skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as my experience goes, 10+ years in aerospace, none at Boeing. Personally, I couldn't care less about Boeings reputation. I have enough experience so to realize that Boeing is a pretty strong aerospace company, both civilian and military. I also know that development cycles in aerospace are measured in decades, so an artificial limit to ten years is pointless and naive, it also shows a certain lack of insight by those putting that limit in place. I also know that a 737 MAX, a 747-8, a F/A-18 F and a F-15 X are by all means and purposes new planes conpared to their first gen ancestors. Failing to see that also shoes a lack of understanding.

I do have an issue with people dumping on Boeing, using BS reasons, without any ubderstanding of what theybare talking about. Starliner? Sure, a true delayed program. MAX, as serious a fuck as they get in aerospace. Use those examples, but writting of Boeing as company as whole is more than one bridge to far.

And for now, it is you and the commenter you linked whom resorted to personal attacks. Just saying. Usually, HN is better than that.
> The need to appease the public immediately seems to have done just as much pain to EU as Russia.

This is not entirely correct - the sanctions hurt EU incomparably more than it hurt Russia. Russia still sells it's natural gas and oil without any issues. Business got it's skyrocketing profits, populace in EU got their excuse why they should pay more and suffer in winter, corrupted EU politicians got a scapegoat for their corrupted and irresponsible monetary policies.

Nothing to see here, happened many times over course of history.
One area where this is still less flexible than regular bit masking is that quite often I want to access groups of bits as a value. For instance if the bits represent in/out pins on a chip emulator, sometimes I want to access unique data bus pins, and sometimes I want to set or get the data bus value.

Maybe Zig can handle this case with unions though, I haven't tried this yet (this would require that unions can work on the 'bit level' in packed structs).
Not for the people who ended up with long term chronic illness, or you know, dead
Actually there are.
Indeed, why bother isn't it.
How bitfields are allocated within a byte is related, but independent from endianness.

endianness: how an array of bytes is interpreted as an integer/how an integer is layed out in memory as an array of bytes.

bitfield allocations: how subsequent bitfields are allocated within an integer, typically starting from least significant bit to most significant, or the other way around.
But it does, the idea of the fine (or any punishment) is to stop you (and others) from doing that again. The equality is in what you are and are not allowed to do and in how harsh the penalty is to you.
I used to live in a building that managed its own building-wide internet connection. I.e. instead of each unit paying $50-$100 and running a cable modem or dsl router, there was a single net connection, an ethernet port in each unit, and you paid via your building maintenance fees. It came to about $20-25 per unit, so half to a quarter of the individual price.

Even at the scale of a single building, sharing and making the internet a public utility worked well and saved everyone money. I strongly agree that’s where we should be headed with this essential national infrastructure.
Not to be confused with Ook![1]

[1][https://esolangs.org/wiki/Ook!]
Medium and Google is not a good combination
It's interesting to me how often you comment things like this about Canada.

What exactly is your relationship with Canada that you find it necessary to chime in like this everytime the country is mentioned?
If they'd called the bank the next day, the bank would certainly have reversed the transaction. If they'd made a fat finger error on the blockchain, there would be no one to call. It's entirely possible for a fat finger error to send $10M to a nonexistant blockchain address, so you can't even work it out with your counterparty; the money has been destroyed (assuming the network is secure in the first place).

If you think this is how money should work, or how a certain settlement layer should work with reversals implemented in a higher layer, fine. But this incident is certainly not a counterexample to this argument.
> When the business functionality and marketing needs compete with technical advances, there's a decent amount of negotiation that needs to be done and that negotiation varies wildly from company to company.

I think that this is the crux of the problem, but the solution lies elsewhere rather than just in negotiations.

After all, if you plead for some time to address technical debt and do platform improvements, you might just get told "no" to, given that in certain cultures people won't view these things as something that generates value directly and convincing them otherwise will be an uphill battle.

