skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't fuel generally only dumped because landing a (nearly) fully fueled plane exceeds the maximum landing weight of the runway?

Or alternatively, if a plane develops a leak in one of the tanks, it can dump fuel to balance the weight.

Is there a scenario where a plane in flight has its fuel on fire and dumping said fuel helps in any way?
As far as I can see there are only a few groups that actually make money consistently:

* miners, they have actual capital outlay (equipment and electricity) but so long as the bitcoin they sell covers their expenses they are sitting pretty.

* exchanges, running an exchange is cheap and people give you real cash. You do have to buy some bitcoin with that cash but not as much as you think, especially if you are less than honest (which you are because you run a bitcoin exchange). You can get away will telling people you have bought bitcoin on their behalf without actually doing it - allowing you to keep the cash. This is only a problem if they try to move the bitcoin off the exchange so be sure to provide incentives for them not to do that. Maybe offer them fake money instead.

* people selling stuff for bitcoin. I am not sure this is still a big industry since the big marketplaces got shut down but I am sure you can sell your drugs, illegal porn, or unregulated weapons if you try hard enough.

People do make money trading Bitcoin but the real market (once you remove Tether and such-like) seems very thin. My guess is most traders come out with a net loss.
There is a huge difference to your other examples. The US does not actually have a good track record with protecting their customers with proper privacy laws.
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Another theory that has been circulating around is "The Fourth Turning" based on a book authors writings. You can find various Youtube videos on this. [1] This describes 80 year cycles that break down into 4 phases / generations. I don't have an opinion on it.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9FT1ObIYLc
> And think about how much more work it was. And how much more work it'll take to maintain and update.

This isn't really true when supporting a single platform, assuming the author is fluent in AppKit etc.
So, by that article, a fully-loaded turboprop (let's say 19 100 kg passengers, 4900 kg airframe, 320 kg fuel, 308 kg reserve fuel) flying 200 nm weighs ~ 7500 kg and consumes just under 4 MWh of fuel, of which 1 MWh is useful work.

The battery model will weigh at least twice that for the same useful work, so how the hell does it fly as far? Could it actually fly the mandated 100 nm + 30 min contigency*
The younger generation get social value by being the saddest person in the room.

Sometimes, their stories are rightfully so and deserve our help. other times they reframe their lives negatively just to win the social game of their generation.

Once they reframe they start to believe thier own narrative creating a vicious cycle.

The older generation, has their own problems in arrogance and ignorance, but they cant even fathom a society of young people who would compete on suffering.

The disconnect will grow.
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"I didn't read but I will make assumptions and pass judgment"

Please reconsider your behaviour on the internet; this is one reason why there's so much misinformation around.
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I'm a very frequent game jam participant. At my first jam I crunched the whole time with tons of energy drinks, but after a few ones I decided to not use caffeine or any other stimulants (with possible exception at the very end) and to get plenty of sleep and water during the event instead. Never regretted.

Turns out you code better when well rested.
Better invest in PR then. For some reason people believe that EU is forcing developers to put cookie banners on websites.
Totally agree. The difference in 'enterprise-level' software often is configurability and the ability to meet client needs without being totally custom (although even for the biggest, most feature-rich enterprise software, most implementations will still require custom development.

Often the problems 'enterprise software' solves aren't overly difficult, and if every company worked the same way it would be trivial to write the software, but the issue is that every company is different, and building everything custom isn't scalable or supportable.
Freedom of speech is certainly under attack and has been under attack by the previous administration more blatantly than ever. And of course, as is typical with the US, once one administration gets away with something, the future ones do, as well.
I think it's two things:

1) the other way around - being the sort of person who notices these sorts of things inclines you towards (or is a good indicator you are also heading towards) engineering & CS;

2) knowing it could be different, having some idea how the lift display firmware is implemented makes you think 'oh but it could so easily do this why doesn't it', etc. If you have no idea how something works (or don't care) then you also don't really have a grasp on the limits of the black box, or how readily it could be improved.
> The question is: do you have evidence of legitimate economies transacting in Bitcoin today?

So Coinbase Commerce [0] enabling thousands of Shopify [1] stores to accept Bitcoin and the like isn't a legitimate use-case?

[0] https://commerce.coinbase.com/

[1] https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/payments/alternative-paym...
Or we shouldn't label state funded media as 'journalism'. But how will our propaganda mouthpieces spread freedom in our interest?
> I'd much rather store properly encrypted personal information or financial data in North Korea than storing it unencrypted in my home country.

What do you mean by "properly encrypted"? MasterCard is not going to let you be the sole holder of your encryption keys. And if you aren't holding them, then they they hold it, and then they must be holding in at least one given country. And that country has the power to force them to turn these keys over.

