skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure many people who don't fly aircraft are not aware of the pre-flight check procedure part of which is to check the fuel.

There is a small graduated cylinder with a spike at the top it is pushed into a valve under the wing to get some fuel from that tank. You look to see if there is any water floating in the gas. After you check it you toss the leaded gas on the tarmac. Then you do the same for the other wing tank.

Airports especially small airports with piston powdered light aircraft using leaded avgas must be soaked in 70 years lead.
This is a distortion of the paradox of tolerance, it doesn't endorse censorship.
The paradox of tolerance only comes into play when views start getting translated into actions. Let the Nazis march down Skokie. Action should only be taken against them if they start acting on their views. Removal only happens in the interest of self-preservation. The paradox of tolerance is not an endorsement of censorship.
Another Soft Bank investment so that was pretty certain.
The overall idea is to create an environment of collaboration (as much as feasible), where each individual can be fairly certain he will be recognized for his efforts proportionally to the common good.
same here (australia)
What went wrong? It doesn't say.
As opposed to being forced to use web apps? Every website without fail that ever wanted me to allow push notifications did it just so they could spam me.

Do I want a future with crummy PWAs instead of applications when appropriate? I want that about as much as I want Electron apps.
Let me go try with my business. If we crash and burn at least people on HN will read my blog post (maybe).
“How hard could it be?”
There is a difference between not having windows that can be fully opened and not having windows at all. As others have said, windows have other psychological functions, such as giving orientation, providing daylight, etc.

> The safety plans involve other measures - including much better building codes around fire control

We could all see at Grenfell Tower in London how well that worked.
This is really interesting, I’d love to read more. One thing that’s interesting to me is that when I search HN for Katerra, I see plenty of articles posted that verify the OP story, but none of them have any comments. I guess it’s not really a tech company so even with huge valuations and bailouts it didn’t really attract interest in discussion at HN.

My company is similar. One of the fastest companies to “Unicorn” status ever with rounds led by top firms, but garners nearly zero discussion on HN.
But hn told me if I disable canvas I'm safe from fingerprinting.
No way they're the only one that gets away with it. Shitty engineering is practically the norm for major sites.
The “Write in C” Song
Some (a lot?) of those got cleaned up in the 2008 revision [1]. And for many practical purposes, once x87 went away as part of x86-64, we now have a world of much more sensible agreement.

We're likely coming back into a period of divergence with ARM vs x86 parts on edge case handling that aren't strictly stated as MUST in the standard (various things related to qNaNs, sNaNs, denormal handling, +-0) but they're minor compared to the "old days".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008_revision
Looks like it’s the first part of a multi part series
And Google decided to actually make real native apps for iOS.

https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/

Facebook realized years ago that true native apps and not a web wrapper was a better user experience.
I’m a pilot and use a GATS jar that lets me separate out water and toss the fuel back in the tank. Tossing fuel on the ramp is frowned upon at some FBOs.
Take Poh-Shen Loh's Putnam seminar and his discrete math courses on his youtube channel https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/math.html#CMU%20Putnam%...
I’d recommend reading Eccentric Orbits, but it’s just the iridium story
It’s sucked for a long time. I quit over 5 years ago. I can only imagine how bad it is now.

Algorithmic content is great when it shows us things we want to see, but by it’s very nature it can be exploited to show us that which we most despise in an attempt to increase engagement.

I’m willing to go so far as to say the Algos in question are actually just optimized for engagement, not necessarily nefarious, but because we’re human, most people have an innate desire to make the world better in whatever way they can. Many believe discourse can help, but that’s obviously turned out to be flawed in the context of online conversation, where others can distance themself behind an online facade.

As long as we are optimizing for engagement, I feel all social media is doomed to the same fate.
> Apple have cheaper laptops.

