skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Failing to report flight plans isn't unusual. https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/no-need-foreign-milita...

> Military aircraft are not required by international law to file flight plans with a country’s Air Traffic Service before flying through their Flight Information Region (FIR)...

We violate airspace from time to time: https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/02/us/us-spy-plane/index.html

> The quickest route away from the Russians took them into Swedish airspace. The U.S. official acknowledged that was done without Swedish military approval.

> As a result of this incident, the United States is discussing the matter with Sweden and letting officials know there may be further occurrences where American jets have to divert so quickly they may not be able to wait for permission.

And we fuck around with transponders: https://news.yahoo.com/u-spy-plane-impersonates-malaysian-13...

> A U.S. Air Force aircraft electronically impersonated a Malaysian plane while flying over the South China Sea this week. The RC-135W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft flew off China’s Hainan island on Tuesday, coming within 55 miles of the Chinese mainland.
Have you seen the screenshot?
https://gizmodo.com/russia-looks-at-legalizing-software-pira...
So how does a binary search work when the disk blocks are essentially a linked list as the top answer initially says? They just assume that it's possible to jump through a contiguous array of blocks for their later analysis but initially state blocks aren't necessary contiguous.
Presumably there's an epigenetic effect from this i.e. having dumber parents would have negative effects on their children. But over time that should improve with the removal of lead from the environment. So we can at least take solace in that things ought to get better:

> Blood lead data were instrumental in developing policy to eliminate lead from gasoline and in food and soft drink cans. Recent survey data indicate the policy has been even more effective than originally envisioned, with a decline in elevated blood lead levels of more than 70% since the 1970s.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/about_nhanes.htm
“What do you call your act?”

“YouTube!”

* a reference to The Aristocrats joke, and how YouTube removed publicly facing downvotes on videos. Great for concealing negative sentiment!
Do people put money on this because 4:1 odds are pretty good. If definition of fall is a mission accomplished type photo op I’d take those odds. If it’s prolonged stable holding then I probably would not
> I wonder if people with hearing impairment or complete lack of hearing listen to music for the sensation

I went to a university that has a relatively high deaf and hard of hearing population (probably near 5%), and one thing that was common was that those students would like bass heavy music, since you can kind of feel the song/beat. We'd have concerts on campus and have an interpreter on stage signing the lyrics of the song, and deaf students would often gather closer to the sub woofers.
Not to belittle Nokia or anything, they took already available eg. smart calculators' digital displays adopted to GSM phones.

Steve Jobs (Apple) did something no one ever expected, knew, or supported at the time (Steve Ballmer reaction*)

Although they make great objects of desire, Toyota is no Tesla, Nokia is no Apple.

Wozniak is acting like an ex partner probably because he owes his entire identity to Jobs, an identity that he enjoys but perhaps coming from an ex he never liked, maybe he's seeking catharsis.

Perhaps feeling indebted to a bully who he never recovered from, not being able to reach that peak again on his own, is the reason why we get these interviews from him where he says these things about Jobs. Who knows.
It's pretty incredible how few comments in this thread are saying "huh, this is interesting, I should try this, research backs it up." That's the engineer or HN way, isn't it? (Not being sarcastic, I include myself in this). When data comes along which disproves or at least weakens a previously held position, adjust your priors and try it out.

Note: you can say "not until it's proven" but I can cite plenty of less weakly supported positions than "catharsis doesn't work" that have been enthusiastically taken up here. Consider trusting the data, at least a little bit, especially if you have a strongly emotional, but not well supported, response. This is the way (of the engineer).
Yes it's a communicative act. Communication can be bounced off others
for social validation as you say, but can also be to oneself.

You'd still vent, if alone on a desert island, maybe to The Gods.

Ever hear yourself saying out loud, usually with expletives, something
that you would "never say"? Listen to that voice!

That's communication of unconscious but frustrated thoughts. Sometimes
it has to come out verbally because ones inner dialogue isn't strong
enough due to social or superego suppression.

After you said it to yourself you feel better.

We are not the singular identities simpler minds suppose us.
Thats a pretty dope scheme.

What I did for employees as we did a rotating OPs on-call, was to give the on-call emp a friday or monday off on the week they aren't on call (to be arranged with the team) -- basically, if you were on call for a week 24/7 for that on call week... when it was not your on call week - you could pick a day off of your choice.
That was immediately after getting formal guarantee by the UK that in case of an attack, the UK will immediately defend Sweden (which weakened the need to join NATO substantially).
We would have done better if we had followed the science and protected the most vulnerable people as per the Great Barrington Declaration.

https://gbdeclaration.org/

CDC data shows that exposure was never a serious risk for children. COVID-19 is less dangerous to children than RSV, and we never shut down society because of RSV.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00443.asp
Just like you listen to the persons arguments and engage with them when someone calls you and says "Hello I am federal tax Marshall john Smith, and there is a warrant for your arrest. Or you can buy gift cards and send money to us to settle your debt."

