jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One of the most significant obstacles for landing on Mars will continue to present problems for our heroic helicopter now that it is safely on the surface. The atmospheric pressure on the surface of Mars is only about 1% that of Earth.

Does this also limit the use of parachutes on Mars, or require bigger canopies? I know that Perseverance had a parachute for part of the descent, but not the final landing sequence. IIRC one of the earlier probes was designed to bounce rather than gently floating down.
I had initially assumed that they would be using it for aerial photos to improve navigation decisions. Kind of sad if not.
Or if reduced redundancy is accepted, on one/two ( either one with everything running as server and client, or two with one running Nomad, Vault Consul servers and the other clients)
Sorry for not being clear. Of course you are right, they are not the same. What I tried to say was that in the context of rendering approximating cubics by quadratics will not be the bottleneck.
I've just made a scrappy version that does not require email access. Because no way I'm giving my email for that. And there's a leaderboard ;)
https://uberstats.parseapp.com/
There are several good documentaries out there on the subject. I can't name any of the ones I've seen off the top of my head, but I'm sure googleing will yield plenty.

Quite a lot of young Japanese live at home even through their university years, and it seems the common case of hikikomori is that they just never leave.
Yes, you're exactly right. I think one of the reasons a lot of people get anxious and scared about death is because they think that when they die they're going to be locked up in a dark room forever... but you won't, because non-existence is not an experience. As Alan Watts put it, death will be just like going to sleep and never waking up, just as being born was waking up never having gone to sleep.
Immediately came to my mind, too, because I thought it was brilliant.
Product/service reviews by not-so-tech-oriented parents or retirees could be quite entertaining.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=fake%20engine%20noise&sort=byP...
Right, well you just described the cycle well with example. Anarchy is usually short lived as people naturally form groups.
>Available: “every request received by a non-failing node in the system must result in a response” [C2]

This is also confusing to people. It means successful response, you can't for example respond with an error and claim the system is still available. I've seen some NoSQL databases claim they were still available because the user was getting an error message back.
The examples are very relatable, at least for me personally.
Judging from this fragment, I would consider myself a stack person:
"For tasks that represent pain that must be immediately alleviated, it’s not that the stack feels I must fix it; rather, this must be fixed. The task is painful not because the stack must fix it, but because it exists, period."

The frustrating part about this is that it is very hard to explain to coworkers why you feel this, because you intuitively expect them to feel the same way. I can recall some cases in which this has caused some friction when working on group projects.
Not really, because you have another dimension to expand into, so you can imagine adding as many levels as you need. Also you avoid all the obstacles that cars have to navigate at ground level (rivers, buildings, trees, etc).

On the other hand, there's some work to be done to define good copter "rules of the road". A simple solution is to say you can only go north at lvl1, east at lvl2, south lvl3, west lvl4. That would pretty much eliminate lateral collisions, so then you've only got level changes and takeoffs/landings to solve and it's done.

On the other other hand, there are bad drivers, there'll surely be bad pilots. Perhaps self-driving copters is the answer!
8k is useful for vr headsets where you are just a few cm from the display, yet need a wide field of view.
Maybe you can get drunk with Baby Boomers and let them test the website. Hilarious idea though! I think I will try it out soon.
This is a great way of separating things. We did this (or something very similar) years ago with ASP.NET and it worked like a charm.
The proliferation of Flux frameworks will probably continue for a while. Then, hopefully, things will settle down and we will only have a few frameworks left that have clear differences which makes it easy to choose between them.
I currently like Reflux and would choose that as a start if I created a new project.

https://github.com/spoike/refluxjs

[Edit added link to Reflux]
Back in my first year of engineering I don't think I knew how to spell the word. My writing skills coming out of high school were just atrocious.
If you're lucky someone may mistake you for a zen master
I have a Nexus One. The screen is really nice, I like it. But it does suck outdoors. Probably not a winner for most consumers.
1 bank out of the 700-odd in London? YMMV, clearly.
For very famous ones, yes, but it drops off pretty quickly. For most authors, the speaking gigs tend to be unpaid--- travel around the country doing book readings and such to promote your book. An exception can be nonfiction authors who can get onto the corporate workshops circuit, but my guess is that novelists aren't too much in demand there.
Do you think they just do this only for business purposes? How about rent a mourner? Very prevalent. You can be more creative but I will not go there.
U.S. troops set up bases last month along a dirt track that a Chinese firm is paving as part of a $3 billion project to gain access to the Aynak copper reserves. Some troops made camp outside a compound built for the Chinese road crews, who are about to return from winter break. American forces also have expanded their presence in neighboring Logar province, where the Aynak deposit is.