Yes, but only 1 of them is >15”. Due to that, for me unfortunately none of those are an option.
For a worse user experience…
Graphene Bilayers with a Twist[2020]
Emacs and Emojis: A Story
Have you ever seen CockroachDB, or Yugabyte? Both are not eventually consistent, but are horizontally scalable. It looks like to me it is a solved problem.
Not a Vim user myself but I’m keeping an eye on neovim especially after seeing the demo of distant, which is a remote editing plugin. I do a lot remote Python dev and debugging and Nvim hasn’t quite fit the need just yet. Though I Would love to move my workflow into the terminal just so I can consolidate everything into a single workspace. I currently have nearly a dozen workspaces and something like 20 editor windows for different projects which I think is too much, but it’s the only way I have to stay organized right now.
> over a virus with a 99.99%+ survival rate in healthy individuals under 50.

I'm far more concerned with long term consequences than a painful death.
I’ve always pictured branding like a flywheel. Advertising adds momentum. If you cut spending it will take a while before you see it slow down. And by the time you notice a real slow down it takes months to build it back up.
The real answer is probably the most boring: it's both. I wish this wasn't such a controversial topic and research could be done freely on this, but researching biological differences between genders / races / etc. is quite taboo in some western universities now.
supplementary info for your edification:

https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/grad/602/Lectures/0311/Andre... [PDF]
No website is "hosted solely in a country" by default. When your website is available to the world, apparently according to the US, you're liable under any jurisdiction out there:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/20/12243592/kickass-torrents...

That's why there are so many shitty american middle-of-nowhere Daily Star Gazettes that block EU visitors with a laughable "our EU visitors are important for us". It seems that they agree with GDPR that it covers them if they serve anything to EU citizens.
Not surprising to me at all.

No idea about their infra, but for complex enough, built in Silicon Valley move fast style (and they are likely in that bucket) restarting after such a failure can be a huge problem. You can have thundering herds, that you may not have levers to control, infrastructure needed to build and deploy fixes maybe down, you can have cyclical dependencies sneaking in the past, that makes it impossible to startup some systems, etc, etc
How do you vent your room?
The difference is it just uses bank accounts, instantly. You don't have to wait 3 days to get the money, or remember to regularly withdraw money from the app (then wait 3 days for it to arrive).
This is a gentle plan to learn Vim in 4 weeks: https://peterxjang.com/blog/how-to-learn-vim-a-four-week-pla.... I highly recommend it. I love what neovim is doing, but I think you get the most out of neovim by learning vanilla vim first.
How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers
that's okay, kids don't have rights. coup all you want. just do it in your room so the grown-ups can talk
Same, I just want a huge Air.
Not if they managed to drop all the secrets.
You've voided your warranty on the website and you're now a fugitive from the law
Julian Assange Extradition Appeal
Julian Assange Extradition Appeal do you think he is innocent ???
Amusing, John Carmack mentioned the metaverse will be something like Roblox https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/john-carmack-sounds-a... .

FB (meta) taking drastic action to shutdown the competition
I really hate overengineered cloud infrastructure. It's the 2020s equivalent of 1990s to early 2000s enterprise Java except it's "use every conceivable cloud service in as baroque a deployment as possible" instead of "use every single design pattern in every part of the program."

I refer to software built this way as "write once run once" as in it's so complex it could barely be redeployed and might not even be possible to restart. "Write once run once" is a play on the old "write once run anywhere" tagline for Java.

But hey it makes Amazon rich. Amazon figured out how to monetize the tendency of sophomore engineers to add as much complexity as possible. I bet the authors of the original 1994 design patterns book are kicking themselves for not finding a way to charge for every implementation of the factory pattern.
I've recently picked up vim the past couple weeks. Finding that it is very pleasant in many ways, though there are still some occasions where it feels like being very stubbornly inefficient to refuse to use a mouse. Does that feeling ever go away?
The floor plan reminds me of how my Dwarf Fortress bedroom floors always end up looking.
'Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis'

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html
There is no evidence that covid vaccines protect from long covid in breakthrough cases.
Biggest problem for indoor plants is lack of light. Get a cheap photometer and check. Eyes are terrible at judging light intensity.. if the plant never gets light sufficient for basic metabolism, it will die sooner or later. Bare minimum full shade is like 10000 lux.. indoor lighting often doesn't get above 1000.
> It's not porn if it's text.