I'm certain you spend a while evaluating and debating those arguments.
It's about discipline and process. Calculate your risk capital (what you can afford to lose completely). Then allocate that amount and nothing more for stuff like options, crypto, angel investing, etc.
I work in a custom fabrication environment, and this solution doesn't really apply, because what happens in a dynamic system is that the bottleneck shifts all around the shop dynamically. It's never just one operation that is the constant bottleneck.
Think about results. Does it help or hurt the Russian resisters when they (and the people they need to persuade) lose most access to the free world?

Sanctioning state organs and oligarchs is good and overdue, but the mob extending that to canceling all of Russian civil society seems stupid and evil to me.
There are other use cases for (preserved) HTML comments in (or produced by) JSX, but generally more for library authors than end users. For example, comments can be used for hydration markers to delineate “hydration islands” without need for a wrapping element. (I have a proof of concept of this sitting in a Codepen somewhere.)

And while it doesn’t work in React’s Fragment, it can certainly work with another compiler. JSX doesn’t specify anything about what it compiles to, React.createElement/_jsx are just defaults.
What did I just read?

Peter Thiel is weird.
Oooh, that is interesting. Thank you!
> There are no angels here, except in each side's propaganda.

Sure, pick your poison. This time I'll have a shot of NATO. I may be in the mood for something different next time.

> And regardless, I'm not convinced Russia can even carry out its current program in Ukraine. Those suggesting "appeasement" will "embolden" Putin to go on a wider campaign of war through Europe haven't justified the rationale for how that would even happen.

Just brinksmanship with nukes I guess? I don't even necessarily care about emboldening. I just believe that they should walk out of this limping. Harder the better.
Can you point to a NATO military operation which was A). offensive and B). not unanimously requested by the UN security council (on which Russia and China sit)?
We always say "recession" but I feel like most people don't fear a recession, which is temporary.

The word I want to start flying around is "collapse" because that is what it feels like we are heading towards.

Our oligarch class sold us out at every opportunity and they may have finally drained the last drop of blood.
How many smoots is half a fortnight every quads of fortnights? How does one only play half of Fortnight?
It seems plausible that catharsis makes some people more agitated and perhaps unhappy.

It also seems likely that those agitated, unhappy people continue to struggle and don't give up as opposed to those who "stop venting".

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." — Dylan Thomas
Yeah that link seems reasonably well established. The link between "current problems" (whatever they are) and a generation of lead poisoned boomer brains isn't. I'm also not exactly sure what OP is suggesting and trying to connect the dots from their offhand comment. Probably a waste of time all around so I will exit the discussion.
This agrees with my professional opinion of a lot of mathematics coming out of MIT, as of late, but I’m kind of afraid to say anything about it publicly. I wonder what happened? Is it because of decadence, or something else?
Imagine if I create a robot that can replicate itself and use solar energy to serve all your city food forever. It will also purify water. Dig a bit into the economics of AI, only if you want.
Because it's methane and contribute more to global warming than the CO2 from it's burn. Though there's the expensive and not always practical alternative of selling it. It is difficult to transport/store natural gas.
I believe there is only one, the bombing of Yugoslavia.
Cool! Does it download all the email to your computer, or is it running the search on the gmail servers?
Only if they're building from scratch. Binary packages would have no need for cargo.
Women do not have an easier time getting what they want out of online dating compared to men.

Sure, if we falsely regard everyone's goal as "to go on a date with a live person with a pulse, as soon as possible", then women probably have it easier. They are the ones inundated with offers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/world/europe/ukraine-russ...
Doing good science around this kind of stuff is extremely difficult ...

My personal experience with Psychodrama and Gestalt in the late '70s and early '80s was that for someone like myself who was very much 'in my head', it was an opportunity to acknowledge my own repressed anger. But in retrospect, it was/is also behavior rehearsal for bad behavior in the rest of my life. More effective was modern Somatic Experience techniques where the impulse to respond in anger is explored with a lot of inner attention and slow-motion movements of pushing away and/or striking back. I would call it more grounded and more present. There is dissociation that occurred for me with so-called cathartic anger.

The variation in 'venting' adds to the complexity of the conversation. Physical venting vs naming sources of anger/frustration. Based on my personal experience, physical venting is far less effective than verbal venting, and of course verbal venting is massively variable. Naming the exact source of frustration strikes me as more likely to be usefully defusing than just shouting that someone is an f-ing a*hole. I can imagine the inclusion of humor, for example, would have a huge impact.
shrug It still works for me. And presumably Epic thinks it’s worth something or they wouldn’t have bought Bandcamp just now.
Move out of an authoritarian dictatorship or demand your leaders stop killing innocent civilians as they try to escape during a ceasefire agreement, and end an illegal invasion that shouldn't even be a thing.

