skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree, this would not work. The ideal thing about speech and hearing is that they're really easy to multitask with. There's so many moments in the cockpit where your literally wouldn't have your hands free.

A display for visual reinforcement of basic clearances would work I guess but more as a backup. Part of the audio of ATC is not just being aware of your own traffic but also the presence and intentions of others. Putting all that on a screen would cause a lot more to monitor visually and there's so much in the instrument scanning loop already.
I missed this because they've moved the launches to . I don't think to look on there - the rest of the content I consume is either on YouTube or Twitch. A "me" problem, I know.
I used this about 2 months ago going from MySql 5.7->8.0 Really awesome feature.
> What I'm saying is that the majority of people would be better off if they bought a smaller/cheaper/more fuel efficient car and using those savings to rent a truck for the occasional need.

What gave you the authority and moral credibility, over the perspective of people voting with their wallets, to make that assertion? I would think the people who are actually spending their money would be better at knowing what they need, than internet commentators who are not.

It would be like if I made the unfounded assertion that almost all programmers would be better off on Mac. And most that think a Mac is unsuitable are in denial.
Once upon a time, there was a more serious effort at running Linux in a Windows device driver. It was called coLinux:

http://www.colinux.org/

You could run the Cygwin X server on the Windows side, and run X clients on the Linux side. It worked, and it was fast.

I think it required a lot of work whenever a new Linux kernel came out to put the appropriate "yield" code in, so probably maintenance was abandoned?

The last update on the homepage is a decade old. I wonder if it still works? It's all been made obsolete though by WSL, I reckon.
Is it your position that there are no powerful entities that actually desire to see many social institutions diminished if not outright demolished?
> Humans can deflect asteroids, so we've (probably) dodged that extinction, but that doesn't mean we're immune to others.

At this point, there is no conceivable extinction level event humanity couldn't avoid or avert, in principle, given sufficient time/warning, except the heat death of the universe.

So I disagree that there's no point in talking about survivability in the abstract. You can roughly project the growth of a species' capabilities through time, and the trajectory the dinosaurs were on clearly entails they were heading towards extinction due to an inevitable run in with a supervolcano or an asteroid. Humanity's trajectory is conceivably very different due to science and our ability to construct sophisticated tools.

> The dinosaurs as a whole survived hundreds of millions of years, through many extinctions

I'll also note that this is a slightly unfair comparison because "dinosaurs" is a category consisting of many species, where the comparison here is against the one homo sapiens
species. Many dinosaur species went extinct through those events you mention, some survived.
I'm thinking more of a 10-floor building because I stayed in one with family in Buenos Aires that was like that several times.
Good question!

Chrome has 77% market share across desktop operating systems & Safari has 8%: https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/

OSX has 16% market share which would indicate thar its somewhere ~around 50% of OSX users using Safari: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

The inference being made here of course that all the remaining people not using Safari are using Chrome which is or course not true; but it shows somewhat the fragility of the incumbent software: as Safari is actually quite good for users, chrome has very few feature advantages compared.
Factory workers and coal miners in the 1800s probably didn't love their jobs, either. They still needed them, though, and thus... organized labor.
Claiming labor shortages in particular industries increases supply, which lowers wages.
The term is "resilience".
I built a gamepad port snes adapter a decade ago, 10/10 would do this :ok_hand:
Tbh this seems good for all of those countries (and good for Axiom!)

Feels pretty win/win. I have some trepidation about letting capitalism decide our priorities in space, but so far it is helping us make really exciting progress
That seems worrying, but the balance will make all the difference, right?
It is used in industrial uses widely, for composites with greater durability, strength etc
Eh, I dont find these in-hindsight "reports" that compelling. The implication that if someone beats their wife we should be abke to stop them from committing a mass shooting seems incorrect.
I don't have much knowledge about robot conversion, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. When you've got a country that has been industrialized for a really long time, old equipment is going to be available and may be a viable option for what you want to do. Since this stuff costs a lot of money new, it can be worth fixing/modifying old stuff.