Well the Greek roots are literally "writing about prostitutes". I'd argue explicit depiction of sex for the sake of getting off is porn. In literature, drawing, photo, or video. There's even the audio form.

English also has "erotica". Which is... porn which has some non-porn value? Semi-clothed porn? Most romance fiction is more to the clothed than unclothed end of the erotica spectrum, anyway. I wouldn't class most as porn. Though there sure are some pornographic books. I was surprised to learn how many synonyms for the genitalia there are.
The EFF takes weird policy positions. They're against speed cameras, but in favor of the status quo (police with guns manually pulling people over for speeding in cities).
It does. But use a mouse if you want to!
> Responsive Information in Signal’s Possession

> Last connection date: 1634169600000 (unix millis)

> Account created: 1606866784432 (unix millis)

Impressively small amount of information. I wonder Account Created needs to be stored?
You had the opportunity to take the high road...I mean, is that all you got? Seriously?
Yes we only use helium deeper than about 100 ft (30 m). Commercial divers probably use more than sport divers but I haven't seen any real data on that.
> It's implied that the First Amendment only applies to Americans, for the same reason that, say, the laws of the EU or Russia don't apply to Americans.

The laws of the EU or Russia certainly do apply to Americans in EU or Russia. In fact they apply to anyone within the respective jurisdictions.
I'd say you are forgetting: AOL merged with Time Warner. Their decline literally started the year after that, it was an unmitigated disaster lol
you just gave me a bunch of reasons to start supporting them...
Freedom of speech is such a bizarre thing in USA.

I understand citizens need the right to voice their opinion without fear of government repression; but citizens shouldn't believe they have the right to insult and behave antisocially to other citizens.

Any kind of white supremacist behavior is not something to be treasured as freedom, because that enables their harmful behavior against other citizens.
There was an article yesterday about Samsung TVs that show ads. This strikes me as the same. It's super hostile to the consumer imo, but people don't seem to care. It's like so many things now, it's great for some cross section - probably even a majority- of people, but everyone else is basically just discarded.
Bee colonies've collapsed across the US. BeeHero developed a high-tech solution
Actually, it's even better (or worse): you'll become increasingly annoyed using other applications, where there should be a very "native" keyboard-only command mode or at least mouse-free method to do stuff, but there isn't.

I'm looking at you GtkFileChooser (or almost any GUI file browser for that matter)
How do you exit the conference?
A 15” air would be fantastic!
What determines whether a hash is "cryptographic"? What would make it suitable for change-detection but not be "cryptographic"? Is the claim here that it would not be suitable for detecting "malicious" changes, but is still suitable for detecting "natural" changes?
GAO Sides with Microsoft in NSA Contract Protest
It can’t be inland, because there’d be a huge stretch of flyover restrictions. It’d be at sea on top of mobile floating platforms. Like the two oil rigs SpaceX bought last year…
Obligatory Krazam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
> I think the motivating assumption behind the rule is that "repackaged websites" are different than (and worse than) "real" iOS apps.

The rule reads

> If your app is not particularly useful, unique, or “app-like,” it doesn’t belong on the App Store.

It's not necessarily that a website is worse than an app, but it's the fact that a website is not an app (even if you give it a name like PWA). Not an app --> doesn't belong on the app store.
I passionately hate Windows on desktop along with most other pre-Nadella Microsoft products.

I enjoyed using Windows phone.

The UI isn’t even particularly pretty, but in most senses it’s pretty reasonably designed and, very importantly, extremely responsive.
Probably to purge old messages from the server-side if the last connected date is reasonably newer.
It's also a well known, well used word from Greek origin.
So how crippled does regular web browsing become using Tor safest mode?

I'm tempted to give it a whirl for a week.