The power to do this is the goal of this game.
UK seems especially ignorant about this. This just came out, Mike Graham wants those considered "racist" to be stripped of their human rights.

"No bank account, no ability to travel, no passport no benefits nothing."

https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1414888566941958144
I think the point that parent was making is that it isn't at all clear what orbit is about. A "design system" is such an extremely vague term. Houses? Cupboards?
I would agree, except in the case of a monopoly, or a consortium of companies acting together as a monopoly. And in this case I would say that the social media companies enforcing the same censorship policies counts. Remember when AWS terminated Parler's account, and then no other cloud providers would work with them? It's nothing new that we require private entities that become too big and powerful to give rights to customers that they normally wouldn't. e.g. a utility company can't set whatever price they want like any other company could.
I grew up in Ireland and it was still very conservative and religious back in the late 70s to the late 80s of my youth. We only legalised divorce in 1997!

But since then there has been a sea change in attitudes. Marriage equality, abortion on demand, an openly gay man as premier. Little backlash against migrants even when the economy tanked in 07-08. But this did not cause much in the way of estrangement. Indeed I have seen the older generations change too, not just put up with things.

I can only speculate as to why. I think partly because people started to travel and see how things were better in other more enlightened countries and imported those values to Ireland. Life was also improving for most people as an amazing rate which leaves little reason to look for people to blame for things. The church destroyed it's own standing by being totally uncompromising in its attitude to change and covering up abuse.

I believe Ireland also looked on in horror at American politics descending into a complete shit-show with scant respect for the principles it once stood for. You must understand that up till the 90s most Irish thought the USA was the pinnacle of western society. We still hold great affection for the people in general and artistic culture and landscape but the toxic politics, uncompromising religious attitudes and so on are something we view as having held us back in the past and once we abandoned that or at least compromised we made progress.

Anyway, this is just a bit of a brain dump of one point of view. Take it as it is ;)
For me personally it's always been resolved with more exercise/lifting/pulling.

Invest in a wrist-roller. Your forearms will also blow up.
Ah, did I miss that caveat in the documentation somewhere?

What's the use case for that, though? If the documents are highly homogeneous, why would I need a service--let alone an AI service--to extract the data? I could just specify the locations of the fields a priori on a 1040 (for example).
Past performance is not indicative of the future. I see no reason to think that we'll be able to get out of the upcoming collapse of the Amazon, Western California, and a host of other places due to global warming.

Civilizational collapse was a common feature of the past.
I understand. Maybe the space will only truly realize its potential after the hype dies down. With coins so volatile probably wont happen anytime soon.
Martha Stewart went to prison for lying to federal investigators and obstruction of justice, not for insider trading. The "insider trading" (not actually a crime; the actual criminal thing in such cases tends to be "securities fraud") charges were variously dropped or dismissed by the court, depending on the charge.

So she was actually innocent (in the legal system sense, at least) of the crime she was initially accused of, but guilty of obstructing the investigation.

Similar to the Ghosn story, actually: he's guilty of jumping bail and whatnot no matter what's going on with the substantive issue of embezzlement.
Again, nicely twisted, but nothing here checks out. It is extremely likely these boards have been soldered by Uighurs in Xinjiang camps.

Would you rather sit in a factory soldering RISC-V boards without pay or wait for your turn in a concentration camp where you can get indiscriminately beaten, raped, tortured and killed?
I'm curious, do you still not believe that vaccine injury is real? The FDA and CDC have now repeatedly acknowledged it's existence with the COVID-19 vaccines.

If you do believe that it's real with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines, what is your reasoning for advocating for "restraining" people who are concerned about this issue?
The regulations on this has been in play for a while - I remember discussions in fall 2019 on this on asks by indian regulators to all multinational banks, payment processors, etc.
The push to segregate local data within national boundaries needs to be addressed soon. Local data meaning transactions between 2 parties within the same country
But "the verse" in question refers to the Old Testament:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_sin#Judaism
> I don’t know why the anti-censorship crowd doesn’t acknowledge this.

> In the US, Trump used social media to spread lies about the results of the elections. He tried to pull all the stops to stay in power. This is the same President who attacked journalism, rescinded access to White House press events for news sources that were critical of Jim, and used the Justice department to seize records of journalists

A very significant fraction of the anti-censorship crowd are pro-Trump, or at least right-wing, and of course a characteristic of that is ignoring all these things that he actually did.

