skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine you have no idea about aeronautics, controls, lift, thrust, where lift exists, how it works, etc., etc. You have no idea how to actually fly the thing.

Or land it.

So you build your best guess at what a working glider might be. You don't have robotics or radio to remotely control it, so someone's got to fly the thing.

You build a kite flinger and/or ramp or rail to toss it off the side of a building or cliff or whatever.

And then you hope, desperately, that you weren't too terribly mistaken about a great many things.

Franz Reichelt wasn't quite building airplanes, but he turned out to have misjudged his own competence in a somewhat similar manner:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/franz-reichelt

Now consider the same situation, except that you've at least got a motor to buy your way out of design and/or piloting errors, at least a little bit.

Under which of those scenarios do you think actual useful design might have progressed faster?

Keep in mind that people have had the notion of flying with wing-like contraptions dating to the ancient Greeks (see the legend of Icarus). There were numerous inventors who threw themselves off hills or cliffs with various attempts. Lack of power, and the frequent short professional career track of such inventors tended to stymie progress.

Successful gliders and sailplanes almost entirely postdated powered heavier-than-air flight. The first designs appeared after WWI, and practical use didn't appear until the 1930s. My understanding is that popularity of recreational gliding didn't emerge until the 1950s or 1960s, again benefiting from aeronautical engineering, materials, radios, much better knowledge of aircraft operation, controls, and instrumentation.

Glide ratio is one measure of aerodynamic efficiency and sophistication. Early 1930s gliders achieved about a 1:17 ratio. Most modern gliders exceed 1:30, and the best 1:50 or more. This expresses altitude loss per unit foreward travel (e.g., 1 meter loss for 30 meters forward flight).

Google's Ngram viewer is a somewhat fickle guide, but suggests an initial spike in mentions in the late 1930s / 1940s, again in the 1950s, then a third in the 1970s:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sailplane&year...

Adding in "glider" (multiplied 10x) still lags "aeroplane" by decades.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%28sailplane%2...

There may have been earlier terminology used, and "glider" has other meanings which might confound matches, but at least for "sailplane", the trend line lags "aeroplane" and "airplane" considerably. (I've multiplied "sailplane" results 100x in this plot):

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%28sailplane%2...
The article doesn’t acknowledge that “programmer” and “software developer” or whatever describe not only aptitude and technical skill, but also specific areas of focus and domain expertise. A competent web developer would probably struggle changing to a systems programming or enterprise application development environment. I have friends who work in machine learning and data science and other than Python syntax our skills have almost no useful intersection.

Experience may not matter a whole lot in terms of reciting algorithms or language syntax, but those are the necessary but not sufficient skills for a programmer in the jobs market.

This point is illustrated by the comment about endianness. Yes, that’s irrelevant trivia for web developers, but crucially important for compiler writers. I mostly work in web development. I wouldn’t expect a database expert or data scientist to answer “Explain what request, response, and stateless mean in the context of HTTP.” I would expect a web developer to know that. Sadly my experience actually interviewing web developers tells me that few can explain HTTP.
Interesting thx
I do find it quite interesting that TEDx is perceived as being worth less then TED, even though there are many good talks and bad talks on both.
Show HN: Scream.exe, a more modern spooky static webpage
Here it is https://science.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope.htm#pt2

I've never thought much of it.
The language whose compiler generated the code is relevant, as it often constrains what the generated code look like in broad terms.
So under this proposed "traditions" umbrella, what can fit? Can a group perform FGM? The Maori committed a genocide on the Moriori and justified it with tradition, would that be allowed? Or is the "tradition" reservation something superficial and of no substance, with this global democracy reserving the right to determine what tradition is and therefore touch them with laws?
There's a startup opportunity here.

We saw it with generic Viagra and Hims and Roman.

