skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a good read. I am into several pursuits in life, but I measure my own personal happiness by how much of my time is spent satisfied with what I am doing in the moment. This is a fairly easy metric to use when I meditate and pray before going to sleep. I am most satisfied when I am not thinking of myself (ego related things) and I am absorbed in what I am doing. Simple stuff, but it works for me.
The humor in the joke comes from the mismatch between economic theory and reality.
The latest post in the series is from 2020.
It's typical for a defendant to waive their right to a speedy trial. If you don't waive it typically you get the book thrown at you and in the little time you have to prepare, something sticks. I agree this should be changed but there is not much political will behind it, as prosecutors view it as a necessity to try everyone fairly. The real solution is to not bring so many pointless cases to trial.

Knowing that, I think I would demand a speedy trial, but most people have horrible lawyers.
Well raytheon isn't the only provider of psr systems, just in the US.

The economics of primary surveillance radars is strange. Reliable service (the war on nines), robust filtering of false alarm (even tough multi-sensor ATC trackers have made huge strides...) more and more requirements on the 'high speed + maneuvering' kinematics (replace mil psr radars in some missions) and in the 'slow or static small rcs' (drones mostly but also helps). Processing latency is getting squeezed to 'almost impossible with COTS HW' levels and regulatory requirements only increase like mad. But you're only selling & installing what, at most 100 a year? Good luck recouping any R&D.

The entry in such a market is hard too, as ATC operators are conservative as hell, and Chesterton's fence tends to be respected a bit religiously by customers.
I would assume they were talking about the stabilizer trim motor not being able to run the stabilizer trim because of the loads.

> When he pulled back, the elevator was ineffective; it didn’t do anything, so he said, “Well, I’ll use the stabilizer,” and the stabilizer wouldn’t run. It stalled, because of the load.

Key in there: "Wouldn't run."

Almost all transport class aircraft have the same sort of trim setup on the tail - they have the movable elevator at the trailing edge, and then the entire horizontal stabilizer can tilt up/down for trim. This is a lot lower drag than having the elevator deflected, and gives you an extra control surface for emergency use as well - usually, the control authority of the entire moving stabilizer is more than the control authority of the elevator, so you can use that in an emergency for pitch.

That the elevator wouldn't work effectively in the transsonic region was known - that's why they planned to use the whole moving stabilizer to pull out of the dive. Just, the air loads on it were too high with what limited authority the elevator still had, so they had to unload it again to run the trim, at which point they were able to recover.

The term "stalled" is overloaded an awful lot in aviation, but I'm pretty sure in this case, it didn't refer to an aerodynamic stall of the tailplane. There's virtually no way it could be aerodynamically stalled at ~Mach 1 without ripping pieces off.
"we can safely avoid everything that does not move fast, which includes most of the earth's crust"
> and gives 6 people ad-free viewing which comes to $3/person/month

Six people who live in the same household, to be clear.
While all these things are true, I've squatted in one of these houses, slept on the floor, tilled and made rows in the adjacent plot, got to know the neighbors, a mix of locals and hippies. It was my only experience in Japan, and it was one of the happiest times in my life. Now I'm not sure those hippies want me back, but damn if it wasn't a fucking dream.
Having worked with a car parts manufacturer in Japan, I disagree.

It's true there's a huge industry for white label car parts manufacturing in Japan. These companies are extremely agile. They will adapt. Taking contracts for novel new parts is their daily DNA. They already work extensively with foreign car companies, so they're not anchored to the foibles of Toyota and Nissan.

Furthermore, electric cars still need complex parts! Sensors of all types, electric windows and door locks, key fobs, air conditioners, steering wheels, windshield wiper motors, etc. The list is so very long.

