skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad we got to this point.

So, can Boom compete with subsonic airplanes. Where can they have an edge?

They have two actually:

1. they are a startup. Boeing and Airbus are old and ossified. Smaller manufacturers are probably not as ossified, but they already have a niche, so their risk appetite is different: they prefer to put their research money to work towards incrementally improving their current designs. Boom is in a life and death situation, they have a huge fire under their feet, and so they'll get more research done for the same amount of dollars

2. Clean slate. All current civilian airplanes are cylinders with flat wings. It's a proven formula. Manufacturers don't want to move too much from a proven formula. But Boom does not have this type of fetters. In particular, they can design a body that follow the Whitcomb area rule [1]. Which is what they are actually doing [2]:

Contoured fuselage: According to the principle of area-ruling, Overture’s fuselage has a larger diameter toward the front of the aircraft and a smaller diameter toward the rear. Boom has applied this design technique to minimize drag and maximize fuel efficiency at supersonic speeds.

In addition to that, Boom plans to use wings that are not flat (they call them gullwings). Presumably, they know what they are doing, they say they used 26 million-core hours of compute between the first and the second iteration of their Ouverture.

Will the manufacturing costs explode? I guess they should be higher than for traditional geometries. But that works to their advantage: it keeps the current manufacturers from trying these non-standard geometries, and keeps them in a local optimum from which they find it harder to move. But it won't be a dealbreaker for a premium aircraft. That's basically the Tesla Roadster gameplan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_rule

[2] https://boomsupersonic.com/news/post/boom-supersonic-reveals...
It is hard to say about now, for most of the interesting AIX features are tightly coupled to the IBM hardware (e.g. dynamic CPU re-/allocation across LPAR's and a gazillion of other things), and the hardware is rare to come by nowadays.

For its time, though, AIX was highly innovative and was perhaps the first UNIX that bundled a LVM and a journaling file system into the standard system distribution (and not as separately purchased commercial products). It also has a single set of .a libraries which are both used as dynamic AND static libraries (courtesy of the XCOFF object file format). It also has uniform and very tidy naming conventions for command line utilities, e.g. anything that can create something (e.g. a user account, a user group, a logical volume etc) is prefixed with mk-, mutating commands are prefixed with ch-, destructive operations have the rm- prefix.

Pervasive performance metrics and counters across the entire system are also cool.

Lots of other small niceties I have forgotten about.
Same experience here. The new Volvos are extremely buggy and unsafe to drive.

Even annoying shit like media controls randomly not responding (including not being able to turn off or change volune), autopilot suddenly wanting to commit suicide, autopilot randomly shutting down, random error messages of stuff not working, random messages for things that were unchanged (child lock engaged, even though it was already engaged)

I really like the design choices, and i like the software and audio quality, but once you actually start using the car, it goes downhill fast.

I’m glad I got rid of mine. After 3 horrible Volvos and horrible shit service, i’ll never get another one even though I still think they look great.

Now driving a Mazda CX-5. Absolutely fault-free, no software issues, runs perfectly.
That number seems high. Do you have a source or was it made up?
Forget expensive over-the-horizon missiles. Just put these guys in your boat tower.
Even more so than some of those technologies, although they sound very promising don't address the issue about the intensity of the energy expenditure required by the developped world mode of life, and we are wasting most of it. Decarbonize everything but keep going like yesterday won't cut it. So your algae shoes are great but it is not sustainable to buy a pair every month. You plastic eating bacteria are great but we can't keep using so much plastic anyways. It's not that I don't want it to be possible, it's just that the current reports about the state of the planetary climate system seem to indicate that we are on the edge of a cliff and that we have to make the best/choices decisions to avoid falling off of it. It's not going to happen, it is happening. Please people don't call me a doomer and stop the denial. Go listen to the people that are actually studying climate. They're are not happy about it. And rich smart tech people are not here to save you. They will buy themselves islands with private guards is what they're gonna do.
That's within a single country. There is a qualitative difference between cross-border business relationships and intra-country ones.
Cruise driverless vehicles involved in 3 separate traffic incidents in SF
Ask HN: What is your ML stack like? (2022)
- real-time/offline, streaming/batch
- feature engineering/preprocessing
- feature selection
- deployment
- testing
- hyperoptimization
I think multiplying (1000 unique identifiers) isn’t fair but I like the gallons.
Social media hype is cheap to purchase these days. That's why we see so many stupid fads and political outrage hypertrends.
We have a lot of footage, and thanks to OSINT we can tell Ukrainian propaganda is not very far from truth, while the Russian one announced total destruction of Ukrainian Air Force three times over.
> mcdonald's plant-based burger is tasteless. size is very small.