(edit: the irony of being downvoted into the grey by the angry "anti-censorship" faction)
good luck slowing it down though. It might work in one country, but the result will only be this one country falling behind and becoming an irrelevant province of the earth.
so not unless we have a world government one day. Then indeed we could end up in a society that is balanced and stable for indefinite time, like a isolated tribe in the amazonas, with thousands of years at the same stage of progress, just at a larger scale.
This is btw one of the possible explanations of Fermi's paradox
There used to be commercial flights from United from OXR to LAX. It’s only an hour drive but they still managed to have service for quite some time and there’s been talk about bringing it back. Little connector flights like that could help reduce congestion at LAX. I could easily seeing electric flights returning and even being subsidized.
How about people with direct database access?
> My driving lessons came with a booklet saying doing under 50 on such a road (in normal conditions) would be considered dangerous.

Yes! A slow driver (under 50) can cause very high closing speeds for drivers who aren't paying attention. A likely accident scenario could be a driver who tailgates a white van that is itself closing fast on the slow vehicle, blocking the view of the tailgater (all are in the inside lane). If the van makes a late overtaking manoeuvre (to avoid the slow vehicle) rather than smoothly braking, the tailgater has very little time to react, and depending on traffic density, might not themselves be able to change lanes.

I saw this exact situation happen a few days ago. I was in lane 2 about 100m further back down the road. The van changed lanes at the last possible moment. The tailgater slammed on his brakes and came very close to shunting the slow vehicle. Luckily there was no-one behind him so a braking wave didn't propagate back down the lane.
Not only that, they have been requesting to reveal the identity of anonymous users.

There are both attempts of censorship and surveillance/espionage.
I dont think that's true at all. Train stations in Europe are far, far more common than Airports. You may have to change rather than a direct train, but chances are you can get around pretty easily.
I would have thought that the lack of technology would distance kids from parents more. My great grandparents hopped on a boat to another country and never saw their parents again. The lack of cheap air travel would have made visiting family cross country impractical for most in decades past, but I would fly back to see family on mere long weekends.
All true. However 2 wrongs don't make a right. Just because the mass media in France is basically an oligopoly, it changes nothing to Google doing something illegal.
I'm amazed by what has happened to Bitcoin in the last several years. I played around with it about a decade ago, and that involved setting up a node on my laptop, creating my private key, and going to town.

Now everyone is trying to move to a second network (Lightning), but that system is so overwhelmingly complicated that no normal human being can actually manage it themselves. So everyone just has all their coin stored with third parties and no one actually has their private key anymore.

Take a look at one of the "wallets" sometime in your app store of choice. The negative reviews are complaints about onerous know-your-customer processes (make sure to scan your driver's license into your Bitcoin wallet, kids!), deposit and withdrawal limits, etc. From the reviews, you can't even tell them apart from PayPal/Venmo/et-all.
it was mostly a question of scale, that a business mishandle 500 customers data is one thing, but 100k feels different to me.
I don't know either. Why does it matter?
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Uh, have you heard of the phone company?
>The younger generation get social value by being the saddest person in the room.

This is pretty much classic generation gapping, blaming the other side for not understanding How Things Are. I would suggest some of what this is is a change in power dynamics. It used to be society's expectations were such that you didn't talk about your shitty parents or complain about your lot in life. That led to a lot of sadness, it just wasn't visible. Now people are more comfortable talking about these things and it makes you feel icky.
> I'd much rather store properly encrypted personal information or financial data in North Korea than storing it unencrypted in my home country

That encryption is pointlesss. North Korea can just demand the key and decrypt your data (assuming the company has presence in that country). Very few services have true end to end encryption. Currently it's not even feasible for healthcare data (homomorphic encryption is not practical yet).
> I'd much rather store properly encrypted personal information or financial data in North Korea than storing it unencrypted in my home country.

How about it gets encrypted same way in North Korea or South Korea. Which one would you prefer?

What if North Korea says it is properly encrypted and gov has no easy access, but we all know that could be just as well wrong?

The U.S. Not exactly enjoys a lot of trust internationally when it comes to customer protection and privacy.
The US Constitution doesn't apply to Twitter operations in India.
If the ATM stops working because of an AWS outage, I will very much be disappointed in my banking regulator.
? I don't think so? Every large city has both a train station and a large airport.
Is it a bad defense though?

I think that the problem is about concentration of power more than speech rights and the real takeaway is that allowing 3 or 4 companies to control such an overwhelming share of communications infrastructure is a mistake regardless of what rules there are.

The argument that we should lean on Twitter to maintain such nebulous concepts as "freedom" at the expense of their own profits is never going to convince me.
You think it is fair for companies to be required to run servers in every country they operate in? That seems pretty wasteful and inefficient to me.
India wants data residency because it wants to apply its own somewhat unique approach to law enforcement to all digital data — financial and otherwise.

