skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best by Test - Fischer.
We are nowhere near the battery tech to make this happen. That distance is 108nm, throw in the IFR departure/arrival, a hold due to sequencing, a missed approach due to weather, and we're looking at 180nm flown. Add in the flight time to the alternate airport, and the legally-required reserves, and we're looking at a required range of maybe 260nm. Do not forget that lithium batteries SUCK in the cold, so you'll also waste some power on heating them. We have no batteries right now that will take 100 people 260nm on a plane. We only have toy demonstrators that, with careful tuning, can take one or two people almost about that far.
Obligatory XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1732/
The problem is everyone is looking to the next advance and so nothing gets built. Eventually you have to commit to something and build it.

Right not politicians are looking at things like hyperloop which maybe can be useful in the future, but right now are power point slides and other hype. Instead we could go with something that works - there is plenty of things much better than we have.
This is very true! And that's part of what I was going for - if it's cheap enough then people will use them.
I'm a bit confused by the first paragraph. Are you saying that public good funding problems don't exist (or are solved b/c they are either funded by the government or aren't worth funding)?

If so, I strongly disagree. The OSS that makes up the backbone of all-the-computation-that-occurs-anywhere is certainly a public good; it's also way underfunded!
What use is median in a Pareto distribution (which this phenomenon falls under)? From what I can tell median is useless, I can't think of a use case, and the internet fails to give me one. Average gives you an expected value to work with. Median though, can be worthless in a pareto distribution where the 90% of the value is in the top 10% of the distribution.

I feel like people have this default reaction to assert that median is as or more important than mean. When, in reality, median is useful for in only specific distributions.

I think people say "median", but what they are really interested are the moments of the distribution. Median just is a key moment in Guassian distributions, other distributions have different important moments, and median isn't necessarily one of them.
Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits
You're describing a hoarding problem. The fact that it's just bookmark in a folder, instead of a room, full of stuff, that you have to know the "trails" to get through makes it easier to ignore.

You've stored this pile of stuff, how often do you actually go into it and pull out something useful? How does that reward actually balance with the costs of acquisition and storage (in terms of your time and energy).
The Foxconn boondoggle (and wisconsin state level politics in general) always fires me up.
It "feels right" and is therefore "truthy."
But what’s the actual purpose? Space tourism I get. But beyond that I’m struggling to see the uses of normal people having access to space travel. By comparison people having access to air travel has clear benefits.
I don't think they can do that for already-released code unless there's some clause in the licensing. For future code, they can opt to change the licensing as long as it follows the existing licensing and their possible code contribution agreements.
Don't click this link, it's a "create account" trap/paywall.
> I'm not giving an opinion.

Maybe that's the source of our miscommunication.

> Based on that observation, I then proceeded to say that the question is based on false premises
> If that's the case and my observation is biased in the wrong way, then the question is ok.

Because that falls into my definition of an opinion.
Anecdata:
I overdrafted a few months in to having my credit union account. The bank manager literally called me on the phone that day and asked if I could come in and cover the charges. I couldn't because I was too far away or out of town or something. Manager asked if I could come in the next day, to which I said yes, and did, and received no overdraft fees.

Another credit union (which I have since left) in my area was a total nightmare to do business with. 6-10 transactions were met with shocking resistance and frustration. Check reviews for your propsective bank if possible.
The author wasn't ignorant: "I’m extremely knowledgeable of both Buddhist and secular frameworks of meditation, have read countless books on the subject."
The decreasing wholesale price of launch should also make cleanup relatively easy compared to other areospace marvels.

There are solutions from lasers (photon momentum), to nets that capture debris and then add a sail to it to increase friction from the atmosphere that is still in play in low earth orbit:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwBRqHqmkCo)
I wonder if we're going to see some more of Torvald's excellent management technique?

>PATCH 3.12 108/142] fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation

>Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Oh maybe not this time :-)
>right to distribute
What is the use-case for FTP in 2021?
OK I was way off, the sheer complexity definitely feels like 700 pages though ;)
I don't think the parent is saying the whole E-road network is the equivalent; just that it provides examples of moving country to country without leaving motorways.
But for a $10k vacation, you get to sleep in a bed, order room service, go outside, go golfing, see a show, etc.

10k in space will get you what?

---

Random thought:

If they were able to get enough water into space such that one could swim through a sphere of water in a weightless environment, what would the sensation of being encapsulated in water while weightless feel like (clearly needing scuba or some other air connection..)
I was asked to defend myself against accusations of theft of hundreds of pounds of copper cable.

My immediate supervisor was loading his pickup truck in the morning and carting it down to the scrap yard down the road before anyone got in.

It took one of the truck drivers for the shop arriving early one morning to notice it before upper management even checked the security tapes which showed him loading his pickup for weeks while aiding in rumours that I was responsible. Meanwhile I was poised to be fired and charged.