That sounds like a Woody Allen quote.
Also interested in sources
McDonald’s Netherlands did the most idiotic approach. They started offering vegetarian burgers that were made of like 80% dairy. So incredibly stupid I still can’t believe it.
Has anyone here found uses for it, perhaps for domain-specific string compression?
The one suggestion I keep hearing for native speakers is improvisational theatre.

I haven't personally tried it, but it makes sense to me based on what I know about training for expertise: it simulates a wide variety of situations that you have to tackle from start to end, but with space to review your efforts in between.

I don't see why it would not work for non-native speakers as well. You just have to set the expectations lower and work your way up from the point you are.
Ask HN: Awacs Unix Based UI?
https://gfx.nrk.no/kfqo0FzGFHQPJSWEzV8dAAK2l0LRX7UuAQFNqZGhMYZw

Saw this in an article about NATO planes with AWACS radar systems and I was wondering about the systems and UI used. Looks like an older Unix based system with MOTIF, perhaps CDE? Any ideas?
It is a survey by https://mclaughlinonline.com/
They are clearly hyper partisan, but being charitable that should be fine, we just need to see what exactly the survey methodology is, I can't find it. Wonder why.

Or its just obviously nonsense and we can ignore the crazy person?
Ideologically, I am inclined to agree. I have an epidermic reaction to advertising in general. However, these extensions exist in a context where they depend on the majority of users not using them. If every browser had them, the economy of the web would change completely. Very few users who take active steps against ads want to pull a Stallman and relinquish entire parts of the Internet altogether; they want to see the content they are seeing, content that is most of the time supported by ads, without ads. The word 'blocker' is thus appropriate because the explicit goal is an asymmetric relationship based on other people making ads profitable.

In reality, the more interesting question would be whether we shouldn't limit our media consumption to begin with, or form a culture that is less dependent on advertising. If browsing with ads becomes mandatory some day, I will probably make the choice to severely cut the amount of Internet I gorge on. It will take some willpower, but every time I switch off the blocker and see what websites really are like I want to gag, so I won't be that difficult.
> I mean why isn't ethical enough?

It is. GP is just saying that different people have different ethics.
Have you considered that the sanctions have an effect how far Russia has been able to advance in Ukraine?
Please provide a source or delete your claim.
And let's not forget the cows.

I'm in no way a vegetarian. And I'm too set in my childhood-established food biases to make huge changes. (I tried for a year or two. It didn't take.) But the Impossible and Beyond burgers are close enough for me. Could I tell them apart in a patty taste test? Probably. But once it's on a bun with cheese and barbecue sauce and whatnot, I don't notice a difference.

So at that point, I'm like, "Cows are nice animals." I have made the acquaintance of a few and I like them. For an equivalent experience, I can either kill the cow or not. So we've been gradually shifting toward the high-grade fake meats. I look forward to further improvements on this front.
Good to hear the reaffirmation from Mozilla that the blocking WebRequest API would be retained. A little over three years ago, Mozilla had promised that it wouldn’t just blindly follow Google on Manifest v3 to the letter. [1]

Considering that uBlock Origin works best and can do the most in Firefox with this continuing support, I’m glad Mozilla is still walking the talk on this one.

