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Just some interesting points I found after Googling:

Saying "737" is actually 12 generations of the same aircraft.

Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737) says: 737-100 -> 737-900, plus 737-MAX 7/8/9. Note: All have actually flown with commercial airlines and paying customers. (MAX 10: Not yet.)

Further, from the Wiki page for Southwest Airlines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_fleet), first sentence in section after intro/summary: <<Southwest Airlines began revenue flights on June 18, 1971 using three Boeing 737-200 aircraft...>>

Deeper: <<On August 29, 2017, Southwest Airlines took delivery of its first Boeing 737 MAX 8, the first airline in North America to do so. The airline was also the first in North America to operate the aircraft on a scheduled revenue passenger flight on October 1, 2017.>>

Assuming both of these Wiki sources are correct, that means over 50 years, Southwest Airlines has flown 11 different generations of the 737.

Current fleet on Wiki says: 737-800, -900, MAX 7 & 8.
It isn't "don't know how to write low level code" in my view, it is more "don't think it is productive to reimplementat basic data structures over and over again". All the stuff you're saying you can't write in idiomatic rust is stuff that has already been written and battle tested in libraries, which are perfectly idiomatic to use. I don't need to write my own linked list and binary tree implementations over and over again. I did that in school, I can go check the code in the libraries I'm using to confirm it makes sense to me, and then just use the library and go about doing what I'm actually trying to do.
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> But if its not growing, then it is viewed as failing

I’ve only seen this in wealth generation instruments. Outside of those, I haven’t seen much of the “culture“ you’re referring to. In that framing, I think it makes sense and is anything but absurd.

The company is dual purpose at this point: part original mission (airline) part communal investment. Being a great airline that is comfortable with its current market definition isn’t sufficient for its second purpose. The commune’s investment expects growth in the abstract sense. They aren’t interested in Airlines, they’re interested in purchasing a piece of future growth.

Your Vanguard mutual fund’s performance depends on exponential growth - healthy retirement strategies live primarily off of growth, not principal, during the retirement phase. Maintaining value (~+2% on paper growth) doesn’t earn your company a place in society’s communal pool of assets.
You are as free to forbid the speech as those are free to make the speech.
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Safety and security are two big reasons why I developed Concise Encoding [1]. The computing and networking landscape today is MUCH more hostile compared to the JSON and XML heyday (with state actors and organized crime now getting in on the action), and it's time to retire them in favor of more secure and predictable formats that are also human-friendly.

[1] https://concise-encoding.org
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> If the payment processors don't want to be associated with a service

Generally financial institutions are happy to take anyone’s money, and lend to them too unless they don’t think they’ll get their money back.

Their regulators can change those criteria though, forcing upon them an unfunded mandate. This is no different than policing entities washing their searches through private entities (e.g. the telecoms).

I consider this a pernicious trend.
I used to get aura-style migraines. After following a yeast and wheat free diet my migraines went away. I started on the diet based on a small study as a way to suppress hidradenitis suppurativa symptoms. I’ve now been on this diet for 7 years and have not had a single migraine. It’s clear to me that the cause of migraines are inflammation, in my case caused by innate immunity (with a failure to down regulate) to fungi and 1,3, 1,6 beta glucans.
I don't understand this sentiment. TypeScript is fantastic, and I can't help but think that all of the people hating on it are frustrated because they haven't taken the time to properly learn it or understand why it's constantly complaining about the code they write.

I used to get annoyed by TypeScript too when I first started using it—I felt like it was slowing me down and making me unproductive. But this is only because I tried to use TypeScript without really understanding how to use it effectively (which will make you unproductive with _any_ tool).

Once you work long enough with TypeScript, going back to pure JavaScript feels like hell.
The challenge is that they found strong results only for those patients with high level of PD-L1, which was a subset of the patient population. When you start looking at subsets, you either need a larger population to begin with, or you need to select for that subset in your test population.
> I don't want a job [...]

Is what your last sentence essentially says. Every organisation you might work for will care about how things look and how what you do reflects on it.
Haha as if, if you entrusted your data to random university researchers, they’d come to you. If you do that they’ll just take the data from the university, thank you very much, that’s much easier.
> but legal stuff is maleable

... but I don't think Disney is.

(And yes, Disney+ is technically only available outside of Asia - while some services inside of Asia is branded Disney+, they are not even the same system at all!)
It is so impressive that you can pull something totally negative to a positive direction. Do you work for a PR team? Or a propaganda department?

Chinese cities have much much less park spaces compared to the US. This is one reason for this to happen.

Another reason is the Red Guard generation does not care about the concept that you should not annoy other people in a civil society.

