skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw these a few months ago, maybe a year ago. I was reporting them, and within a few weeks, I stopped seeing them. I had assumed Google had solved the problem, not just that the problem had been moved to a new set of users...
On a G-280 the thrust line seems pretty high and aft.

Pure conjecture here since I've never flown one, but decreasing thrust might actually cause a nose up movement. That and my experience with pusher prop planes which very much have this issue.

Thinking about the 737-max which had the opposite problem of engines low and forward, where increasing thrust caused excess pitchup.
That's possible if seawater is nearby, and you have a place to dump brine.

And if you have freshwater nearby, it will always be more economical.
Snow Crash.

I know, I know, everybody loves the author. But I couldn’t get into the author’s writing style. Long, drawn out sentences, sometimes so long that it had to be done on purpose. And although I liked the plot, it was kind of exhausting to read. I read about 3/4 of it before putting it down and ultimately giving it away.
That's only if you want your source code to compile on a lot of different systems. If your goal is to be able to have your program run on a lot of systems, then it's so much easier to just attack the binary interfaces straight on and ignore the platform tooling. That's how I got my executables to run on seven operating systems. See https://justine.lol/ape.html
Easy: do only what you want — what you're passionate about — so you always have a competitive advantage making you above average in your field.
Is there evidence of a massive uptick in pediatric deaths? So much so that we'd believe that, even as transmission patterns increasingly resemble endemic equilibrium, the results of this report (which, to my knowledge, is still, sadly, the only one of its kind) are completely reversed?

I think it's fair to say that the authors don't think so.
During Apollo, twenty somethings used far less crude language in public than peoplw due now.
Very interesting. On Debian the Ubuntu .deb package installs fine without asking for other dependencies.

I wonder if it could be split into a core+GUI pair for those of us who like to have p2p software run on small boxes (RasPI, other ARM boards, etc). I'm so used to run Transmission as a service on my NAS then use the GUI interface from PCs when they're turned on, which is extremely convenient.
After reading that medium article on the plagiarism, it made me have a weird thought.

Craig kind of acts like a GPT-3 copyright utility function. It’s as if he’s scouring all content as a wild GAN patent troll. Even using past published papers to be rewritten under a copyright handle. Even the translation has errors related to visual artifacts vs human vision. Odd.
One time I was in an uber in Paris, and the uber driver felt it was his duty to tell me about all the shadow groups that control the world. The only problem is that they were Parisian versions of shadow groups that would therefore have to be in direct competition with the American shadow groups that control the world.

Anyway, nice to see the filter bubbles working so well. Haha, localized versions of controlling groups. No, but really, the flaw behind these master controlling group theories is that there are so many of them that would have to compete that its the same as none existing.
What I have never understood is if you don't want the vaccine because the long term studies are due in 2023 what subset of this group is pro Ivermectin? Ivermectin used on humans is a new area with fewer studies.
But, only easy if you're truly okay with the consequences of chasing happiness first.
There was a messaging system before Frost. You can go look that up, I'm not doing this for you because you are calling me a troll, which is a great way to end civilized discourse and end any attempt at reasonable conversation.

I never said that a central slave market was on Freenet. I don't even think the protocol would be a very effective way to do it due to how slow and unreliable the protocol is at retrieving things. What I meant was that images of this stuff were available in large galleries, and the previous messaging system before Frost would auto-find new forums for you at random. Frequently they would be large galleries of images of this stuff.

So have fun with whatever you are expecting me to pull out of 20 years ago links that are like however many 40+ hex digits long. I haven't used Freenet since I saw that stuff. Not really sure why you'd think I would keep links to it or I would have a photographic memory or even would actively seek out the stuff.

I'm not sitting here saying I contributed, I'm saying I would play around with Freenet, even submit some harmless static HTML pages for fun to test the protocol. After the messaging system started popping up forums that I didn't find acceptable, I deleted the client and never touched Freenet again.

The burden of proof is not on me nor you. This is a conversation on the internet not a spontaneous scientific journal nor an inquisition.
My Linux workstation setup with Ansible
I know I've made it when people think I'm part of a reptilian race masquerading as human.

That can only mean that I've obtained a mythical level of financial success and access.
That's really interesting! Thank you!
Kurtzeil's The Singularity is Near - I recently picked up the book for the second time, after initially buying it when it first came out. I've put it down again. I don't know if it's the way it's written, the posturing, or what? I get and accept the concepts, but it just feels so hand-wavy and...I dunno. Anybody else have similar reaction?
So they'll log out, right?
Full function emergency phone powered by a single AA with a 15 year shelf life
Yes, feature factory. Thanks. That was my native language pushing itself over English for a moment.
Looking back at my own school experience, I don't think I learned anything of value in the formal lessons of school until third grade. But being around other kids and maturing together was quite-worthwhile. I probably could have done that hanging out with the neighborhood kids playing on the street.
> Is the waste water unusable, e.g. irradiated?