We need at least one browser that makes the web usable, and that might as well be Firefox with uBlock Origin.

Edit: Oops. Missed providing the link reference below earlier.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest...
Thanks for writing this up, Chris!

I took a break from Julia a year or two ago because of some of these issues, one of the big ones being I didn't want to write and maintain a set of non-allocating LAPACK wrappers for iterative solvers, but the memory churn was killing my performance. So, so glad FastLapackInterface and LinerarSolve are a thing now, and the MKL situation is much easier with this trampoline development, makes me want to start working on Julia solvers again.

It does feel difficult to write performant Julia if you don't put a lot of effort to stay "in the know" as a lot of this knowledge is very dispersed, but I guess it makes sense as the language is still changing quite rapidly.
I disagree. I used to be an AIX administrator for well over a decade, got certified in basically everything related to AIX being on the side hard core FreeBSD user (still have some servers). In my opinion AIX is indeed different, but rock solid and fun to work with.
There is a language exchange subreddit where you can find someone to have Zoom calls with: https://www.reddit.com/r/language_exchange/
I'm thankful for software based on open standards, like the Internet stack, email, Matrix for communications, ...
I feel similarly. Impossible is good enough on taste for many dishes now. To become a commonplace/default, its current price matches its brand name.
Then you're discussing pretty minor differences. Plenty of people (a billion a day?) enjoy fast food burgers. This seems like just bragging about having really good taste.
Isn’t it hard to become a Swedish citizen?
Do you think you'd prefer something that's half meat half cheap filler over impossible/beyond?
I hate our SEO'd world: trying to locate the sources again, there is a full on propaganda war taking place on this issue. It has become full time work to locate reputable sources at this time. Searches give pages and pages of marketing.
The reason people always go back to CICO is because it’s almost always the root cause, barring some extreme edge cases. Yet people won’t acknowledge it has anything to do with it.

People get distracted by other claims. “It’s seed oils!” No, it’s because seed oils are used in ultra-processed food that have a ton of calories. “Its the hormonal effect of carbohydrates!” No, it’s because carb-rich foods are extremely easy to overeat. “It’s because we evolved to only eat plants!” No, it’s because animal products are calorie dense by comparison. If you eat less calories than you metabolize you will lose weight, yet people get fixated on all kinds of heuristics of that point.

Eating kosher is a rough heuristic for avoiding food poisoning. It doesnt make germ theory useless, it distracts from a more rooted understanding.

I do agree that making the behavioral changes to lose weight is much more complicated. But we have to first agree on the cause. The reason why people constantly hammer on it is because so many people don’t accept that idea. To extend one of your examples, it would be like trying to convince someone how to get out of debt, but they refuse to believe their debt problem has anything to do with their spending habits and instead constantly point to things like the predatory nature of credit cards. Those can all be proximate causes, but at the end of the day they are in debt because they spend more than they earn and they’ll never fix the issue if they refuse to acknowledge that simple fact. The govt can pay off their loans and they’ll still be in debt if they don’t shore up their ledger.
The US is a net oil exporter, it currently has nothing to fear from an embargo let alone insufficient oil for military use.
My dealer just said classics like “we can’t reproduce the issue”, “it’s new software, some bugs still need fixing, we can’t do anything about it”, “weird, we looked at it but couldn’t find anything” and “we changed $something and this should fix $issue” (and it didn’t)

I’ve been at the dealer 6 times in 7 months to fix random shit on a brand new car and they managed to fix only two things: the ticking sun roof, and the charge port not opening. (Which is kinda annoying on an EV).

Some EV fans like to claim EVs are more reliable because they have less moving parts. These people obviously never owned a computer.
Yet another incident from last night: https://reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/xmivfn/five_avs_w...
I prefer eating the wrapper over the burger. Less chemicals.
Putting my sci-fi/apocalypse tin foil hat on:

Someone engineering an airborne bacteria that lives off plastics would probably collapse the world economy and kill half the population.
All of which require land. You are seeing the exact same effects in places that are highly desirable for remote work. People bring their NYC or SF incomes to places like Austin, Raleigh, Bozeman, etc. and all the same stuff albeit different intensities.