I have one wild guess as counterpoint. Today's Japan would never mandate a shift to all-electric vehicles. Why? It would destroy their domestic car sales industry. In Japan, many people only keep their cars for a few years, then sell them back. Used Japanese domestic cars are worth a lot of money. These cars are exported to other countries around the world, where they're resold. I imagine Japan could no longer resell their domestic cars abroad, at such huge volume, if all their cars were electric. Many countries do not have the conditions or infrastructure to support large-scale deployment of EVs. Batteries would probably need to be replaced, lowering the profit on the resale. And so on.
The Vaccinated Are Worried and Scientists Don’t Have Answers
The initial post says that the series will include implementing a debugger, but I don't see that in a scan of the articles. Anyone know if that is still to come, or was dropped, or what?
Is this increase really caused by demand-side pressures or simply that property owners know they can charge more since tenants have more disposable coin in their pockets?
I've always been looking for anushell.
T-Mobile investigating claims of data breach that affects 100M users
This hits so many of the greatest hits for how to speak to emotion and play on existing feelings more than following the data.

Starts off with an appeal to so called technical debt. A nebulous concept that more plays on debt being bad then it shows anything to actually do.

It then moves to comparing to other engineering, with the implicit idea that they have it together in ways that we don't.

Oh, and I skipped the part of statistical abuse. Because, what? Turns out special cases abound in data driven efforts. Instead of looking for ways out, we are looking to blame those that tried? That... Doesn't seem productive.

I also don't buy some of the argument. Focusing on voter purging as if that is a data science problem seems willfully ignorant. That is a blatant power grab that is just hiding behind data jargon.
That's explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218619

NetBSD drivers are particularly convenient to port, also because of the license.

I don't think it is reasonably easy to port Linux drivers but they can be a good source of inspiration and hints when engineering drivers of your own.
This is even more true for the ungodly long `jq` incantations that people write.

It's like I get it, the old way is ugly and not always easy to decipher but at least it's shorter and your chances of understanding it are better.

I've had both -- the classic piped chain of UNIX commands and various JSON-producing tools piped to `jq`. The former were still easier to work with.
We have 5000km oil pipelines… the WestEast gas pipeline that China is finishing will be nearly 9000km… the Caspian Sea is like 120km off the outskirts of Tehran.
Valuation have risen an absurd amount in the past two years. When property tax assessments catch up, landlords might be looking at 15-20% higher operating costs, and that flows through to rents.

Not to mention property insurance rates have jacked up mysteriously in the past year.
I think you're obviously right, but you're also being overly pessimistic and short-sighted. Diagnosis and maintenance efficiency on BEVs will surely improve as the segment matures.
Yeah, but Tex Johnston had already rolled the 707 prototype back in 1955 as well. I think both companies had the good sense to not keep pushing the limits of showmanship with transport category aircraft.
I found this relevant question on Quora that had some pretty good answers:
https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-social-classes-in-Soviet...
Like some other commenters said: the last 1% will require 99% of the time.

I'm certain there will have to be smart roads before there can be cars without a steering wheel.
I doubt many, if any, would confuse the two. Bamboo is notorious for being hard to kill. It spreads underground using shoots, and those shoots can reemerge again and again every time you chop down the bamboo patch.
It’s true that C++ is huge but the complaint should be about the lack of epochs that would let us simplify the language instead of about very useful new features such as concepts, modules, or constexpr. If you’re already programming in C++ and you can’t take a few days every 3 years to learn about new additions, you’ll have even more problems with other languages.
I disagree. This is full of very oriented stuff. The new climate denialism is climate adaptationism. Focus on carrying on with business as usual; until New Zealand's full I guess.
List of mass shootings in the United States in 2021
"I did it as a lark" has been used as an expression for a long time already, well over a century.

To give a few examples, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Boy_s_Own_Annual/X7...

"Sure as goodness, I thought you both did it as a lark", from a book published in 1895, so it's reasonable to assume it was already in some level of common idiom by then. It's unlikely The Boys Own Annual was trail blazing in its use of language.