Do immoral things, let your leaders do them in your name, and well live with the consequences of a failed country/state.
Part of me thinks that "green energy", "saving the environment", "stopping global warming" are all partly promoted by big businesses who know that they're unattainable goals, to keep us focused on some lofty ideal rather than focusing on small-scale environmental dangers. I remember visiting San Francisco, supposedly the liberal utopia of the west, and finding that I was forced to endure choking smog in order to use any public transit. Why are California's public transit stations all built near major highways, at street level, parallel with huge trucks and busses, with no ventilation? Because no one cares about you, it's all about "being green", whatever THAT means.
Focus on the word "considering." Doesn't mean you have to agree, but denying yourself information and perspective is just small minded.

Its also not acceptable to downvote because you disagree.
Love this project! I personally had a really good time understanding JPEG format and writing a decoder in Python. It is fairly short and succint. If anyone is interested, I wrote an article about it: https://yasoob.me/posts/understanding-and-writing-jpeg-decod...
I really don't think Steve Jobs was taking shots in the dark. He had remarkable foresight and an uncanny ability to see where the puck was going.

Not all of his ideas worked out. But he had a very high success rate.

Doing leetcode and tech interviews is not what a young Steve Jobs would be working on today; a young Steve Jobs today would be working on something that most of us wouldn't bother with because we don't see the potential.
I can't blame people for reacting to the tax codes to minimize what they owe. But I'm conflicted by situations like when Elon Musk makes a lot of money from stock appreciation in a largely-California business, then moves to a lower-tax state to cash out. It's obviously not illegal and probably not immoral, but I'd say it's selfish.
"As detailed in a recent report by Nature Research, biomass loss increased 69% across Europe between 2016 and 2018, with large losses occurring in the Nordic and Baltic regions. In the past five years, the rate of deforestation in Estonia has risen 85% – a surge linked to a 25% decrease in bird populations. "

We are on a fast track to deforest Europe in the name of CO2 reduction [0]

[0] https://www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/eus-biofuels-addict...
That depends on where you're from. Some states don't allow the private sale of liquor.
Your case here feels wrong. The goal is shipping something that provides value and can have features added to it at a pace customers expect, fixing bugs quickly, etc. Having a separate UI layer and needing domain knowledge for every single platform, coordinating releases accross all these different platforms, and everything else that comes with a cross platform app is quite simply not worth it from a business perspective. Especially with the idea that if you spend half the effort you would from developing 4 native UIs on wrangling the performance hit from Electron to maybe only 20% worse than native, it' just not even a consideration anymore.
More people died in the Texas grid failure last year than have died in all the Nuke plant accidents.

Unreliable power is dangerous too.
True, but this was for tobacco, and the ban was mainly to protect non-smoking workers (and more recently the patrons) in restaurants and bars who started suffering with long term health complications usually attributed to smokers. The lawsuits would have crippled the industry, so the change was largely financial in nature, such is the basis of most public health legislation.

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2013/08/01/secondhand-smoke-in-ba...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29870518/

For controls on residential buildings, we would need better standards in shared housing construction and perhaps also we could take a look at better airflow and particulate filtration methods. I expect it will be some time (and perhaps another airborne pandemic?) for that to be addressed seriously.
> ban impartiality

What ban was impartial?
> Russia's invasion of Ukraine is illegal and unjustified, but what moral grounds do Americans have to say anything about it?

The same moral grounds as when we condemned and protested the US's invasion of Iraq? Yes, we were a minority. The majority was hopped up on state propaganda about WMDs and 911 etc. Basically the same as Russia's "denazification" message or whatever it is today, only the US establishment is much better at it.

I'm sure many of the people who supported attacking Iraq are condemning Russia's war on Ukraine right now, but I'd rather support their current positive stance rather than take them to task over past views and seeming nationalist hypocrisy.
You are mistaken. The first version of adjusting for DPI was browsers offering a font-size adjustment and it caused lots of issues for the reasons you're alluding to.

Modern zoom on browsers is simply that: multiply everything by 1.1, 1.25 or whatever. This has been the case for probably a decade.
How did you make sure that no one would complain that "Bob was an idiot who kept breaking the build", or "Alice never does her code reviews and blocks everyone"?
Do you really claim to be against disinformation and then spread it like this?

Like, really?