Root my phone, flash something secure, leave VPN always on, and limit web browsing to Tor to get a feel for how bad or good it is.

The self inflicted contortions developers go through to justify the need to spy drive me crazy. Modern devices and bandwidth are more than sufficient to handle a vast majority of applications, but everything has to be cloud based rent-seeking-as-a-service.
Git in the Trenches
Can I get one without providing a credit card number or creating an account with Apple?
HN needs a way to save comments.
I would assume it’s not significantly less dense than air.
I find this concept fascinating.

> While our ultimate goal is to simulate every [worm] cell in C. elegans, we are starting out by building a model of its body, its nervous system, and its environment. (...) To get a quick idea of what this looks like, check out the latest movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaovWiZJUWY

Source: https://docs.openworm.org/projects

Also: the “latest video” is seven years old now, does anyone have a newer demo?
I found a microfiche reader by a dumpster. Works great and came with one card showing the index of some historical church records from the 1700's. I ordered more cards on ebay and got what looks like the entire microfiche card set from an old TV repair shop in ohio. Loads of schematics, catalogs, and repair information. Lots of hand written notes on the envelopes and stuff too. I've got to upload some photos so Louis Rossmann has another historical data point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform#Readers_and_printers
Well, he didn't do a William Sherman:

"If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve."
There's room for both.

For instance, I run a hypothesis against the system and fill out those gaps in my understanding (napkin, whatever); implement a vertical slice; adapt for the known unknowns.
That's what the "favorite" link is for.
Yes they should. Information should be free. I don't like all these restrictions trying to lock it down. Anyways, someone's address is public information.
Yes, as in physically denying access to his lawyer at critical periods in the proceedings

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/julian-assange-denied-access-to-...
The company made big promises and had to burn through the funding to try to meet them without succeeding.
Nbrowser: “Open URL with ” dialog on Android but for Linux (using rofi menu)
Concentration could make a huge difference, though. Paint is in enclosed spaces without ventilation, often. Aeroplanes are not in the context of suburb effects.
> It's not porn if it's text.

Actual English usage rather emphatically disagrees with you. [0]

> There's a double standard in English, where pornographic books can't actually be porn because women don't consume porn.

No, there’s not. But “romance novels” aren't that, though arguably an adjacent category (whereas “erotic fiction” is an overlapping, but not identical, category to “pornographic fiction”.)

But English does not hold that what woman consume is not porn (and, in fact, you’ll find extensive English language studies of how women consume what is uncontroversially porn.)

> The other interesting aspects of that lesson were that I wouldn't really have expected a module in a class formally offered through a Chinese university to focus on this topic, and that -- in the textbook's opinion -- the correct English vocabulary should have been "blue movie", "blue picture", "blue magazine", and "blue book".

“blue movie” is correct, if somewhat dated; the rest are, at best, never as widely used.

[0] e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pornographic_novels
I guess with text we sometimes use the term smut?
how does MethaneSAT plans to retrieve their telemetry and payload data?
Perfect for Halloween. Bring on the War of the Worlds.
That was me. Played FS2, F/A-18 Hornet, Falcon 3.0, tons of others. Always wanted to fly. Finally grew up, made some money, and got a lesson. Turns out I'm terrified of small planes. Then I learned they're roughly as dangerous as motorcycles for a given distance traveled (about 10x the risk of an auto) and gave up the dream for good.
It’s even worse. The police don’t pull people over for speeding anymore (that’s good, at least from the “guys with guns” perspective). But the bad part is drivers are now emboldened to drive recklessly. These people now kill and injure more than the police — looking at the latest numbers police violence is down while traffic violence is up. IMO speed and red light cameras would do a lot to reduce the use of police while still seeing traffic safety enforced.
I think this is a pretty strong statement to make without any citation behind it.
I read that as the first of a multi-part series of SoftBank investment failures, not a multi-part of this specific one.
This is so true. I shout to the heavens when having to use another editor at work and thinking "doing this in vim" would go faster.
This seems like a great candidate for Derek Lowe’s “Things I Will Not Work Worh” column.
From car paints and tire balance weights.
> We rubbish the past at our peril.