Or https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Fortnightly_Review/... from 1929. "D you remember I got certified as a lunatic for trying to make a living by betting that one horse would reach a post before another, I admit it was silly, but I only did it as a lark"

Language changes and evolves over time. You're attempting to be King Canute, except maybe one apparently deluded enough to believe the courtiers, only not as the tide is on the way in, but as the tide is long past and you've almost drowned.

The ship sailed on the point you're making before you were even born.
Multiple options:

1. Stimulus given faster than it can be absorbed into rents.

2. Progressive taxes on dwellings that are not primary residence.

3. Decrease the cost of new housing.

Of those, I think the last is the most realistic. It is the only one that does not lead to a housing shortage.
Not every startup idea needs to exist, and the world doesn't owe anyone attention to their startup.

I can also imagine bootstrapping a startup that squeezes juice out of a bag using powerful motors and running into widespread skepticism, because someone did it. The answer there isn't to write "Hand-squeezed juice from actual fruits is bad" articles, the answer is to find a better startup idea.
I’ve tried a number of notes apps backed with “Sync with iCloud Drive” and often find it problematic. Usually the problems are on the Mac side, wherein my laptop does a bad job of pushing up small edits to existing files. I can force it with hacky things like viewing the folder in Finder, but that is a nuisance and easy to forget. The result is that I’ll open up Beorg/Obsidian/etc. on my iOS device and see a quite out-of-date version of the docs.

FWIW the non-drive iCloud Sync (core data?) works extremely well for things like Bear.
If you could borrow a couple giant pandas from the local zoo for a few days, that would be a win-win.
By the way, I would like to make this linguistic comment:

While the headline is misleading, it is also technically correct in an interesting way

The article says “ONE OF the world’s most invasive weeds.” Let’s suppose it was #22 on the list of all known invasive weeds ranked by invasiveness

But as a MEMBER of that group, one can legitimately label it as “A world’s worst invasive weed” and then drop the “A”

Interesting techique to make hyperbolic claims that are technically true due to the rules of English!

Do people do this elsewhere?
Can it handle files being renamed?

Or will the file's history become unlinked?
Thanks; HN thought the semicolon was part of the URL. Added a space.
interesting, thanks, ill take a look
There was always where this was going to end -- demands that we spend (from the public) hundreds of billions to upgrade roads to make self-driving tech "work".

Also,

> and right now, no driverless car from any company can gracefully handle rain, sleet, or snow

Good thing the entire US has the weather patterns of the bay area, and never experiences rain, sleet, or snow!
Simple solution, get a pet panda. The circle of life!
Coincidentally I discovered another iOS app for note-taking this week called Beorg, which leverages the emacs + org mode format so I can easily sync between iOS and Linux.

This one looks nice too though; always good to see open source apps for Mac and iOS. I wonder how similar the markdown formats are.
Underrated comment

(And that’s saying a lot considering its upvotes lol)
RCT trans kit review is a warning to Welsh Government
Good point about shotwell. I just dont like if someone criticizes like the tesla freight truck cargo capacity. someone brings up that engineers at spacex figured out how to land rockets
I understand your claim and don't find it unreasonable, but I think there are lower hanging fruit than doctors. Many of the brightest minds of our generation are putting their efforts to ads and manipulation in order to increase consumption. I'd pick the doctors over them.
It would be interesting to develop a metric of how long it takes for a new fact to propagate through a population, and then see what other attributes that correlates with. You'd need to adjust it for falsehoods propagating, of course, to account for populations that tend to believe whatever you tell them.
The horror of nature must be subdued! Down with our plant overlords!
Do you "really doubt" or do you "know"? This sort of payment would be illegal in many cases.
How did this come about?? Seems super random but awesome.
Correct.

The threshold is renewable energy used to produce methane and ammonia, more economically than fossil fuels sources. Then H2 economy becomes inevitable.

For transportation, tackling all the use cases Li-ion doesn't. In other words, FCEV compliments BEV.