Another reason is that religion is severely suppressed by the CCP, so those retired people have nothing to do and no community at home.
We build similarly at https://wiki.replimat.org/wiki/Main_Page where we are working to document each of the building techniques involved as well as some of the most useful things which can be built this way.
> Frankly it’s working peoples fault.

I agree with everything but this. This is exactly why the propaganda machine for ages (fairytales) have put royalty/nobles at the top. e.g. It's the knight who kills the dragon, not the townsfolk who band together. Or that magical talent is somehow always hereditary. Or that the king

No, don't blame the working peoples. The countries where the working class got rid of royalty and are consistently demonized.
That was a rhetorical question. Of course it is.
> Yet you can't use a credit card to buy cannabis pretty much anywhere AFAIK.

Every dispensary I've visited here in the northeast accepts cash and debit cards, I assume they don't accept credit due to higher processing fees and higher risk of chargebacks rather than processors being problematic (otherwise they would not accept debit since they get ran through the same system anyway).
"I am sorry Dave, I am afraid I can't let you do that"

Only it won't be delivered by AI, but by a compliance script tied to geo-blocked locations. It will get extra tricky for cars to navigate when their owners are child molesters and have to stay 10 miles away from houses with children in it.

Onwards to our glorious future!
I think if anything, it's the other way around. Atwood didn't invent the ideology or the practices; she was speculating about what it would be like if these people actually ran society instead of just being in the orbit of real power.
The title isn't quite how I put it, but I did make a deliberate choice to not reproduce specifically because I didn't want to bring a child into an environment that's on the brink of collapse... I don't "fear having children," I fear what they'll be forced to endure. I ended up with a kid anyway, because I fell in love with him and his mom, and he's better off with the added stability (and my granola upbringing comes with wilderness survival skills that his bio parents don't bring to the table... which... I hope will help)
Any recommendations for a 101 book for neural nets for someone who is "just a programmer"? OP's tutorial is quite nice, but I love to read books and find it easier to learn from them.
>I was dumbfounded upon meeting my biological parents as an adult to discover how much of ME was genetic. [...] my parents had a rough time with me because of how different I was from them.

What differences are you talking about? In behavior? In intelligence?
It’s not like async/await is a must, they are on the surface just syntactic sugar.

In the background, coroutines are a strictly less useful feature than what will happen with Loom, and please show me any “promised feature” that were only half-baked prototypes? We do have one half of Valhalla (vector api) under an experimental flag with JDK 17 already, several language related JEPs were shipped already. That Loom and primitive classes take their time only mean that they are not vaporware, because these are actually ridiculously complex problems.
Isn't this really a skid steer/wheel loader, rather than a tractor?
Yeah. Every link on that page is a stub. I was wondering if they listed the engine they've been using in the prototypes anywhere.
You make a good point, there's a lot of distribution and men didn't necessarily go out, hunt, and spend the rest of the day relaxing by the campfire either. The poster further up called it 'pop-antropology' and that is an accurate description. Take one part of what one society does and confidently declare that everything else doesn't count.
>But I am really curious about which bullshit justification they came up with for that.

I don't imagine it was hard, the police in the UK spend an awful lot of time dealing with people with some kind of mental illness.
Not a public one I can hand out, no. The lack of public transparency around the BRAM rules is also a significant issue imo.
The intuition here is that credit-card firms have to take these precautions in order to protect against excessive chargebacks, right? Would it not be possible to create a new style of transaction that is unable to be charged back but requires account authorization and 3-days forewarning (maybe with small withdrawals first)?
> I think this perspective you're espousing is "sometimes you just want to knock out a simple bespoke binary tree implementation", but I just don't think that use case makes sense. Either you want to use one from a good library or you have a really good reason to roll your own and it is worth the effort to do it well.

There is no library for generic tree data structures, you have to implement those yourself. There are libraries implementing a table interface using ordered binary trees but that is just one of many use cases.
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I've been using Firefox for a while now, but I have some issues with it:

1. I need to switch to chrome for various products such as Google Meet (works on Firefox, but I ran into performance (call quality) issues).

2. I often find sites with bad support for Firefox, and I need to again open a second browser (usually Chrome) to check them out.

3. It seems that in the past... long time, they have a talent of making Firefox worst. I still like it if it wasn't for the other 2 issues, but who can tell in 1 year.

Due to the above I was looking for a browser (one, I don't like having multiple on my machine but not sure if the Google Meet performance upgrade is just in Chrome or Chromium) which is as fast as Firefox, has a nice UI and preferably a bit more privacy oriented (not much, just a bit more).