Calibrate is the early mover in GLP-1 medications coupled with nutritional coaching, but there's a ton of room for competitors.
A few years ago I finally bought a USB drive to read an old 3.5" floppy from the late '90s on which I had archived my e-mail messages before moving away to college. I completely forgot about write protection (as well as atime write-backs). I managed to read a surprising amount of data off of the disk, but I think less than if I had remembered to write-protect the disk before inserting it into the drive. The files were in mbox format, probably from Eudora, but possibly Pine. As is my habit, I first poked around with ls and less before copying the files over, and I'm pretty sure I ended up with more corruption than what I first saw with less.

Oh well. The irony is that to this day I have a tick of idly running `sync` at the command prompt, which I developed dealing with floppy and hard disk corruption running early versions of Linux. A crash or (IIRC) even a simple reboot sometimes resulted in disk corruption preventing Linux from booting. Reinstalling Slackware from floppy disks took quite awhile on its own, especially if installing the X11 disk sets, but half the time at least one of the disks would be corrupted, requiring me to download a fresh copy (using Windows--I was dual booting) over my 2400 baud modem, and then restarting the install from scratch. I probably went through this procedure at least a half dozen times, or at least enough to develop the tick. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... =)
Okay, engineering time costs money. Absolutely staggering amounts of engineering time were spent ensuring that the extremely intricate, highly prone-to-failure deployment process would be successful. With a larger payload diameter, the mirror deployment process could have been dramatically simplified, thus saving some percentage of the staggering amounts of engineering time expended, thus saving some percentage of the billions of dollars spent to get the telescope to the launchpad. I do not care what company produces the launcher with the bigger payload diameter, OP specifically asked about Starship, and the answer is YES, a launcher with a significantly larger payload diameter than what is currently available, like Starship if it is ever successful, would make an undertaking like the JWST easier to design, and thus cheaper to design. I dislike Musk as much as any disinterested party (I'm sure people he's scammed with his "FSD next year" or people he's sexually harassed, and definitely his children dislike him more), but a better launch vehicle WILL make bleeding-edge space missions cheaper, and better. That is wholly unrelated to one obnoxious egomaniac.
Just a changed URL from yesterday's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32099850
> But these days mobile terrestrial providers and Starlink are increasingly accomplishing this.

They're really not. Starlink's median speed with the small number of users they have is ~90 Mbps.

Mobile providers in rural areas are even slower, and prohibitively expensive ($110/month for 200GB of data was about the best I saw).

> So instead of saying "great, this problem is being solved, let's move on to other things", the FCC prefers to move the goalposts in order to retain that particular power and budget and mission.

Of course the goalposts move. As network speeds improve, applications grow to rely on that excess bandwidth. A T1 was a really good connection once upon a time, and hasn't been for a decade or two. The FCC should be updating these baseline speeds to reflect what the average citizen needs, instead of saying "yup, 1Mbps was good in 1990, so it's clearly sufficient in 2022".
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring a Staff ML Engineer
I thought this is a pretty common knowledge for anyone who has actually looked that the reasons why Keto works. Although in general, people also do tend to eat fewer calories on those types of diets also because they reach satiety more quickly with denser/higher fat foods.

But a lot of the doctors that are well known in the keto world (and yes, be very careful and try to verify anything you hear when it comes from someone who has "specialized" in something like keto) is that it has a ton to do with the insulin sensitivity.
BMW could use Michigan-made batteries to double the iX’s range
Yes, I found this related answer to a question on r/askhistorians about letters from prisoners of wars: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/55p22q/how_w...

"letters from and to POWs were usually sent through non-belligerent countries and humanitarian organizations such as Switzerland or the International Red Cross"
Make sure you check out his other videos including other compositions he's done.

Star Wars theme: https://youtu.be/3KS02q0BUnY

I Wat to Break Free: https://youtu.be/lbd06i9B2wU
The author is grumbling that this very special purpose device doesn't have quite the feature set he wants.

