skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frequent flyer programs cost money. Making deals so you can earn and spend miles on other airlines costs money. Making routes reliably available for business travelers costs money. Jetblue wins by competing in other areas, like price for leisure travelers or routes/times that are underserved by other carriers.
The abstracts of papers are intentionally terse, which usually means they are addressed to people already familiar with the field. The paper itself is often more readable (though by no means always!) and it is often worth taking a look at the introduction and conclusion, at least. Here, we have 'To a first approximation, there are two kinds of aliens: quiet and loud. Loud (or “expansive”) aliens expand fast, last long, and make visible changes to their volumes. Quiet
aliens fail to meet at least one of these criteria.'
I'm running Arch on my home laptop and my server. Had one breakage in ~5 years where sshd wouldn't start anymore because they deprecated and then removed a config option. What do you do that regularly breaks?
What kind of innovation you mean?
I think there's a lot of geographical variation, I live in an area that would traditionally be considered very Tory-ish but it seems fairly common judging by the smell in public places. I have to admit my experience is probably biased by my social circle, but polling does suggest that staunch prohibitionists aren't nearly as common as our political climate would suggest.

This YouGov survey in 2019 has twice as many people supporting than opposing legalisation for example:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cannabis-leg...
The news media is so bad in the US, I am seeing alternative news media in development. This new media is dedicated solely to criticism of the old media. Kind of like the original Daily Show but unfunny
Full title (I shortened to 80 characters): Andrew Left Was Banned From Trading in Hong Kong for Saying China Evergrande Group Was Insolvent. Was He Right All Along?

The real estate firm — which Left targeted in a 2012 short report — now faces a reckoning on its $300 billion in liabilities.
Thanks for describing that. I can see how the Danish system mostly works well, and I appreciate you elaborating on that.

I will say though, the US has historically had a very hard time taking ideas from European countries and getting them to work the same way here. I don’t fully understand why that is, there are loads of things I wish we could copy from abroad. My guess is there’s a lot of sensitivity to initial conditions when it comes to political outcomes, and due to the way things work here I’m skeptical that we could actually copy the Danish model.
I'm confused. From his success list:

I basically went back 5 or 10 years and replaced every "modern" technology solution. I pay now way more than I did with iCloud, but I am back in control. I am more productive.

- Listening to Music takes 3 clicks and just a few seconds
Wired headphones never run out of battery and have superior audio quality

- I can take real photos wiht high quality instead of relying on ever newer iPhone models for thousands of dollars which will always have lesser quality than a mirrorless camera for the same price

- I have fun again discovering bands and artists on Bandcamp instead of mind numbing listening to Apple Music playlists

- Coding via neovim on a terminal and just being on my keyboard navigating not only tmux and co, but also my OS is way more productive and faster

Which of these can I not do on a Mac?
The Envelope Subject
Full paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.01522.pdf
Your cynicism is misplaced as terminal lucidity is, in fact, a well documented phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_lucidity
Provide a better analogy! Or at least articulate the fundamental flaw with the one I provided. This is hacker news, after all. If all people said was "you're wrong, open your mind", it wouldn't be a place with interesting discussion.

The ADA is civil rights legislation. I used a civil rights analogy. In good faith.
There are devices to detect if someone is currently high from weed, though they are not very common. Source is my SO who works doing DUI rehabilitation therapy for alcohol and weed.
Maybe good news: GPD Micro PC seems to have ITE IT8987E for serial port rather than USB-Serial chip. https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/hothot/1166289.ht...
Put Kubuntu on any modern Dell desktop or Thinkpad laptop. In 95% of the cases enjoy total hardware compatibility right out of the box, and a UI that will pass for "The next Windows" for most people whose needs do not exceed browsing the internet and Facebook properties.

If they need a photo manager, in my experience the most common application need after a web browser, then Digikam really cannot be beat.
Thanks. So do every white collar worker log and get paid by the hour? Government officials, etc?
It's a shake down if the plaintiffs (who in this case are pension funds with big amounts of shares? When I first read the article, where it talked about Rhode Island etc, I assumed it was a state and not their pension fund) are just going to settle for some money in return for shutting up and letting everything continue as normal afterwards?
people who labour for wages, rather than those who own capital and earn through profit. Loosely speaking, workers versus investors. Most people on this site would fit the middle class, where you have a foot in both sides.
My grandmother passed away a few years ago. Her Alzheimer's had gotten very severe, although technically she died with the disease not of it. Her symptoms definitely did not diappear shortly before her death.