The U.S. deployment wasn’t intended to protect the Chinese investment - the largest in Afghanistan’s history - but to strangle Taliban infiltration into the capital of Kabul. But if the mission provides the security that a project to revive Afghanistan’s economy needs, the synergy will be welcome.

http://www.sananews.com.pk/english/2009/03/08/chinas-thirst-...
Today, I read Matt's little post about the devolution of HackerNews and wondered what he was going on about.

The ignorance in the comments on this story answered that question clear as crystal. Sigh.
Well Netflix also offered $50k each year for a "Progress Prize", but you're right.

I guess it is a question of "you get what you pay for", and I expect they'll get something quite usable but not great. Certainly good value for them, compared to contracting someone to do it.
Wukong, a Ruby-based Hadoop streaming framework. http://mrflip.github.com/wukong
Might that not be because people were illiterate and any permanent record was very rare indeed?

Perhaps people were indeed dumb and ignorant. If no one told you all of these things since birth, would you have any idea that the earth goes around the moon. Supposing you are a knight, a farmer, a priest, a whatever, rather than someone dedicating yourself to the study of the stars, and no one told you ever that the earth goes around the sun, or even moves, would you ever find out or know at all and would you not believe the priest or whoever seems to know about the subject.

It is not that people are dumb. They just do not know. A doctor can tell me whatever he likes that sounds reasonable and as I would have no option I would believe him.
A depressing article IMO
Agree: Once one deliberately throws out support for all but JS-enabled browsers, HTML doesn't matter that much anymore and at that point tooling support like making it possible to work in TypeScript becomes a nice bonus.

(Note however that while enjoy projects like these and also don't vilify most people who wrote JS-dependent websites, not even in my thoughts, I might think of those who write html with optional js-features as nicer people, more thoughtful/considerate and less childish ;-)
Some of it will depend on your country of origin/citizenship as this can either make it much easier or much harder to get a visa. Some countries have bilateral agreements to enable skilled workers to move between them. You should investigate that.

On the job side, you'd probably want to start looking for jobs that advertise relocation assistance. The exact rules and process for getting a work permit will depend on the EU country you're applying to work in.

There are often specific permits for highly skilled workers, but with no degree and 2 years experience it might be hard to make that case until you're more experienced, unless you have a specific area of expertise you can demonstrate.

Good luck!
> I assume the easiest method is to obtain a EU passport.

I am... not sure this is true, and I'm not sure why you would think it is? Usually its much easier to obtain a work visa than a passport.
I think I'm running out of ideas as to where I would IMMEDIATELY want to use it.

A list of neat projects that should highlight the use of functional programming would be useful in this case.
And in the meantime people like flying less and less, and seek alternatives.

There's the distinct possibility that the pains of flying are the cause of the shortness of cash. And given what a few choice pieces of bad press has done to some airlines, and that updating a few things would make the problems less likely to occur, the implication that funds have been misspent is pretty easy to derive.

It's not cheap nor easy, I fully agree. And it sucks. But might they have done some of the smaller things sooner, possibly preventing their downturn?
In the comments everyone is civil here on HN, but as soon as they're on Wikipedia...
Toronto, or any other cities, would you want to be in the shadow of Silicon Valley and always follow whatever the trend is in SV? Or would you define your own city yourself?

There are this... um... communities or group of people... in Vancouver that tries hard to "be like Silicon Valley". At the end of the day, they only speak about "Social this and that" (Social Media, Social Gaming, Social Education, or just put "Social" with whatever comes along next) stuffs that has yet to be seen if they truly offers long-term values or solved problems.
Really? Enabling parent control on the iPhone blocks both Safari and Opera which means no access to wikipedia and other amazing sources of education just because they may stumble on porn which can be found everywhere anyway? There's nothing to feel good about this. In the meantime, I guess the iFart app is not forbidden, it looks more like "dumbing down kids" than "parental control" to me.
I can't think of a reliable way to filter out "malicious" code without also having many false positives.

Without having seen their solution, I feel that the browser is the wrong place to fix this kind of problem anyway. Much like PHP tried to prevent SQL Injection Attacks with "Magic Quotes" - we all know how that went.
Your statistic (good hires / total hires), using the jargon from your link, is precision or positive predictive value (PPV).

Using the math from that link, if you decrease FN, then PPV increases.
We're already in a world where mathematicians publish proofs that only a few other people in the world can (and have the time to) understand or verify. I'm thinking of e.g. Shinichi Mochizuki.

I think a lot of the art will be getting the computer to emit proofs in a form amenable to human understanding.
> Stalin’s

Interesting how your first link get displayed in fixed-width Asian-style characters here in Chromium, apparently because of the apostrophe (which itself is the only character displayed with a narrower width). Just removing the apostrophe in Chromium's address bar immediately makes all the text go back to a normal font. Firefox just shows "%C2%92".

Actually, it looks like what gets displayed as an apostrophe is just a control character, U+0092 <control> = PRIVATE USE TWO.

