skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia strongly suggests that Boom already has bought some of these engines - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_J85 - to power the demonstrator.

My impression is that Boom was not looking to RR for engines for their demonstrator, but for their full-size production model. Those engines would have to be carefully designed & optimized for economic long-haul supersonic operation. (Vs. existing supersonic military jet engines are basically cost-no-object gas-guzzling hot rods.)
> It's possible that national security to be more important than free speech.

There is no national security without free speech. There might be oligarch security, but not security for the people.
Huh? That solves exactly none of the issues I have (which are all client UI/UX things).
xn-- for me
Not to mention the fact that they can be abused to redirect into malicious sites, but I think that is pretty obvious at this point.
I’d love that to be true, but I think we can use text on social media as a guide here. It’s already as easy to type a lie as typing the truth, and I’m pretty sure lots of made up comments/posts on reddit get taken as truth by tons of people, for example.
Hmm, I think for that case we can have some kind of mute option. I'm actually thought that some users gonna be annoyed with it.
> You are looking at extremely well play chess moves.

Bongcloud opening maybe
Its an issue with bundling. If a phone manufacturer wants to ship an Android phone with Google Play Store (and they all do), then they must also include a bunch of other Google stuff. The EU wants Google to license the Play Store but not force the inclusion of all their other apps.

So yes, a manufacturer could ship a phone with a de-Googled LineageOS. But they cannot today ship a phone with Play Store, but without Chrome, etc.
I was playing with gumbo several months ago and made a nicer C++ wrapper that allowed for some interesting ways of doing queries. It was fun playing with combining the predicates and optimizing the result type so that it did less work. https://github.com/beached/gumbo_pp
>>> Given China's demographics, conscription seems entirely unnecessary for any of imperial ambitions.

>> What do you mean? Sure it has a large population, but it's also a nation of only children.

> For the same reason that China did not need conscription when it fought the Korean war.

Your kind of ignoring the point. During the Korean War, China didn't have the one-child policy and families were big. The US never had such a policy.
I think Notion made great efforts on this, imo
Long-term neurologic outcomes of COVID-19
Ironically it was fauci and friends who wanted to discredit the GBD. That declaration was written and signed by actual scientists, doctors and “experts”… it wasn’t a book of facts. It contained no “misinformation”. It was an alternate viewpoint on our reaction to Covid—nothing more and nothing less. It just happened to be one that went against the narrative pushed by those in power.
Java is an island and Jakarta is a capital city on that island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java
I don't think that qualifies as "specious" because I'm not trying to deceive anyone. You missed the part where I stated TV isn't interactive. I tried to pose a question in good faith. Did I fail? I am interested in information. Using the term "specious" incorrectly, deliberately or accidentally, is a judgement of the basis of my argument, which is actually specious.
It has brutal winters compared to Austin.
It's blocked but it's still working with MTProxies. VPNs aren't working in Iran (a friend told me) and he's surprised Telegram is the only app that's working fine.
There are many, and they are easy to find.

Here's an AP News 'fact check' "debunking" a video which claimed Fauci said they weren't effective: https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9996141...

I honestly have no idea how one can claim in good faith not to remember that this was the narrative. It was everywhere.
I've been in plenty of those meetings. It's ten minutes of content stretched into one whole hour of assholes patting themselves on the back, cargo culting jargon, asking the same questions they asked the previous day, not listening when you answer their questions, asking for magic and being confused when it doesn't happen, assuming hard things are easy and complaining when obvious problems arise, especially if you warned them previously, claiming you aren't doing enough to "show value", and just wasting time.

The project I'm working on has been "behind schedule" for months, is super time sensitive, and I've just been ripped away from it to do a completely different, important, time sensitive project. My manager STILL complained when I didn't show up to TWO DAYS of "Agile training" that was just watching useless powerpoint presentations about how "the SCRUM MASTER" serves everyone and is a magical being that "provides value" and other pointless Rally As Agile cargo cult.

Heaven's sake, the agile manifesto is like 100 words!
Not to mention freezing pipes.
it's not really about it being sexy, it's about it being able to be typed in manually on a mobile keyboard by humans. the url editing experience on mobile browsers is terrible. like trying to write an essay through a keyhole.
As one of the comments mentions, the best solution to cold temperatures has always been wool. As a foreigner it's striking to me how little wool is worn here in the US.

It's one of the few renewable natural fibres and a fantastic insulator. Get some merino long johns and wool sweaters and you're good. It's not itchy.
It's not just for authors. You'll observe the same for new movies, TV shows, product launches etc. It's not a coincidence that leaks and behind the scenes articles and videos pop up when something new is launching.
That's just how the PR machinery works.
That's not true. I wrote this breathless article about box fans expressly to prove you wrong.

https://subcomplex.com/post/box-fans
Apple AirPods Pro (second-gen) review: same look, better everything else
Curious, I just started a project to integrate Backstage at a Fortune 500, with > 10000 repositories. It does seem like a good foundation so far. Their idea of what it’s supposed to accomplish internally is mostly the same as what this blogpost describes.
I agree that we need better enforcement mechanisms, but I'm not sold on a "time out".