However, she did have a moment a few months before where her symptoms seemed to completely vanished for a couple hours after a doctor flushed out her Alzheimer's meds. Unfortunately I was not there, but my mom said she was suddenly completely attentive and remembered everything like her old self during that time. I don't know if it was coincidence, related to the meds, or if the flushing process did something (I'm told it was intense). I wouldn't be surprised if other patients have experienced similar things, but I don't think it's related to death.
> they lie to our faces claiming RAM has to be soldered on for some reason

Can you actually find a quote for this? I’m quite skeptical that any such lie has been told.
> this isn’t a research paper

It's the host organization's announcement for https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.01522.pdf
Oh that's awesome! Thanks!
Do you have that video somewhere?
that doesn't make scientific sense. Replicating the original experiment and doing a meta-analysis have two completely different goals. I would have argued that back to the professor (and been right).
How about 'news' that will be generated for you. Almost there
I think (1) is probably the main questionable assumption, to be honest. Let's take as given that travel faster than light via some form of cheating isn't possible. Under that assumption, for mass interstellar travel in reasonable time, you would require the ability to produce vast amounts of cheap energy (either via fusion on the starship, or antimatter produced with cheap energy at home and used on the starship, or by some other means).

And at that point, where is the incentive to colonize other star systems? You're still probably not going to be able to move a meaningful part of your population, and if you can produce energy that cheaply you can sustain a large population in comfort at home.

It's not inconceivable that there are advanced aliens all over the place, but that interstellar travel is basically limited to probes for pragmatic reasons.

I think when the Fermi Paradox was brought in, there was still some lingering Malthusian idea that geometric population expansion was inevitable. We now know it very much isn't, at least for us. That changes things.
This is a very bad idea because it's going to rotate ordinary characters to code points where Unicode normalization has an effect, including combining characters, whitespace, control characters... After normalization, rotating back will produce garbage.
> I can take real photos with high quality instead of relying on ever newer iPhone models

The author could’ve done this even within the Apple ecosystem. The vast majority of photographers use iPhones too, but manage their DSLR/mirrorless photos with iPhoto too.
Ha. Ubaaaa.
BYD E-Platform 3.0
I want to leave the apple ecosystem as well, and appreciate this post, but there’s an inherent limitation to “just switched” posts like this. To wit: they don’t capture the cost and benefit over time. Switching to Arch & rsync takes “just a month,” but then you upgrade something and drivers break, you have an issue on your remote machine you’re syncing to and have to debug it, your backups stop working and you urgently need to address the issue, etc etc. Either one of these can be showstopping issues. That said, Macs screw up on updates as well at times.

The general point is that “just switched” narratives like this paint an incomplete picture because one big benefit of, say, iCloud photos is that I pay a monthly fee then I never have to think about it. Not so rsync.
> Around 10 years ago, during my studies, almost all of my CS colleagues had Windows laptops. A few installed Linux on it, but literally no one had a MacBook.

I recall CS grad school 10 years ago as being a sea of Macbooks…
How to effectively build and manage a QA team?
On the plus side, the company shipped something. In a startup time to market is important. Especially in a startup.
Blogs are still out there, Google just stopped surfacing them in search. I used to get tens of thousands of visitors per month to my blog joelx.com. now I receive none to the articles from the last few years. I still write though.
You need energy mastery. Ability to harness infinite or practically infinite energy available freely. With this understanding and power you can innovate further, perhaps gaining the ability to create matter and one day transport it along the fabric of space outside the constraints of existing matter (time).

Then again, maybe true advancement means losing interest in manipulating matter, turning inward and finding or developing enhanced mental states that let us see things clearly without understanding everything empirically.

Perhaps the ultimate goal is to be at peace and even joyful at living and dying. Humans are still very believe-y, angry, outward and confused.
If you live in a city, go find a specialty grocery store and ask them for stock and demi. They'll get you restaurant quality versions of both items.
People who cry about others having no empathy having no empathy or those that rant about everyone being triggered little snowflakes being triggered. Its all the same really.

I know everyone wants to believe that the other side are worse than them, but they are all as bad as each other. The real problem is with how more and more people are clustering out at the extremes.
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Thx. The laptop article does not display the author’s name. That’s why I asked.
Yeah that's why they're lobbying, there are millions who would pay them for prime weed lol.
50 miles on 1 charge seems fairly inefficient to me. Especially when compared to land based electric vehicles.
It looks like the latest Tesla OS release contains the feature I mentioned (emergency vehicle detection using emergency light detection).