What is this thing doing on HN?
Did you apply this concept from a book or other set of writings? I’m just curious about this process and would like to learn more.
Zelensky is starting to sound like he's open to considering some of Russia's stated terms (no pursuit of NATO membership and cession of eastern Ukraine). That doesn't sound like things are going especially well for him.
(The current state of market maturity, market immaturity)
The other important major lesson that poker teaches you is that you can make the right decision and still lose, along with the corollaries (winning/losing doesn’t mean you made the right/wrong decision).
Who/what did they sell us out to?
That's kind of neat. I haven't used sugru before, I feel like if I just wanted to try it out I would buy the name brand, of course, but if I needed something similar in bulk I will remember this!
No it won’t work. Problem is truth is subjective. It differ with people.
Also tech companies can’t solve these issues. Because these are like tools. They can be changed.
This seems like a great case of a bad headline derailing discussion. The first study quoted uses hitting a punching bag as an example of venting. I’d contrast that against what I think of as venting: talking about what’s bothering you without looking for the discussion to solve anything other than providing space to say what you’re feeling. When they say venting doesn’t work, they’re referring to a specific kind of venting.

> In more general terms, embracing our feelings isn’t the same as expressing them, and not all forms of expression are created equal. Realizing “I’m angry” (always OK) is a different beast from telling someone “I’m angry” (sometimes OK), and it’s even further from berating a loved one for causing your anger (not OK).

It’s a good article with a nuanced point, and all the discussion reacting to the shitty headline is a shame.
It definitely seems likely that physical activity is beneficial. I'd be curious to see studies comparing something like running vs. boxing. (Also weightlifting vs. cardio, or springs vs. long-distance.)

Additionally, one thing that's often obscured in studies (or the reporting thereof) is that different people are different. Studies say that running doesn't help people lose weight, but that's looking for significant effects across a population. For some individuals, it does. The concept of "ymmv" is incredibly important when you care about individual impacts.
i work here, this is good
Phone are the only item I listed that receive a hedonic adjustment and you can't exactly quantify the difference in quality between an iPhone 12 and a Motorola StarTAC. They are a fundamentally different products.
> The grunts who are turning themselves in say they thought it was “training” until the last minute.

Take that with a grain of salt. If you research the history of Russian conflicts, stating that they were told it was just training is a common trope of captured Russians (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30549427). It's basically a survival technique. Don't underestimate the indoctrination apparatus of the Russian army. They were sent there to kill, and they know it. Imagine being in 'training' and seeing medical tents + doctors + blood supplies. Give me a break. That doesn't rule out poor planning and/or poor logistics..
I used to prefer that setting in Firefox, because I preferred to keep images pixel-accurate rather than scaling them, and I just wanted the text bigger for readability. I'd propagated that setting forward from Firefox install to Firefox install for roughly 15 years, since before the 16:9 display era.

Then I got higher-resolution 4k screens, which simultaneously meant that scaling looked better, and that scaling images (not just text) was necessary. (I also now use `devPixelsPerPx=-1` to scale everything up by default to an appropriate DPI for the display.)
If we are at "war" right now, then what is it called when US troops roll tanks into Russia... "super war"? Words have definitions. The definition of war is "a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state."
I've found the problem with venting can be that it cements an idea in your head.

This is particularly true with people. If I find myself venting that <X> doesn't know what the heck they're doing, I've internally solidified that belief. If <X> improves, if I'm on another project with <X> where they clearly have a lot of knowledge, then it can still be too late. I've verbalized to myself ( and worse, my partner ) that X is incompetent and I'm not going to easily let that go.

I think it's true with other things. <Y> is a terrible idea, <Z>'s code base is a mess. If I let it role over me, notice things without forcing an opinion, I'm more likely to realize I've judged to soon.
There is a PDF version and an updated (2005) edition available at the URL one level up: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
unless someone comes up with another way to get across the Atlantic in 6 hours affordably, flying will be indispensable.
The Star Trek: TNG engine room ambiance is up there.
Great short read and book recc.

I find myself often trying to articulate this idea (sometimes to myself, often to a friend) - starting with the map and building a territory from it --> generally bad.

While reading this article I wasn't even thinking about software. I think of a lot of progressive and/or socialist politics. To assert that the world should look as you one sees fit is flawed, both because one is not representative but mostly because the complexity of a system beyond toy example cannot be accurately modeled enough when the risk is catastrophe.
I guess you think that all sanctions against Russia are also “grossly immoral”, no?

E: My reply to the now deleted child comment by “from” which suggested that the sanctions are pointless because they probably won’t result in regime change.

But why do you think the sanctions are about causing regime change? That’d be nice, but nothing anybody is betting on.

It’s all about discouraging such actions in the future.
By constantly showing support for Ukraine to join NATO, and with Merkel gone, who was the one to counter such encouragement, the Ukraine dilemma unfolded.

Essentially Ukraine wants to join Europe for economic development which Russia cannot provide her with. However Russia does have the capacity to break Ukraine if it chooses to do so and demonstrated in this war. It requires the politicians of Ukraine to walk very delicate lines, a trait unfortunately missing.
Fighting Disinformation Isn’t a Lost Cause