So why not just announce that X% of the following sprint or month will be spent on these things, to ensure successful continued operations? That's about the same as writing tests instead of having bad coverage due to an ever growing backlog and scope creep which eat up all your time.

After all, you don't ask business about using a version control system, do you? You just go ahead and do what's necessary to version your project. Tests, CI/CD, configuration automation etc. should be treated the same, since we're paid to be engineers and a part of that engineering is ensuring at least decent quality.

Note: this probably doesn't apply to larger efforts, like changing the entire architecture of your application etc.
The fueling is done without people onboard.
Yes it would need to be:

if ((mask & (WGPUColorWriteMask_Alpha|WGPUColorWriteMask_Blue)) == (WGPUColorWriteMask_Alpha|WGPUColorWriteMask_Blue)) { ... }

...which is quite a mouthful.
It comes with some other caveats: no AMD64 version of Windows has ever shipped NTVDM, so for newer OSes it will only work on the x86 32 variant. (Though, I do believe some variants of Windows on other architectures had NTVDM with an x86 emulator, and so this 26 byte binary is also cross architecture!)
Having something for free but for a brief period of time is actually really inconvenient if you think about it. You are basically forced to move or find some alternative. You want consistency.
If there was a 50 mile diameter asteroid heading towards earth, I could suggest that the people worried about it have no way to disprove that they're part of a doomsday cult, but doing that would be disingenuous because there's a difference between baseless stone age superstition on the one hand, and beliefs informed by empiricism and the scientific method on the other.
Worked out for the norse, internet infrastructure is owned by the municipalities, like waterpipes, all fiber to the last farm and tel-companies just rent it.

Markets just dont work on infrastructure necessary for the public. They usually devolve into monopolies/oligopolies or scaming the public through serial privatization. Wasnt it london, were the privatization of the public water supply failed three times?
I don’t know the numbers for Starship specifically, but this is a matter of how much fuel you have available to burn, and six months has long been considered reasonable.

For a free-return trajectory (end up back at Earth if you’re not willing or able to conduct a Mars entry burn), the minimum-energy trajectory takes 250 days (8.3 months) and requires 3.34 km/s delta-V. Getting it down to 180 days takes 5.08 km/s, so about 50% more delta-V (and fuel). Getting there faster is possible but starts to run into diminishing returns, especially because it makes aerobraking at Mars more and more difficult, requiring even more fuel for slowing down on arrival.

These numbers are from Robert Zubrin’s “The Case for Mars” (1996) which assumed a six-month transit time would be the norm for human missions.

Fantasies of moving to Mars to escape climate change are stupid—even under the best terraforming projections and the worst climate change projections, Earth will be several orders of magnitude more habitable for centuries at least. But the scientific return from a once-warm-and-wet world is more than enough reason to go. Someone like NASA’s Jessica Watkins, who did her dissertation on Martian geology at Caltech, certainly would not be counting down the sols.
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> This is ridiculous. Why would I care in the least about the prevailing religion in a country or region?

I never said it wasn't ridiculous.

Ask yourself what proportion of the American population the 45th president was pandering to with his 2017 Travel Ban [0].

It's incredibly depressing, especially whenever I visit friends/family back in the midwest. Like going back in time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_travel_ban
"It has been known for centuries that large increases in the stock of money result in broad price increases, and there is a mountain of historical evidence to support this notion."

There isn't at all that doesn't end up being comparing apples and pears, or curve fitting to a belief.

Because there is no mechanism for £100 in a drawer or kept in a bank account to cause inflation. Which are the only two ways that money will show up for you to complain about it.

Moreover money was not created by QE. All that happened was existing money was swapped for a different type of money. In physical terms the duration and interest rate was different which altered the yield curve. That's it.

But it didn't work. We've had a decade of interest rate jiggling and none of it has caused price rises to stay in bounds in either direction. There comes a point when we have to reject the hypothesis.

"Creating" base money didn't cause price rises for a decade (and still aren't in Japan), and changing interest rates or threatening to change interest rates didn't stop price rises breaking out.