You will have to condense it from steam. Doable, but not without cost. It's also highly mineralised, and you will have to acid wash hardware frequently.
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I've ordered stuff like this from B&H and Adorama, both. But yeah... part of the problem with Amazon selling the expensive things is they are apparently terrible at it.
Lobbying is worse in the US because House reps are elected every two years, so they're in permanent campaign for donations mode. They have to raise money for their next election in such a short time from lobbyists and big local donors(e.g. like car dealers in Texas who got Tesla banned from selling cars on its own by lobbying and donating to state level politicians). Senators have longer terms but they also need to raise a lot more money since they represent the entire state and their opposition is not sitting idle.

The honest reps won't last long because their opponents will raise more money by promising to do the donors' bidding. Same with state level elections.

If you eliminate the need for expensive election and re-election campaigning, you can reduce the impact of lobbying and also populist legislation for the sake of appeasing voters of certain kinds even if the law is not in the interest of the general population. This is the reason that Supreme Court judges are appointed for life. They can decide court cases based on conscience and don't have to worry about being re-appointed by the political executive and Senate.
It happens occasionally, but rarely.
I came here just for this
I'm still surprised how often I get still direct mail with something "handwritten" on it, where it's obviously not, because every same letter looks the same.

This seems like a problem solvable with just software, i.e. introducing artificial variations in the fonts. Why the seemingly overly complicated jump to using real pens in a plotter?

It's the font improvements that could possibly fool me, not the indentation of a real pen.
what is unsafe about downloading Linux ISOs over BT currently?
I’m all for experimenting with languages, but there is something to be said for having a familiar syntax. Using & and | for Boolean logic operators could be seen as a useful improvement, but then how does one express bitwise and and or? Additionally, all numbers are floating point. Would there be any future support for native integers? Handling currency with floating point has long been known to cause rounding errors.

Despite that, it’s interesting to see a language put dependency injection at the core of the language. I’d be curious to see how that works out in the long term.
I have a couple of comments and a question:

* please "set -e" and ideally "-euo pipefail" in shell scripts, because encountering an error and defaulting to "this is fine" is usually not going to produce good outcomes in a server automation suite: https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty/blob/master/example...

* if this had an "else: return 1" equivalent, it wouldn't cause the salty.py to exit(0) on a misunderstood mode: https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty/blob/master/salty.p...

* maybe this is my ignorance of saltstack, but is there no mechanism through which a sane python editor could help one know what verbs and params are available here? https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty/blob/master/example...

For example, if those were "from salty import copy" a sane python editor could help in all kinds of ways, but with them just being implicit, the editor doesn't know and now I have to maintain a whole api in my head
It's an important statement, but because it's the self-justifying propaganda of reactionaries. People work together and get things done; I see it all the time; in fact, that's how democracies - by far the most successful form of government in human history - that's how they work.
Huh? Centuries old schools have centuries old buildings named for "legacy" families.
Yes. They need the clicks as it is Sunday slow news day.

We are probably going to see the other ‘news’ orgs attempt to fact-check a joke as well as they don’t have anything better to do these days.
Curious what it uses inside/network/guess emergency means it doesn't cost money?
Probably not. Because that turns lives into statistics and he is making an emotional appeal about the 10000 theoretical families affected by lost loved ones.
I for example, frequently look at local hospitalization rates and remind myself that a good number of them are mothers and fathers on ventilators so I can't F about in public like everyone else while the numbers are rising so I reduce risk of leaving my wife alone with kids while I'm stuck in a hospital bed for a week or 2 and the worry about keeping up on the rent that follows. -not perfectly healthy
I'm vaccinated but I think that just makes me certain to not die, but not necessarily keep me out of a hospital bed.
Sometimes it helps to remind numbers are people.
Most people probably don't skim through 100 videos per day.

I doubt I skim through even 10 video a day. I think people like myself are more likely the norm than the exception.

