my computer right down especially when connected to a corporate proxy which only supports HTTP 1.
Summary: Facebook is fucked.
Is 14 years the new record or do we have higher bidders?
Starting with the Elise provided a massive benefit: the ability to iterate. Big Design Up Front would have massively failed -- there were way too many unknown unknowns.

In the end the product was nothing like the Elise. But intermediate products were like the Elise, and could be driven and test manufactured and could inform revisions. A half complete scratch design could not have been.
Writing your first policy with Kubewarden
A blog post from 13 years ago.. which has since been removed.. is different from an email sent internally.

Hopefully nobody will hold me accountable to all the slashdot comments I wrote 10-15 years ago. Taken out of context, I've probably made fantastically horrific statements too.
Yes. I was there at the time. Only time in my life I was consumed by near crippling anxiety was dealing with ranking/review process at MS. It all seemed so pointless to me. And toxic.
Python isn't strongly typed. You got an integer floor operation with -3 / 2 = -2, but -3.2 / 2 = -1.6. This led to errors when floats were expected but integers were possible among your inputs.

In Python 3, it always gives a floating-point result. You can use a floor division operator if you want to round everything (including integers) towards negative infinity.

See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/ for details.
In Python 2:

> 20 / 15 = 1

> 20.0 / 15 = 1.3333333333333333

> 20 / 15. = 1.3333333333333333

> 20. / 15. = 1.3333333333333333

In Python 3:

> X / Y is ALWAYS float division

> X // Y is ALWAYS integer division

This was managable in Python 2 but led to lots of float(argument) calls in every function that wanted to do float division. That lead to unnecessary calls, and unnecessary noise in the code.
How is this not just a default when making software?
IIRC Concorde development was highly subsidized by the government but it became a sustainable business for British Airways as long as there were wealthy business travelers willing to pay a huge premium to get between the financial centers of NYC and London in 3 hours. After 9/11 a lot of that business went away and Concorde wasn't viable anymore.
That's nice, but you appear to be bringing up theoretical conditions as a counter to actual observed behaviour.

Crypto might well potentially shine under such circumstances, or under your view of what such circumstances might be, but the truth on the ground is apparently different.
The sickness thing has been solved on the hardware side. It's only software that is the issue.

Remember when FPS games would never take off because they gave people motion sickness?
It's just a matter of cost for customer: how much a ticket for supersonic flight is going to cost? If the price is comparable with a "normal" business class, I will fly with that one: you have lot of more space to relax and 3/4 hours more are not an issue when you can sleep comfortably.
Eh, the Unicode situation was irredeemably awful in Python 2 because of the era it was of. Fixing that could never have fitted into what you describe. It had to be a significant breaking change, and even if Python 3’s string handling isn’t perfect (its strings are sequences of Unicode code points, not Unicode scalar values, so they can be ill-formed which was madness to allow; I say they should have gone all in on UTF-8 instead, which trades away some sorely misleading, tempting but practically quite useless functionality in favour of performance and memory usage), it’s vastly better than the situation in Python 2, where you pretty much just couldn’t be sure of anything—on many common configurations, you couldn’t even reliably output Unicode, and might not be able to at all without setting the PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 environment variable before starting Python, if my memory serves me correctly (I am glad to say that I haven’t had to deal with python2 for five years now).
> You could enforce these things by creating a free-trade area for anybody who joins, and excluding those who don't.

Then you need those free trade agreements. Remember the last time when it was only between EU and US? Protests in many European countries and in the end Trump decided to break it off.
The world’s first purchase agreement for net-zero carbon supersonic aircraft marks a significant step toward our mission to create a more accessible world.
Side question: do homeschoolers have a relatively standardized set of copyleft books & materials that they can use to do their schooling?
You can't even describe other states as "the world's only German state", or "French state" or "Polish state", "Russian state" etc. because racism, so what are we even talking about?
Looks like a relative of the Gosper curve! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve
Somebody at Xerox PARC thinks the same about Jobs and Gates every day.
> Yes. With a transition plan everything was ratcheted over to python3 syntax, then test compatibility. Now developers no longer have to remember the nuance between python 2 and 3 and how to write compatibility layers for both.

Then tell me, what were the costs of the transition when completed? and what where the projected costs when starting?

> Now we no longer need to worry about maintaining or working around issues in dependencies that haven't been updated in a decade, and we don't need to teach python 2.7 to new developers.

You wouldn't if Python 3 didn't exist either.
Doesn’t matter. The JIDF will scour the world for anything negative of Israel
They had the open web, which they worked well to kill.

Facebook can go die in the grave they dug for themselves.
For the market this venture is targeting, JFK and perhaps even (after the construction is finally done) LGA would be preferable. Both in the city, both have Centurion lounges, etc. But LGA is a shorter field without a substantive international ops infrastructure. With the end-of-decade timeline, I suspect this will end up launching from JFK.