skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s only a problem because of the extremely old engine designs which we still use because of the expensive certification process for existing aircraft and new engine designs. We can design much better engines in just about every metric… and we do, just not for relatively cheap and certified GA aircraft.

We actually do have 100LL alternatives and have had them but the missing piece has largely been certification of those fuels or even just carrying mogas for planes that are able to burn it.
As a data point the immense majority of apps I use are still widgets.
You can do this in the US. ACH only requires the numbers (account + routing) that are visible on every check we write.
Worse the the FB outage for parents… help!
>Wikimedia

that's probably the least worthy of the ones in the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
> It is the coercion / loss of livelihood and other threats, that are getting people up in arms (figuratively, and who knows, someday in real life)

People were up in arms and fearmongering over the vaccine since 2020. This isn’t about coercion - there’s a reason the same people typically don’t get vaccinated themselves. If they believed in the effectiveness of the vaccine they’d be vaxxed themselves (like Republican Governors and Fox News tv hosts).

I personally know someone who thought the vaccine had a good chance of killing me and other acquaintances who took it, all because he read some random posts on the net.
Patches for postgres and extensions are available on GitHub. Anyone can build their own version of postgres with babelfish. It’s all licensed under Apache 2.0.
Munger also sponsored (in part) the Lawyer's Club residences that are adjacent to the law school at Michigan. The facilities there, while quite overpriced relative to the (already obscenely priced) local real estate market, are really pretty good as far as graduate dormitories go. But the rooms are also about 3x larger than the proposed UCSB rooms, and have windows.
I take it you mean alkali.

My best tip on looking after plants is use rain water. Oh and actually water them and don't drown them unless they are swamp or bog plants.
Bonus points for sending the Unix timestamps in millis ... I hope the lawyer who got this response has to hire a consultant too translate it for the court!
Inspiring. I am inspired.

Also I can smell the outgassing volatile organic compounds from here.
> If any company tried to follow in AirBnB’s footsteps and saw their revenue decline as ad spend went down, wouldn’t they widely publicize this fact?

In the real world, a CMO who stopped advertising and suffered the predictable outcome would likely be removed from their job ASAP. Not boasting about shooting their company in the foot in a blog.

> I find it hard to believe that such a demonstration of the value of marketing wouldn’t be immediately shouted from the rooftops by CMOs everywhere and find its way into marketing textbooks.

I don't understand why you think these examples don't exist. It's marketing 101. Professional marketers (the real ones at big companies) are doing extensive measurements around their advertising value and customer acquisition costs.

Small businesses do it, too. It's really trivial stuff to do basic analytics on where your customers are coming from when they arrive at a website and it's not hard to see which ones are arriving because they clicked on ads and which of those translate into purchases.

I think this idea that all advertising people have no idea what they're doing and are unable to quantify their results is a weird HN bubble thing.
China to block all data leaving the country
What is "medpagetoday"? Suspicious looking source.

EDIT:

Here's an archive link: https://archive.md/rTpkl
I wonder if orafce faced same type of comments after early releases.
Carmack has put over a decade of effort into this, as a labor of love and a business, and he's a legendary hacker. I'd gander his ASM chops and s/w arch comprehension dwarf Zuck's PHP skills.

If he says it is hard, listen to his reasons. I'm pretty sure he knows this domain.
This app is for people who don't like the look. It doesn't address the functional problems at all.
Write a real native app. Stop trying to get out of doing it properly.
For supporting "this" very specifically, ACLU (in the form of their 501(c)(3) foundation) is directly involved as legal counsel to Signal, so donating to EFF would be less relevant to "this" than donating to either Signal (also a non-profit) or to the ACLU Foundation. But, sure, the EFF is also a good organization.

If your concern is specifically the ACLU's disagreement with recent Supreme Courts on the intended scope of Second Amendment rights, the EFF isn't going to address that either since it's out of scope for their mission. But that's in no way relevant to what Signal had to deal with here, an area in which I think ACLU and EFF are pretty well aligned.
Why not nitrogen?
Crime is mostly a policy not a technical problem.

Not sure what made you think anyone is trying to solve the crime issues with VR. There is nothing in the OP pointing to that.

That being said crime moves online too because that's where people are. The burglar may not knock your physical door anymore, it will knock some of your accounts.
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Certainly not "this" design. Graduate residence building at Michigan vs. undergrad at UCSB. Bedrooms at Michigan twice the size as the UCSB ones. Individual bathrooms vs. shared ones.

https://twitter.com/MDrelichman/status/1454204021414133763?s...
For the ACLU, they have lost the institutional interest in fighting for free speech. Fighting for the rights of digital Nazis to march, so to speak, is not something the ACLU defends today.