I didn't own a car, but somehow was making off with piles of industrial 4/0 power lines.

Not a great experience. Would not recommend. I quit, found a better life.
Yeah. This AML bullshit is just the financial version of global government surveillance.
Mozilla is struggling and is trying to focus its resources in a way that will let them build sustainable revenue and browser share. I hope they succeed
See Section 8 of the GPLv3, "termination". https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
That makes a lot more sense
> Funding by setting a price floor [on a project token]

Aka, the reward is the certainty that you'll be able to trade your tokens in for some minimum price. For the end user, at the end of the day, the prize is $$$.
The termination clause has always existed in the GPL, including the specific ways it can come into effect. It's the teeth of the GPL.
I had some previous experience modifying Sumatra PDF which uses MuPDF so I was already familiar with MuPDF. I didn't really look into pdfium :D.
So far, I've seen "public goods" used in the blockchain world to mostly mean open source software projects concretely, but something broader aspirationally. For instance, I believe the large and well-known Gitcoin project pretty much follows this pattern. I'm not sure how well it lines up with that economics definition. Thanks for the link to that very interesting paper!
The copyright holder can choose to do that only after violations have occurred (and choose to permanently terminate the license even after curing the violation). See the verbatim quote from GPL3 in my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897105
Being Different Is Hard
I'm sure it was over-dramatized in the film (which I haven't seen, I'm just assuming they prioritized compelling storytelling based on the fact that it wasn't a public television documentary), but supposedly something like that decisionmaking process actually happened. For example, see Wikipedia's synopsis of the book, which was presumably at least somewhat more factual (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(book)#Book):

The storyline also involves the political reasons for putting people into space, asserting that the Mercury astronauts were actually a burden to the program and were only sent up for promotional reasons. Reasons for including living beings in spacecraft are barely touched upon, but the first option considered was to use a chimpanzee (and, indeed, chimpanzees were sent up first).

Another option considered was using athletes already accustomed to physical stress, such as circus trapeze artists. Wolfe states that President Dwight D. Eisenhower, however, insisted on pilots, even though the first crew members would not actually fly the spacecraft.
>we have no idea where it is.

It is probably encoded in the cosmic horizon a la Green's Theorem.
Screwing over the little guy because he didn’t spend enough time contemplating possible legal troubles with his OS software seems, again, ethically dubious at best.
I'm glad I didn't ask about Santa then.
>> To date, many malware distribution campaigns launch their attacks by compromising FTP servers

Yes.. well, they can do the same by compromising servers that offer the payload via HTTP(S).
At least when the payload is ftp, it stands out and you can catch it in your gateway/firewall devices.

With https you now need https inspection at the border in order to be able to do that. These MITM devices do tend to cause a lot of trouble.
Well, but the other party already violated the clause of the licensing.
I know this is going to come across as an apologia for building highways through poor neighborhoods, but I see that as a natural consequence of the land simply being cheaper to acquire. I'm not denying that there was possibly some racial malice in the planning. It just seems obvious to me a government with limited funding is going to put the infrastructure through the cheapest path it can find. It was still a terrible thing to do to those neighborhoods, however.
GPL and other copy-left licenses work in that way. If StockFish was MIT licensed before, then ChessBase can use the latest version with that license. They could even fork the repo at that point and continue developing. If StockFish was always GPL, then the license can be terminated.
Western europe too, and in the USA. Vichy france, for example, is a pretty standout example, or Franco's spain, or Mussolini's italy, or some people in the UK (the daily mail, perhaps their readership?)
Fiber optics obviously use light so I didn’t want to use the term ‘spectrum’ exclusively. The idea I want to communicate is that shared wireless channels have to be regulated by the FCC and similar groups.

Starlink presently has real-world latency that is comparable to VDSL in the best of cases. It is superior to other satellite-based networks that operate at higher altitudes, but not to terrestrial fiber optics if you compare like for like (ie, a comparison of theoretical maxima).

Obviously a ship would not be a good candidate for a fiber line. That said, many developing and/or rural communities will eventually get fiber anyway, so we as a society and as voters should push for a concerted effort to do it sooner rather than later. A good beachhead would be fiber to 5G base stations in remote areas. Latin America and Africa have surprisingly strong wireless data infrastructure. The existing market for distributing phones and wireless services (often a kiosk in a shopping center or a SIM card from a corner store) can also be used to distribute modems, no satellite dishes involved.

That’s not to say Starlink lacks utility, but it wouldn’t be my first suggestion for rural or developing areas. (For what it’s worth, I have lived in both.)
> People complained when Firefox added [...]

> Now they're [...] removing [...], and people are still complaining?

