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Diamond has not developed great engines. There's a video floating around of them quite literally taking stock Mercedes taxi diesels apart and putting different oil coolers on them.

The only difference in design besides those oil coolers was their gearbox, which was a joke from day one. Firstly, diesel produces RPMs similar to what a small aircraft propeller wants so even having a gearbox is either a revenue-generating design intended to fail, or an exercise in stupidity. You can tell me which, I honestly don't know.

Nor has Diamond developed great aircraft in other aspects, either. Their stick rather than a yoke design was also a cost-cutter, but no one wants to ride around with a piece of metal hitting them in the balls, either. Socata and Cirrus did a much better job of interior design than Diamond, which is why they're still making ever-more-complex airplanes, and Diamond is flirting with bankruptcy.

The solution to general aviation getting rid of leaded gas is someone to make small turbines, and the only thing holding that back is the FAA.
This reminds me of my friend's story. He started dating this girl, she was intelligent and hot. He's a good looking guy and seemed like a match. They went out for a while and my friend sensed something wrong, it's something he just couldn't put his finger on. After a while he managed to get her to open up and talk about her past. She admitted to being an escort for a period of time and that is very weird, she was coming from a good family, had Ivy League education, great job and all, she basically didn't need to do this. And it wasn't for the money according to her.

I asked him what was the big deal after all, at the end of the day aren't we all making some bad decisions? Aside from being a good date, that thing he couldn't really put his finger on was around intimacy: she seemed to be, as he described, dead inside, the sex felt fake, somewhat mechanical or acted out.
With the header-ad, page-header, and "support journalism" footer, I literally see less than 10 pixels of whitespace worth of content.

That's beyond ridiculous.
Ad buyers and credit card processors are the main regulators of the Web. It's not the government saying TikTok and others can't host artistic nudes, AFAIK.
When I was a teen, copper and tin were too expensive, and I was a bright, precocious teen sculptor. So picture eleven, twelve year old me melting lead in a crucible, taking the crucible in flaking asbestos gloves and pouring it into my casting form. I was a productive little sculptor, too, making many pieces a year.
If file access is supported by all browsers, this accompanied with WASM could lead to a new era for web apps.
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> If you paid me enough I'd probably do it for a week and then retire.

Maybe this means that you don't really like your job? If you had access to the same goods as everyone else around you, more or less, and liked what you are doing, then doing it for a week stops making sense, doesn't it?
I think IQ is one of those measures that's okay for the general population but pretty bad for individuals.

A lowering trend of IQs over the years means a lot more than one random person taking a test.
Not to mention corporate rules.
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Don't get too hung up on the "hard sf" label.

It effectively just means, "The science presented seemed plausible enough to me that it didn't distract or annoy me."

It's entirely personal since we all have different levels of fluency in science, and different levels of tolerance for the dissonance we feel when we read something we know is wrong.
The File System Access API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...

e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/show...

will give you access to a handle representing a directory on the user's real file system
I don't think there is any chance of Facebook becoming the company that hosts the most widely popular metaverse in 20 years.

Facebook, under Zuck's leadership in particular, is driven by greed and control. They repeatedly demonstrate a willingness to make user hostile decisions for short term gain: they build to commodify their audience, not to satisfy them.

Times Square Wal-Mart is Mark's idea of a virtual wonderland, and that's why it won't win.

The successful metaverse will be led by someone with the spirit of Willy Wonka - it must be whimsical and empowering and sincere. Facebook simply lacks that spirit and heart, and I see no path to them changing company culture that drastically.
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> let alone a nation of over a billion people.

Maybe it wouldn't be that hard if China just let go some of the people that are not that into being part of China.

I hear there are some guys and gals in Tibet that have a suggestion in that direction.
Yup, "morals" are a pendulum probably from a result of children doing the opposite of what their elders did.
There is plenty of evidence that he at least new that TEL was extremely toxic - Midgley himself was poisoned by it. Despite this knowledge, he went on to insist it was safe for the public. As for CFC's, the evidence would suggest he did not know of their effects on atmospheric ozone. My reading of the article left me with the impression that Midgley's work on TEL and subsequent marketing was enough to condemn. His work on CFC's appears to be a very unfortunate follow-up.
By hydrogen-air battery do you just mean a water electrolyzer system paired with some kind of hydrogen fuel cell?

If so, the metal-air systems have a major advantage on the discharging side of things by avoiding the need of a fuel cell and being able to harvest electrons directly via galvanic current.
Yea there is an annual march around the country (in legal states) with it as well. I think there is an organization out there that actually tries to help defend anyone who is actually cited too.
I'm not aware if this exact idea, but dependency injection frameworks have a similar concept where the parameter order doesn't matter and the framework figures out the right order when it calls functions based on the types.