The era of writing on paper was backed by a large human staff of typists, rewriters, fact-checkers, editors, and Linotype operators. Everything was re-keyed several times before it reached print. It's not about nostalgia for typewriters. It's about nostalgia for servants.
More details here: https://leakuidatorplusteam.github.io/

You should never presume web browsing is anonymous unless you take extreme measures, including a separate computer that is never on your network and that you never have used any service on with an account traceable to you.
W O W.

This is what happens when you think you're the smartest guy in the room, and it's not your room.
Hertz faces lawsuit from 47 customers claiming false arrests
>How many lives were destroyed (or at least harmed) by hustling junk bonds?

I'm not familiar with the context of what Michael Milken did (although he's famous enough I know the name), but your (rhetorical?) question sounds very strange to me.

An omniscient and omnipotent being that knew the right amount of junk bonds to issue could probably answer how many lives were destroyed or harmed by creating the wrong amount.

But when a question like that is asked, you're asking human beings, not God, and it sounds rhetorical, which means that the answer is supposed to be obvious, I think.

If you were asking about milk with melamine in it, then I would understand what you meant. But junk bonds aren't inherently useless or defective.
Yeah this is something that can easily be solved by a vacancy tax. It provides city revenue on top of fixing the economic deadweight loss, a double-win from an economic POV.

Good to see SF at least is moving in that direction.
Consider the cost of designing the mirrors, designing a machine to grind the mirrors, testing the machine, and verifying the grind of the mirrors.

All that adds to the cost of the first mirror, and adds $0 to the second.
Is there a no-subscribers version?
Reddit-tier comment but nonetheless spot-on.

This insufferable guy is taking a victory lap on actively fragmenting the internet along ideological lines.
That's an interesting perspective. Right now, though it seems like your only argument is "China". Perhaps you expand on what you think the problems you'd see in the future would be for this, and present some alternatives (which chips are manufactured outside China these days)
I feel like I have carried over some bad habits from programming to my woodworking hobby. This is a hobby that hasn't taken off because I seem to enjoy finding new ways of organising my tools. The result is I have yet to make anything of significance. It feels like I am trying to find the perfect development stack.
Slapstick is a favorite.
It's been a couple years, but I was using the Arduino IDE for Linux.

I think Steam is currently a dev/beta feature.
But where will you put are the Warez?
Wow, stunning. The real test will be whether chromebook use gets banned in schools - an office you can switch over, but a whole school bound to chromebook hardware? This will be a very difficult/expensive switch. Alternatively one could dream that this brings Linux to schools - which would be the basis of a long-term break with the MS/Apple/Google dependency.
Oh the memories!

I haven’t coded since then and am about to start again, I wish learning now was as easy as control break to start again.

We squeezed everything out of basic then started learning assembly.

We fucking owned our school econet making a port scanner that polled station 100 (the teacher admin station) to eventually get his password for *I AM SYS.

Password was paramecium!!! It took days to poll.

Then we got a copy of the advanced user guide for BBC Master and became gods.

My best mate and hacking buddy went by Bruteus, I was Apollo!

Bruteus ? You on hacker news?!

We then used to change our station number to 100 whenever we logged in to do naughtiness. (?&d22=100) It drove the admin crazy reading logs or the printer spool we’d randomly trigger.

Our opsec was poor though and we boasted to the wrong person who snitched.

Suspended from school and banned from all networked machines.

Still think they should have brought us in to volunteer instead.

A physics teacher actually let us use his non networked computer because he saw we had talent and interest and he tried to harness it. He was awesome. He put us in charge of downloading the NOAA data to do weather maps via cassette tape!

Then when the admins car had left we had a sneaky super long eco net cable we made that we hung out of a window to the floor below to a network socket and resumed our pwnage.

Man we were little arseholes!
Is it so hard to imagine that some people get genuinely inspired by stories of other people's successes?

Yes, some success stories are propaganda. But many others are genuinely inspiring (and have something to teach us). For what it's worth, I think this extreme take is more propaganda than most success stories.
I've personally used Calibrate's platform.