Interesting glitch.
Of course. Truth is good, but it should be obvious from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html that it isn't a sufficient condition to be using HN as intended. (It isn't a necessary condition, either, because people can be wrong in good faith and that's part of the process of finding the truth.)

Rhetorical name-calling isn't true or false though, so I don't think your question really applies in this case.

What people mean by 'true' in the context of political rhetoric is 'I like it'. Liking and truth have little to do with each other—in fact the love of truth has mostly to do with disentangling the two, which is not a particularly common activity, least of all in politics or on the internet.
Thanks for the comparison, that makes a ton of sense. As someone else also pointed out, since a lot of Dropbox's infra is python, it does make sense for them to have a drop in memcached replacement. That means groupcache is effectively out.
Relationships aren’t 50/50. A common misconception that came along with other great ideas of the 70s like pet rocks.
ML and network programming can be found outside of video games.

> I'm sure some specialties exist which are more difficult

OK, so we agree. Video game programming can definitely be very tricky, but it's like any other specialties once you reach a certain threshold of sophistication/scale/whatever.
This is a mere eyewash to keep your votes in your pocket. If you really think Biden admin is going to have a concrete change in the middle East policy (regarding arms sale, etc.) I have a bridge to sell to you.
For starters, the header of the IPv4/v6 packet you sent the request in has GDPR regulated PII -- your IP address.
It would be a really interesting result if Google couldn't offer an "incognito mode" because of their position as a data harvester. Rare for vertical integration to be a disadvantage.
"Unlicensed" does not mean "Unregulated". There are still type-approval requirements for almost all transmitters (except Amateur radio where the responsibility falls on the licensed operator, rather than the actual equipment).
Peter Dorman had a sharp post about it here: http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2010/06/romers-charter-cities...
"TAOCP is written for MIX and MIX is not FreeBSD."
It is so easy to enable Google, Facebook Connect, Twitter, and Hotmail account logins for your site that it makes absolutely no sense to roll your own. Instead of rolling your own features like login, signup, forgot-my-password, confirm-email etc., just implement the above for your sites from the get go. OpenID is good too but I've found almost nobody uses that to log into my sites. 75% are Gmail/Google, 20% Facebook, and rest are Twitter and MSN.
Same thing. I found a bug in a drupal module. Even went so far as to develop a patch to correct the problem. The module owners response? He complained about my choice of variable names.
That's what my old math professor always said: "Now let's pick a random number, say 17, and ..."
There's nothing I'd put past a true believer of any stripe.
Thanks for this, I needed this today.
Good companies should care about their false negative rate, as if they're smart they will realise that unlike Harvard their pool of potential candidates does not completely refresh each year. As you yourself exemplify, Google are now seeing many candidates who have applied before. While there are more than enough fresh bright young people growing up each year to fill Harvard's interviewing pipeline with first-time-candidates, there clearly aren't enough new top-rate computer scientists (who are interested in working for Google) coming into the field each year to fill Google's interviewing pipeline with only first time applicants.

And if you are reliant on the false negatives coming back, and not being put off by the process, to keep your pipeline full of high-quality candidates, surely that has to be a risky approach longer-term. As Google loses its fast-growing-exciting-upstart reputation, and competition for engineers gets tougher, -- it's gradually going to get harder and harder to convince the best of the false negatives to come back into the process again.
Sorry i completely misread your post, old content deleted.
Paul, I will bet 1000 HN karma at even odds on the following prediction:

Chrome OS will not be killed or merge with Android in the next year.

(if it was in the next two years, I would give 80% odds on the existence of a Google operating system not called Android that was the successor of Android+Chrome)
That's a good story but a little over the top. If the author had dispensed with the $20 bill in the tamale the suspension of belief would have been a little more effective.
On. The complete opposite end of the spectrum check out Top Gear's show where they visited the American South. Obviously it was meant to provoke but it does bring up a few good points. I'd link you but I'm on my phone.
I'm submitting this because some Minecraft mods require the user to enter their Minecraft username and password in order to run. This is weirdly broken behaviour.
high level - how does one mitigate against a DDOS attack?
Not agreeing with advice doesn't mean the recipient didn't listen to or appreciate it.
Thanks for the reply and mentioning the McGurk effect. Really interesting!

Hmm, my teacher's husband said my pronunciation was excellent. I downplayed the comment politely, and he said, "No, I'm serious. You have the best pronunciation of any of our students." I'm not really in a position to judge, though. I just copied the pronunciation/phrases/tone from men speaking in k-dramas I used when learning.