A common "digital fallacy" people make is assuming 'everyone' uses a site like they use it. Most people don't.
I think this comment thread in an interesting mix of people quoting Howl and comparing you to Moloch and people calling you a genius. Of course, Moloch mainly chooses genius to serve as his priests.
Exactly. Communication isn’t about the idea. It’s about the state transitions that have to occur in the listener for them to become a carrier of the idea.
Yes, but that doesn't apply in my case. Both of us had plenty of recommendations independently. I'm pretty sure we would link to each other's profiles. More to the point, we didn't have trouble finding hosts as a pair for at least a year or two.
reminds me of Google Wave
submitter too https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=hamiltonians
I was talking about ethanol, not methanol; it's easy to distinguish ethanol if you distilled it from rotten fruit. Consumption of 30 or 40 ml of ethanol won't blind you; the humans commonly take toxic doses of ethanol intentionally and even habitually. It's stupid and dangerous, but it's not even in the same ballpark of risk as drinking methanol, benzene, styrene, or even acetonitrile.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments? It's not what this site is for, you've done it repeatedly lately, and when accounts do that we eventually ban them. We have to, because it destroys the intended purpose of the site.

(I'm not defending whatever it is that you're flaming - I haven't absorbed any of the details, and they're irrelevant to the moderation point here.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well Java isn't too bad in that regard. It uses = for assignment and == for equality.
Related and very interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28543457

Good to see more things happening in this space.
Yeah seriously, I remember them flagging my app for using a JS library that had security vulnerabilities. But then they don't grep for some variant of "agree to pay/subscribe $X?" buried in the app.
With 3-hour caps for gameplay, will Chinese e-sports teams lose their edge?
Oh wow that is shockingly bad. The 10 second video buffered out 5 times while I tried watching. I am on a gigabit fiber connection.
The version that bothers me most is when the threat clearly is catching up to them, but some kind of unexplained time dilation allows them to escape. In one shot the threat is a few metres away and closing fast, then in the next shot the hero spends much more time escaping than was actually available.
Adobe’s CFF font format (found tucked away inside OTF font files) has a ‘random’ operator, though most font handlers I’ve seen don’t bother to implement it.
Maybe I’m cynical - I believe that if everything performs to it’s nominal data sheet specs that it could last 15 years. But I’d expect in most practical cases I’d give a 50/50 odds of lasting half to 2/3 of that 15 years.
Weird, since it’s not really relevant.
Well you are commenting this on a thread about PeerTube, so
Ya this whole thread is weird. Either
1) peoples opinions about the net have changed drastically in a very short amount of time
2) this thread is an anomaly
3) This thread is being turfed

All of these make me uneasy
I also noticed he doesn't use gloves :)
> Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration.

Nix is the basis of an OS distro: NixOS.

This article is just re-articulating the idea that {the/an} OS distro should be managing this stuff, and not some fledgling language-specific programs (that go behind its back, and do a half-baked job by not controlling the packages external to their language ghetto).
I don't think "coin flip" is a fair description of the proposal.

It's more of an application of statistical sampling to direct democracy to remove the tremendous overhead involved in requiring everyone to vote on every issue.

A sufficiently large, randomly selected legislative body should closely reflect the eligible population, probably much more closely than an elected body would.
Keeping the phone locked gives the carrier leverage over the customer. There will be some percentage who get their subsidized phone and quickly quit paying their monthly bill. Then they can move to another carrier if the phone is unlocked. The original carrier of course is still owed money under the contract but will find it expensive to collect. Locking the device is a tool to prevent this. What's dirty though is carriers not automatically unlocking the phone as soon as the contract ends. It's a way of making switching to another carrier difficult even if you've fulfilled your contract in full.
>attempt to make the only critique against them purely budgetary and not political.they're dirtying that public image in the eyes of some.

Yet they drew plenty of non-budgetary criticism for rescinding her internship, so it doesn't seem like that worked out for them.
> No, but really, the flaw behind these master controlling group theories is that there are so many of them that would have to compete that its the same as none existing.

Andrew Gelman has made this same observation, which he calls "the piranha problem", in the context of sociology and psychology papers. The typical paper identifies a random-looking stimulus that nevertheless has a large effect on some behavior like voting or accepting a romantic partner. And the problem is, there are so many of these papers, all showing large effects, that it's impossible for any of the effects to be reliable, because even if the effect a particular paper identifies is real, there are so many other effects influencing the same outcome that the effect described by the particular paper cannot have any meaningful influence.
woah this direnv thing is neat
Your comment is incredibly reductive and relies on both the “attack the messenger” and “straw man” fallacies. The author did not say anything even close to what you’re accusing them of saying. I’m not convinced you actually read anything past the headline.
learning almost ANYTHING from any commercial entity is like taking swimming lessons from a shark. its hilarious how that shit still works on people. lets all go learn about how cigarettes are safe from tobacco companies, how index funds are superior to all other investments from Vanguard, tricks to finance your car from a dealership, how social media "connects people" from Facebook and so on.

