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Hi - A trick to having great discussions is to be curious and give people the benefit of the doubt. It's also a guideline of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I also was puzzled by the focus on piston engines and stealth. Just ask why rather then assume something negative; almost always, I find people have a good reason - one that they will never bring up if I attack them. People react: Attack -> Defend; Ask -> Answer. IME, people have a lot of good stuff to say if I give them space, and can sound like idiots of I attack them.

'Why are you focusing on piston engine propeller drones and not, say, passenger airliners or military fighters or all the other flying machines? Do they say that small, non-stealth drones are their goal?'
Spirit AeroSystems may have it's own subcontractors, they may have their own, etc... and buck needs to stop somewhere.

The the airliner is called "Boeing 737 MAX" and not "Spirit AeroSystems - Boeing 737 MAX" which makes it pretty clear where overall accountability sits.
Back in the day there were so called "sidecars" for the Amiga. They had an x86, probably 80268, and were used to run PC software on the Amiga.
I now have a strong need to go and replay F.E.A.R and see how well it holds up! I remember back in the day comparing it favorably to Half Life 2, which still holds up well.
Is the problem you're having that you feel the need to expose a WSGI/ASGI interface instead of just a reverse proxy? Take a look at gunicorn, and for static files server you can use whitenoise.

With those two you can just stand up an python program in a container that serves html, and put it behind whatever reverse proxy you want.
Web radio stations from all over the world with a Google Earth like interface:

http://radio.garden/

(I don't know why it doesn't support https, maybe so they can embed streams from a gazillion random websites?)
Yep -- early adopters saw it as just another way to communicate between humans, and didn't aggressively push the envelop on how much anonymity+reach could be abused. Gradually, that envelop got expanded and now we have well-capitalized influence operations (including advertisement) solely focused on exploiting the internet as much as possible for financial+political gain.
Adding batteries is already quite common to allow for small amounts of price arbitrage. Its more common for utilities scale solar, with over half of new solar including storage, but wind isn't far behind, IIRC.

The advantage of putting it next to the generation is that you get to reuse the transmission line, and make better use of it. And since transmission and distribution are more expensive than generation, anything that cuts those costs is a big win. Also, it's a site that the wind farm owner already controls, which makes it far easier than obtaining interconnection somewhere else, as interconnection queues are one of the biggest roadblocks to deploying more renewable resources right now.

(Additionally, with solar, you get to reduce your inverters, which you can't do if the storage is placed at a second site)
True for staple crops, not fruits and vegetables. Many of those need to be hand picked still. Until theyre automated those farms would not be able to make any sales if they paid American level wages because everyone switch to cheaper imported produce. All the farms in the central valley and imperial valley could not exist without farm migrants.
I'm a little surprised at the downvotes, but then reading my comment back the brevity leans it toward pithy, so probably deserved.

To expand on the second sentence, centuries ago news was little more than propaganda to appease the peasant classes - "we've invaded the next village and won, we're great" - all delivered by a town crier or equivalent. I don't believe we ever really went beyond that too much. Here in the UK, there's no such thing as a non-partizan newspaper - every newspaper is pushing an agenda, people buy the newspaper that the rest of their tribe reads, they all get enraged about the same things and those are the things that someone, somewhere, wants them to get enraged about because it serves some need that the proles don't need to worry their silly little heads about.

All of this is not to say that some individual people within the news machines are not incredible, hard working, honest people doing extremely important work. There are many. But when that hard work conflicts with the wishes of the puppeteer, it's bumped to page 28 and quickly dropped.

The Horizon / Post Office scandal is a perfect, and timely, example of this. Some journalists were banging that drum for years, yet it never hit the front pages despite being the biggest miscarriage of justice the UK has ever seen. Only when a terrestrial TV channel turned it into a drama, coincidentally in an election year, is it suddenly on the front pages with our politicians blaming the other side and our newspapers happily printing the talking points fed to them. Now the few elites want us to know about it, specifically so that they can score some points and use it for electioneering.
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You can vouch for a thing, but only once a certain threshold of flags has been met. I've encountered the complaint that when this threshold is reached it's usually much too late to bring the submission back to the attention of the people, so the process is not exactly symmetric.
They do afaik. I wish flagged posts showed who flagged them at least. If there was manipulation or coordinated acts to flag submissions, it would be a lot easier to figure out.
> iCloud photo albums have no API. However, if you share an iCloud photo album to a public link [...]

