skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the distances need to be viable in a lot of regions we are pretty close.

Current companies are targeting something like 400km. And that is with pretty conservative design choices along every dimension.

With some real investment that would allow companies to embrace more ambitious designs we could do much more then that.

Batteries can be a structural part of the plane. You can use the airflow to cool them potentially. There are lots of opportunity to do much, much better.

I think the connection between most major capital is around 500km. So an 20-30 seat plane that can go 600+ km is really not that far away as people think.

And this is with batteries that are not really optimized for flight. You can push the charge speed up considerably if you are willing to have less cycles. And it very well might be worth to do that. Even so your total investment in electricity and batteries combined is still gone beat fossil fuel by a wide margin.

If we are talking about investing billion into something, it should be electric planes!
There's a risk that steel-manning can veer into condescension, but the real goal is to find a version of an argument that all parties agree represents it accurately and fairly.

(As opposed to wasting time on superficial contradictions, reductio ad absurdum variations, and other hazards of bad faith conflicts.)
> - Mumble: Not really private

Unless your self hosting, it's not really private, as it doesn't use E2EE. If you're self hosting and restricting access, then any software could fit into the "private" category. Does that mean every self-hostable piece of software should be classified as "private"?

> As long as everyone involved trusts the server operator

This is the key point that is never mentioned. The software is mentioned but nothing about who is running it.

On a side note something we're looking very forward to is:

[WIP] MSC3401: Native Group VoIP Signalling #3401
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/340...

Which seems to be a focus for 2022:

https://element.io/blog/introducing-native-matrix-voip-with-...
I think you should try rereading my comment.
> in America, nobody is forcing anyone to take a vaccine so the position wouldn't make any sense.

Employers, en masse, are forcing it as a condition of employment.

I do agree with some of these employer mandates, e.g. airlines, because they increase connectivity and thus spread. Not so much with some others, e.g. clerical stay at home workers.
When they get a nose job the region of the body that contains the olfactory bulb is not touched at all since that is in the brain, not in the nose. I posted this image in another comment [0], but it seems there's a misunderstanding of anatomy here.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_system#/media/File:H...
There's a lot to unpack here. Western Europe took in more immigrants than the United States did last year, by numbers and percentage. You could make an argument that illegal immigration tips that towards the US, but I don't think that's true.

> relatively ethnically homogeneous societies, which is what you see in Europe

So, this one. It's always hard to say because European countries don't measure "race" in the way that the US does. The concept of knocking on peoples' doors and asking them what race they are is absurd to the average European. It's funny because this discussion kind of lays clear that the concept is poorly defined and the American conception of "race" isn't really true. Other than the phenotypical differences between east asians, blacks, and red-haired whites; there is so much variance amongst the rest that there is hardly anything you could call a "race" if you mean a demonstrably different genetic phenotype.

If you think that the Netherlands is a white ethno-state, then I'm not sure what to tell you. It's not, not even close. Germany brought a million Syrians into its borders a few years ago. The only part of Europe that doesn't have large-scale immigration and white ethno-states is eastern Europe. Even Scandinavia has pretty large-scale immigration at this point, except for Finland (also not a part of Scandinavia really, but important to clarify). They need the people. If you've ever been to Oslo, it is very obvious why. The place is empty.
Gold has very obviously not held consistent value for millennia.
I think you were just drinking an IPA.
IMO, the population covered by employer-sponsored group policies is significantly healthier than the population shopping on the exchanges. The biggest weakness of the ACA was that it didn’t ban employer-sponsored coverage as a means to force everyone into the same free market.
If you read exactly one additional sentence from my post you will see an acknowledgement of that very fact, as well as my justification for bringing up that line of reasoning in the first place. :)
I think the real value is just focusing on the absolute minimum necessary software in a production docker/container image. It's a good practice for security with less surface area for attackers to target.
On the WinUI community calls it is surprising how occasionally one gets starred looks when someone asks about feature X from Win32, Forms, WPF not being available and when.

Random devs are excused to know not all the stuff, but the team pushing what is supposed to be the framework to replace them all?
for the python environment I use poetry which I think works well (https://python-poetry.org/). As for the licensing (and someone correct me if this is wrong), you have the option to go with PyQt which is GPL licensed and will require you to open source your code, if you go with PySide which is LGPL licensed you do not (unless you make modifications to the Qt code itself which I suppose you're not). So the latter is the better option if you just want to distribute an app.

You don't need to use Qml at all and can use QtWidgets instead which is just their traditional toolkit, or you can combine both. I tried Qml for parts of the UI and it's fairly straight forward.

I think QtCreator supports python now so if you want a complete IDE with graphical tools that works well, I just used my normal editor.
cerver rooms anyone? :D
> is there something in the composition of objects that can tell us if something is interstellar in origin?

Share of isotopes.