It's probably really complicated at the language level if it also has to interact with overloading, subtyping, and generics.
You're forgetting 'legacy' devices, as in, older than a couple of minutes. I maintain an application that is used in primary education in the Netherlands, and the oldest device thus far with issues is an iPad4 with iOS10.3, which the school only invested in a couple of years ago (I don't know any further details). And in their infinite wisdom Apple fixed the safari version to the ios version, and no alternative browsers allowed. /rant
It’s mature; i.e. done.
Nvm startup times are the worst. I use it to install npm versions, but then manually add those to my $PATH.

There's a --no-use flag that short-circuits all the heavy startup processing, but still gives you access to the command.

Here's a snippet from my zshrc:
```
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" --no-use
export PATH="$HOME/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.6/bin:$PATH"
```
I live in an area were most of the houses (+2 flats) use pellet (also in summer for hot water production). The air quality drastically dropped. It really "burns" the lungs some days.

I suspect that:

- combustion is not properly done most of the time and there is no need to have filters in the chimney.

- some pellets must not contain only "clean" wood

We are only waiting to move to a place with single familly houses because (in my area) they mainly migrate from petrol-gaz to solar energy (thermal) and heat pump (water-water).
This partnership is a win win between Microsoft and Amazon. Users should be able to install fdroid too
There are certain universities that are particularly guilty of this approach. I worked with a slew of devs from the same school and they all had the same really weird attitude and approach to software that just doesn't work. Other than that, I've met great devs who both had formal CS education / no formal education at all.
It’ll be interesting to see how this evolves compared with other players in this space. (Stackblitz comes to mind. They added support for “WebContainers” recently, for in-browser hosting of server-side code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27223012)
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> That Earth will be uninhabitable within the lifetime of a person alive today?

For people in Africa threatened by heat and drought (which is already making places uninhabitable and causing migration!) and smaller islands, yes.
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Some of something is better than all of nothing.
This always gets bogged down in the definition of a "high-level langauge". From my perspective, assembly is a high-level language.
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> but I'll always love him for how blunt he was with us about not launching sooner (it's a mobile app that uses computer vision, he claimed we should have launched before the ML models were ready and was completely right)

Is this advice to always launch sooner still applicable?

I've heard it regurgitated a few times over the past decade or so, especially here and from the YC/VC crowd, and I feel like it made sense at some point.

But nowadays do people not expect a little bit more? The field is more crowded and the bar to entry is much lower for competitors/cloners/etc and your first impression can only be made once.
I shall quote myself:

> I never said anything like "all thought is mathematics", merely "not all mathematics is symbolic thought".
This has been around for a year now: https://github.com/features/codespaces
As someone who hasn't developed windows applications since XP, can someone explain what the API landscape is today, especially for GUI work.

Win32 was dead, I thought, but I've seen the rise and fall of a few successors at this point, and it still seems to be the option with the best long term prospects.
Design/dev system specs can easily be higher than end user specs - and probably should be. The important thing to do is test with a variety of possible user devices such as older, slower devices.
No, but I'm surprised because 8 points of difference is a frigging lot.
Counterpoint: if we remove the habitat for civil aviation, it will, in fact, disappear. And we should: it's just a nuisance and serves no real purpose. The idea that civil aviators provide disaster relief, as advocated by those who favor keeping Reid-Hillview open, is completely absurd. A single flight of a real aircraft such as a C-5 at SJC would carry more materiel than 1000s of GA operations.
Europe is home of cutting edge porn platforms, so it makes sense
It's mostly a terrible password because it's immutable if it weren't it's a quasi random 9 digit code that's hard to map from a person's current information back to what their SSN is.
Facebook, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Epic, etc, etc are all grabbing onto this metaverse thing and it is super embarassing. They say its about “not one company”. There is only one reason why they all talk about this. Apple. Apple is obviously building its own metaverse and isn’t inviting some of these companies to the party (NVIDIA) or making them pay high fees to join (Microsoft xbox, epic, etc). The kicker is going to be when all of these companies realize metaverse isn’t a thing and Apple wasn’t working on it all along. Instead, Apple builds up AR technology so they can make useful products that actually sell to everyone.
My big complaint is that

a) Leaded aviation fuel, an absolutely KNOWN hazard, has been given a pass for literal DECADES.

b) At some point you have to just put your foot down. Ban the sale leaded gas using planes after 1/1/2022. Grandfather in the old planes.

c) Ban the sale of leaded gas to fill planes with changes in registrations after 1/1/2023.

d) Ban the sale of leaded gas period after 1/1/2025.