How do folks feel about the security vs. convenience aspect of this?
I almost talked myself into doing this for our shared family albums, but I know I really shouldn't do it.

Some of our older family members run Windows and iCloud sharing is just horrible there.
Basically, the photos keep disappearing from their computer. It looks like we're not the only one with the issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/iCloud/comments/150nq4i/icloud_wind...
I mentioned it to Jason Scott on Bluesky.
i dont think so. Seattle quotes for a gas to heat pump conversion using existing ducting and refrigerant pipes was 18K.

labor costs are absurd
It would have been great if Boeing had focused on technical excellence instead of financial engineering for the last two decades.
It’s next to impossible to actually answer this precisely at any time 3 hours before departure for airlines that fly both Airbus and Boeing.

There will be specific planes scheduled for the flight in advanced, but it changes frequently up until departure due to regular airline logistics.
They're both worth getting. I haven't finished either game, so I can't talk about end-game value for either, but it certainly feels to me like Turing Complete is an educational game with puzzle components, while Shenzhen I/O is a straight puzzle game.

Both are a lot of fun, and very well-made.

Shenzhen I/O (like most Zachtronics games) has some nice worldbuilding touches like the printable datasheets for the made-up electrical components, and a barely-there programming language manual.
> the overreaction to this is bordering on insanity

Not an overreaction. Not bolting on a door on a brand new plane is past bordering into full-on insanity.
Right, but that's very specific, and frankly Discord makes terrible public forums.

HN excels as a general purpose forum for technical discussions relating to computer science.
I think is more a "Samsung" problem then anything else other than the slowdown in consumer appliances. Not really a chips problem by itself, which becomes a problem since they produce a lot of chips for their own appliances ( which had been developing a reputation for being over-complicated dogshit trash that breaks in 2 years or less ).

The real trouble ( and opportunities ) will arrive when all those new fabs come online in the next couple years.
I understood commercial capacity.
3.5MW per turbine is quite modest. GE have a 14MW model - possibly onshore vs offshore is the difference?

Also, $11bn for the whole 3.5GW project isn’t bad compared to $34bn for 2.2GW of new nuclear:

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

(3.5GW of wind nameplate capacity being ~1.2GW at the typical onshore capacity factor of 35%)

You could buy a lot of storage for the difference.
Right, but this website isn't for regulators to assign accountability. This website is for people to choose what plane they fly on.

Choosing to not to fly on a MAX 8 because a MAX 9 has a part that is failing, is jumping to conclusions. If someone wants to jump that far, maybe they should avoid the Airbus A220 because it has wings made by Spirit AeroSystems. There's a lot of finger pointing going on when nobody knows why the doors are falling off yet.
I dread the idea of social commerce and the like eclipsing individual apps because the support experience from these companies is already so poor. I can't even imagine what fresh hell could eclipse the walled garden (social media) inside of the walled garden (app stores).

I tried to sign up for Facebook to make a business page and was instantly banned for no reason. My appeal was denied after uploading a picture of myself. It just doesn't make sense from a consumer or SMB perspective to continue to promote this path but most can't afford not to participate.

Funnily enough though, on New Years Eve 2023 I was talking to a few people about a website that I'd made. The only criticism that I received was that there was no app... it is a one-time-use experience that takes less than 5 minutes, then you never have to use it again except to check order status.

But -- going back to "most can't afford not to participate" -- as I write this I figure that I might as well relent, make the app and start checking into the possibilities with social commerce as to not be left behind screaming about an open internet.
It was a hyperbole.

But among the people (about 20) who have told me they have used Duolingo to (try to) learn my native language, I have yet to find one who can say more than a few disconnected words. And among the people I have seen who are fluent in my native language or the other languages I speak, I have yet to find anyone who said they used Duolingo to learn that language. Am I extrapolating too much? I think the sample size was pretty good.
It's both. Schooling sucks so we don't have as many well educated people as we could and those who have good education make rational decisions and go into high paying careers, so not into manufacturing. And can you blame them? After all we are a capitalistic society, everyone just chooses what's best for them financially
We don't know for sure, but informed speculation indicates that this is likely the problem. See the replies to my link above.

However, you are correct. Until the final NTSB report comes out, we don't know.
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I'd get in trouble with that mug. I'd take it with me to meetings, my hand concealing the label, and then if I realize the meeting is useless, change hands and display the label towards the table.
I was going to put days/weeks, but decides weeks was an amount of days, it wasn't key to what I was saying, and I didn't want to debate how long it took.
I'm not a C or C++ programmer. Well, I know my way around, but I don't write real programs with it.