Any ideas? (Currently checking out Vivaldi, but read a lot about performance issues + I don't really like the default UI yet).
These comparisons are always relative. There are things I aspire but are out of reach for me and the ppl who have it take it for granted. On the other hand, there are folks who aspire things which I have and I take it for granted.
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Kids are prisoners in their homes because other adults think it’s safe, too. When my children are out, they’re more likely to get hassled by an older adult and CPS called than they are to be assaulted. We try not to let that deter us but I’ve noticed inadvertent compromise over the years.

I honestly don’t mind if my children grow up with less, though. My generation of late X/early Y are dissatisfied because we expected to live like our parents our whole lives. I don’t think the expectation will be there for my children, which should free them up to try more interesting things without as much fear and mental effort.

There’s also the chance that they’ll not live through a period of decline like we’re expecting.
Hi, no, right now I'm not on any medication for them. At the time I had them frequently (a few years ago) I was diagnosed with very low vitamin b-12 and given shots for it which seemed to help a lot with the frequency.

I also gave up alcohol gradually around the same time and the episodes gradually subsided after that (I had noticed that the migraines were pretty bad after drinking). I do not know if the two were related or not.

Hope you get better.
I get aural migraines from Niacin and MSG. Most wheat based flour is enriched with Niacin. You might look into seeing if Niacin is your trigger and be able to eat wheat/yeast again.
I don't eat meat except for fish, but my family still does very much so. It's just not economically sound to keep the animal if you don't intend to kill it for meat. Especially for older generations here who grew up in poverty and experienced real hunger.
Food banks aren't means tested. I've seen plenty of BMWs pull up to one during the pandemic.

Medicaid is extremely means tested. You can't own assets >$3000. Chances are your relative that inherited an apartment is no longer receiving Medicaid.

And SNAP not only has a work requirement but there is retraining requirement as well. So somehow your relative managed to not get caught by 3 different gov't agencies?
> Surprised about the negativity in this thread. I think Databricks is astoundingly good tech.

Is it possible that things with which you have good experience others may not have the same?
Are we possibly hitting the fact that no two cancers are the same?

(Warning: following numbers are made up for the sake of argument - IDK how it really looked like in the trial.)

If the drug does nothing to, say, 95 per cent of patients but completely cures the remainin 5 per cent (those who have the "right tumor genome"), taken together the effect may be too small to reach the threshold of statistical significance. But for those five percent, it is a vast difference.
> Same applies to everything including water - too much of it is toxic.

Yes, that was my whole point.

Obviously you can't really reduce oxygen exposure (you can increase it, which is deleterious in high doses), but reduced intake of antioxidants, namely things like methionine and certain vitamins, absolutely does lead to faster degradation of the body. Note: there isn't conclusive evidence more antioxidants is better, just that deficits are definitely bad.
> the government currently blocking transactions from semi-legal industries that should be legal (cannabis)

What does this refer to?
Some overlap here with the 2017 paper from Google Brain et al: Concrete Problems in AI Safety: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.06565.pdf

A nice video from the wonderful AI safety communicator Robert Miles outlines those problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjyM-f8rDpg
To expand on the brief title

> Google [...] says the SRE model [...] does not scale with microservices. Instead, they go on to describe a more tractable, framework-oriented model to address this through things like codified best practices, reusable solutions, standardization of tools and patterns

Basically anyone planning on microservices should define and monitor bounds on which frameworks, tools and diversity of design patterns in use. Good advice at any scale.
Dancing grannies are actually one of the aspects about China that I absolutely love. I can go out anywhere I want at any time of the night and feel safe. Why? Hoards of wholesome dancing grannies fill all of those dark spaces normally occupied by drug addicts and hoodlums in Western countries.

They make the public spaces feel 'alive'. I've lived in my different cities in the West including those in Western Europe and North America, and all too often public spaces become completely dead and devoid of life all because people have become so fearful of offending others or looking stupid. Everyone just wants to keep to themselves and be left alone. Suburbs are practically ghost towns with everyone (probably on their devices) hiding inside their homes. Physical social networks are clearly on the decline and as a result, depression and loneliness has become an absolute epidemic in the West. The problem only gets exponentially worse as one ages.

Happy dancing grannies engaging in physical exercise, socializing and helping to keep the community safe is what Western countries to be aspiring to have, instead of criticizing and ridiculing.
Here are two correct examples:

Satoshi Nakamoto invented bitcoin. He’s a legend.

I wonder who is behind the legend of Satoshi. Will we ever figure out who they are?

Do you see the point now?
Yeah in the US it's not big event at scale daily.

More lots of little events scattered all over the place. Events daily but they might be different.