There's zero transparency to the medication approval process.

If you ask a question, you will 1) receive an email 3-5 days later and 2) told that they generally don't provide status updates on medication.

No transparency to the medication approval process, even though obtaining access to a GLP-1 medications for their patients, is a pillar of their business.

Not even a simple "waiting to hear from insurance" on their dashboard.

Super long delays and a snarky support staff to get basic medical questions answered.

Here's their site.
https://www.joincalibrate.com/

There's room for competitors.
I pick interesting or semi-relevant problems from https://codegolf.stackexchange.com. And if you look at other answers you'll learn a lot about the syntax and (unique?) features of the language. Not that you'd ever submit such programs in a professional setting.
Specifically, I would say Boris's support for Ukraine is one of the only non-controversial things he has done as prime minister.
Ok got it. You conducted your own study that contradicts the authors by reading their minds and combining that with your unrelated conspiracy theories.
No, I use the free version. My todo listing needs are actually very basic, I just think ticktick has the best semantic scheduling out of any that I have tried and I hate fiddling with scheduling widgets.
My understanding is that not only did the heat shield have to unfurl, but construct a particular geometry such that it created a waveguide to channel the light out the sides and avoid too much entrapment or too slow of transport. Being the material it is, there’s also no way to model exactly how it will unfurl so it’s difficult to develop. Just the metrology effort on the ground to validate the shape was quite great.

The sun shield is held up as this big challenge but I don’t think they do a good job explaining why it was so difficult.

There’s a popular YouTube whose father was a metrologist working on the sun shield. https://youtu.be/Pu97IiO_yDI
This is a key reason why I strongly believe that UBI would be a massive boon to entrepreneurship. If everyone had that sort of safety net, we'd see a lot more startups and a lot more upward socioeconomic mobility.
The case against CS master’s degrees
I does not have to be "sustained" for more than a few minutes to be called a flight.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltaplane
If you had a world wide petition, you'd have 1 of 2 things: 1) everyone participating in one giant binding petition, in which case you're already imposing worldwide democracy on them without asking them (the act of making them vote on it in the first place is an undemocratic act), or 2) individual nations and groups being given the option to have a vote on the matter, in which case you'll certainly be left with nation states that say "no".

People don't want what you're proposing. Is it not then undemocratic to impose it on them in the first place?
GitHub Becomes Key Source of Data on China’s Mortgage Boycotts
This is a great blogpost from simpleanalytics https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/denmark-bans-google-workspa...
On the frontend I've used Fair Analytics, Goatcounter and Plausible but they're all using a js script that phones home to your server or wherever the service is hosted. For a access log based solution, Goaccess is the nicest.
Yes, exactly. I am trying to get to the store for a few min already (from France) and I lost hope.
That’s more the Zip drive era isn’t it?
NASA performs a variety of audits as part of its annual financial reporting, for example here's the 2012 report: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/707292main_FY12%20AFR%20111512%20FI...

Perhaps it was one of these audits?
When rhetoric and propaganda meet reality.
that's a very good question, the sooner we ask it the better !
Thanks for the insights, we love this kind of article in our team, we also wrote on the subject and we'd love your feedback:
https://zenkit.com/en/blog/using-gantt-charts-to-keep-your-p...
What Is a Simple System?
That's fine, but being a social platform, I assume everyone is a caricature of themselves. Other creators have discussed here the near moronic poster/thumb images getting more clicks vs less overly dramatic versions. So at this point, I assume that the closer to a program that would fit in Idiocracy television programming is the ultimate goal to get those precious likes.
FWIW I've very recently gotten https://github.com/ivmarkov/rust-esp32-std-demo (which is a pretty comprehensive demo) running on a TinyPICO (w/ESP32) and am looking forward to building out my own projects next.
The complete judgement is here if you want to read the full reasoning: https://www.datatilsynet.dk/afgoerelser/afgoerelser/2022/jul...
I’ve been watching this project with much interest, though I haven’t yet had the time to play around with it myself. A capability-style system layer for Linux is very exciting!