It's different people.
I suppose they were providing the stockfish software to Chessbase (and everyone else) under the GPL, but now they won't do that any more.

I don't think that prevents somebody sympathetic (if such a person exists) from re-distributing it to Chessbase though.
Yes: they predict structures using MSAs, without alignments to known protein structures in a majority of the cases.
> intensive purposes

"intents and purposes"?
>You don't need attendants on rail at all

Not true. You need people manning the cafeteria car, cleaning the bathrooms, checking tickets, etc.

>train should stop not less than once an hour

The Southwest Chief goes from San Bernardino, CA to Albuquerque, NM in 14 hours. It makes 8 stops along the way, inclusive of the endpoints. Your point here still largely stands, but these long haul trains most certainly do not stop at least once an hour.
Note that those Smithsonian museums are all free. It was weird growing up here -- in most other places, you're expected to pay for museums.

The Walters and Baltimore Art Museum are also free.

Note that Udvar-Hazy is in the slightly odd position that it's technically free but parking is $15. It's very far from downtown, and driving is pretty much the best way there. But the exhibits are beyond cool -- a Space Shuttle, a Concorde, a Blackbird, and a ton of other very cool aircraft.
Um....are we getting trolled by some content marketing SEO hack here?

https://www.sebastianbuza.com/2021/07/20/no-we-dont-use-kube...

Another pub/sub startup publishing almost the identical blog post also today, July 20, 2021.
Lots of places like US federal institutions or universities use FTP to this day to distribute their open datasetes.

Show me an example of actual FTP MITM hack in the wild.

Sure loading FTP resources from HTTP(S) context is not a good idea (as would be downloading executables over FTP), but did they actually make any effort to inform the public and owners of FTP servers? I do not think so, I haven't seen it.

Mozilla these days has very weird priorities. Their decisions should not feel so unilateral or "because Chrome does it". There should be more emphasis on widely understood infrastructure even at the cost of "soft" projects/campaigns [1] - these could be served by the EFF after all. I can't understand why shedding MDN was a good idea in their heads.

[1] Like this one: https://foundation.mozilla.org/pl/blog/mozilla-investigation...
Does the article do justice to the hidden variables hypothesis?

In case of the hidden variables, the spin is a (3-dimensional?) value that is identified by the measurement result. In case of quantum theory we have have a probability distribution. How is that probability distribution different from a hidden variables, except that it's not a straight number but a function instead?

Speaking as a programmer, is the difference between hidden variables and quantum mechanics that the former postulate a real-valued property whereas the latter speak of something like a monad?
this implies their actual service and marketing website are running on the same infrastructure, which is unlikely
Ask HN: How do you track comment threads in HN?
Hello,
every time I post a comment here on HN, I see myself keeping a tab open to my latest submitted comments and refreshing frantically to see if any new reply has been posted. Or upvote given, let's be honest.

Surely the HN crowd, with its always so clever folks, has better ways of handling such primitive workflows.

Please share your tips to follow up on your own activity.
Sometimes it feels like there may have been something missing from the Subscriptions page too but I'm never sure if I just didn't see it because I'm subscribed a lot of places, but during the height of videos about "YouTube hiding my videos from you my subscribers" I wasn't missing any (that I noticed at least I suppose).
Yes, good point. Gopher is internet browsing too but is Firefox the best way to experience FTP and Gopher? How many different protocols should Firefox support? Firefox does not have the same resources as Google so focusing on what Firefox is known to do best such as HTTP and its supporting protocols, like WebSocket, really well looks like a good strategy.
The stretch of California high speed rail currently under construction includes a costly grade separation roughly every one and two thirds miles. The result should be safe and robust, but the expense is evidence of something more than a largely empty continent. And that is in a largely wide open mostly agricultural area of the US.
Walmart.com ships only in the US. Not in Europe, Asia.

While Amazon has stores for all regions of the world that count.
I will be writing some 7-8 courses and will be hiring additional instructors for other courses.

Do note that we have other subjects such as Mathematics, Physics etc that we wish to cover using Primer. We will be hiring instructors accordingly.
If company could be sued because their software are garbage, you won't have a lot of company left.
The GPL has a termination provision. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897105
Well, yeah, but if somebody said the Vietnamese had a history of using napalm, because it was mostly used there, people might look at them funny.
I don't know that the externality comparison and compensation is self evident.

it is possible that the positive externalities of satellite swarms outweigh that of ground based astronomy, and they should be prioritized for the visual spectrum.
> The TV shows "The Wire" and especially "The Corner" capture the flavor of the rough parts of Baltimore more than residents would like to admit.