What would that even mean? If you aren't allowed to participate in the Maps business for, let's say, 2 years, does that mean you cannot offer the app for download? Then everybody stays on the old version, and cannot install security updates.

Or that you cannot offer it as a new install? Then people changing their phones are screwed.

Or that you cannot offer new maps? Then people rely on the old ones, running into permanently closed roads.

Or that your servers must immediately stop serving map tiles? Customer's won't be very happy about that either.

That you cannot make any revenue from the service? Kinda hard to do when your service is maps, but the revenue source is ads.

And so on, ad infinitum.

Consumers tend to switch apps pretty quickly, but what about b2b software? Switching over to a database from another vendor can easily be a 3 to 5 years project, so it's likely that many customers would simply sit out such a jail time.
Air Force One seems to be the military use case.
That too, yup!
Another use case that comes to mind is US Air Force bomber drones having navigation and peer to peer capability through intermittent connectivity with central control

edit: turns out my guess was essentially correct! that general use case is indeed what the USAF is using Ditto for https://www.sbir.gov/node/1629457
As much as I can get behind "Discord is not great", the idea of putting IRC in competition with Slack and Discord is absolutely laughable.

IRC provides probably at most 2% of the features of those two, even stuff that I use daily like settings a status, having a profile picture, editing messages, pining messages, and other very basic stuff.

Anyone suggesting IRC as an entreprise solution is a greybeard of thr highest order.
So troop movements should be public?
One of the best purchases I ever made was a big pack of wool socks.
Wouldnt «Safer Police!» or «Demiliarize the police» be better ways to start a conversation thats effective towards the end goal that’s wanted?

There’s being right, and there’s being effective (to steal a quote from Obama). The current phrasing is worse at turning public opinion than some of the more us/them-rhetoric that comes from I.e. vegans in that regard. Sure eating lots of meat is bad, and animals should probably be treated better, but screaming “meat is murder” won’t actually make any carnivores drop a single steak of their menu, whereas measures that don’t immediately make the respondent feel attacked might.

Yes, “defund the police” will turn heads, but it also immediately leads to being written off as fringe madness. A better slogan should be possible, that actually contains the message of demilitarization.
Logitech builds Android-powered Steam Deck clone for portable cloud gaming
Wrist slaps are getting slightly stronger though!
The article does not actually claim this is a problem, it states the author thinks it will probably be a problem.

I doubt this actually will be a problem for 99% of all apps, the ‘but what about this essential software from 50 years ago’ problem does not exist on Apple platforms because they routinely deprecate and then drop obsolete software without mercy.

The only real problem I can imagine occurring is that this change uncovers dangerous security vulnerabilities that are a crash (so a denial of service) on those platforms but an exploit on others. But that’s a problem for those other platforms to deal with.
> and gives the US giants a free pass otherwise.

Probably because I work in tech in the US, but that has not been my view.

What was the fine that the EU put on VW for intentionally cheating on emissions standards? And how does that compare with the many fines Google has gotten?
Apparently, there's another meaning to word "simpler", of which I'm unaware :D
Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks so that URLs can be shortened to a single word, character or even image while keeping them visible to the user if need to by hovering over it.

People using these kind of links shorterner are people using bad tools and bad UIs. This is that usage that needs to be corrected, and not by inventing things even more stupid.
Same thing here. After scrolling about halfway through the page, fans went off and the whole site came to a crawl. Could also be the globe animation.
It's been on the BBC front page about a woman lead protest since a few days ago
Fortunately, those can almost all be ignored almost all the time.

Rust will seem fine until you are writing a library and find no way to express what would make the library nicer to use; or you find using some library awkward and error-prone. Almost every C++ feature is designed to enable delivering more powerful libraries, and they compound.

So, in C++ you as library writer are empowered to make the use of your library correct by construction: what compiles is safe and correct. Rust makes the compiler responsible for memory safety, but offers much less to make using your library pleasant and foolproof.
This comes with the service. There is no punishment.
Today words like HD, UHD, HDR, 1080p etc. are just marketing speech. There is no more a certain value associated with them.
I'm pretty sure one of the main reasons the EU exists is to fine US tech companies instead of trying to compete
... as long as that speech isn’t (including, but not limited to) fighting words, sedition, incitement, obscenity, pornography, false statements of fact, counterfeit currency, commercial speech, speech owned by others, threats, slander, libel, defamation, and more.