It's time to reject the 'adjusting interest rates and money stock controls the economy' hypothesis, and shift to something far more direct.

Monetary policy is at best hopelessly ineffective and at worst doesn't work at all.
But calling it excessive fiscal deficits and public debts would be both more accurate and actually address a real problem.

The next step would be to then ask ourselves why the government has to constantly micromanage the economy, the answer has very little to do with the fact that inflation is a tax but rather because of structural problems in the economy.

Governments always run a deficit for a fear of a recession worse than 2008. Why is government debt the only way to prevent a financial crisis? Why does it never get better but exponentially worse?

If you just say money printing people turn their brains off and think it is as simple as political overspending.
If you read my post, this is the first point it lists.

It's not as if we lack the space to move the people living around the cost elsewhere. When you drop a refrigerator from the sky, the probability to hit someone is basically zero.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32634139
This isn’t true. Beyond sea level the IPCC report can’t accurately predict the impact of climate change on NZ. That's the difference between "weather" and "climate".
No it won't. & is "binary and" and result will be WGPUColorWriteMask_Alpha or WGPUColorWriteMask_Blue if only one of them is set. Which is non zero so evaluated to true. So it checks either or those flags

Correct usage would be if you want both flags.

(flag & (WGPUColorWriteMask_Alpha|WGPUColorWriteMask_Blue) == (WGPUColorWriteMask_Alpha|WGPUColorWriteMask_Blue)
It’s more like wanting the internet to be run like the water or sewage hookups. Something that by and large isn’t expensive and just works most places.
I believe it would need to be something like
if (mask & (WGPUColorWriteMask_Alpha|WGPUColorWriteMask_Blue) == (WGPUColorWriteMask_Alpha|WGPUColorWriteMask_Blue))
for both bits to be set here.
No, the expression will resolve to 'true' if any of the Alpha or Blue bits are set.
Of note as I was curious:

It appears that Pakistan is slightly larger than Texas.
If you're posting an article, you should post the link instead of the full text, FYI. If you want to do a Tell HN that works too, but then there would be no need to include the link at the bottom.
The tech industry is mostly a marketing/sales industry. Sell the thing to more people and it is worth more money.
You're misunderstanding the paradox of tolerance, at least as Karl Popper originally formulated it.

The only form of intolerance Popper recognized was bigotry around beliefs. The concepts (and words) homophobia, racism, transphobia, and islamophobia were not even invented when he wrote about the paradox of intolerance.

When he described the intolerant, he specifically meant people who would use violence to stop others from expressing different beliefs - nothing else. He did NOT mean "intolerance" of any particular skin tone, or sexual behavior, identity group, etc.

This is important because intolerance of sexual behavior doesn't structurally break the system of discussion and truth-finding that we use. You could jail every blue-eyed person, just was we jail people who commit certain crimes, but as long as everyone can speak then our system for collective truth-seeking still works. The ONLY meaning for the word "intolerance" that breaks that is intolerance of free speech, and that's the only kind of intolerance that Popper said needs to be suppressed with force. And he was right.

I see this misunderstanding constantly online - honestly it's hideous to see people twisting Popper's pro-free-speech message into an excuse to crush those they misunderstand or disagree with. Literally inverting his meaning.
I bet you will argue against land value taxes that would easily solve the problem.
> Which is a real shame, since MacOS has been imitating Unix since the beginning of time.

Hmm? Mac OS being unix based is new. Just from 2001, with OS X.

And I wouldn't say it's imitating, it's just a BSD unix under the hood.

> seeing how you can't run most containers without a second kernel running in a sidecar VM

That's because they don't want to put the effort in to do a Mac OS specific solution though. Not because they couldn't.
Yea, I know about Python's filter, but it seems not really used much (because it needs piping to be really useful). I used F# because I didn't want to bother looking up the syntax for Python.

Although, F# has list comprehensions as well.