Land is finite and it’s an absolute necessity for all productivity.
I recommend visiting Sweden. The welfare system is falling apart, the population is increasingly hostile towards immigration, the average salary is rather low, while prices are high. It is not the best place for the poor, middle class, or the rich.

Meanwhile, it’s important to remind you that engineers are rarely involved with policymaking. They are not the problem. Heck, there isn’t even an union or guild for engineers.
Why Unsuspecting Data Leaks Are a Key to Rampant Blockchain Hacks
The only situation where i see an AI generating this type of comments to be useful would be deciphering an obfuscated C challenge program. Or maybe Perl.

But otherwise, I also want the Why not the What!
Tax meat, then, and get the prices into parity. I know it's literally violence to have to pay for your externalities, but that's a couple of the main things that governments are for: to do violence and tax externalities.
Ah, yeah, that does look like a gap. Tampermonkey's related issue, though it seems to be mostly focused on Chrome: https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/issues/644
I think we are past the point of considering degrowth a mere option. Degrowth will happen. The question is whether it happens with us, or against us.
the only issue is that you might be liable to pay social insurance (DRV), but only if they can show that you have only one long-term client, and I’m not sure if it applies to foreign clients, especially outside the EU (but it might)
Angular has to work in one place the web.

Ever heard of NaCL? Google Chrome Apps? The many abandoned IOT platform (ie Android Things) initiatives? Swift for TensorFlow? App Maker? Fabric? You realize that Google abandoned the original Angular project (AngularJS) and made a completely new incompatible version.

As far as not abandoning “infrastructure projects”, they literally abandoned a physical infrastructure project and left city streets in ruins.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...
It’s not just the taste and texture, the nutritional profile is worse than actual meat for my dietary needs.
I'm sure they know that. But I think they're following the well-trodden approach for tech products: find an initial market that will pay a premium, use that to get in the black, and keep investing in R&D to bring the cost down.

I'm definitely in their target market. I'm willing to pay a modest premium for what they're offering. And at cost parity, I'll buy their product a lot.
Some of those things do exist. The future doesn't arrive everywhere simultaneously.
Ok, so that's one issue, which will be hopefully solved sometime in the next decade or two. What about everything else making this solution unaffordable to both buy and run for a significant part of the population? And what people while the electrification is happening?
Beef is heavily subsidized in the US. Let's bring subsidies to zero and see which burger is cheaper
Yeah, I waaant to buy them, but like, be cheaper.
It’s not obvious that fake meat is healthier than real meat.
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You need around four years living in Sweden, and pass some basic language tests. It’s not very hard.
Weird, not my experience at all. I prefer the alternatives now and for anything requiring ground beef in a sauce it’s indistinguishable
It depends on your requirements.
I have been building www.confluo.app, a social task assistant, in my part-time for about 2 years now.
I wanted it:

1) to target both iOS and Android devices

2) to be real-time for social networking and collaborative tasks

3) available in both offline and online modes

4) to have no cost of developing and testing with small audience.

Turned out I could achieve all of the above using Flutter + Firebase (Auth & Firestore).
If you want to donate money in a way that’s most valuable for open source, pick a project with a roadmap and a donation page and give them the money to use how they see fit.

If you want to donate money in a way that’s most valuable for you personally, you’re not really describing a donation, you’re talking about soliciting contract work. There’s not really a way around managing bounties or job board posts or similar form that.
Who are you to make such a demand? Talk to politically aware vegetarians and they'll tell you it is common knowledge among that population.
Don't expect me to download your .exe if you're solving a problem that can be solved using a web app.
https://www.Kandoop.com, a productivity platform (better Evernote + Trello + WordPress-ish for custom feeds). It does a bunch of good stuff.