New in #Tesla 2021.24.12 Owners Manual for #Model3 #ModelY
"If Model 3/Model Y detects lights from an emergency vehicle when using Autosteer at night on a high speed road, the driving speed is automatically reduced and the touchscreen displays a message informing you of the slowdown. You will also hear a chime and see a reminder to keep your hands on the steering wheel. When the light detections pass by or cease to appear, Autopilot resumes your cruising speed. Alternatively, you may tap the accelerator to resume your cruising speed.
Never depend on Autopilot features to determine the presence of emergency vehicles. Model 3/Model Y may not detect lights from emergency vehicles in all situations. Keep your eyes on your driving path and always be prepared to take immediate action."

https://mobile.twitter.com/analytic_eth/status/1440537502272...
> odd contrast

It probably makes more sense if we view the FDA not as a monolith but a collection of lots of individuals, some of which don't communicate or work together directly.
Too true. They shook down the banks and now they're broke, next target is tech!
What are you talking about? Any large tech company could pull that off.
The problem is those large companies are not interested in catering to a million developers, they are interested in catering to a billion people.
I think it's a "philosophical standpoint"

>I realised that my life while using Apple products is controlled by Product Managers/Owners who want to get a raise, rather than by technology people who share the same passion as me. And I wanted to change that.
The reality is you DO have 10x devs, hell you have infinity-x devs, because there are zero value devs - epitomized by the bullshit promoted by stupid start-ups like Swarmia, and next to that, by basic mathematics, anything positive represents a infinity-x improvement.
Not everybody is able to get the vaccine. That's why the vaccination goal isn't 100% of the population, it's 100% of the eligible population. Even that can't be achieved - as it's never been achieved with any other vaccine. That's all known and was anticipated. What wasn't anticipated was how low the vaccination rate would be and the leading indicator of whether the vaccination rate is high or low in a particular area is whether the majority of the voters are registered as Republicans or Democrats. No one saw that coming, yet here we are.
Well, when prohibition came in they flocked for a last drink - then the big league bootleggers came - bigger problem. Then it was legalised again - big problem again. Then it abated to the steady state drunks and road deaths. When it is legal these local clusters at borders will go away - then it will be the abuser problem, I prefer the Pot abuser problem to the alcohol abuser problem. Pot causes almost none of the tobacco cancer problems as most smoke less and the smoke has been verified as less cancerous(low, but not zero) Vaping will be non cancerous and non dangerous for nicotine or pot - it was the added crap that caused the deaths.
So I thinka safer steady state will emerge, Pot and 'tobacco essence' = nicotine via vape or lozenge will emerge as a safer high than smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol.
Look at Russia, to some degree brought down by alcohol - they had and still have a HUGE booze problem at all levels of their society.
I've build a small run of cool electronic trinkets before and it's really a killer how economically unviable it is. My BOM cost (just raw components) was twice what the final cost of a comparable product, with free shipping, from China was.

A lot of people are into "local made, hand crafted" until they see it costs 4x as much for something that functionally isn't 4x as good.
The iOS ecosystem has always been crap. I love the device and how the UI keeps becoming more android like, but iCloud stinks. Google by far as a better cloud platform for a standard user. But for a business Sharepoint/Onedrive has always been the way to go.

I personally never had a problem with Macbooks, and surprised he just didn't work in a VM. I do 90% of my daily work in a VM on my Macbook, either running Arch or Debian. Everything just works. But I can not stand with apple's choice of moving to ARM for a power user.

My Next Machine will run windows as the base OS. I'll test out their Linux for Windows Subsystem, but most likely just boot up the same VMware VM's i've been using for a long time. Between Snapshots and backups to both my onsite server and my Personal Sharepoint, I never have an issue.

Spotify for music though, it just works and easy to push music around my home.
In my experience, they fail to market their ideas to the average European too.

From feminism, to antifa, to anything touching economics, the American left tends to get itself deep enough into identity politics and neoliberalism to disgust about anyone here (I'm Spanish).

There definitely is something regarding American politics that sets it apart from the European understanding of how politics works, I personally think that the system encouraging a two party system establishes too strong of a "us vs them" mentality and that it damages political discourse altogether.
Been running it almost a year now, without anything breaking except some gnome extensions.
> But even Carmack couldn't crack Steve Jobs stubbornness.

I honestly don't understand how this is relevant.

Carmack is 10x in coding and designing software. Jobs was 10x in PR and persuasion.
Sadly google's satellite resolution isn't high enough to see the final island of the worlds only 'island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake'.

I wonder how one would get there.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/62%C2%B039'03.0%22N+97%C2%...
Nice that you found your own corner to cry into instead of doing something about it.

However, this place isn't for cry babies. Flagged.
I'm curious why it successfully rotates some emoji but not others.

E.g. stars and hearts get rotated but sunglasses do not

(EDIT: rewrote my example to use words because HN doesn't render emoji, duh)
Not really a fair comparison to make considering the energy required to constantly fight gravity is significantly higher with one than the other.