If a new television cost $10000 and was delivered a few months after you ordered it, you would be shocked if television repair shops weren't in every city, and people paid $2500 for used televisions that they could get next week.
Show HN: Flat – a minimalist teamwork app that protects focus (live demo)
Hi HN! We're Seth, Andrew, & Marcin.

After a decade of wanting a simple, lightweight teamwork tool and not finding one, we decided to build one ourselves. You can try out what we're building in a sandbox demo here: https://try.flat.app.

We’re calling it Flat, and we have two main goals:

1. Everyone can figure it out in just a few minutes, from the intern to the zero-patience CEO.

2. It doesn’t create extra work for anybody. Everything written in Flat would have been written somewhere anyway; Flat just provides an obvious, consistent place to put it.

If you check out the demo, please let us know how you think we’re doing on these goals and where we could do better. (Mobile users, there’s a video for you since Flat is desktop-only at the moment.)

Also: we think it's crazy that work communication has become so dominated by synchronous chat e.g. Slack and Teams over the past decade. It's too easy for balls to get dropped, it’s hard to get real work done, and it's hard to find things. Chat is great for some things, but we don’t think it should be the center of our work lives or the system of record. So Flat includes async discussion threads that are as quick and easy as chat but without the downsides.

You can read more about why we're building Flat at https://flat.app/why.

HN FAQ

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How baked is this? We’re still in beta, but it’s pretty darn baked.

What’s your business model? No-nonsense SaaS. We’re currently in beta and free for all teams, but you can find our future pricing on our homepage.

Does this have a proper integration with GitHub? Yes it does, because we're using Flat to build Flat!

Is this an “alternative to Jira”? Ha, no. Though… some teams have in fact migrated to Flat from Jira. So, maybe?

Is this an “opinionated” tool? Yes and no. Flat eschews complex features in favor of a small set of simple primitives (workspaces, topics, tasks, and threads). But Flat has no opinion about how you should work.

Is there a dark mode? You bet. It's in the demo, try it!

What's your stack? React, TS, PostgreSQL & Replicache (all data’s local, and Flat works offline)

Do you have a mobile app? Not yet, but we will. We've been focused on making the desktop experience great first.

Hang on, is this an Electron app? You got us! Feel free to use Flat in-browser if that offends you.
Probably state dependent, do not think they can do that where I live.
If the only X moonshot that lands is Waymo, I think that still counts as having a transformative impact.

But also, Transformers were invented at Google, even if they were given away and not commercialized.

I think there was plenty of room for the “old Google” to change the world, if they had not sold out / commercialized. Imagine what 20% time projects could have been created around 2017 with a modest TPU budget per employee?
Sidecar is isolated though isn't it?

Like I know I can use my mouse on my computer to control the Mac screen on my iPad, but I didn't think I could move my mouse over to control iPad apps?

I honestly have not used that feature much so if it can do that... that makes me rethink the usefulness of this.
I had been wanting to read a document on OAuth as I have several things in pipeline where OAuth would be involved and the link you posted is just timely and perfect - so thank you!
Think of it like 310 is your general mileage and the estimated is the real estimate for your specific trip.
No. Any Navy pilot is skilled enough to flare. The descent rate necessary to land on a carrier is 600-800 feet per minute, which would literally break the landing gear on any airliner, or at least cause a hard landing inspection to have to be done to the airframe looking for potential damage.