Here's a recent NYT article discussing this change in the organization: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html
https://diveintosystems.org/singlepage/
Seems like a cool idea, but I had the same reaction. The CTA is "sign up for updates". Or if you follow the funding trail to edf.org, the CTA is "Donate". Which honestly was not all that well-done.
Ah but see, they'd already be printing trillions. This could get them into tens of trillions which would exacerbate the issue. This is sort of like the problem the guy alludes to: this would remove what few shock absorbers this system has.
And that's precisely the reason it was removed from the specs. There are so many moving things that need to be done right and in the end it all hinges on the media authoring being done right (which is why the HLS/DASH specs are valuable). I went over some of these things a few months ago: https://github.com/filamentgroup/html-video-responsive/issue...
> Eh, everything can be automated just as well on bare metal.

Right, but that's not free.

Anything can be automated to match the level of commercial cloud providers given sufficient time and money, but it's far from free.

It's easy to underestimate engineering costs when they're hidden behind a fixed annual salary, but once you're looking at the cost/benefit analysis and actually accounting for all the time spent managing bare metal, it's not a good tradeoff for small or even medium size companies.
Archive.org is supposed to be an archive. Unlisting data (they don't delete stuff) goes entirely against the ideao of archiving the internet. It's because of people like him that you have to archive archive.org itself which is stupid.
Frustrated and offended are different things?
Even saying that is a stretch
> FWIW, this sounds analogous (not exactly like) N26's closed/semi-closed digital wallets[1].

Similar, but with the vital difference that it doesn't depend on Apple, Google, Samsung and PayPal to continue working. Not to mention the trust that they will keep your best interest at heart when making future decisions.

Ownership of something that is valuable should remain in your control, not some 3rd party.
It has been part of the literature since the early 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+distanc...

It just wasn't a widely-known term because we didn't have much need for it.
"Many of us" believe Earth is flat. Doesn't mean it's true. Look at the evidence.
Before their user base "dies off" they will enjoy a period of convalescence a be of a generation to appreciate VR/AR once they can't move good.
For a lot of these things, the steps to finding something that works should start with seeing someone who is a specialist of some sort, and, if at all possible, getting them to actually look at whatever you need help for.

For skincare, see a dermatologist. Anyone with skincare issues or concerns, PLEASE just see a dermatologist. They might not tell you what you want to hear, but they can usually give you a good baseline description and diagnosis of what to work on. That's 99% of the battle.

For lawn care, try to talk to a lawn care specialist, hopefully someone who is not trying to sell you something. Golf courses usually have 1 or 2 people that know a lot about grass. Even someone that you think has a really good lawn, ask them to come over and take a look at yours.

Getting advice off the internet is helpful, but I've usually found it to not beat getting someone in person who can actually look at what ever the thing is you're looking for advice for.
When a friend was doxxed, I helped him get the problematic material excluded from current Internet Archive results. It was easier than I had anticipated. The volunteers who helped me were intelligent and humane. Keep in mind that at its core Internet Archive is a library that preserves and shares information. My friend was happy to have his personal information temporarily suppressed, but didn't try to change the permanent record. History will be history. He loves and cherishes libraries and has no objection to future researchers seeing his personal information 50 years from now. It's a great institution that we should protect and cherish.
shrav[at]secureframe.com here. We can help you with the SOC 2 side of things pretty quickly!
From my understanding the ACLU used to stand for the civil rights of everybody and even defended KKK members. But now they have taken sides on various social justice movements and targeted groups that oppose these sides. Instead of fighting for civil rights like they used to, they pick and choose which rights they think are okay to violate if it's for the "right cause". It goes completely against their old motto.
That's not actually that's not true. ICE powered ultralights are weighed without fuel. The fuel limit is 5 gallons. So while the empty weight (in the regulations) is 254 lbs, the expected weight ready to fly is 300 lbs with fuel. Since the batteries don't have empty/full weights, it makes sense that they would increase the limit for electric ultralights to 300 lbs. This does not include weight added for safety devices in the event of catastrophic failure (eg ballistic parachute).

Also the main reason for weight limits (including fuel limit) is to limit potential damage in the event of a crash. This is through a limit on kinetic impact (in addition to weight limit there is a speed limit) and hazardous material (the gasoline).

So if we eliminate the highly flammable gas, then it's possible the battery weight doesn't really matter because a 254 lbs airframe will be physically limited in the weight of batteries that it can support.
My free speech rights are being threatened. Does it matter what identity merit badges I own to have rights? You may be surprised what group I ostensibly am one of, and yet I find their pushing of this anti-free speech to be atrocious.
People select their own mates. On the assumption that you aren’t just advocating for stuff that’s always happening, you presumably want to set up some authority for who people mate with other than the couples involved. Why can’t they decide for themselves?

