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True, but absolute bank angle would also matter (say endpoint of roll when roll acceleration is zero) because now there's a component of gravity pulling you sideways.

Raytheon is another example.

I think the open book metaphor gets lost in the aggressive roundness of the O. When I first looked at it, I thought why would they make it look like a turbo fan…? Now in the case of Raytheon, a turbofan makes complete sense.

Hindered by this bias, it took me a bit to arrive at the open book representation, and was only able to do that because it’s OUP.

https://www.rtx.com/

Don't knock exponential growth!

Seems like a low-on-details article with PR-like flavor.

According to this, Toyota cut production by 40%, though it does acknowledge that Toyota took less of a hit vs industry:

“New cars often include dozens of microchips but Toyota benefited from having built a larger stockpile of chips - also called semiconductors - as part of a revamp to its business continuity plan, developed in the wake of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami a decade ago.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794

Doing it “free” is impossible, hence the ad-tech shitshow.

That's fair – I wasn't being particularly rigorous when I implied "delusion".

Resiliently optimistic is better. Reminds of me of the Stockdale Paradox:

"You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale#The_Stockdale_...

This is somewhat paradoxical, but I think leadership requires some level of delusion. If one truly sees things as they are, it’s hard to create narratives and mythologies requires to motivate/lead people.

Steve Jobs’ “reality distortion field” comes to mind.

Relevant according to whom? You’ve explained _why_ Google returns those results, but that doesn’t make the answers relevant. Especially not when Google presents them so authoritatively as knowledge cards (or whatever they’re calling it these days).

Sure, if you’re a someone trying to reverse-engineer the algorithm, then they’re probably pretty “relevant”. But that’s not how most people use Google. I’ll bet most of HN doesn’t use Google this way.

Maybe it’s a UI issue. It’d be nice if Google attached a little disclaimer that said: “These results are “relevant” to the way our algorithm produces these results, but there’s a chance they’re laughably incorrect, so please take with a bucket of salt.” Or better still, just show the search results, instead of being clever and pretending to understand what I’m looking for. Y’know, like back in the day, when it was such a delight switching from AltaVista/Yahoo! to Google. Good times.

WAI. They recognized you, and wanted to you spend more time in the store. /s

Exactly my experience! I had a Casio SF-R20 when I was around 13 years old, and it was a my first introduction to spreadsheets (IIRC the spreadsheet app was called Lucid 3-D).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_organizer#/media/Fi...

Thank you.

Yes, exactly this. It’s useful to understand biases: cognitive diversions from the truth.

Echoing OP’s sentiment: How one uses/weaponizes such knowledge depends on one’s goals: to win petty ego battles in debate or seek the truth?

Not so sure about the prevalence of longer route tactic. I’m sure it happens, but with the route plainly visible on the map, it’s hard to cheat here unless the driver is being a bully, which is a different class of problem.

As others have also mentioned below:

- Uber is global, and has a standard interface. I don’t have to fiddle with credit cards and the payment dance. It’s the de-facto global “taxi”. Kind of like the warm homey fuzz one feels at a Starbucks in a foreign land after enduring burnt coffee served in a styrofoam cup on a long flight. (Granted, a bourgeois American-centric view, but I hope it’s illustrative.)

- If you pay a premium (Uber Comfort and higher), the cars are better, the drivers are better (higher rated too), and one can communicate preferences such as temperature and conversation (no, thanks).

- Other long-tail uses: 7 passenger SUVs for large groups, lots of luggage, etc.

- I’ve tried using the taxi apps (Flywheel, etc.), and they’re atrocious/geographically limited. In some places the Uber app can now call taxis. Even then, I’ve never voluntarily wanted to call a taxi for the last decade or so. I especially like the Black Mirror vibe of drivers and passengers having a “rating”. ;)

If we suspend the Uber/taxi comparison, and assume Uber is a new taxi-like service but better, therefore deserves a premium? I know I’d pay for that premium. Not everyone will, but I can’t be alone?

So that means the addressable market shrinks. Think premium black-car-only service; Uber’s roots). Why can’t such a service find demand/price equilibrium? I think it can, but not in a manner that can justify Uber’s “unicorn” valuation. And I think that’s at the core of Uber’s conundrum/identity crisis: it provides value, but with tech-company cost structures. However, it doesn’t deserve tech-company valuations because it’s just not as scalable — it’s tied to operating in the physical world, with physical constraints.

If the strategy is to burn cash, continue entrenchment, and eventually leapfrog to self-driving Ubers (mitigating the scaling/cost problem to an extent), then that’s a war of attrition. Fingers crossed.

Apple uses Torx screws, as do several other products.

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

I’ve often wondered how we come up with daily dose recommendations for vitamins. To the HN hive mind/experts on this topic: What types of research design, data sets, etc. inform these recommendations? Essentially, is this well studied/well understood, and have broad consensus in the medical community?

Some pedantry is in order – withered and weathered are different words.

Neat!

Valid point, but I wouldn’t be so prescriptive. It’s also about understanding other variables — the culture of your workplace, the particular meeting/situation — and calibrating your approach accordingly. Of course, easier said than done.

This, exactly. America has manufacturing talent, but not at the scale required for a manufacturing economy. (Source: ~2 decades in global manufacturing.)

And the Gita’s – “You have the right to work; not the fruits of your work.”

Will VBA live?

Amadeus is a movie that really resonated for the reasons you mention. However, another movie that really resonated, and offers a counterpoint to you’re-either-born-with-it-or-not fatalism is Gattaca.

(Of course, one could argue that Amadeus is a “true story”, whereas Gattaca is science fiction.)

Already in use at major Chinese airports/ports of entry.

HN feels like such a sanctuary: a high quality space not (yet?) perverted by the pressures of a purely profit motive.

It’d be interesting to study how does HN thrives; more deeply understand the incentives that sustain the HN ecosystem.

Wikipedia is so incredible because it’s that sliver of intersection in a Venn diagram of what’s ideal and what’s real – a rare phenomenon.

I think one reason this is so is the fear that this might be misconstrued as brown-nosing.

Video: https://youtu.be/kZTKuMBJP7Y

Perhaps tangential, but: Why is science up for “debate”? We could all offer opinions around the edges of present-day human understanding, but is there any merit to these debates? Feels like a lot of fluff. I wish Feynman were still around.

I just bought your app – looks fantastic! I'm sorry this is how I discovered your app, and hope the issue gets resolved.