Airliners and civilian aircraft "hit hard" for two reasons usually. Either the pilot mildly goofed the flare and "dropped it in" slightly at the end, or else the runway is slick and/or short. In which case, they are aiming to put the aircraft down early and somewhat firmly so they can get on the thrust reversers and/or brakes quickly. A nice greaser of a landing tends to allow the aircraft to float awhile in ground effect, and sometimes the runway is short or slick enough that style points don't count.
This is a nice treatment, but I think it omits one other option which is a variation of the first option, if you like: "vertical scaling". When the load exceeds what can be done by the single box that you already bought, just buy a bigger single box that can do more. Yes, often that won't work and it will, as the author says, require a complete rethinking of the architecture of the system, but often it will not.
Air Gapped Terraform – Using Terraform with No Internet Access
Now imagine a Beowulf cluster of those Raspberries!
They'd be mining the brine in which the lithium is dissolved as well as constructing geothermal plants to take advantage of the temperature of the liquid.

Construction is already beginning.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/07/lithiu...
Are they unprofitable like amazon was for a long time, where there’s a switch laying around somewhere they could choose to flip, or is it the other kind?
All correct except the Microsoft part. They were never seen as the good guy, thanks to Gates' "Letter to Hackers" in the 80s. MS may have started small, but they were always about "let's make lots of money".
Autonomous vehicles will obsolete passenger rail. The highway network is expansive, interconnected, and hyper-local in a way that railways can never reproduce. Rapid transit in EVs is conceivable in the near future as Autonomy takes over more safety critical processes. As safety critical processes are automated the speed limits can be lifted, allowing very inexpensive travel on-demand.
> It is a private company, not the country of Japan, if I understand correctly.

What makes you say that? It looks like a JAXA programme to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating...
I'm not sure about the others, but the Swedish guy was "selected" from lots of different people, so just saying that "they're paying their way" seems slightly reductive:

> He was selected in November 2022 from over 22,500 applicants to join a new European astronaut group of 17 lucky recipients.

https://www.rymdstyrelsen.se/upptack-rymden/bloggen/2024/01/...

That page has lots of useful information about the project itself (although in Swedish, may DeepL et al help you), like:

> One of the two Swedish projects involves stem cell research and is led by Elena Kozlova, Professor of Regenerative Neurobiology at Uppsala University. Stem cells have previously been sent into space by sounding rockets and exposed to a few minutes of microgravity, showing that stem cells have a greater capacity to divide and develop into mature cells than they do under normal conditions on Earth. Now Marcus Wandt is taking stem cells into space for two weeks.

> In the project, Orbital Architecture, researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology want to investigate how people's physical and mental health is affected by staying in confined spaces for long periods of time. The researchers will analyze Marcus Wandt's stress, cognitive performance, heart activity and movements and compare data collected from different parts of the space station to understand how the design of space environments affects the astronauts' thinking and stress levels.
Google plus and hangouts were best
Larry & Sergey were just incredibly naive about this, that's all.

You are free to believe as you choose.

I believe they were fully aware of the nature of their work and who was funding it before the company was ever formed. And they worked to counter any realistic public perception of it.

Email conversations in 2012 between the NSA chief and Google executives, including Brin, were uncovered, inviting the Google heads to a classified threat briefing.

https://www.grunge.com/640181/the-shady-history-behind-googl...
Lost Highway is comprehensible on non-linear terms, you can find some interpretations. This is incomprehensible because an actual linear plot was not well conveyed.
I used to work in heavy industry and did a lot of work in Canada (I am an American).

Canada always had the worst security to go through because the same thing this guy is experiencing everyone crossing the boarder for work got the same thing from boarder security.

Anyone who had been arrested would get held at customs for a few hours, and occasionally over night. Basically you would get interrogated by a boarder guard, and the boarder guards would complain that they don't convict people of crimes in the US while asking about 20 year old arrest records.

I kind of assumed they were just terrible to foreigners coming in, but to do it to their own citizens is pretty awful.
Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?
I am a software engineer by passion. I love computers, I am curious. I love to learn new things / concepts. I love to see the beauty in existing concepts being applied in completely unexpected ways, which makes you wonder that every boring thing has myriad of variations which are not obvious.