Industry has been given (more) than enough time to solve this - and does not care.

I live near an airport, with a pregnant wife and a young child. The total hassle it is to deal with just old lead paint if you try and follow code is rediculous, but they still have planes flying over burning LEADED fuel!! WHY?

Most planes don't need leaded gas. Jet-A / Diesel etc can also be used in planes. And yes, I understand small, old GA planes may be impacted, but this has been on the radar for decades now.

"There is no known safe blood lead concentration; even blood lead concentrations as low as 5 µg/dL may be associated with decreased intelligence in children, behavioural difficulties and learning problems. As lead exposure increases, the range and severity of symptoms and effects also increase."
I thought Xfinity was a “product” of comcast?
You sure? Have you read/watched any news since 2016?
I don't doubt it. What are your thoughts?
Definitely going to agree with that “uh” but things in the 60s and 70s were really different.
I hear what you're saying, but I think you've drawn the wrong conclusion, from OPs story, and your experience having drinks with clients.

OP blew up in his interview and got to the truth. But really, what he shouted when out of control wasn't that different from the story that he started with. Imagine that he started with that honest story. It would have been part of his elevator pitch, and part of his deck, and he would have given that same speech a few hundred times, and all the color and passion would have long since evaporated.

The conclusion that I draw is that you get to the truth by getting someone to switch off autopilot. And that can be done by provoking an emotional reaction (not that that's what the YC guy was intending to do, I'm guessing), or by loosening up through the application of a little alcohol.
I'm not sure what "formal definition of demand" you referring to. In microeconomics demand is modeled as a curve and the statement "demand is weak" doesn't mean anything. Other than that, the word "demand" is used very informally.

The microeconomics definition would state that the "quantity demanded" at price X is Y. Again, "weak" doesn't mean anything in that field.

Nope, they don't all come together to make up "demand", and there is no "we" because your definition isn't what's used by the business or economics community. Those things come together to decide the size and profitability of a business. Demand is just one part. Competitive positioning is almost strictly a supply side issue. For example, there is more demand for corn than there is for coca cola, yet Coke makes a fortune and corn farmers do not. Coke has built a brand and large distribution channels - both which have large fixed cost components and hence require enormous scale. The result is a small number of soda suppliers and only 2 cola suppliers in most markets. Supply side issue.
If that biomass is offsetting coal/oil/gas then there is still a net positive of not adding more fossil carbon to the atmosphere.

The first step in slowing down or stopping climate change is to stop releasing fossil carbon.

Eventually we need to figure out how to sequester the excess carbon, but that's still sadly in the future. It's going to be hugely expensive but still less expensive than losing every coastal city to flooding. Unfortunately the latter is probably going to have to happen before we make progress on the former.
> (Other belief system's populations die out due to lack of breeders, so it is just survivorship bias.)

Given the pushes for surrogacy laws and reproductive rights, I don't think this assessment is accurate.
Flipping of the script? No.

> A boss (i.e. a concrete person yielding some form of power over another person) trying to coerce the employee is on the same line as a pimp or human traffickers using coercion (or worse).

By your logic, she can say no. She can "look at options in the job market". She can go get a job at McDonald's. By your logic, its consensual and not coercion. By your logic, the boss is morally free and clear as long a an employee can go find a job somewhere else. At will employment, right?
Well, as long as it isn't being run by the BBC.
There's no way to tackle such an array of crazy concepts without being highly speculative and incurring in inconsistencies.

I guess you like better smaller plots, the author can make more consistent and believable.

To me, the way Liu links one after another crazy physics stuff into the book story is masterful. I've read most SF classics and there's nothing like that. That in itself is an accolade.

Heck, several times I had to browse Wikipedia to see whether the next mad stuff had any scientific background, to find most had.
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I think you should go read the list you yourself decided to link more carefully. You will find many more than 4 billionaires who grew up with at most a lower middle class background.

It looks like you're struggling with reading comprehension, so let me make it more clear. The article takes the position that viewing individuals in the billionaire class differently based on their individual story is wrong and provides a means manipulate people into viewing them all homogeneously. I do not "tolerate lavish wealth" or think these people should have so much command over society, that is the subjective word choice of the authors to describe their interpretation of a phenomenon, but I personally do think many of these people who come from very little deserve more respect and success than wealthy scions who, at best, have every advantage, or at worst, do nothing at all with their lives and yet command extreme wealth.
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> I hate the trend that the "pro" versions of all these flagship phones need to be an XL Phablet monstrosity.