(The phone side of things is exciting too, though as much as I like Smalltalk I wonder if Squeak is entirely up to the task of hosting a phone UI.)

Still need to dive further into the syndicated actor model side of things though; I think I have use cases for it but don’t entirely grok it yet.
But the gliding (of larger birds) was observed for millennia. I think people had a pretty good idea about the possibility.
the idea that synthetic medication is the only obvious solution to internal mental issues and any other means of handling such things is bad and wrong, is a strange one to me—especially when talking about someone with incredible wealth and creative output.
It's possible many network operators don't know everyone who's on their networks unless someone specifically brings it to their attention. That seems to be the case here.
The ability for him to get another CEO position after getting canned from EA is mind blowing.
https://tarla.io/eng/index.html
Looks really cool. I like Vapor but this looks pretty straightforward and handles the hosting for you, which can definitely be a pain.

I'm going to try and write and deploy a simple app tonight
From the sigstore docs:
https://docs.sigstore.dev/ :

> sigstore empowers software developers to securely sign software artifacts such as release files, container images, binaries, bill of material manifests [SBOM] and more. Signing materials are then stored in a tamper-resistant public log.

/? sigstore sbom: https://www.google.com/search?q=sigstore+sbom

> It’s free to use for all developers and software providers, with sigstore’s code and operational tooling being 100% open source, and everything maintained and developed by the sigstore community.

> How sigstore works: Using Fulcio, sigstore requests a certificate from our root Certificate Authority (CA). This checks you are who you say you are using OpenID Connect, which looks at your email address to prove you’re the author. Fulcio grants a time-stamped certificate, a way to say you’re signed in and that it’s you.

https://github.com/sigstore/fulcio

> You don’t have to do anything with keys yourself, and sigstore never obtains your private key. The public key that Cosign creates gets bound to your certificate, and the signing details get stored in sigstore’s trust root, the deeper layer of keys and trustees and what we use to check authenticity.

https://github.com/sigstore/cosign

> our certificate then comes back to sigstore, where sigstore exchanges keys, asserts your identity and signs everything off. The signature contains the hash itself, public key, signature content and the time stamp. This all gets uploaded to a Rekor transparency log, so anyone can check that what you’ve put out there went through all the checks needed to be authentic.

https://github.com/sigstore/rekor
...also, if a technique appears in a paper, an expert on that technique should be a reviewer and/or a standard rubric should be applied (i think nature and science have gotten much more rigorous about this in recent years in the wake of the psychology replication crisis).
They already acknowledge the problem of trusting the crowd, but you seem to not acknowledge the problem of trusting a central dispensary. In fact it's unwise to trust either one. Everything has to be evaluated case by case. The same source should be trusted for one thing today, and not for some other thing tomorrow.
E-ink display though

>You could also do this easily on that $60 laptop or any chromebook

You couldn't because these devices don't have an e-ink screen. This would be the entire point of having a kindle as a writing device. Otherwise you would be correct
Midjourney – AI-Generated Art Based on Discord Prompts
Ask HN: Should developing a programming language be a full time job?
I've excitedly following the development of the Gleam programming language. The creator has recently switch to part time employment, to work on Gleam the rest of the time.

https://twitter.com/louispilfold/status/1547981946721951744

The language aims to be simple. Could there ever be a language is simple enough to get moderate adoption, without being anyone's full time job.
Being offline helps. I've recently taken to writing on a Power Mac G5 paired with a Cinema display. Nothing fancy, just a window of TextEdit. No notifications or Internet to distract. A silent operating system running on a loud tower. My writing happy place.
There should be a movie with this plot.
Both are axioms. a = a (and by extension mxn = mxn) is another axiom.
Government programs fail all the time, and they just get a budget increase. Hire the salesmen who accomplish that.