If we unlock H2 soon, maybe civilization can survive climate crisis.
Afghans are being evacuated via WhatsApp, Google Forms, or by any means possible
Some estate agencies, who don't want to sell estate to a foreigner but would not openly say it, just let some other Japanese customer (who appeared suddenly) take the precedence and buy instead of you.

Source: unfortunately I can relate...
Every service that knowns something about your identity has the potential to leak it due to a security problem. It's better to just not have access.

This also seems like an IT headache. If you tie an identity to some test user, it has to get cleaned up somehow if you leave the job.
A few exceptional Google books searches does not prove the rule. Using correct English increases the chances that others will understand what we are saying, improving the chances of accomplishing our goals. What is wrong with helping others in that?
The latter IIRC - up until recently, if you had 1/128th Korean ancestry or more, you were disenfranchised.
I think the assertion was more that that is when everyone was forced to take surnames?
I imagine that a big reason is that it's harder to charge enough plug ins in Japan. Japan produces 60% the electricity per person as the US and has areas with huge densities already. Going to a plug in system vs. a hybrid may not make sense in Tokyo. And then it becomes one of those "it won't work here, but when I think about it I forget to include the word here".
>I won't trust one from the "blue hydrogen" lobby either.

Agreed, I felt the same way when this article was circulating last week.

This is a guy whose career was based on, apparently, lying about the benefits of his lobby. Now he's decided to take a more socially palatable position, and suddenly we're to believe him? Sounds like his trying to get a different lobbying gig.

“Instead, they’re asking taxpayers for billions in subsidies for the next 25 years. They should tell the government they don’t need it. The fact that they don’t tells you everything you need to know.”

Can't we same the same about solar or EV subsidies? Isn't the purpose of these subsidies to diminish investment risk and promote new tech?
>Down the line people will go "the machine says so, therefore it must be so".

Thats the real feature of AI, devision laundering: a flawed decision made by someone for their own gain now appears impartial and trustworthy, and come wothout accountability
Regulation yes, rent control no.

Google "deadweight loss price ceiling rent control" to see the detrimental economic effects of that policy. Once you understand that, check out the deadweight loss graph of a land value tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Efficiency

The type of regulation we need is a tax on the pure unimproved value of land sites (excluding buildings, factories, farms etc.).

George:

> When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of the community, then will the equality ordained by Nature be attained. No citizen will have an advantage over any other citizen save as is given by his industry, skill, and intelligence; and each will obtain what he fairly earns. Then, but not till then, will labor get its full reward, and capital its natural return.
No. Just like CB radio truckers don't need them. In fact, most people don't just to use radios. Really even a lot of drone pilots aren't getting HAM licenses. Though of course any HAM would know what I said above.
Bamboo is fairly easy to contain- just surround the area with a 60mil thick plastic barrier. I've been growing bamboo for two decades in my yard without issue.

It also won't spread beyond wet areas, so a lot of people control it simply by not watering the surrounding areas.

In terms of maintenance, bamboo only shoots for a few weeks in the spring - it won't grow at all for the rest of the year. The real scourge in my yard are the weeds that grow year-round.
The past president is usually just that, not news. But Trump was good for ratings and they don't want to let it go.
The tough calculus of emissions and the future of EVs
If the last 1% is as hard as the previous 99% then they are not at 99% but at 50% ;=)

It's just that a part much larger then 1% of the way is perceived to be just 1%. I.e. there is a insane lot of hidden complexity generally/often overlooked.
I am speaking more generally than this specific article or topic.
Fortunately, I have heard of ASML a few days ago thanks to this video: https://youtu.be/hLwGtucsTms?t=1099
It’s quite a bit more nuanced. I recommend reading some work by Mariana Mazzucato to get some perspective.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mariana%20mazzucato
It all depends if a fully loaded truck is going up or down the hill, regen of electric semi will be crazy good
Your projections seem pretty good. Renewable energy is likely to continue to get cheaper, opening up power to gas possibilities (e.g. green hydrogen).