Through my college education & industry experience & curiosity, I have learned a lot. But, even after trying to search about books on the philosophy of engineering or the art / craft of engineering - I have fallen short.

I would love to hear what books / and projects that you have seen that have inspired you as an engineer & have provided you with your own philosophy of engineering.

I am talking about general "engineering" here, not just specifically "software engineering".

Requesting the universe to enlighten me :)
It is state and municipality dependent. https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/articles/ban-the-box-...
Three ounces more than a Quest 3.

The quest three doesn’t have an external battery (not included in VP weight). And 3 oz isn’t nothing.

But it’s not like it’s 2x the competition.
Not only did the Cray weigh far more than the Apollo computer, and not only did the Cray supercomputer use far more power, but the Apollo computers had to be designed to be highly resistant to interference from radiation.

Radiation hardened electronics are fascinating to me. To this day, electronics that function in outer space are much slower than datacenter or consumer-oriented components.
It was supposed to flip over, so that in itself doesn't mean anything. See this picture: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SLIM_...
(from https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/japans-moon-sniper-mis...)

But it seems likely that it has not flipped over in the way that it was supposed to. It going below zero altitude in the end, and the "waiting for confirmation of a good landing", don't give me much hope.
Where synthetic liquids (and indeed methane) can be interesting is if you want to ship the energy somewhere. So you can make the methanol somewhere with abundant cheap electricity and CO2, then ship or pipe it to places which lack that.

It's a lot easier and cheaper to transport methanol or methane (either piped or in the form of LNG) than H2 since it takes a lot leas space and we already have a lot of infrastructure for it.
The Daemonbite project (https://github.com/MickGyver/DaemonBite-Retro-Controllers-US...) does essentially the same thing, but works like a normal USB controller from the perspective of the host. I've used one with a MiSTer FPGA setup and it's almost indistinguishable from a native SNES controller in terms of response. For my build, I cut a cheap controller extension cord in half, avoiding the need to actually modify the controller itself.
My amateur understanding is that the benefits are:
A) H2 is exceptionally difficult to store at scale. Salt caverns are an option, but that is limited
B) methanol can be used off the shelf by existing generators so the prices are much more economical and they can use both fuels during a transitory period
> I mean, isn't that what Bell Labs basically was? Put smart people in a supportive playground and harvest the cream off the top? Lasers, MOSFETs(?), UNIX, C, awk, all those came in one way or another from there.

In a somewhat-parallel to early Google, it's worth noting that Bell Labs was funded by, and operated in service to, a near-total national-scale monopoly. When that monopoly was deconstructed, it triggered a decline in the output of the research organization as well (there's a clear decline in the ground-breaking output of Bell Labs after the 1984 Ma Bell breakup).
Thanks for reminding me of him, as I used to follow him years ago on tumblr. Such a shame his account got hacked and 99% of his content was lost.
https://dvdp.tumblr.com/post/616249201303666688/my-acc-has-b...

Besides him, I used to follow Pi-Slices, with a somewhat similar style:
https://pislices.art/GIFS
https://pi-slices.tumblr.com/archive
There is highly standardized phraseology though, through lessons learned from the terrible Avianca disaster and others.

It's absolutely nothing like the 1950s. ATC controllers didn't even have visibility of most aircraft movement back then. They relied on pilots self-reporting and the phraseology was unclear. Many lives were lost due to this.

The tech is still AM radio but this I believe is mainly selected due to its reliability in poorer radio conditions.
Yes, but you still pay Amazon, and Amazon pays the seller. Using a virtual card wouldn't have helped him here. The other victim wouldn't have been helped by using a virtual card at Walmart.ca either.
Only if you leave out the part about storing H2 in a tank vs storing methanol in a tank. There is a reason why they say without salt caverns to store H2, this is the cheaper process.
Cool cool, appreciate the explanation.
It could be a part of the push for right to repair. Farmers have pushed similar interface needs for maintaining advanced farming equipment. This seems very similar.
Anyone who unironically uses the phrase “late capitalism” or “late-stage capitalism” is outing themselves as a deeply silly person.
IIRC, it should have flipped, that's how it lands. Unusual, but why not.
The Valve Index weighs 809g, Vision Pro 600-650g.