It really is pretty similar to the kinds of things that are used to advocate against E2E encryption. An attempt to have the state encroach on territory that used to be private.
I'm guessing because many investors found out about Roblox from their kids when it went down.
Orchids are notoriously hard for us, we’ve managed to kill several of them. I guess mostly due to over watering.
>nobody will be too worried that a kid's game has some, limited, downtime from time to time

except for the parents of kids addicted to the game
For starters, Dell and VMware didn't merge. Dell merged with EMC and thus took a majority stakeholder position in VMware stock, letting Michael Dell stack the board and generally steer things in Dell's favor.

In my personal opinion, this was generally to the detriment of VMware's products (downward pressure to focus on features that made little or no sense, except to give Dell marketing talking points; bad impact on morale by doing things like decreasing employee benefits quality so DellEMC and VMware could jointly reap discounts), played a role in frivolous acquisitions, and generally (and understandably) caused OEMs other than Dell to disengage and keep VMware at arms-length.
> Don't you think asset planting is an attack against a game's pipeline?

Realistically? No. It is one of those hypothetical scenarios where if an attacker can plant files into your file system, you have bigger problems.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...
That's news to me, apparently 754 was updated in 2008 to include base-10 representations. I didn't even know IEEE standards have revisions at all, multiple mind blows here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_854-1987
Basically unless the police are actively chasing you, you could have a hundred warrants out for your arrest and if you didn't drive a car you'd never be found.

If you want to escape a state, get on a bike with cash and start riding on trails and back roads.
The police depend so much on car stops to catch people.

Well, until the surveillance state is fully set up
Depending when you did this, it's possible you destroyed private keys to BTC. I always check any discarded computer I come across for that reason, before wiping.
>I still think it's silly and picayune for people to quibble about the color of the menu bar.

I get you, but quibbling about minutia has been the bread and butter of software UI differentiation for so long that I don't really think it's incongruous for this kind of thing to show up as a 3rd party UI modification.
The Search for Alien Tech
This is a pure marketing stunt to convince naysayers- I'd steer clear of Signal. I have done that and will continue to do so.
I’m already aware of lead’s environmental effects in general. I was wondering what we know about the scope of the problem from burning 100LL?
Addicts are probably the most discriminating when it comes to rating drugs. Bad coke can be really bad.
> Your argument kind of falls on itself there --> We can surveil them in person, but not digitally? Why?

Because, before the internet, when surveillance was a lot of work, this prevented the abuse that is mass surveillance.

Only now do we see how much democracy relied on this natural limitation of state power for civil rights. It was never just the need for warrants that maintained civil rights. Remember the Verizon FISA court order authorized surveillance of millions, and that was just one order of hundreds.

Power corrupts. State power should be sufficient, but minimal. Being allowed to do physical surveillance only is sufficient to reduce crime rates to the point where most people can safely neglect that crime exists at all, and it is less power because it does not scale.

You mention proportionality yourself. Proportionality means that something is not done if the same objective (finding a given murderer) can be achieved in a less rights-infringing way. Proportionality at the policy level, means that a surveillance power may not exist, if its objective (such as safety from murder, i.e. low rates of murder, high chance of finding murderers etc.) can be achieved without the power or with a power that is less likely to be abused or that infringes rights of suspects less. (I admit this is somewhat of an editorialization; the technical meaning of proportionality is in [1]. To be clear the existing legal proportionality principle does not try to directly minimize power; but it does usually present an obstacle whenever new powers are created by law)

Limiting power is simpler and less error-prone than allowing power and adding control structures like warrant requirements for the power. It is thus better, if the outcome is the same.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportionality_(law)#European...
Looks interesting but there are a couple of things I’m mot personally a fan of.

The sales model is a bit weird for me. Buying the app on gumroad (not sure what that is tbh) for even 10 usd without an option to try it out is a hard sell.
A trial would be nice. A free version with limited functionality that could be unlocked would also be nice. The ability to build the app on your own from source without an easy package would also be nice (similar to how textual works). Ideally buying/upgrading would be through the macos app store.

The faq also mentions that there is no auto update cause the developer doesn’t have an apple dev account, which I expect it also means the app is not notarised by apple. That’s a no no for a closed source app for me.

Ui is a bit meh. A bit of polish goes a long way with mac users.

Good luck with the project, I’ll keep an eye out for future versions!
> From what i can observe over years apple has almost exactly same perf culture as google and any other similarly sized company in the US

Right, if you look from very far away and put "all large US company" in the same bag.

Otherwise, if you zoom on "Silicon Valley Tech Companies" then Apple and Google's perf process and associated incentives look quite radically different in many aspects.
Getting interrupted with a text message every day is not something I'd want, even if the content was free. I certainly wouldn't pay money to have that happen. I can find endless motivational advice, news, memes, tips, etc. on the web for free, at whatever time I actually want to see it. What makes your content so valuable that someone would want to pay for it?