- Isotopic analyze at Earth begins countdown from Sun system events, but events on other stars have other timeline and their star also will have other share.

Sun is not rare star, but our neighbors stars mostly different.

Plus, some of material appear from Novas and Supernovas (it is very like fingerprint of nuke - highly depend on technology available at place where it built and from raw materials from which it built), and it will also be different for thing traveled from other star.

Only problem, is that large part of this technology is classified, so scientists will have problems on every step, and some things will be opened to all only in few decades.
Ask HN: At what age would you let your kids to the real Internet?
Inside the home, they are under a Firewall, AdGuarded, and even DNS-cleansed. They haven’t seen the real internet. When is it a good time to loosen up when outside or even at home?
Controlling Traffic with a Humanoid Social Robot
There was a seasonal/Omicron spike, but excess deaths in US are tracking to all-time low since pandemics start.

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
I would have to do the work to get the results, which involves a commitment. So, I did not mean that nobody can properly apprehend it, just myself.

Somebody who did do the work was Monica Gagliano, and wrote it up in "Thus Spoke the Plant".

https://bookshop.org/books/thus-spoke-the-plant-a-remarkable...
1 million/sec is basically line speed on a 10Gbps link if each request is coming in at MTU of 1500 bytes. Sure, you might be able to push that much data through a VM on a test bench with well-behaved local clients, but you ain’t gonna be doing that rate once you add TLS, authz, logging, throttling, non-trivial serialization, non-trivial database access, A/B tests, metrics, fraud detection, recommendations, and everything else that makes an API like Netflix tick. Whether you do that all on one VM or split across service roles, you’re gonna be much more realistically in the range of 1000 rps per CPU core.
Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism
Final warning: what does the IPCC’s third report installment say?
For that you need a small/medium business where the owners realize that IT is fundamental to their business even if it does not appear to be so... and the amount of people open-minded enough to admit that is not exactly large.

Rule of thumb for Germans, if they write a fax phone number on the imprint or the website looks 90s style... don't waste your time, skip them.
Online Emotions During the Storming of the U.S. Capitol
"not allow for architects to pull off what the modernists or the post modernists did anymore"

Thank all gods for that!
If you're old or obese, yes. If you're young and healthy, no.

As for Big Pharma, it's strange so many people are defending an industry well known for committing crimes against humanity. In recent history. The opioid crisis is still playing out, for one.
Look for companies that got acquired by some big company a 3-5 years ago.

I work at Home Chef. We got acquired by Kroger in 2018. It's pretty chill. They don't pay what FANG+ does but its a nice tech stack, lower stress environment, and the workforce is really diverse. The Kroger corporate overlords pretty much leave us alone which is great.

Generally mid market companies like this are a little bit more relaxed. Large enough to have some structure and orgs in place while still small enough to do some interesting work without too much bullshit to wade through.
And "Slough Comp" is a tongue in cheek name for Eton College
Extraction of uranium from seawater: a few facts
Growing up, I was formerly a member of a high demand religion, in an area where it had minor representation. I took a lot of flak for that as a kid -- targeted and environmental. Fights, physical abuse, verbal harassment, hostile work environment and more were common. I can empathize with your plight, having experienced it similarly.

That said, I have the "right" color of skin and didn't have nearly as much issue once I removed myself from the area I grew up in (and, later, contravened that religion by exiting and keeping my worldviews private).

I completely acknowledge racial privilege can exist, and that I am a beneficiary of the setup as such, much like the dominant religions in my childhood hometown had religious privilege and the "good ole boys" network is built to serve their adherents locally.

It SUCKS to be the target of negative interaction, it sucks 100x worse for it to be environmental.

My take on the entire state of race relations is that the median person wants interruption of the "good ole boys" entrenchment. This does mean privilege gets reduced for some, which feels like persecution and evokes fear like we see from folks rallying against "CRT in schools" (though it's typically just general history being railed against).

Then we see disconnected takes like PG's "Heresy" recently, which takes the extremist positions on both ends of the horsehose as representative of the median.

I learned pretty early on that most people are fairly banal in what they want -- food to eat, roof overhead, available recreation, build a nest egg and something resembling a family. These things are at risk these days due to class division and economic uncertainty; people in the well-to-do side of things are perfectly happy to see the stress taken off themselves and projected into racial and ethnic divisions because they can afford something like security provisions.

Apologies for rambling, your comments just elicited a lot of things I don't think about all that often.
Heyday – Your research helping hand
Marvin XR - Web Augmented Reality, No Apps Needed
I'm complaining about people who refuse to deal with the fact that these two groups cannot meet in the middle on a single thing. Everything is life and death, or some dramatic replay of a day time soap.