[for word in words do if List.contains word WORDS then word]

That's verbose because I spelled out word, but I feel it reads well while the Python version is weird to me. Mathematical set definitions follow the form of {e <- set | <condition on e>} which is read as "e in set such that e satisfies condition" or "for e in set and e satisfies condition". The Python version kind of reads weird to me as it's more like {e | e <- set | <condition on e>}. (I note that Counter is some iterable object and not a list, I suppose.) I really like comprehensions, but I always find Python's to be a bit strange. I think it's because the "in" in the posted comprehension has two semantic meanings, if I understand correctly. It's a nitpick for sure, but slippery is the best way I can describe Python.

> then depending on how you use the output, you may want to wrap that in list() or something

Shudder. Haha.

Yea, the default argument trick threw me off, which is why I don't think it's a good example of the "best" code. The best code doesn't have tricks.

It's a neat domain program, but not the "best" code.
> Due to the misguided belief that Russia and its gas can be trusted as a transitional energy source

I find it ironic that the right-leaning people that are pro oil & gas are often also isolationist and nativist in their orientation. Oil and gas are the least sovereign sources of energy and make you dependent on both the local government and foreign nations.
I've been using pihole on my home server for a while. Exposed as a DNS over a Wireguard VPN. And all of my clients are connected to that VPN. I haven't seen a single ad on any of my devices in a couple of years, regardless of where I connect, and I don't even need a browser extension or an external VPN service that Google can easily block.
Here is a sample of how you do this in C++
https://godbolt.org/z/W3bMcqM5P
Could the British government not take control of their energy resources from BP, Shell? i.e. North Sea gas
Has that been tried successfully anywhere? Suspect that starting with such large pseudo-monopoly players as we would be in canada - that they would find a way to effectively sabotage that.
My city has made many poor decisions over the last 60 years. Basic infrastructure such as sidewalks are an after thought, I would not trust them to roll out internet infrastructure.

My provincial government can't keep a budget and it doesn't seem to matter what political party is in power. I picture national internet being as good as the Canadian medical system, excellent if you dont use it. If your life depends on it you might not have a great experience.
Not really equivalent. There are possible attacks based on: key generation process, stored data correlation, access patterns, etc. You're much safer if you don't store anything in the first place.
If you can ask for anything, why would it be Seinfeld?
Made $100k in 12 months on the side
Angad has been hustling on the side while having a full-time job so much so that in a year he has made $100k already. There are SO MANY others around the world who are doing the same, we ouught to know these people and how they do it
Ah, I see, thanks.

First thing that springs to mind: So maybe this Berger guy was trying to force or at least encourage a merger?
So many questions. Let's start with the first one:

Do we really need to move billions of people?

We humans couldn't live under current conditions without the tech we built. Why can't we build the tech to cope with new conditions? Put roofs made from solar panels over peoples heads and air conditin below the roofs?
Luxons maiden speech had him discussing his Christianity and he was evasive regarding abortion law change (while being anti abortion himself). His party has a Christian history and a christian conservative bent.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/former-air-nz-boss-christopher...
throwaway because "we have free speech in the west!" but God knows what I'll have to endure by goldfishes.

> This is maybe a dumb question. But I need to ask it.

Judging by the answers you're getting, the question looks anything but dumb.

> Energy prices go up in a really crazy way. Why?

Because Europe decided to commit suicide. Literally.

> Is it just the conflict in Ukraine? Why would that make the prices go so up; isn’t it mostly natural gas from there?

Look at the data. Prices were going up since 2020. Russian cheap gas was the only deterrent, but now we need to "free Ukraine" ... well that freedom will cost every EU government the ability to rule, because if there's one thing a population won't allow is turning poor rapidly. I'm very concerned about Italy tbh.

> Doesn’t Europe also have coal, nuclear and renewables;

No, not enough for the next 5-10 years. There are also political problems: global warming and fear of nuclear disaster.

> and import of oil from Middle Eastern countries?

