skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That the IRS is not overwhelmingly prosecuting this type of crime.

What's the basis for the converse?

What numbers don't add up?
An important characteristic of liquid fuels are that as you extract the energy from them you reduce the total weight. In particular for flight this helps increase overall range and efficiency.

Batteries weigh the same full or depleted. So after you deplete 50% of your battery power you’re still carrying 100% of the weight.

In cars this is less of an issue. But for planes, where you are defying gravity, it can make a large difference.
Hottest take in the history of mankind. I think my screen is about to melt. GNU/Linux is not free, it requires a computer to run. Free beer is not free, drinking it requires you to pay for your upkeep to remain alive to be able to drink it.
There are plenty of nations or periods of history where the ultra rich acquired their fortunes due to their power rather than vice versa.
For comparison:

> People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported – ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. Anyone can have mild to severe symptoms.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/s... (emphasis added)
>Perhaps the government should open companies that are meant to lose money and are tax supported (for-loss conpanies) that compete with the industry with solutions that are good for the people but bad for business?

Many government owned companies actually make a profit until private industry lobbies them into ineffectiveness. The US Post Office was profitable until a change lobbied by Fed-Ex and UPS forced them to keep 100% of their pensions available at all times.

Various crown corp electric companies were profitable in Canada and SaskTel, a crown corp telecommunications company is the last bastion of non-insane cell phone plans though I'm sure Rogers and Bell are working on it.

People just hate seeing the government make money. They see that things are good, say "hey, why should the government get this money" and then shut down the system that's working and complain when everything costs more because private industry is trying to squeeze every last cent out of them.
That piece is a self-own.

Whatever expertise Robin has as an economist simply does not translate into psychological / sociological / anthropological analysis.
The existing GOES series of satellites produces amazing imagery. I'm not enough of a weather/climate nerd to appreciate all of it, but I am a bit of an imagery nerd and the geocolor images never stop being stunning.

https://www.goes-r.gov/multimedia/dataAndImageryImagesGoes-1...

The downlink app for Mac makes it easy to set your desktop background to a 'live' feed.

Edit: better imagery link: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk.php?sat=G17
Alternatively, "empire" is synonymous with "evil" because a benign entity cannot be competitive enough to reach empire size.
Frank Lantz, who ran the NYU Game Center when I was there, likes to compare games to opera because of the mind-boggling variety of disciplines involved in the production of big budget games. I think it's a pretty apt comparison

Separately, outside of AAA commercial gamedev, tons of people are doing things around games that are very close in spirit, intended function/audience, etc to traditional High Art

For my money though, the sweet spot where the most interesting and funnest work gets done is experimental-but-commercial solo/tinyteam indie gamedev. Stuff like Baba Is You, Bennett Foddy, Stephen Lavelle, Michael Brough, etc
It's quite possible that if measles were introduced to our global population now it would be exactly the same: has so much spread that it has the chance to mutate to evade the immune system next time around.

If 99% of people were vaccinated then covid wouldn't have populations in which to mutate.
Unless you literally tow it for many minutes to cruising altitude, whatever push you can give it in the ground won’t really amount to much, compared to the energy use for the rest of the trip.

Imagine you’re embarking on a cross country road trip, and someone offers to initially tow you to get you to 60mph, but then leave you on your own. Will that save you a lot fuel? Obviously not.
Nonsense. What I am getting at is that if you want any future that involves outsiders regularly inspecting Chinese bio-laboratories, then you had better be prepared for outsiders (including possibly Chinese) to inspect yours.

Otherwise they will say no. And that will be the end of it.

This purile whataboutism has to stop.
Take Claude E. Shannon's Master's thesis, the long version.
Considered by many the most important Master's thesis of last century. It fully introduced the concept of binary / Boolean logic to design of electronic circuits. If you understand the core premise of his work, you understand the core of computers. If you can apply his work, you can design computers.

Thesis:

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/greatworks/shannon38.pdf

Go through the theory in the thesis with pen and paper, use the references as needed. Thesis, article on it by Shannon and lots of commentary available freely online. He provided a number of practical applications, with breakdown.

Here is the core question you need to answer to understand logic in computers: what can you do with just yes and no, represented as 1 and 0?

Why were these numbers reversed in Shannon's thesis?