None of the Koreans I tried to talk to in SK could speak English, even the young people. Perhaps they were just too afraid to try? The stares/glares also felt very unwelcoming compared to Taiwan and Japan, too. It's the only time in my life I have actually felt unwelcome somewhere.
If you're running Linux on it, I believe you need to use device tree overlays. See http://kilobaser.com/blog/2014-07-28-beaglebone-black-device...
Do they run on Android? Windows? Linux? My point is that they're locked to an ecosystem I'll never be able to leave if I heavily invest in. I minimize app purchases for this reason. I don't want my digital life to be tied to a particular company or brand, and I run free software as much as possible because of this.
Morgenbot (https://github.com/eelzon/morgenbot) is an open source variant of Tatsu. Interesting idea, all in all.
One word: pre-install

Dropbox is pre-installed on a lot of samsung smartphones and can not be removed. This removes the hurdle for people who don't know much about cloud storage from picking one.

Although I consider this bloatware it appears to be a very good marketing strategy.
My experience with these trolls is that they not only do "PR work" or propaganda; they actively attack people who disagree with them, using very nasty language and smear tactics. That's something that "public relations" specialists don't regularly do.

Their modus operandi is not to convince people by the force of argument; their goal is to frustrate people who disagree with them and make any reasonable discussion of Russian policies impossible. They make excessively exaggerated claims; it is hopeless to refute those claims by reason because their goal is not dialogue at all, but to make all discussion about Russia obscure and distrusted.

If they manage to destroy trust in any regular media or reasonable discussion partners, they have achieved their goal. And that works quite well.

To For Russian Trolls (or Russia Today) to succeed, they don't need to be believable. It is enough if they make all media not believable so that no one trusts anything, even good sources.
For the last two years, a Facebook buy button has been expected. The company did recently introduce Payments to Messenger, foreshadowing Facebook's evolving ecommerce capabilities. At F8, ecommerce became a development platform. The large community of Facebook developers, given open access to the Messenger platform, are more likely to produce a killer Facebook ecommerce app than the company is to do so on its own.
Yes, but will they lead to Big Money?
Only if they had that as a contingency clause in the contract for the house. Which they probably didn't.
I'm on Whidbey, and thankfully, the situation is totally different (at least on the south end). We've got a good local telecom company that provides pretty decent dsl and phone service. Best of all, they've got local tech support and their techs will go the extra mile to make sure everything is working.
Its weird people don't compare Go to Kotlin. It has channels and coroutines. I think Kotlin does better with contexts and I think flows are a really cool addition. There does seem to be a lot there but honestly, it reminds me a lot of Go in its pick up and play nature
> It'd be nice if Windows had as nice of a filesystem organization story as any linux distro.

...are you serious? There's a lot of words to describe the Linux filesystem organization and 'nice' is definitely not one of them. Windows file hierarchy has some problems to be sure, but at least it doesn't scatter every application's files all over the hierarchy and require a specialized tool and database to track which ones belong to which applications.
> I see the same thing when I look at the real world: it is not a collection of objects, but rather a system of processes, and those processes are best understood through mathematics.

This sentence gets to me. He's _so close_ to right, it's just that the answer is from a world so different than where he lives.

In management consulting, I learned the exact same thing, _except_ that the best way to understand the system is through _social relations_ (read: office politics), not math. Such an understanding inevitably leads you, when you hope to create change, to FIRST establish a need, and THEN pose a solution.

He didn't blow it. He just needs to learn to establish the need.

> there’s no sense of desperation, ... People are still bewitched by the progress

People are desperate for "artistic expression". But needs don't exist in a vacuum.
The standard proviso about metaphors being given, I see your point. Seatbelts constitute an effort, seatbelts save lives, testing with dummies and survival results show it.

Seatbelts are real security measures. Still, more than 60K people die every year in motor accidents in North America and in the EU. Seatbelts cannot save life in all cases, such as outrageous speeds, but they are a sane measure for most -- if not all -- use-cases of driving.

In this compromise, the major purveyor of OS and security products itself was compromised. No company, no $agency did due diligence. Some of these victims are supposed to be in the business of high-assurance and due diligence.

None of the systems that we are conditioned to believe to be effective actually worked. And it was a standard use-case for all the victims.
The message is: I did this, and this is what I found.

I think you may be looking for something that isn't there.
BTC is the foundation of crypto, but other coins play an important role (i.e. high volume transactions). BTC is the value that powers the alt-coins.
"Home on iPod" wasn't a full bootable OS X, just the user's Home directory. The feature was also canceled before release, likely due to performance or durability limitations of the iPod's micro hard drive.
Why do this for someone making 200k/year? I’d imagine we’d select people below a certain income level
> SVGs are meant to be created and used like any image file.

Then why bother with the XML? And why use the embedded DSLs in strings instead of the more verbose XML-way.
>otherwise it's not a valid economic experiment.

It can still be a valid economic experiment, it just isn't UBI.
I haven't used private packages, but it astonishes me you don't just add private packages with some kind of flag so it knows to not try to pull a public package.

Anyone who uses this must have already understood and just overlooked this vulnerability when they realize their private package must have a unique name that doesn't match a public package