I think The Wire was pretty accurate and a lot of Baltimoreans aren't in denial about what kind of city it was/is. However, if you're only hanging out and working with folks who don't leave the White L[1], you'd think the rest of Baltimore is pretty awful and if it wasn't for work/family, they'd leave ASAP. Not to discredit the concerns folks have, just saying that the loudest voices also seem to be the most negative without being constructive (just check various FB "safety" groups, e.g., Mt Vernon Safety, or Nextdoor).

I recently moved from Baltimore to Philadelphia and in many ways it seems like a bigger version of Baltimore. Lots of white/black segregation, crime (it's already above 300 homicides for 2021), potholes and generally poor road maintenance, poorly run city gov't, etc. Yet somehow there doesn't seem to be the same level of negativity about the city here.

[1] https://www.baltimoresun.com/citypaper/bcpnews-two-baltimore...
I understand your last point, but my question is:

In order for domain experts to contribute to a formal specification, this specification must be, well, formal, and also serve as a very precise shared language among all domain experts and implementors (i.e. the people who are going to read the spec and build something out of it). Once you go down this road, the specification language becomes as complex as any programming language -- or maybe even more! -- and must be learned by all involved, just like any given programming language. Some people will find it easier to learn, some will struggle or find it bizarrely unfamiliar -- again, just like any given programming language. Any sufficiently expressive specification language will also be subject to the kinds of bugs and complexity that affect programming languages.

So my question is: isn't learning a shared formal specification language more or less as difficult as learning an unfamiliar programming language?
Has anyone of you ever read the RFC that defines the File Transfer Protocol? It is pure insanity. Yes I'm nostalgic about FTP, and yes it must die nonetheless.
WSJ archived: https://archive.is/X7Bfa
With this model we ALL get to be intellectually bankrupt. Yay social justice equity!
This. And interoperability, stepping over each other, different teams owning different solutions, conflicts and overlaps etc.

Precise why my company built a one-stop-shop SaaS for our domain (revenue operations). We need more of these, thinking from a user's point of view.
I vouched for this to avoid it dropping off due to being flagged, since it didn't seem to be directly breaking the rules
Webrtc?
Nope, FTP predates the web. A web page may link to an FTP server, of course.
It's old, but "ftp://" is a valid uri scheme that has established use, and lots of valid links on existing, live web pages.

Browsers removing support are breaking part of the web that was working fine.
everything about that analysis of the situation is backwards.

the problem is the restaurants are seeing fewer customers due to the pandemic so they can't raise wages, while the upper 1/4 or so of the population hasn't been financially impacted by the pandemic and housing and rents have continued to climb. restaurants can't raise prices in this situation and they can't raise wage, which squeezes the workers who are now not putting up with it any more.

return to work means continued increase in housing prices and if restaurants fully open they're going to have to pay more and that means that those wage and rent increases for the businesses will have to get passed on as rising prices.

if there's a switch to remote work then that will make cities more livable again at current wage costs and menu pricing. you lose some disposable income from the seriously high wage earners that have left the city, but they'll mostly take the distortion of the housing market with them while the bulk of the population that makes less than $150k will have more left out of salaries to eat out at the restaurants.

short term the effect of popping housing bubbles would be recessionary, of course, but it'd act more like Volker's popping of the 70s stagflation bubble, give it 5 years and the "new normal" of consistent housing prices would take over.
This suggests that humans, if they have the luxury of not having to spend 100% of their effort on survival, can envision and comprehend much of what we today think about.
This is a possibility in general, but not here. Chessbase has a long history with this sort of thing, and they've been called out repeatedly. They've even settled before, if I recall correctly.
Greg Wilson is more positive. Though he does agree that nobody cares.

https://third-bit.com/2021/07/17/software-engineerings-great...
A decision that maintaining an FTP client is no longer worth the effort and resources is fine, but instead there's this ... imperious attitude, that has come to characterize Mozilla even as their market share drops, diminishing any ability to actually be imperious
I want to be excited but I keep coming back to confusion over what the actual purpose of this will be. Flight has very clear benefits: getting you from A to B way faster than was ever possible before. With space flight there is no B to go to. You go up, you come down.

If these companies were making breakthroughs in making space long term habitable I’d be excited. But I’m yet to see that.
Reading that, I don't see anything about the copyright holder being able to manually terminate a license. Rather the copyright holder can notify a party that is violating other sections of the GPL3, and then the party can either remedy those violations or lose their license to use the software.

Is ChessBase violating the GPL3?

EDIT: oh, I should read the article. They are saying ChessBase modified the GPL software then redistributed it without the original attribution or copyright.
The author obviously isn't ignorant. The comment you failed to respond to directly is talking about "a particular misapprehension of Buddhist teachings in modern society."

This is not about ignorance, and framing it as such is directly supporting the thesis of the original article.
However, in principle there should be a (perhaps very small?) component due to the inner magnetic momentum of neutrons [1], right? After all, they are made of quarks, which have nonzero charge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_magnetic_moment