The OPEC countries did not bring the oil prices down. That tells all you need to know about how they're seeing the world: unipolar or multi-polar? Not picking a side, is a new thing. No one would go against the NATO in 2005, but now countries are not willing to pick a side - this helps Russia in this conflict. Russia is not as isolated as the mainstream make them to be, unfortunately.
Not exactly. The spot market and the long term contracts & futures are complementary. The spot market does tend to follow the anomalously high marginal price closely but there are lots of years long contracts which do not.
See eg https://fsr.eui.eu/electricity-markets-in-the-eu/
I gave you plenty of recent examples where Boeing did a decent job, excluding MAX of course. I also tried to explain that your limit of ten years doesn't make any sense in aerospace where cycles are more like 30 years. But hey, you wanna hate Boeing go and hate Boeing, plenty of reasons for it if you search for them. Being uncapable as an aerospace company is none of them so, trying to fram eit like that is just showing a certain level of ignorance about the whole industry.
> How long before some profit-maximizing vice president suggests that the requested phrases should be advertising slogans, with these ad slots sold to the highest bidder?

Years ago I encountered a company that sought to do this with a CAPTCHA service; having people type out an advertising phrase to prove their humanity. I thought that was pretty gross, but making people actually say it is even worse. Making people habitually say "I love coca-cola" to access their online accounts seems likely to erode people's sense of self.
>censorship is not inherently bad

Then why do you get mad when China or the Middle East bans material they find objectionable? They simply have a different definition of what counts as objectionable, that's all, and it's well within their rights to enforce their different cultural values within their borders, just like you argue that a "democracy" has this right.

Also, when I go to Netflix and search for "LGBT", I see tons of material. So that must obviously mean censoring of LGBT is a pathetic lie, it's right there in one (very big, much bigger than Fox) media outlet so it's obviously not censored.
>Buyer beware - my wife hates Amazon and goes out of her way to not purchase from them. She has encountered several vendors on Walmart marketplace that simply place orders with Amazon at 100% markup - the packages arrive in Amazon boxes w/ a receipt showing the actual cost paid at Amazon. Total rip-off.

I sell on both Walmart and Amazon. As somethingwitty1 said, this works in multiple directions; people dropshipping ittems from Amazon directly to Walmart customers, from Walmart to Amazon customers, and from both to eBay customers.

It's also forbidden. Both Walmart and Amazon explicitly warn against shipping items to customers in competitors' boxes; Walmart even explicitly bans tracking numbers starting with "TBA". If your wife reports that this is happening to Walmart buyer support, the sellers won't be there for long; recent anecdotes say that both companies are really cracking down on dropshipping.

>When ordering electronics from Walmart Marketplace, particularly TVs, I’ve found that the marketplace sellers freely substitute makes and models.

Ugh. All I can say that I've also had less-than-positive experiences when buying from other sellers on both platforms. Amazon is notorious for allowing anyone to open a seller account. Walmart is in theory supposed to be much stricter in examining applicants' qualifications, with many waiting for weeks or months. While this is great from my perspective (both in terms of improving the overall quality of third-party sellers, and minimizing my competition), the incompetent and crooked are still getting through; Walmart recently allowing non US-domiciled sellers (i.e., Chinese) doesn't help.

>I’ve not had any issues with the items sold by Wal-mart actual, those you can buy with confidence.

Agreed. Amazon commingles its own inventory and that of third-party sellers that Amazon handles storage and shipping for (FBA); as a result, my own confidence in the genuineness of, say, household staples from Amazon has plummeted. I think Walmart does not do so with WFS, its FBA equivalent. In any case WFS much less used than FBA, because there is little advantage for sellers to do so over fulfilling items themselves.
C Bitfields are fairly common in embedded code. While layout can vary across compilers and archs hardware driver writers assume a known arch and compiler. You really can't compile embedded targets with say msvs or clang. Also gcc seams to be the defacto compiler for most embedded nowadays.