... and also as long as the speaker isn’t being paid, isn’t speaking for the government, isn’t employing people, isn’t in prison, isn’t a regulator of the bar, the airwaves, the military, or immigration, and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

Some of those exceptions may be relevant to this particular article.
A bit of a shameless plug, but I also created an open-source link shortener, using Python and Flask. Although not as polished and full-fledged as this one, it done its job pretty well, with basic click statistics and custom key URLs.

https://github.com/HoangTuan110/flyurl
That's not really the discussion. It is so much cheaper and easier to heat a house above freezing temps than to heat it to human-comfortable temps.
Show HN: I Made a Playwright Recorder
Playwright comes with a recorder, however I had a few killer features I wanted/needed:

1. I need a repl to execute the "next lines of code" live, either in vscode or the browser.
Without this I have to restart the entire test to get to the end and try the next line.

2. I need to be able to configure the selector to match application or lib specific UI pieces
One-size-fits-all selectors isn't working well for my company's SPA

3. I need this to generate test code as good as I would write
This means awareness of the page-object-model, and not just emitting raw selectors into my test

As far as I'm aware these 3 killer features aren't out there in the web automated test world. I tried to find them. When I couldn't I began writing my own. I got the go-ahead from my workplace to continue implementing it, dogfood it, and even have it open sourced and published on npm.

@dnvgl/playwright-live-recorder

feedback appreciated!
Will you change your stance on our response to Covid when the evidence of its harms (and lack of positive effects) become so large as to be unavoidable? Because it will.

History will not look fondly upon those who pushed these highly destructive mandates. It will be seen as one of the greatest public health fuckups of all time.
They make those for motorcycles
Thank you for sharing this! One thing I noticed is that, to benefit from the natural language processing tooling, you had to first transcribe the audio. Is there some mechanism for avoiding that pre-processing step with the help of speech recognition models (e.g., OpenAI's new Whisper model)?
The grandfather of all link shorteners: https://shorturl.com/

I had a .vze.com subdomain registered there in approx. 2006 and it still is live. Unfortunately, the target domain and website is long gone.
I personally tell anyone who agree me of arguing in bad faith that they shouldn't have started talking with me in the first place if they thought I was a bad faith actor, and then I stop talking to them.

Nothing productive can be said once the accusation is made.
Yeah I was thinking about that right before launching last night, gonna go ahead and add some simple abuse prevention measures now!

My first idea is blacklisting certain problematic hostnames and not let folks add them. Can you think of any other abuse vectors?
> The fear and groupthink was so strong at the time that even pointing out the existence of dissenting voices was enough to get you labeled as a selfish grandma killer conspiracy theorist.

Yeah, and same if you discussed it on HN.
Enough income so that you don't have to do a traditional job at a company as an employee.
And a couple months later the US federal government published an official report stating that a lab leak was a possible source of the virus.

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/...
> WTF is it with this weird "things were better in the old days" nostalgia? They really, really weren't!

A lot of things really, really were. Some weren't.

Generally speaking, I do think that modern software tends to be worse in terms of usability, robustness, and resource usage. But it tends to be prettier and have more "features", so that's something.
Why assume everyone here has an employer?
Right, but your domain name is part of your marketing effort. And you don’t need to resort to a short URL service to get a branded URL. If you listen to any sponsored podcasts they have the job of reading out a sponsorship URL, and inevitably it’s something like {sponsoringCompany}.com/{podcastName}, which is totally understandable to people.
For those following along at home:

So far five states have passed local Data Privacy laws (CA, VA, UT, CT, MA). They are all different. This situation makes it much more likely that federal data privacy legislation will happen: while companies wish they could have 0 laws, they would still much rather prefer 1 law rather than 5 (trending towards 50) different laws that contradict each other.

There's a whole buncha specifics about what data is covered and what companies are covered and bleh blah bluh. That's not the most important thing. There are two things which are more important than that. These two issues also happen to be the topics most hotly debated between Dems & Repubs.

1. Private Right of Action, aka "Can I, a private citizen, sue someone?"

Everyone violates GDPR a dozen ways to Sunday, and nothing happens. Why? Because no one can actually enforce the law except for the local regulators who are underfunded. By contrast, the ADA lets anyone sue over violations, and as a result companies care a lot about handicap accessibility.

To my understanding the current negotiations are trending towards a limited Private Right of Action. Meaning it will exist for some violations but not others. This is how CCPA works in California right now: private citizens can sue over data breaches, but any other violation can only be enforced by the Office of the Attorney General.