I'm not complaining about people making both sides arguments.
Neo4j Graph Data Science 2.0 and Neo4j AuraDS: Hosted Graph Data Science Service
Correct, that was what I was alluding to. There's lots of good reasons to move to such a system, and no good reasons to keep our current system.

>Seeing as how that is not politically possibly

Basically every other liberal democracy has taxpayer funded healthcare, and even many US states have successful programs. It's extraordinarily silly to call that impossible, or to call what we have now a "compromise" rather than a clear case of corporate welfare being put before the welfare of the citizens.
> rather painful, at least at first

I get that some people prefer that, but I've been on macOS daily for 10+ years and still can't find the top level OS paradigms (window switching, over reliance on mouse/extremely poor keyboard support, lack of proper "maximized" windows) anything but painful.

It might be that growing up with windows ingrained certain gestures on my mind that I can't let go, but I feel like I've decidedly given it a shot. And I still hate it.

Yes, there are workarounds, but they're workarounds that require third party applications. I expected more from the OS.
How do you explain Biden signing an EO the first day in office to shutdown the Keystone pipeline.
Hospitalization rate's somewhat higher, and last I checked vaccine drops that to like 10% the unvaccinated rate. That's not death, but being hospitalized isn't exactly fun, and can be damn expensive. Agreed that risk of death, even unvaccinated, is pretty low if you aren't fairly old and don't have significant other factors that put you at higher risk.
When you print more money in a year than in an entire century, its going to cause inflation. Trump printed 3+ trillion and gave most of it away to the banks and Wall St. That money found its way first into the bond and stock markets, then mid last year into consumer assets. We are never going back. Trump's tariffs and his tax breaks will be with us until your great, great-grandkids are 50... Electing a idiot who lost his entire inheritance, is not smart. Be smarter America.
Got tired of burning through free trial AOL CD's and decided to "borrow" the username and password from Windows 95 Dial up networking provider at local high school.

Went home and war dialed that local prefix (next city over) until I found the carrier number.

I was 14 and it was 25 years ago
Shadowstats is completely worthless. They literally just added a fixed 5% to the actual CPI numbers over the entire period without any justification. If you took their average inflation rate to any commodity over the period they claim, the price would be about 10X higher than it is. It's a tinfoil hat conspiracy site.
jaw tension? muscle tension at base of skull?

I have similar ones. 4 standard dose ibuprofens (a big dose, but still safe if you eat something with them) generally works, sometimes for BAD ones I do 5-6 ibuprofens and sometimes also 2 tylenols.

Sometimes taking 2 ibuprofen early on (as you say, you don't have a headache but know its coming) ward mine off so the heavier doses aren't needed.
The brain fog inherent in long covid has been documented for how long now? You don't need to assume a lab leak to conclude that China's desperate lockdowns are intended to curb long-covid and not just deaths.
Right, it's quite obvious that the memory is not being stored bit-for-bit in exactly the same way because if you ask the person what they saw after the experiment, they will be able to recall the difference of "lines" or "dots".

But the paper is explicitly looking at the representation in working memory; so two obvious possibilities are, one that the "orientation" and "dotness vs. lineness" attributes are being decoupled and stored separately in working memory (different "registers" if you will). Or the "dotness / lineness" is getting stored somewhere else (not working memory, some other memory system) because it's not "behaviorally relevant" (i.e. relevant to the task that the participant is attending to while creating the working memory). I'd guess at the first because my impression was that essentially everything that makes it into episodic memory starts in working memory, but I'm not a neuroscientist.

I think the OP is getting way ahead of itself with "The findings suggest that participants weren’t actually remembering the grating or a complex cloud of moving dots at all.". The paper is making a much more modest claim that "direction" is recorded in the same underlying way, specifically during a task where you're being asked to recall direction. It's completely possible that this intermediate/common representation would not be generated if you're just looking at the pattern and not performing a task related to direction.

I couldn't find the full paper on SciHub, just the abstract linked in the OP: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35395195/. I'd hope the full paper talks about all this in more detail.
After reading the definition of how the gas price factors into the CPI [0], I don't think fuel use is included because it's a price index, not a use index. As average mileage improves[1], and WFH continues, I wonder if usage will either plateau or decline[2][3], resulting in the price of gas having less of an impact.

[0] - https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/motor-fuel.htm

[1] - https://www.epa.gov/system/files/styles/large/private/images..., from https://www.epa.gov/automotive-trends/highlights-automotive-...

[2] - https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=W...

[3] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/188448/total-us-domestic...
Which is the greater danger: the fearless few or the fearful masses?
Who kills more, the ice-cold predator or the whipped-up herd of people?

Of course, for hell on earth, you need both.
Homeownership Changes You
> loads of people have very precise and good memories.

Or at least they think they do.
I appreciate it - I know a little Portuguese, but even other languages I would support being added.