This is a country that switches off mobile data (3G and 4G) at the drop of a hat[1], and switched off an entire state’s mobile Internet access for 18 months[2].

This may appear unnecessary and capricious to some especially in the West. However I’m sure pro-Indian government commenters will say “we’re sovereign, our government can do as it likes as it has a democratic mandate” and that is of course true. And that is, in my view, the driver for India’s interest in data residency. Its laws allow its government an enormous degree of latitude to do what it likes. When it has to access foreign data it is often thwarted by EU or US privacy & legal rules, which it feels is unbecoming of a nation as geopolitically important as India.

What I feel about this is that of course India has the sovereign right to do as it pleases, but its messy, adhoc approach to digital governance won’t win it any laurels and will actually tarnish its reputation. Also, it would be on a much better footing if it passed a decent law on digital privacy, which many have been saying is long overdue — leading to a flourishing unregulated economy in selling Indians’ data[3].

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-50819905

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/05/india-is-restoring-4g-inte...

[3] https://restofworld.org/2020/all-the-data-fit-to-sell/
> As someone that was raised in a highly religious home, I have to wonder how much of estrangement has to do with the younger generation's abandonment of religion.

Honestly, there's probably a deeper cultural change that's driving both: ever increasing individualism and increasing unwillingness to sacrifice the expression of that individualism for anything.

This from the OP was pretty poignant and struck me as very true:

> ...This freedom enables us to become untethered and protected from hurtful or abusive family members.

> Yet in less grave scenarios our American love affair with the needs and rights of the individual conceals how much sorrow we create for those we leave behind. We may see cutting off family members as courageous rather than avoidant or selfish. We can convince ourselves that it’s better to go it alone than to do the work it takes to resolve conflict. Some problems may be irresolvable, but there are also relationships that don’t need to be lost forever.
This is advice I wish I heard a long time ago. What makes it extra hard is when your dreams do line up with your work.

It then becomes nearly impossible (for me, anyway) to disassociate what you do with who you are. When times are rough, it's personal. When mistakes happen, it's personal. And when you score a big win or are sitting atop an awesome opportunity... the dial just gets turned up another notch.

Taking up gardening (in truth, being taken up by gardening) has been a huge sanity saver, but it's still hard to not look back and feel like I lost my way over time: what was an insatiable curiosity gave way to the expediency of being a paid performer. I still love it, but just not like before, especially after the shift ends.
Every time you spend money via a payment card network, or do a SEPA transfer, you are interacting with (digital) private bank money.

Private bank money is equivalent to cash printed by the state or held in the central bank accounts, however it can be created out of nothing by the banks as liabilities on loaned cash (private fractional reserve banking leads to inflation of the private monetary base). As long as people can pay their debts, the carnival ride continues.
The state has requirements of the banks to store a fraction of their reserves.

The state wants to maybe one day stop printing physical cash money, but also does not want private banks to control the production of money entirely-- so they create a psuedo-cryptocurrency in which the state can issue tokens. This ideally provides a cash like experience with the easy of use of private digital payment schemes.
We call these "Central Bank Digital Currencies" or CBDCs.

What does this mean in practice? The state has visibility of all monetary transactions in real time, and can enforce their own fiscal policies (such as negative interest rates, the money will melt in your phone if it is not spent). It is awful, and we should reject state issued digital currencies. Buy bitcoin (before it is too late!).
People arguing about Twitter being a private company with the freedom to censor content are missing the point. Yes – that's true, but the disturbing thing here is the fact that governments are increasingly pressuring them to do it (and that carries a lot of weight, with or without legal force).

The real problem is that governments think this kind of behavior is okay, and continue to do it. I don't care if a company decides to censor content on its platform, but if my government is telling them (and other platforms) what can and can't be said, I consider that a clear violation of free speech. This is a failure of government, not Twitter (or not only Twitter).

Twitter needs to publish a list of exactly who in the government is doing this, and we should hold those people responsible and replace them. The government works for us, remember?
>"When did we switch from capitalism to socialism? You own their infra and agency now?"

This is a non-sequitur. Organizations censoring speech can happen under any kind of economic system.

As a thought experiment, how would you react if Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, collectively decided that Libertarians were a problematic and dangerous threat? And, these companies decided to de-platform every libertarian account they detected in the name of public safety. Would you champion such behavior? Would principles dictate that you defend their right to suppress you? I know this seems like a bizarre thought experiment, but I genuinely think the Libertarian crowd gladly defends their own censorship.

Ultimately, which do you value more, Capitalism or Liberty?