as an immigrant it was clear to me how deeply ingrained marketing is in the culture early on and how dangerous it is to let those people shape your opinions. that basic understanding of how marketing/"submarine" PR is pervasive and how their interests are usually NOT aligned with yours just seems lost on too many people. like marketing has long since gone beyond a simple ad and now teaches entire frameworks to see the world through, frameworks that may be very dangerous to you. i feel like immigrants generally understand this - almost anyone who you don't know, who teaches you anything for free and is trying to nudge you towards a product or seems too promotional is probably a rat-bastard liar on some level. there are very very few exceptions like Khan Academy, online college courses etc. at the least if you don't understand someone's incentives, you should be wary.

if your parents don't teach you that, and the media is owned by those same marketing fuckers, and you don't luck into a book or TV show that teaches you that or see what real education is, its hard.. i think the first step is for people to take back control of "common knowledge". you and ordinary people around you should have an oral culture of trusted knowledge, that parents and children understand is more truthy and in your best interest than whatever trash is on the news. oral cultures cannot be taken over by marketers.
I thought this thread was shaping up to be "and now I can automate sending handwritten letters to my Grandma".

At least that's what jumped into my head because I still send my Grandma letters. Don't want to automate it though :)
I'm guessing that if you go find some people playing football in a vacant lot near where you live, they'd be willing to give you a tutorial for "I don't understand the gameplay and I barely understand the sport," if you play with them, anyway.
The goal is experimentation.
Wait what? The NSA is sure as hell not interested in third world suffering. I'm pretty sure they're far interested & occupied with breaking crypto, hacking China/Russia, getting into Iranian/DPRK nuclear centrifuges than in child slavery, which is a shame, but that is how it is. It's an American agency serving the interests of the American govt, not necessarily victims elsewhere.
In the United States you can dial 9-1-1 (the emergency number) even from a cell phone that has no service plan.
> AI lacks an actually understanding about what it is talking about.

you could claim that a chess AI lacks understanding of chess. And yet, objectively, it performs better than a human.

The current state of the art AI generated works are probably low quality, but one cannot claim that this won't improve. At some point, i would imagine that the AI generated works would be indistinguishable from human created works, even tho the AI "doesn't actually understand" it.
I don’t have anything to add, but this is pretty cool!
The exhaust on a jet engine is where the energy comes out.

Look into tech like thrust vectoring.

It's WAY, WAY more than a muffler
Very nice, it brought memories, although it wasn't my favorite screensaver back then. I found the Serenescreen aquarium to be relaxing (child memories: my father had multiple real tropical fishes aquariums I loved to stare at), and then there was that spectacular screensaver with changing complex high res graphics (for the time, circa 1999) that I can't recall the name, they weren't fractals though.
I love the ability to control the camera on this one though.
A couple possible improvements: make pipes multicolored by slowly shifting components, and set up pipes so that after some random time a pipe starts shorting from the end at random speed, sort of a reverse-centipede, so eventually it will disappear allowing space for other pipes without the need to continuously refresh the screen.
> Arne't the super-rich a subset of the elite?

Absolutely not, not in any traditional society.[1] The elite are governors; the super-rich are merchants. Those super-rich are what the term "middle class" used to refer to.

[1] Phoenician city-states may be an exception.
> Maybe it’s because the education system has failed at critical thinking

Sure, education can improve things. But this is a problem even worse outside the United States, so it's hard to blame it on a single education system.
In the instant of the purchase, they benefit, sure.

Overall, they have lost massively, at least in the USA. The purchasing power of the dollar has declined by over a factor of seven in the last 50 years since 1970 [1]. Real wages have remained stagnant, and the wage scale has declined such that the actual minimum wage today is $7.25, up from $1.60 in 1970, but the inflation-adjusted minimum wage would be $11.05 [2].

So, if ALL prices had declined by half as have electronics, they'd be only a bit marginally better off. But most prices have not declined as much, and have risen much more, housing, healthcare, food, etc.

The net result is that we exported the former middle-class lifestyle to China, in exchange for importing and having to compete with their low wage lifestyle. Not a smart bargain.

[1] https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1970?amount=1
[2] https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/items/1970-united-stat...
That's quite interesting. We've been porting some of the properties in PBT for ML [1]. It really works and makes a big difference even for the AI space if we focus of semantically meaningful changed (that are a bit easier to replicate in the software world.)

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/why-dont-we-test-machine-lear...
This isn’t on the network for 15 years. It’s just a long life lithium battery (which lasts 15 years) powering a phone. The use case is basically off, and then one emergency phone call.
No https://www.insider.com/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-trial-cour... she is apparently a hero to a large population of women.
This is so cool! I live in Houston and make a dashboard every year to help friends/family/colleagues find comps and negotiate their property tax rates. I had thought about direct mailing out drafts of info packets to people as a side-hustle, but never put in the work to make it happen.