I would also hesitate to share my phone number or billing information with an unknown company that doesn't even publish its phone number or physical address. What if you're bought by another company next year and the terms of service suddenly change? What if you cut corners on security (as startups frequently do), and your customer database is stolen?
Maybe I'm old-school, but the most impactful books for me:
* Operating Systems Concepts: Silberschatz et al
* Compilers: Aho, Sethi, Ullman ("the dragon book")
* Transaction Processing: Jim Gray
* Applied Cryptography: Bruce Schneier
* Computer Graphics: Foley / van Dam
It is reasonable that blind people will enjoy an experience that is based on hand eye coordination and visual spectacle less.
A point to keep in mind: even if it arrives as a literal dust cloud, an asteroid impact at ~20--40 km/s has all the kinetic energy of the original solid impactor, and the only way for that energy to be expended is in either thermal energy (frictional force against the atmosphere) or kinetic transfer (from impact).

It was from a reply to a question I'd asked recently here on HN that an eyewitness to the Chelyabinsk impactor reported on the heat of that event. Even as the impactor largely broke apart and vaporised 20--40km above the Earth, it shed a huge amount of heat over a large area. Not enough to be lethal, but enough to be felt.

A larger mass would deliver correspondingly more energy. And energy is conserved.
We're still subject to natural selection and that's all still technically natural selection. The selection pressures have just changed.
Since several people are asking why the ACLU isn't what it once was, let me answer that.

In 1978, the ACLU successfully defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish town of Skokie, Illinois. This action reflected their commitment to free speech, regardless of how offensive the speech might be. The movie "Skokie" and documentary "Mighty Ira" are based on this event-- I highly recommend them because this is an important piece of U.S. history.

In contrast, the modern ACLU has backed away from this stance. A leaked ACLU memo[1] says that before they take a free speech case, they will consider the "context of the proposed speech; the potential effect on marginalized communities; the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values; and the structural and power inequalities in the community in which the speech will occur."

[1] https://reason.com/2018/06/21/aclu-leaked-memo-free-speech/
It’s not that easy to destroy the planet. The 1815 eruption of the Mount Tambora volcano released about 2000 times more energy than the 15 megatons TNT released by Castle Bravo [1]. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was equivalent to about 3000 Tamboras.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent#Examples
Publishing kernel patches is one thing; publishing an entire operating system distribution where everything runs properly out-of-the-box with those patches enabled by default is quite another.

Yes, PaX kernel patches were published in October 2000, 3 years before OpenBSD made an official release with W^X (OpenBSD 3.3, May 2003). But without extensive changes in user space to ensure that data and code were separated in object files, you ended up with alot of complexity, and that complexity ultimately turned out to make PaX significantly less effective: https://lwn.net/Articles/126986/ Indeed, that's always been the problem with grsecurity patches in general--poor system integration which they've often tried to overcome with sophisticated (arguably overly sophisticated) methods.

Neither grsecurity nor OpenBSD "invented" PaX/W^X. They were using pre-existing hardware features designed precisely for this type of capability, it just was never comprehensively employed by a major operating system because it required extensive changes not only to kernels but also, as it turns out, to userland.
Why?

In the sentence:

"Women pay some fixed cost for being in the labor market, in general. Perhaps due to discrimination, perhaps to something else"

It seems pretty clear to me he does not mean just financial.
IMO most people are completely incapable of critically approaching new information 24/7 and so are susceptible to weighing incorrect and misleading information highly if they are repeatedly exposed to it. At the risk of being a heathen, I think information and discourse in public forums needs to be moderated and curated - the other option is to do what we do today and devalue people’s opinions based on our personal perception of the quality of their information, which is subjective. Any fears about censorship and control are a reflection of the ridiculous centralisation of the internet, and breaking up or socialising large platforms is the appropriate response.

Ultimately I think the expectation that platforms ought to facilitate and tolerate discussion of topics just because they are “ideas”, “suggestions”, “opinions” and not presented as fact is toxic. If you want to do actual research do it in the correct setting (not a public forum). And fortunately, that is where actual research is happening.

It is not some overarching plan by some godly G-man, you don’t see these drugs being promoted because there is ultimately no scientific proof of their effectiveness. If Moderna had the same attitude towards science and statistics as the people who are pushing “alternative” treatments, we would have had a COVID vaccine much sooner.
Any way you look at it, Times of Israel is not exactly an impartial source on current affairs in Iran!
> P-values do not measure the probability that the studied hypothesis is true

So, what’s the best way to measure the probability that the studied hypothesis is true?