Something I think is missing in these hydrogen discussions on energy storage is LiFePO4 cells. They give very good round trip efficiency, are simple to operate and have been plummeting in price.

https://about.bnef.com/blog/battery-pack-prices-cited-below-...

If prices continue to decline at the current trend, I’d expect to see large scale batteries used to store energy for use over multiple days. For small towns, this could be a relatively maintenance free and economical option to only draw from the grid on the days of the week when you have surplus wind or solar.
I think this is the same everywhere there is some history. In Italy if they find art during renovation, like a mosaic from a roman bathroom that was hidden beneath the floor, they have to stop work and call specialists. Then there are 1500s villas that are UNESCO assets that you can live in, but have to go through a lot of pricey work to maintain.
Having owned a Prius for a decade, and now a Hybrid RAV4, I can say with confidence that even if they were somehow more complicated, the great feature is that they never need work. Truly exceptional reliability.
I thought it would be Kudzu, but nope. Though Kudzu is still mentioned.

It's kind of amazing that weeds are a real life example of where "kill it with fire" is actually a realistic and appropriate response, and less harmful than herbicides.
That's not actually what has happened. Roll back 100 odd years, the average age of entry into the work force would be around 14 for males (very useful in coal mines for the narrow bits), retirement was 65, but most people didn't make it that far. The typical working week was 6 days. Now we have a significant percentage of the population studying into their twenties, and at the other end retired and living into their eighties or nineties.

That's the predicted "unemployment". There are probably significantly fewer managers per se, than there used to be - companies like GE used to have hierarchies 40 or more levels deep.
To be fair Ford issued a recall for the fire risk and the owner didn't take it in to get fixed.

> as a result of the blaze, much of it was trashed, all over a 2002 Ford Escape under recall.
I'm particularly sensitive to this as a native plant nerd here in Hawaii. Home Depot and Walmart are filled with (beautiful) invasive plants like Medinilla magnifica, Kahili ginger, Lantana, so many others. I've spoken to the managers about it from time to time but nothing changes.

I used to work at a botanical garden here on Hawaii Island that boasted of their 6 different species of Medinilla, even selling a fridge magnet in the gift shop. I tried and tried to explain how backwards this was and how these magnets would be viewed by anyone who knew or cared about fragile native ecosystems. Their response always came down to something like "but these ones are prettier." They also sold little bagged starts of two horribly invasive plants! (Bamboo orchid and Kahili ginger)
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Is there no opportunity where you are to become hands on? It would be a huge jump to go from project manager with some self taught tech to a solutions architect - these guys in my eyes have many years of full on hands on experience - it’s what makes them able to propose solutions. There are plenty of people that use bootcamps to make transitions from non SWE to SWE and they come from backgrounds outside of tech so in this respect I think you’d have an advantage. The other route I see is taking on a support team lead - there would be less creative development to start but you’d still have to get your hands dirty and an advantage you’d have is being a mature product head. You would have SWE reporting into you and you learn as you, contributing more as you can. Going in as a ‘junior’ SWE at 40 may be a harder route. I’d offer to speak direct but I can’t see a way of DMing on here
clearly satire
Productivity tools: Note-taking (podcast episode)
I'm all for FOSS, but I fail to see how saying something like "There would be no problem if you accepted to release it with a less restrictive license" differs from saying that to a GPL library developer because proprietary code was found using it.
Why should the first be considered "a controversy" but not the second ?
Was just about to post this. While the day-to-day of my job is like at any tech company, because I work for a regulated employer, a company that says "We will pay you to interview for us" immediately makes me lose interest.

(Why don't I just decline the payment? Because nobody wants to pay me for one day of both answering and asking questions at the last step of the process, they want to pay me for a real actual coding task as part of initial screening. From the article: "Introducing a payment allowed us to ask for something challenging and lengthy, while also respecting the candidates’ time." If I'm not getting paid, I have no interest in spending that much time up front.)
Personally I would expect the news to be biased towards the current year 'news' vs last years 'olds'.