In his thesis, 1+1=1. Why? If you understand postulates, it makes sense for the kind of theory he is developing. If not, you should be very excited: mathematical theory, unlike how it is presented in bad schools, is not about following rules someone has decided on. It is about making sense in accordance with the logic you decide upon! This is as close as you can get to real magic, magic you can prove and make manifest in reality. Contemplate this deeply.

What kind of information can you transmit with a lamp and a switch, turning the lamp on and off? (Tip: this is the whole idea behind how the super-modern fiber-optic cables are transmitting information today, with lights blinking on and off, real fast, from one end to the other. Poetically, they are the core of the Internet).

Following the hyperlinks and looking up what you need should provide all the information required and more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...
All the current data suggests something very different.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/08/06/fully-v...
Hi guys :)
The only person I have ever known to keep a full-time career in the Arts his entire life is a pianist working in classical dance. His work is "piano labour"; I have seen him after 13 hours at the keyboard (on tour) as repetiteur - such tours might last 3 months and the year is packed end-to-end with tours.
So that's the tier of musicians below superstar level who have careers and buy houses on mortgages.
I'm a free-form improvising guitarist. I don't depend on music for an income so I don't get stressed. I can have a nice conversation with my guitar wherever and lots of people like my work.
I represent the tier of musicians who have fun!
Could it have anything to do with subcultural differences among cannabis users and not deleterious physical effects of consumption?
Elixir shops are learning quickly that the best bet is probably to hire a senior dev that wants to learn and just give them a couple of weeks to learn.

As for the surge in interest, I can’t speak for everybody but when I dove into the language I realized it addressed virtually every short term and long term problem that I’ve experienced in my programming career. The rules it sets out force things to be done in such a way that many issues are avoided as a by product.

I find it balances all of my concerns better than anything else (productivity, performance, maintainability, scalability, learning curve, concurrency, stack simplification, capability, refactorability).
Yep.

That's why docker inc is mostly failing and has to come up with this dumb stuff whereas red hat is thriving :)
> it was the non-free market force ("It couldn’t be patented") that skewed the choice

Interesting, because my take on patent law is that it exists to encourage capitalism. Specifically, to reward the risk takers that develop novel ideas (leading to positive change?).
Cost is the missing element there. They know how to make more efficient planes (e.g. Dreamliner) but the industry can't afford to apply that efficiency to the entire fleet.
I do not see anything less feasible doing it with threads / forks.

Asynchronous IO like in Go I think is useful in a sense that if some of the networked responders are temporarily slow then they will not hold fast ones and would not accumulate threads. If however it is disk / database, then by immediately switching to a next method this strategy will let internal async tasks piling up indefinitely and saturating resource pools of OS just as well. So those "concurrency focused" languages are not a silver bullet and one has to understand internal mechanics to properly manage requests lifecycle.
I hear this frequently, but I don’t think it will do what many people think it would.

Part of the power of FOSS is that it often leans on copyright to compel sharing. But, in the absence of copyright, why wouldn’t capitalistic powers simply stop sharing their code?
> The graph here you are looking for is the one that shows the percentage of staffed beds and icu beds occupied. Notice that it is entirely flat.

Compare June to September, total staffed beds is about even, total ICU beds grew somewhat, and usage of both jumped from about 80% to 88% for overall beds, and 90ish to 96% for ICUs (which is a bigger increase in use than it might seem because capacity increased)

If overall use increased 10% and covid users are 20% of overall and 40% of ICU, up from maybe 5% and 10%, it seems there are a lot of non-covid users whose care is being delayed or denied because of covid. There's some room for misleading statistical information, such as ICU patients in for something else that happen to have asymptomatic covid and are only tested because of other patients, but the difference in stats seems large enough to ignore that. Stats I've heard are that the vast majority of hospitalized covid patients in most states had not been vacinated, so it does seem useful to the person taking them, and by reducing the overall hospitalization rate, seem to have kept Texas within hospital capacity, if barely (I haven't heard stories of Texas hospitals running triage and tents in parking garage like some other states)
I don't think that's totally true, Stripe has Sorbet for example. On the other hand, Ruby seem to be less popular than before and almost no one uses it in Europe. But Ruby 3 seems very nice. It's hard to predict its future.
I upvoted you for this reply. There is definitely some quantitative difference between how the US handles its laboratories which was absent from my comment.
The last time I was asked for ID to buy alcohol in a supermarket in the UK was over 15 years ago (and the last time I was asked in a pub was probably 20 years ago). It's not like parts of the US where venues are required to check literally everyone - it's only people who look like they might be underage.
That's a bad wording for mathematics. It usually means "sufficiently greater than", and only makes sense as part of a sentence or wider context where what it is sufficient for is clear.