It’s not as if functional programming is newer or untested. The reason most of the Apple world continues to use these paradigms is because the codebases which do continue to exist. Inertia alone would keep ObjC around for another 20 years, and the software industry is almost totally rewrite-averse.

Anyway, the rest of your comment is exactly what I’m talking about: Swift and its value propositions just don’t match up with the things it has had to interop with. I’m hoping Apple actually dedicates resources to SwiftUI documentation and adoption, and that gradual uptake is enough to stop worrying about fitting Swift to highly stateful OOP APIs that weren’t designed for it.
Not GP but I would interpret that as sarcasm
Why a decade? Is the idea that we can only nudge it slightly, so we have to go 10 years towards it so that the nudge compounds to a large enough distance to miss?
Their episode Memento Mori[1] with Kate Gregory cemented for me that this podcast isn't like others, it is incredibly thoughtful and insightful and has a lot to offer everyone whose interests involve software and engineering. For all the technical topics it covers, it is a very human podcast.

[1]https://corecursive.com/memento-mori-with-kate-gregory/
Except it really doesn’t. The United States has been a stable democracy with absolute freedom of speech for two and a half centuries. The same for Switzerland and the UK (British hate speech laws were only installed in the 1990s).

In contrast the country where the Nazis actually came to power, Weimar Germany, had some of the most extensive hate speech codes of any Western nation in the 1920s.
Totally agree. The current state of gestation is untenable. The child-bearer is sick for nine months and pretty much incapacitated for a good portion of that towards the end. Their lifestyle choices can cause harm to the fetus. At the end of it all, they face a significant risk of death.

In-vitro gestation is probably not that far off technologically - we’re already very close with sheep (there was a very successful artificial womb experiment there) and the age of viability keeps getting lower. I hope that regulators are willing to take the leap to human trials so we can finally do away with pregnancy for those who want to avoid it but still want children.
I fully believe that by the end of the decade it will be illegal in some Western countries to go online with a device that doesn't provide a measured boot attestation that it is running a government-approved operating system.
And before our master Kahan, there was Pat H. Sterbenz. I still have my "Floating Point Computation" in the photocopied bound sheaf that was handed out to numerical analysis grad students at ASU in the late 80s. I learned an enormous amount about what digital computation means in the presence of algorithms in that class.

EDIT: I have an 8087 chip always installed to sitting on my monitor base. Because Kahan.
As a very satisfied kakoune user (already a rather fringe designation), why might I want to use helix instead, or in addition?
Aren't those engines rather difficult to overhaul? As in, you have to send them to Europe?
sorry to ask, but what about that cryptographic project? why didn't you pick CL?
This still exists - https://about.facebook.com/technologies/oculus/
First Jami beta with Swarm support
Many NYC restaurants still have paper menus, upon request.

In the remainder, if the restaurant isn't super busy, waiters can often talk guests through the menu.
Krattera.
Paranormal Politics: A poltergeist sowed division in 18th-century England
That's enough balloons to have another Cleveland balloon disaster!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CT8zrw6lw
awesome write up, thank you!
That's 1.4 x 10^12. So, it's a cube of balloons a bit over 10,000 balloons on a side. If the balloons are 1' cubes, then the whole assembly is about two miles on a side.

Quite a party.
Hi exDM69, you posted in April about a proto (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977095) that you might share. I am interested on how you did: "cache (sizeof(node) == cache line), no recursion, no memory allocation, no unbounded loops, no system calls, etc."
Can you share please github name: lazalong
There are some claims out there that engines run better without lead (it eats away at seals and whatnot).
He hinted at the revenue model being a big difference between whatever Facebook is building and the plot of his novel "Snow Crash"

Can someone fill in the specifics? I guess the trouble is that for Facebook, you're the product, and advertisers are the clients - but, what is the revenue model of the metaverse from Snow Crash?