AWS, PostgreSQL + Redis + S3, BE is 100% Python-based Lambda functions, FE is browser-native WebComponents (no frameworks), mobile app is the same FE code wrapped with Cordova, on Google Play and Apple App Store.

Serverless functions are my #1 tip to reduce low-value maintenance time for solo devs / small teams.
US is not part of VAT system so nothing applies there.
Mis-information to a point most of the world has no idea why they are killing each other over there. Non-sense at all.

Reality check: russia has nukes. For all countries in the world which do not have a nuclear umbrella (aka, if they are attacked, a set of nuclear countries will nuke the attacker... and will die with the attacker and you too due to nuclear mutual anihilation).

When a dictatorship with nukes attacks a country without a nuclear umbrella, if too much resistance is encountered, nukes will probably be used (maybe "small" tactical nukes at first). Ukraine army is now millions being weaponized from all over the world and started to really resist. If that becomes too much for the army of putin's regime, we all know what will happen.
Though VAT is one of the easier things in practice once you have everything running. Granted I used an accountant to deal with all the taxes, which totally is worth the cost.
There probably is enough economic reason if the externalities were properly accounted. If it’s not in the price (and worse-subsidized) there’s no hope of the market reaching a suitable equilibrium.
Would love to hear how - validated constraints on input/types/flow is one of the design objectives of Ada. In what way is Rust relevant here?
Ah, Twitter marketing... do a Fermi approximation of an unknown number and present it as fact. "If you like this [bullshit], subscribe to my newsletter!".
If you are using gcc, clang or vc++, to certain extent that is part of the compiler.

Just like C, following the UNIX principle, had compiler, assembler, linker, makefile, and linter since 1979. But people kept forgetting about the last piece of the puzzle and now it is a pain to bolt into existing code.
Me personally? I don't think so... If I'm taking the hit in taste/texture quality I might as well go all the way. Like drinking water over Coke Zero
Right, but it's focused on helping the government decide what open source not to use, rather than on actually making open source more secure.
Border queues build as people flee Russia to escape Putin’s call-up
> ancient silphion resisted cultivation

Can't fall to mention that this is also shared with some big Apiaceae. Too big for pots and that typically don't tolerate having its deep roots being moved or disturbed in any way.

The photos shown plants being moved from pot to soil, so definitely can be cultured carefully, but is more difficult than other crops.
I wonder if there are legal implications though if there was a crash and it provides evidence that the maker actually knew it was unsafe.
For me Impossible and Beyond are a big step above Boca.
There is an organization called Toastmasters [1] which has the goal of helping people become better public speakers - it is often populated with professionals seeking to improve their communication skills and would certainly give you plenty of practice in speaking and formulating speech.

Similarly, you could probably enroll in a night-class for English at a local community college.

[1] https://www.toastmasters.org/
I suppose that would be a good hack to get the pilots to unlock the cockpit door.
The ones in the 90s were nowhere near as close to beef burgers as these new ones. Quorn has come on leaps and bounds since then, and is a vaguely good chicken substitute, but nothing like impossible or beyond.
The article doesn’t seem to give enough weight to GraphQL: it’s only mentioned in passing even though it solves the waterfall request problem mentioned much later in another context.
How much would be gained if every piece of content actually had to actively earn your patronage versus passively pulling your eyes. I feel like that's the dynamic most AdBlock users see.

I personally don't care if click bait tabloids and exploitative re-hosters we're to crumble overnight.
Wog
You have to come at it from a very particular angle to be funny.

Otherwise it's just "this neither satisfied my tongue nor my stomach". You don't want a subpar meal to also be small unless you have the spare time and money to get a replacement.
40s or 50s are still prime time for programmers, assuming he/she keeps learning and coding and designing.

but those are still of small group, it's like a normal distribution, I read somewhere age wise there are only about 1.5% that are above 50s.