"Much greater than" is misleading because it could be confused with a valid statement by itself.
Lima is a new and better option for this, it does not use a bundled Ruby runtime and does not use anything from Oracle. Just Go and QEMU... See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
Framer Motion, an animation and gesture library for React
Everything I hear about these clowns is so very 2022 and not 1970s Xerox free for all innovation.

I hope someone starts a truly open tool and leaves these unimaginative losers in the past.
Sex differences in the brain are not reduced to differences in body size
Ritalin/adderall as well?
That's a different point than before, though. That's child vaccination vs. general population vaccination.
> Everyone still downloads and runs an entire JVM.

They do? I work in the Scandinavian public sector and we abandoned Java two or three years ago because of the continued security issues it posed. Software that require an install JVM to operate doesn’t get past our IT department.

I’m not sure modules would help though, as I don’t know much about them. But not everyone still installs JVM.
I just accessed it with https in ungoogled chromium.

edit: maybe it's your region blocking it? Don't know much about the technicalities...
Texas abortion law has tech workers reconsidering moving to the state
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The graphs for excess mortality track the deaths attributed to Covid quite well in most of the world. There's just no chance that it's some kind of an measurement artifact.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

The main exception are totalitarian states like Russia or China, where the numbers were either entirely suppressed or fabricated.
We are not individually responsible, but we are collectively. The latter isn’t productive.
I am not sure, but I conjecture that Internet "influencers" fall into the elites group. They often do not have money when they start out.
Forget Tiger Moms. Now China's 'Chicken Blood' Parents Pushing Kids to Succeed
> I'm generally an avid beliver in free markets as an agent for positive change, so these types of "revelations" are really disheartening.

There are many such examples. Here’s one from my life: when I was in the pharmaceutical business one of the chemists developed a treatment for a fairly common disease. He and a couple of others tried it on themselves. We could have patented it and run it through clinical trials, but it was something any compounding pharmacist could have whipped up so such a patent would have been worthless. We were a startup so didn’t spend any effort doing a study much less a full program. Instead there are marketed, less effective products on the market.
There's a huge gulf between getting sick attempting to make a virus more virulent and getting sick while gathering natural samples in the field.
I'm a happy user of Docker Desktop myself (as a personal user) so Enterprise is not the first thing that came to mind when I read your comment. Sorry for misinterpreting.

In that case, seems fair enough that as a business suddenly being asked to pay for Docker Desktop, you'll start asking for a more polished experience.

But they've already done the incredibly hard part which is creating and popularising OCI, developing an engine that works on most operating systems, and having nice tooling around all of that.

Polishing the Docker Desktop experience should be fairly easy as soon as people let the Docker devs know how they expect it to work: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues
SF a good senior can run you 350k/year not including overhead, add on overhead and you can quickly be looking at costs of ~500k per senior per year.

Vesting cliff isn't the only problem with stocks either. Common stock holders can easily get screwed over when raising or during any liquidation event that isn't an IPO or direct listing. The disparity in treatment means as an engineer you need to value stock at 1/10th face value as a rule of thumb.
http://web.archive.org/web/20210825201442/https://overcoming...
I guess the reason is enough people upvote it? HN is pretty popular for nichier tech like Clojure, Julia etc. It gets as many votes as Java I think because the community in general likes reading about exotic stuff.
There is no particular reason why you can't put a diesel engine in a plane and indeed there are a number of diesel engines certified for just that.
>The BBC clearly has not trusted these reports.

Nobody said they did. :)

>Nor has any other journalistic outlet.

False. Googling "us soldiers shot civilians airport kabul" brings up a number of articles about it, albeit not from Western outlets. I can provide links, if you'd like, but they show up in the first two pages of results.

Please note that this is not me endorsing the validity of those articles.

>They are literally just the tweets of any old Joe Schmoe. It doesn’t matter who they work for, since the BBC is not taking any responsibility for the reports.

We don't know why these claims haven't appeared in the BBC, or if they even bothered to look into them at all. That's also a pretty disingenuous take on the credentials and credibility of reporters. Again, I never said that what they claimed was true, just that it holds relatively more (even if it's just an ever-so-tiny-bit more) weight than if Joe Schmoe made a similar claim. Surely you'd agree that someone with actual knowledge and experience in a certain area is more trustworthy than someone with none at all? That's all I'm getting at.