Here's my potentially dumb question: what's the benefit of header-only libraries versus regular C/C++ code?
As a parent your perception of value changes. I would much rather have a pile of garbage my daughter spent hours creating than something drop shipped from China at any price point or functionality. I can imagine the authors parents showing all their friends and family the frame their nerd child made for them and explaining that while it’s not as functional as the $30 frame from China their child made it from a used nook and was so excited about how it uses e-something that uses less battery or something.

The $30 frame would go in the corner until the plug unseated and then a few years later into a drawer.
Why TVs? All the good panels are by LG.
I haven't looked at 4chan in ages, but my conclusion was trolling by smart people evolved in to ideas enthusiastically spread by dumb people. You can see evidence of this in the anti-vax community where the line between devious trolling and just really idiotic behavior is.

A better analogy for Snapchat and UI design is fashion. Fashion is basically an invisible circle of inclusion. Clothing styles don't go out of fashion because they are old, they go out of fashion because people outside of the circle begin to wear them.

There are arguments here about about gatekeeping or whether changing UI conventions are good or bad. There is some parts of truth to all of this.

I would make an important distinction. UI/UX design can be quantitatively good or bad. It is measurable if UI sucks or not. That measurement can be, perhaps mistakenly, only taken by new users: how fast did they learn the UI? I would argue it's the advanced users which are more important: how much can an experienced user get done?

To make matters more difficult, most of the UI design we are experiencing is commercial. It is, in fact, not there to improve our output, it's there to make their owners more money. The move toward cloud software has really fucked up the UI/UX of stuff that worked for a long time, like Photoshop. New stuff is continually introduced breaking known workflows.

On the business side I was always very pro-active about building our tools and systems on open source software or at least in a way we could always easily migrate our data to something else. Now I'm in the process of doing it on the personal side. I have minimal interest in using new tools that aren't interoperable, that I can't control the UI/UX workflow. Even something like Signal, that should be open source, really falls flat on this one. Imagining using something (like Snapchat) where the UI is going to switch so they can increase their engagement and increase ad revenue is just horrible. Internet users don't deserve this and don't need it.

Edit: hn's UI is fantastic, and a major reason I'm still here many years later (I don't use reddit)
Could I ask who you used / what they charged? I got several estimates in 2021 and they were all pretty wildly high despite a very simple requested configuration. I'm curious to know if the market cooled (no pun intended) since then or if prices are just strictly increasing.
We can't what now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43V9RTpnxbk
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On the server-side, parsing the UA string is the best & fastest way to figure out which browser is on the other end or the connection. This can need to happen before you load any JS - this is commonly used to decide which JS bundles to load. When put under the microscope, browser have inconsistent behaviors and occasional regressions from version to version (e.g. performance with sparse arrays)
Fortunately, the issue was reported in the proper / only place to get support from Google: the front page of Hacker News.
No worries. I think we might be talking past each other, and that's ok :). I believe we're defining the market differently. It sounds like you're talking about vulnerable code in other apps, and I'm talking about vulnerability detection in general in security. Is that correct?

For code you own, control or have over-sight over, we can help. Otherwise, we can't.

When I mention vulnerability detection, I mean that generally as "findings". For example, our original product was detection data leakage issues in SaaS tools like Slack, Snowflake, JIRA, etc. For example, we could detect someone pasting credentials by mistake to their colleague in Slack because they wanted to share logs. This is a human caused problem facilitated by not properly sanitizing logs. I include these when I'm talking about the market.

The comment about the dev tool vs security tool is interesting. How would you categorize Snyk?
The interesting thing about friends is that whatever we believe about them, we will find ourselves with friends that reinforce that belief. You can choose almost any prophecy you want and it will self-fulfill.