The difference between the Pixel 6 (6.4") and the Pixel 6 Pro (6.7") screen size doesn't seem very large to me.
> You can see notifications from Android apps notifications in the Action Center or share your clipboard between a Windows app and an Android app.

This is a very interesting feature. Integrated notifications means you can run any android messenger and keep it minimised.
It's going to use most of the frontend UI code but all of the NodeJS-specific stuff in the desktop version is a no-go and has to be shimmed or polyfilled to run in the browser. The biggest thing you lose here is system-level access like the ability to run processes--tests, terminals, debugging, etc. And as the blog post mentions unfortunately these things aren't supported yet in vscode.dev.
> I think it's the most evil product

You think Facebook has a more evil product than, say from the military industrial complex, tabacco or big oil?
Their products kill people literally every day.
There should be a convention where the APL people, the LISP people, the Perl people, and the Pascal people get together and talk about the good old days.
Former King of Kong Billy Mitchell is finally taking Twin Galaxies to court
It's what I meant. The stop trying to overly polish something and just be honest with your goals. Turn off the "salesman autopilot" so to speak.
In any case, you can have the best code quality in the world and still miss deadlines if the deadlines are not realistic.
I guess that makes sense... but it seems like they should be manually penalized. They're single-handedly degrading the quality of the entire image search product.
There was a Journey game for the 2600, though my friend thought those were hotdogs in the screenshot. There was a pretty rad arcade version as well:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1037411366/journey-arcade-flyer...
> “Luxury beliefs” are all the rage in elite circles. Rob Henderson, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge who coined the term, explained that they are “ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class.”

Most exchanges allow partial coin ownership. I tried to find a minimum for Robinhood (since it's fairly popular) but couldn't.
What would you do about a slice function? Without the parameter names you won't even see if the second parameter is length of the slice or its right end.
> Another was a version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, rewritten in feminist jargon

So rewritten it's difficult to identify how it's connected to Mein Kampf.

https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/10/09/nothing-s... - "I read through their article Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism and then went through the chapter of Mein Kampf this article is supposed to be mimicking ... and couldn’t find a single phrase that matched."

Or from https://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2018/10/why-the-grieva... - "However, the account of this given by the hoaxers is rather dishonest. Their re-writing of the text was so extensive that even a side-by-side comparison of the texts failed to show much similarity between them. Moreover, the part of Mein Kampf in question was making rather general claims about how to respond to (perceived) oppression. But to read the hoaxers’ account of things you’d think a Nazi diatribe had been published by a feminist journal with just a few words changed. And that’s not the case at all."

> What do 400-odd cases matter, after all?

It would be nice to put that in context, rather than make a rhetorical flourish.

That context should include the politics around UNC's decision to deny Hannah-Jones tenure.
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It seems funny to name it Meta, as FB doesn't have anything to do with metaverse. They brought real names to the internet and still cling to that, but that means that instead of infinite personalities you have only one, the boring old personality that you always had and hated.
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to be fair: "having plot holes" is not the same thing as "nothing but plot holes"
Pellets release mostly carbon that was already in the atmosphere. Total CO2 release matters far less than total fossil CO2 release.
> As to why WHO has chosen to try to copy Moderna rather than the other mRNA COVID vaccine, which is made by Pfizer BioNTech, Friede says the choice was practical.

"Moderna has reiterated on several occasions that they will not enforce their intellectual property during the pandemic," says Friede. In other words, a manufacturer probably won't face a lawsuit for producing a vaccine that's virtually identical to Moderna's.

Wow. What an ass move. I'm not a fan of unlimited IP rights when it comes to something like a vaccine, but the WHO weaponizing a company's goodwill like this against sort of reeks.
> PCs through a subset of the USB standard which only handles HID and nothing else?

Yes. Is the device truly limited to doing just that, though? No way to know. I don't know enough electronics to tear it down and analyze its parts, much less dump firmware and reverse engineer it.

>Would any snooping be possible through an input device if it only did HID?

For all I know, it could be silently storing every keystroke in some small memory module hidden somewhere.
Making it impossible for people who're being abused to go to the police without risking at least one of arrest, homelessness, or having their children taken away, is not a net win.

The idea that making it easier to contact the police about the genuinely coercive stuff would somehow make it easy for the people doing the coercion isn't logical.

You can see the process play out just the same with illegal immigrants - they're also massively more open to abuse from employers because they don't have full access to the criminal justice system.
optimistic. but interesting. it requires a lot of optimism to even get in this headspace of "objectively curating your own religion." I think its something we all do to a degree. don't believe in most of society's ability for serious individual authority on this level. This is for intellectual achievers who are also spiritual. Dependent on individual freedom. It's kind of Terrence mckenna-esque