Aren't grey areas fun? :)

>Journalism has fact checkers and editors for a reason.

Yep!
For the last ~12 years, I gave PulseAudio a try every time I upgraded the Fedora distro on my main computers. I almost never had the catastrophic bugs many people complained about. But pulseaudio has always taken 10-15% of one CPU when in use (be it on audio/video calls, or music/movie playback). This is across 3 different laptops and 2 desktops. It is not a huge deal, but it is a bit frustrating on laptops where battery life is precious. I understand that PulseAudio is very powerful, but it represented no practical gain for me personally, with my very simple use cases, so I simply disabled it.

Weirdly, I found very few people complaining about PulseAudio's CPU usage. Maybe nobody cares about 10-15% of one core.

However, I am happy to report that PipeWire seems to not have this problem at all. Since it became default on Fedora, it has barely shown on top's first page. Given that it is even more ambitious than PulseAudio in terms of latency, this is incredibly impressive!
The obvious example in my mind is a control of the means of production. For instance, if they used [x] instead and also happened to own all the [x] mines.

Or using anticompetitive practices to prevent competitors from joining the market.

Or by gaining regulatory capture.
Are they really impactful though? Maybe in terms of selling things, but have the Kardashians (or whoever is the biggest influencer) impacted the world the same way that someone like Rudolph Murdoch has?
This process would leave traces that we would have detected by now. If this happened, we should see viruses that sit outside the Wuhan-rooted SARS-CoV-2 clade but are otherwise the same. The rate that this happens would be low, but it would have been observed. I would expect that the epidemic required to spread from rural to urban regions would be large enough to throw off daughter strains that would have been circulating after the main outbreak was discovered. These would have been detected by the mobilization to find the origins and scope of the pandemic. Of course we can make stories about a perfect chain of transmission leading from a bat cave in southwest China to a major population center, where each step never resulted in obvious illness or community spread. I also enjoy science fiction. Some things make for nice stories but involve staggeringly improbable series of coincidences. And if the same virus (remember: thanks to it's error correcting mechanisms it doesn't change very fast) were let loose in another community, why would it not take up residence there? We would have to explain why people in Wuhan and the rest of the world were so much more susceptible to a virus that was completely wiped out along it's entire chain of transmission from probable animal host to human.
Invite friends to fail the course for you?
Your comments here make the agenda you are pushing clear. You are now literally performing whataboutism on the topic of whataboutism, it is incredible to witness.

There is no future where China submits to inspections in good faith. China cannot even do regular business in good faith. The CCP is an underhanded and evil regime that subjugates and oppresses its billion people and is trying desperately to subjugate and oppress the entire world. I feel sorry for its advocates, being so indoctrinated that they are blind to the fact that they are helping this tide of darkness slowly engulf the planet. And I while I celebrate the lifting of hundreds of millions of Chinese people from horrifying poverty, I pity them for being trapped under that horrifying autocratic regime.
Do these folks study speech and know what to control for at all? Seems there are more critical confounding factors a study is likely to observe before psycho-active drug use is a significant factor https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790192/
It's fairly well documented that many projects in Google happen because that's pretty much the only way to move up the career ladder, and once the promotions have been doled out then the project loses its original stewardship...until someone else is looking for a promotion and sets their eyes on rebuilding that project. (Case in point, the numerous failed attempts to deliver or even brand/market a messaging app).

Naturally, as is it is these days, any new product or redesign is conceived in terms of an MVP. You could argue that the industry as a whole has taken this concept far too literally over the last decade, to the point of being cultish about it.

I don't dispute the parent poster's point in general, I just think it's more indifferent than lazy/greedy/arrogant, unless it comes to search or ads. That's arguably worse, but Google's reputation for delivering increasingly mediocre versions of its products (or shitcanning them entirely) does precede it.
> However, within the first two months of its operation, the new plant was plagued by more cases of lead poisoning, hallucinations, insanity, and five deaths.

> On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems. ... Midgley would later have to take leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.

Guy sounds like a nut.

> Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history", and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny".

Later down in the legacy section, these are some serious burns, almost laughable if it weren't for them being true and the consequences of that.

But I must say, although it's fun to pin it on one man, many people and corporations were involved in the propagation of his catastrophes.