Google translate is usually good enough, and there's a lot of content that is worth getting further perspectives from.
Instead of /list, I remember the bots advertising with ASCII decorations like this:

_,-^-,_,-^-,_,-^ Enter 33 for /\/\ /\/\ ^-,_,-^-,_,-^-,_,-^-,_

(You'd type "33" in the chat to get a Mass Mail in your inbox.)
How does Shadowstats calculate it differently:
http://www.shadowstats.com/article/no-438-public-comment-on-...

Counter-arguments:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowstats.com#:~:text=A%20....
It is on-premises not on-premise. Why is this so hard?
Just installed this in a dev cluster, and I'm ecstatic. Does a lot of what I've been looking for, including:

* log of all traffic

* service graph

* automatic swagger doc generation

THANK YOU!!
I should look into more features with it. Right now I mainly use it to link my Slack and GitHub presence. Very very useful since I get all sorts of notes from folks on both platforms. It's been critical to avoid having things fall through the cracks. I keep a special private slack channel that has slackbot message me whenever someone pings me on GH and lays out all the relevant info.
This is me. I think I've only puked while literally binge drinking and my stomach was full. But I always puke the next day. No headaches, just nausea until about 4p then I'm ravenously hungry.
Pitch Deck Data Hints at VC Slowdown
I lost my sense of smell in Dec 2020. Smell training has done nothing.
Why Top SaaS Companies Are Creating a New Role: Demo Engineers
The WSJ headline is "U.S. Inflation Accelerated to 8.5% in March". It doesn't say prices rose 8.5% in March alone.
>Perhaps, but I don't think people realise just how bad Finland was for the USSR. The land gained was nowhere near worth the effort.

Precisely. This is how the west will probably characterize this war in retrospect too.

>But that aside, are Russian state parading captured "nazis" on TV yet? surely you'd be doing that to show progress no?

Not until the city is secured. Similarly it took 2 days until after the pullout before we started hearing about the Bucha war crimes.
A friend runs a small consulting business and he recently took on a customer running NetWare and a bunch of server side software. I'd take .NET/JVM over that.
> 2. They're fibbing on specific prices.

Zillow rent index up 17%, CPI rent index up 5%
AFAIK, while EV certificates don't verify much, they do create a "chain of custody" leading back to a real "notary"-type person who registered the cert, and from there, to a real person who applied for the cert, who can be contacted using information held by the notary (esp. by law enforcement.) It's pretty hard to register an EV cert, use it to spoof someone else's domain, and then not get in trouble.

...at least, it's pretty hard if your CA is located in a Western country. Which is the big loophole here. The fact that we trust CAs headquartered in arbitrary potentially-unfriendly countries, to make claims about the entire space of domains, is pretty silly. Trusting e.g. the Russian CAs in the trust-store only when they make claims about .ru domains (a.k.a. the X.509 Name Constraint extension), would obviate a lot of the concerns people have about X.509's centrally-curated trust store model.
Run this on a linux host and it isn't that much different from running thttpd directly. There's just some extra chroot, cgroups, etc. setup done before launching the process but none of that gets in the way once it's running. Docker adds a bit of networking complexity and isolation, but even that is easily disabled with a host network CLI flag.

It's really only on windows/mac where docker has significant memory overhead, and that's just because it has to run a little VM with a linux kernel. You'd have the same issue if you tried to run thttpd there too and couldn't find a native mac/windows binary.
A general problem with all these debates is that rail and road have for so long been deeply interlinked with states strategy and subsidies that any real cost comparison is almost impossible.

We are using tunnels all over Switzerland that are built many decades ago. How to you take stuff like that into account?

Sure we could just say 'lets wipe all infrastructure of Europe and start fresh, what the most efficient combination of things?' but that is a pointless exercise.

People very lives have been shaped around existing infrastructure as well.

Everything is interlinked to a crazy degree that makes finding and comparing solution challenging.
Science isn’t settled. That’s the whole idea of it. It also doesn’t work by consensus.
> OpenPGP is a message standard that specifically covers the offline, end to end encryption case. So the contention that it bad at other cases isn't very interesting.

It's an overly complicated protocol, https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html which has no place in an instant messenger protocol..

There are actually some XMPP clients which offer it as an option, which you should never use when you've got OMEMO, or (OTRv4). The double ratchet protocols olm, etc are better for this usecase.

There is also MLS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messaging_Layer_Security which is looking to become an IETF standard.

> Forward secrecy can be implemented in the OpenPGP case in way compatible with regular usage, but no one bothers. Offline encryption can be made arbitrarily secure so that it is always better to spend the time and effort on preventing the compromise in the first place. Besides, no one wants to have to immediately delete all their emails after having read them. Forward secrecy is simply not relevant for offline applications.

I was specifically talking about instant messengers, not email usecases. It's also why things like Deltachat are basically taking the worst parts of email encryption and mashing it into an instant messenger client.