2. Pre-emption, aka "Does this repeal CCPA."

Can states give additional protections to their residents, or is the Federal government removing the ability of states to define additional requirements for businesses. Again, the current state of negotiations seems to trend towards partial, but not total, pre-emption.
To tackle one bit of GP's question that might not be clear, you would not need to leave the terminal open. From the terminal, you can run the app and detach its process from the terminal, thus running it in the background.

https://superuser.com/questions/178587/how-do-i-detach-a-pro...
Agreed I think on bitly at least you can use some character after the URL - I think its bit.ly/somethingsomething+ (the plus) - and you get a bitly page that shows you where the URL is supposed to land.

I think tinyurl had a similar mechanism.
Looks like a great product, and you nailed that landing page! I have a few criticisms, so forgive me if I sound overly pejorative.

1.How is this different than a chat window popup? I see these everywhere. What sets your product apart?

2.For me, popups like this are annoying if they are too intrusive, and they almost always are. How are you going to prevent this from turning away users like me from your clients software?

3.Are there going to be notifications sitting somewhere in the screen? This also is a turn off.

4.Most of the time as a user, I prefer email. Nobody is going to bug me, but support is there when I need them. Perhaps you could structure it more like that. Make it voluntary, rather than intrusive.
A summary of the original findings by the European Commission (1):

"By decision of 18 July 2018, the Commission fined Google for having abused its dominant position by imposing anticompetitive contractual restrictions on manufacturers of mobile devices and on mobile network operators, in some cases since 1 January 2011. Three types of restriction were identified:

1. those contained in ‘distribution agreements’, requiring manufacturers of mobile devices to pre-install the general search (Google Search) and (Chrome) browser apps in order to be able to obtain a licence from Google to use its app store (Play Store);

2. those contained in ‘anti-fragmentation agreements’, under which the operating licences necessary for the pre-installation of the Google Search and Play Store apps could be obtained by mobile device manufacturers only if they undertook not to sell devices running versions of the Android operating system not approved by Google;

3. those contained in ‘revenue share agreements’, under which the grant of a share of Google’s advertising revenue to the manufacturers of mobile devices and the mobile network operators concerned was subject to their undertaking not to pre-install a competing general search service on a predefined portfolio of devices."

1: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_3862705/en/
IT services giant Wipro fires 300 for moonlighting
Slows down my pretty basic laptop as well.
Right, engagement at all cost it is, but there is a fundamental difference. Television required professionals where even wrestling and reality TV is scripted: it requires some sort of willful ignorance from the viewer to engage with it.

Social media pushes the illusion that you are not engaging with professionals but peers, and the dominant signals (how many views, likes, comments, etc.) of this day and age were not present with TV. This seriously messes with the innate reasoning of most humans, because for all our individualism we are norm conforming herd animals.

Show a kid a celebrity pushing something and they can tell it's fake. If the same thing is pushed by all of their friends, now we're in the territory of peer pressure which is a different ball game!
I found dang's response[1] to the question "Is fact checking that difficult?" to be insightful:

> It's extremely difficult because the human psyche seems incapable of distinguishing "fact" from "that which supports my view", at least when the emotions are activated, and the only topics where people seek "fact checking" in the first place are the ones where emotions are activated. There may be exceptions—i.e. people whose minds don't work this way—but if they exist, they're so rare as to be no basis for social policy. (And I doubt that there are really exceptions.)

> That's why there doesn't seem to be any fact checker whose calls aren't predictable from one of the major ideological partitions.

> Another way of putting this is that the question, "what are the facts?" is complex enough to already recreate the entire political and ideological contest. It's understandable that people would like to reduce that contest to a simpler subset of factual questions—but you can't. Just the opposite: that apparently simpler subset reduces to it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29597867
Yeah, many people don't realize that the importance of climate control is more so for moisture than temperature. Although winter is "dry" it's wild how much ambient moisture humans emit - anyone who's grown any kind of mushroom can also attest to how acutely fungus react to even minute (5-10f) fluctuations in temperature. If you have a compost pile, wait for the first time in fall where soil temps dip below 70F or if you have a light freeze - you'll likely see the entirety of your compost pile fruiting with mushrooms :)
Wordle now has a billboard video ad
Frederick Douglas was not claiming that he had entitlement to use someone's printing press without permission.
Android should damn well ship with multiple app stores and multiple browsers, not just the GoogleApprovedTM app store where they ban anyone that looks at them wrong or thinks about blocking ads for more than 2 miliseconds.

The exclusive app stores are both iOS and Android's greatest strengths and failings at the same time. Apple is arguably the far worse offender there too. If there was an alternative app store on iOS everyone would jump ship immediately.

Imagine having crossplatform Steam/GoG Mobile stores for mobile games, etc.
What Is a Chief Metaverse Officer and Do You Need One?
Google Assistant will set an alarm for ${currentTime} + 6 hours in your standard alarm app (can by Google's clock, can be your app of choice). Depending on your app of choice, this can have the effect of polluting your list of alarm presets with one-off alarms that you'd need to delete later.