Thus, what we believe about friends ultimately says little about other people and much about ourselves.
The copy-and-patch also assumes the compiler will generate patchable code. For example, on some architecture, have a zero operand might have a smaller or different opcode compared to a more general operand. Same issue for relative jumps or offset ranges. It seems the main difference is that the patch approach also patches jumps to absolute addresses instead of requiring instruction-counter relative code.
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This thinking, or questioning, is needed everywhere. There is so much security paranoia, that it affects any one, just trying to do something. From setting up a wifi router, to seeing up an email account. Passwords must be used. Walt for 2FA before proceeding. Change your password to include upper lower Roman numerals and at least 5 different fonts...
Why?
Instead of saying up a website in 15 minutes, there is an hour of preparing to set up a webpage.
If I live in the country side, have no neighbors for 50 miles, I must secure my router going to my starlink. Why?
Added complexity and regulations, seem to grow around us just as the beurocracies; schools, governments, companies - maybe our lives are just all dependent on the 3rd law of thermodynamics. Higher disorder?
I recommend this amazing presentation, questioning the basics, and attitude in teamwork, of the Artemis project:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=dHI-_EbDzcqJc-vF&v=OoJsPvmFix...
That's how some people operate. But I've met plenty of business owners who literally put their life savings on the line for their business ventures. In short, they do everything in your tl;dr, excepting that failure is absolutely not an option for them. I think many of us like to believe having the cushion is the thing that would set us free, but I know many people who took risks with no cushion, and many more who have the cushion and take no risks, to question that.
The "order" interface on this article is terrible. Too many clicks to select, and too little shown about unselected options. Why couldn't this be a few dropdowns or radio buttons?
That's not how effect sizes, in statistics, are estimated.

But, yes, I used a hyperbole, it is a classic tool of rhetoric. I could have said that they just learn how to ask for a coffee, or the directions for the Eiffel Tower. The meaning is the same.
> But, we're seeing fatal issues with one specific company over and over again. Knowing that there is some systemic failure within Boeing must change your priors, no?

"systemic failure within Boeing" isn't necessarily inconsistent with "air traffic safety continues to improve". For instance, better pilot training and safety regulations might make flying even safer despite Boeing creating more crashes.
I forgot to say 'in the united states'. Thanks for the correction. The car statistics would go up massively if they were worldwide and getting those is harder (and less accurate) than in the US alone. Additionally, the regulatory framework for aviation isn't the same everywhere so it is a bit apples to oranges to compare outside the US although it is clear that the issues leading to the two MAX crashes were design and training in nature and directly point back at Boeing as a root cause.
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If my brand new Honda's door fell off when I'm on the highway, I'm not blaming the door manufacturer I'm blaming Honda
His attitude is very Pythonic. That's another thing I didn't like. Other languages let you write whatever you want (maybe to a fault, but still) and support you. This guy's all like "Python has venv and everything else is superfluous so why did you write this". Sigh.
> over an issue specifically on plug doors that are no longer in the air

... on the same type of plane that had the controls wrong enough to cause two crashes?

People can see a pattern there...
But virtually no one really is avoiding it over that, they're avoiding because of the multitude of various faults and issue over the entire MAX line that makes it highly unlikely that there isn't something else coming.
Am I correct in understanding that this can inject code on MacOS without disabling SIP? That sounds like a big problem as far as Apple should be concerned. But, it sounds like heaven for us tinkerers.
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Docker wastes a lot of extra space/resources (disk space, memory, possibly CPU) and can have issues when it comes to needing networking (you start to need a container coordinator). But yes, I've used it in the past. Seems more geared towards server apps than anything else though (although being able to run macOS via Docker is kind of neat).
The suggestion was the base of each turbine.

That has no advantages compared to the point the turbines are connected to the electricity grid — N locations to service rather than 1, N copies of everything rather than 1 big one, etc.
> given the risk, it's safer to take the VC money

That's quite the claim. Can you explain why you think this is the case?
Could it be under a garage or a driveway tough or does it need to be accessible like a septic tank?
That's because it was written mostly by ChatGPT.
>...This is why residential solar get such stiff propaganda against it by utilities, going as far to say that residential solar "freeloads" on the grid

The problem with rooftop solar is that it is very expensive compared to utility grade solar:

>…Rooftop solar photovoltaic installations on residential buildings have the highest unsubsidized levelized costs of energy generation in the United States. If not for federal and state subsidies, rooftop solar PV would come with a price tag between 147 and 221 U.S. dollars per megawatt hour.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/493797/estimated-leveliz...

If we want to subsidize a renewable energy source, why should we subsidize rooftop solar when we could subsidize utility grade solar or wind? Money is fungible and not unlimited - a dollar that goes to subsidize residential rooftop solar is a dollar that would go much, much further if it was used to subsidize utility grade solar or wind. Rooftop solar subsidies are also unusual in that much of the subsidy is often paid by less well-off households to subsidize their wealthier neighbors - sort of a reverse Robinhood scheme.
You can also argue that the airline is responsible for operating only quality products
Feels truly irreversible, save moving to a new earth.