I feel like an aftermarket head strap with a front-to-back top strap and a back counterweight might make it extremely usable for hours on end. The counterweight I have for my Index greatly improves comfort.
I find the name charming:

SLIM == Smart Lander for Investigating Moon
Just having the power isn't enough. Nobody respects pushovers. Think of "Asshole" in corporate leadership as "a show of force" that earns begrudging respect.

But to your point you can earn respect without always being an asshole, or being one for no reason at all.
It was on several YouTube channels: Axiom, ESA, I think NASA even. Granted, not the SpaceX channel, but it was just the SpaceX feed on all these channels.

To also be fair, I don't watch nearly so many launches as I use to for the same reason as you. I've been off Twitter/X for many years and SpaceX streams aren't enough to change that.
They fixed the VPs but they're way too busy to appeal to, even when they agree with you and everyone was told as much. And now you have extremes of rest-and-vest and "if I get the Visibility(tm) for this, maybe I'll get one more promo..." behavior from the L7s and lower.
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Bingo - you hit the nail on the head. Keeping the investor pool small and close-in is how you avoid this. If you go public, eventually you will succumb to this "growth above all" mindset, even if your culture was set up to resist it.

I appreciate all that publicly-traded companies have contributed to society, but rarely is "going public" ever not the first sign of an objectively downward trend of the company trajectory.
True, the cranes are a pest now. And they're well marked anyway.

There should be a live mapping system that can just be updated on the fly IMO.
im sure that sort of stuff is on there, but all the stuff my friends and i see on there is memes, and Id guess thats representative of most of the 20s age userbase. We didnt notice any change during the buyout or rebrand except some different meme recommendations for a bit.

There are a lot more ads between my memes now though. It hit a critical density where we dont use it anymore. 40% ads
Sometimes you will find very interesting info in the EULA/TOS. At least i found it in Apple's TOS. So the work phone is only used for authentication.
Exactly.

It isn’t a dichotomy between flat step segments punctuated with spikes vs pure linear growth (where someone else has taken the spike hits for you).

It is linear growth segments punctuated with spikes, vs. raised linear growth without spikes.

In practice, spikes won’t be completely eliminated. Even with the most seamless cloud solutions, some rearchitecting is likely.

Also, I interpret the cost graphs as measuring the combined effort, time & risk costs. I.e. spikes represent both predictable & unpredicted efforts and delays.

The delays perhaps being the best reason to pay (linearly) more per capacity, since delays negatively impact (ideally super linear) business growth.
fwiw that map covers a significant majority of Americans in states with some box restriction
Yes I actually found that first one myself, you'll note that there is explicitly no evidence. "I have met allies who can report [...] He declined to give details [...] Nato's press office said the remarks were Rasmussen's personal views, not official policy [...] geology, rather than political concerns, was likely to be the main obstacle". So this guy says the environmental groups have been compromised, they say they haven't been, he declines to give even the vaguest semblance of evidence.

Your second article starts with the exact same quotes from the same guy. It at least tries to outline some circumstantial evidence, but the author doesn't seem to find it very convincing and I don't either.

There were a number of articles in 2014 spurred by a single quote from this one person, and absolutely nothing since then. I think the circumstantial evidence against these claims is equally strong: anti-fracking activism was increasing worldwide around this time, including in countries like South Africa and Tunisia that are not particularly hostile towards Russia. You can see a good list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking_by_country. Fracking is simply unpopular almost everywhere.

I don't doubt that Russia viewed fracking as an economic threat, but I will need even the tiniest bit of evidence before I seriously consider the possibility that actually fracking is very popular and people only protested because they were getting paid.