If you don't 'go' to the park too it's not always obvious, but they're there.
That's a fast-tracked one-way ticket to being blown off of the planet by the united force of every world superpower.

You really don't want the Americans and the Russians to ever agree that your atoms don't deserve to be bonded together anymore.
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Worse yet, it is the only one of eight plants announced by the government in 2010 to have actually begun construction (which started at the end of 2018). And 2010 wasn’t even the first government announcement about wanting a new reactor.
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I mostly worry about cultural divergence and growing discontent.
My son (adopted) was born highly dependent and high. He spent the first two months of his life in NICU, the first nine months on strong narcotics to survive. And yet, by some happy miracle, so far, at age 3, he's doing wonderful. He is in a healthy, supportive, educational environment. But most of his success seems to be him. He seems to have won the genetic lottery.
You do well to point this out. Can you also see that the original claim was therefore overblown? (not an attack -- we all do it sometimes)
I know many will disagree. But to me when some software is written in Scala, most of the focus is on Scala and not software.
As others have said, the "modular power unit" is most likely a "power cube" (in OSE terminology) [0]. From the "Product Ecology" section, it looks like it does enable the tractor, either through hydraulic or electric power. It looks like it's able to use gasoline and steam though not battery technology (LiPo, etc)?

If you were able to cheaply apply the upgrades you're talking about (safety glass, lights) for some nominal fee (maybe sub $500?) would this a viable alternative to other options? How many "quirks" are you willing to put up with before you throw up your hands and go with a more commercial option?

[0] https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Power_Cube
One thing I’ve always tried to find is a method of forwarding a local port on server A to a public facing port on server B. Googling this is very difficult. Is that possible with ssh?
I'd start each inning with a runner on 2nd, which is the current extra inning rule. Immediate tension. It makes the extras interesting. Traditionalists don't like it, but if you are changing things up....
Previous discussion:

2016:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12796556

2018:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16897061

2019:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724672
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Youngsters? Look around in the Western world. People of all ages and walks of life have their faces glued to screens, and it has been socially acceptable for a decade at this point.

Conflating writers with CEOs doesn't make a lot of sense. One creates art, another creates value.
The clothing manufacturing industry is also deeply tied to human trafficking, but no one is talking about banning credit card transactions at the Nike store.
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You need pioneers, people who show it is possible to live a good life without destroying the planet. You won't ever convince the majority to change their ways without it.

Blaming the big bad corporations whilst we continue to consume their crap is a cop out. We've been doing that for decades now and nothing much has changed.
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Also take note the the UK government is very interested in setting up several new Freeports.
Isn't it possible, or even likely, that the "group of female employees" was referred to as "mean girls" specifically because they were being cliquey and exclusionary? I seriously doubt the phrase was used to describe a set of women simply working on a task together.
Look at all the graphs, population, emissions, economic output, wealth, since 1900... Look at China and the result of becoming richer.

I am not trying to put forward an exact formula here, but population and individual consumption (that is, wealth) are key factors and I suspect a fit would contain those two quantities as factors.

Regarding economies of scale, ultimately what counts is the number of cars, not the factory that produces them... again that boils down to population x individual consumption.

The US military can do what they do because of the strength of the US economy, which is again correlated, if not proportional, to population x individual consumption.
It seems crucially important to ask this of people who lived through them (or from reading their first person accounts) rather than asking people who read about them in history books or watched them on TV.

What’s going on in the Gaza Strip for example does not evoke a sense of “wow, that doesn’t look bad at all” in me.
Your opening statement impresses me as a rather gross generalization. Kind of pro-union, anti-big business.

Nothing wrong with making an effort to lean out an organization, which is simply meant to make it more efficient and more competitive. It's not specifically just cutting staff, it's a lot of things. The trick is to not confuse leaning out with cannibalization. Like Musk says, if you aren't having to add stuff back in, then you aren't deleting enough.

The airline industry is under insane pressure given the environment, and this stuff is bound to happen. Safety may even be unintentionally sacrificed. This space is far from thermodynamically sound right now. If somebody has an easy answer for it, that would be some fat consulting stacks for the BTC fund.

I'll counter your generalization with my own: F250's are hammered with middle-management baggage. MM makes shitty decisions, and still causes tons of wait states. Having consulted for five F500's now, my observation so far is that the 250-500 range are much more incentivized to do what it takes to become more competitive. OTOH, the F20's I've consulted for severely need some waves of boomer (my gen) retirements.

BTW, the general reason M&A activity increases is because the associated market space has contraction pressure on it. What else are you supposed to do? The beginning of the end for markets, governments, empires. That's just the way us humans do things.