Additionally, one has to consider the flight path would ideally be more straight, allowing for less overall mileage per trip than a land vehicle.
Startup aims to make piloting a jetpack as easy as flying a drone
I'm half into the ecosystem, I don't own an iPhone but I've had various MacBooks over the years.

Latest one is the M1 air and it's almost perfect. It never gets hot, it never gets noisy, performance is superb, battery life amazing.

Really hoping a similar ARM based linux machine comes out that can beat it, but for the time being I'd find it difficult to switch away from my Air!
> If you look at the realistic reach of the signals of human civilization, it's a few tens of lightyears at best.

And probably getting smaller every year. We don't have as many giant multi-megawatt radio transmitters as we used to. Quite conceivably it could be ~zero in a few decades, as everything goes fibre and cellular.
Guest languages are always an impedance mismatch with the underlying platform.

I don't buy into sharing source files instead of clean separation via Web APIs, the additional tooling complexity isn't worth the pain.

I did vote against stuff like GWT already several times, and every time it has been proven to have been the right decision, when things went hot.
For the longest time I used my R7000 as a router and NAS with either AsusWRT-Merlin or FreshTomato. They might serve your purpose?
The Global Housing Market Is Broken, and It’s Dividing Entire Countries
This gets some points right regarding the abject failure of media criticism's hamfisted attempts tocover Rogan.

But this author can see it because those lines of criticism are not fueled by this author's fight. Once the author moves on to their own hobby horse topics (Marxism) he seems to take another bog-standard criticism that misses the point. I see it a lot and it has a feeling of: if only Rogan would have on the correct experts to expert-splain to everyone, then they'd agree with me. Part of Rogan's appeal is that for many of cultural topics where one team has that kind of position, they aren't given permission to control the narrative on how he covers the topic.
Remember windows phone?
The fact that this is constantly debated is sad. I've run numerous tests across various organisations. When measured it becomes evident that 10x is nothing strange.

Set some real world useful target. Give the task to individuals or small teams and let them go at it, with regular followup. Measure time, defects, maintainability, whatnot. Perhaps add some real world change of requirements mid stream? I've seen solutions ranging from hours to never.

What I see, and find very sad, is that most organisations have obstinately obtuse attitudes and handling of such simple analysis.

It doesn't matter if the variance stems from intelligence, creativity, work pattern, experience, clever tricks, tools, processes, etc, etc. If it's faster/better then find out why, and learn from it. Can it be taught to others? Change work processes? Hire differently? ???

Whatever works. But ffs: measure, analyse, learn, embrace.
1. People named "Wang" spread at a certain speed after coming into existence.

2. I don't know anybody named "Wang".

3. There are no people named "Wang" in the galaxy.
Software ecosystems have a major chicken and egg problem.

If you wanted to create a new platform, your best option would be to go the other way and make an OS that was “just electron” and ran all the electron apps in the world faster and better than anything else. Unsurprisingly Google has tried this with Chromebooks, but their track record on consumer product development is so poor that perhaps they just didn’t execute well and someone else could pull it off.

Another challenge is that if you did that you gain wide software compatibility but you lose any obvious differentiator. The likely way to win would be if you could make a laptop that was “just as good at running web apps as your Mac, with just as much battery life and just as nice hardware” but somehow cost under $400 or so.

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if we see that coming out of Chinese OEMs in the next decade.
Terminal lucidity is a fairly well documented but not very well understood phenomenon.

Here are a few review papers I could dig up in a couple of minutes:

2019: https://juniperpublishers.com/pmcij/PMCIJ.MS.ID.555601.php

2017: https://sciendo.com/article/10.1515/cpp-2017-0003

2011: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21764150/

2009: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20010032/ (with focus on dementia)

Scientific American blog post: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/one-last...
Looks like the 7000P is supported by DD-WRT if you want something to play with before binning it: https://forum.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_R7000P
If a company is raking it in and not paying taxes then I don't see a problem with holding them to any applicable fines.
> "We've found that eliminating pre-employment testing for cannabis allows us to expand our applicant pool," Amazon senior VP of human resources Beth Galetti said.

As soon as I read that headline I figured this had at least something to do with it.
I saw this and thought yay a new version of Rise of the Triad!
was common in some parts of finance also, as i recall this pre-2008. folks had pager-looking things that flashed OTPs. i think bloomberg terminals were partially responsible for driving the use of 2fa.
That's assuming that people have an inexhaustible appetite for energy, geometric population expansion, or both. Those are both actually quite big assumptions and aren't supported by current trends.
HTML version: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2102.01522/
Why the hell do I have to manually download the new firmware and deploy it to fix this? My Netgear router has usually been able to update itself in the past just by logging into the admin console and checking for new firmware updates.