jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Lack of energy budget. You should read the article. It's a good story.

"Columbia's 39 degree orbital inclination could not have been altered to the ISS 51.6 degree inclination without approximately 12,600 ft/sec of translational capability. Columbia had 448 ft/sec of propellant available."

Columbia had 3% of the propellant needed in order to get to the ISS - the article says that sometimes to execute a plane change it may take more than the energy needed to get an object into space in the first place.
I recently started a project that takes screenshots of top news sites every hour:

http://newsabovethefold.com

It's really fascinating to look at once you've collected a decent number of screenshots to animate through:

http://newsabovethefold.com/animate/1 (CNN.com every hour for the last two months--will load slowly!)

I'd definitely be interested in using this service if I wasn't already paying for Snapito.
I see it a bit differently.

You can get a loan, buy the handbag for $10000, and disassemble it to create a copy pattern. Then you make and sell 10 copies at $2000 to pay off your loan, and sell an 11th copy to pay for the 12th, that you keep for yourself. At that point, you can continue making copies to serve all the customers that Hermes is excluding by setting its price so high, and profit from their narrow market focus. But you can't put a Hermes logo on your copies. Trademark.

This happens all the time, because fashion has no copyrights.

Copying isn't stealing. Stealing is stealing. You can't be a fashion monopolist, because there are trivial barriers to entry and no legal protections. Therefore, in order to price higher than the marginal cost of production, you have to sell the protected monopoly good--your trademark.

Hermes can charge $10000 for a $1000 item because it has created $9000 worth of brand value in its trademark. So, theoretically, it should be value-neutral for you to take the Hermes bag and leave $1000 on the counter, provided that you also remove and leave behind every trademarked element on the item. That's the only way Hermes breaks even. And the only way you can do this non-hypothetically without it being considered theft is by purchasing a knock-off bag for $1000 instead.
I'd buy that app :)

Unfortunately (from the apps that I've seen) it looks like only a rooted Android could support it.
This can be restated for almost every business there is. It's why sales guys are paid so well.
You make a good point about coast guard inspections. But all goods could be inspected when they arrive in dock to unload. The coast guard boarding moving ships for inspection I imagine would happen more to tiny fishing boats/speed boats accused of drug smuggling, etc. I doubt they're casually stopping freightliners "just to take a look around".

As for blocking the GPS signal, again, you need to know where the GPS is hiding. It could be trailing 100ft behind the boat for all the pirate knows.
I mean my degrees are physics w/math-minor and geology
Modern consoles need to be connected to the internet to work. I remember that with the PS2 they only had to hack it once and it could run pirated games forever.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
If you only look at a one sentence statement it can seem to diminish things. There's never a need to only look at one sentence though.
This is true, but I can already do this to the human drivers. I could easily get a really bright light, and make it impossible for drivers to see. I could already create fake signs, or repaint the road markings to make people simply drive off the road.
What do you think the Bhakti movement was ? You seriously don't believe that Dharmic "religions" are that static, now do you ?
I made a host filtering proxy with node a while ago to solve exactly this problem. https://github.com/thibauts/node-host-filtering-proxy

Edge cases are not completely ironed out but if people want to help perfect it I'll very happily accept PRs !
The future is monitoring and surveillance. That's what these systems do. That and a few data-driven suggestions here and there.
It's an inevitable result of Darwinian evolution: the rate of change is greatest where the competitive or environmental pressure is highest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man#.22Swiss_cuckoo_c...

For example, you don't go from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 67 years without two World Wars and a Cold War.
The interesting thing is that a wave of redundancy due to automation or unprecedented efficiency contains problems that those made redundant might be able to work on.

Eg. Joe can't afford X due to lack of employment, and Bob can't afford Y for the same reason. Assuming Bob can supply X and Joe can supply Y (or some more complicated network of bartering), it seems like should be possible for an economy to arise.
Sure, I understand about the financial companies, but, going back to HE, that's definitely not the business they're in: they'd be in SF proper if they wanted to be close to that world.
I should have specified: excessive inflation.
Howdy, so this is ipTrust, my company's first commercial-side application. We're in Beta now but a premium version is coming out in January. Our main product is our API, which lets you build applications against our large and unique dataset of botnets seen in the wild.

I'd love to get some feedback on this if you are in a networking or security related field!
Linode's SLA is monthly, so they are under for the month in Fremont. Though they will, of course, give credit.
I love that you can imagine the CTO running through the database blocking all mentions of lamebook in real time.
Maybe you can build it up the way this guy did:

http://mixergy.com/mailfinch-paul-singh-interview/
Where is this one dev team that is dealing with concurrency? I don't see how you do this? At least not with the current state of the art in concurrency technology. They can provide some basic tools like concurrent collections, but the hard work is still app-dependent. I still need to figure out where concurrency makes sense. I still need to figure out when data races are OK and which ones are a problem. I still need to be the one to put locks in my code.
It's not like I can just push up the source code to Photoshop and say, "Make it concurrent now please".
True. Obama has changed few of Bush's policies and amplified the worst of them.
Uhm you don't have to have an epic GUID e-mail address. Just pair it with your e-mail. So let the user set it to whatever they can remember (their name backwards and ROT13'd, whatever, so long as it's unique) and only accept posts to that address from their verified e-mail. That would at least curb some of the danger of this setup.
Because they are part of a local democratic infrastructure that is actually pretty good by global standards in the US.
No thank you.

Because how good is the expert? They just built a bunch of stuff to enforce one approach; they're invested in it even if they're wrong, or even if the project changes.

The ideal is an expert who will be involved with the project, offering suggestions, providing a sounding board to non-experts working through issues, etc. Mentor and guidance, yes, but without first trying to lock people into a specific trajectory. And if ever the non-experts decide to do something different, -that's their prerogative-. Because it's they who will be dealing with the fallout if they're wrong. And unfair to make them deal with the fallout if they were right, and the expert was wrong. It's incumbent on the expert to convince them, not dictate.
I (OP) tried to put in the original title, but it was 2 characters over the limit, so I went with the key part (to my eyes). I think everyone knows that the context is covid.

I am outraged by this. We know that Vitamin D boosts immune response; we know that students are unlikely to comply with something so draconian; and we know that being isolated is really bad for mental health. Less coercive methods, like mass rapid testing, are available. I am confused and frightened that so many people seem ready to accept measures like this as necessary and inevitable. It's a shame.
Short and fat ones are in management.
My idea isn't "good enough"
This is prime r/mildlypenis material.
“We emphasize equity” instead of “we emphasize equality” or “we reward merit” means there is going to need to be a lot of extra justification to promote/reward you if you are competing with someone from a disadvantaged background.
Kabosu the Shiba Inu is my president.
If you can't patent it, you can't fund it. I don't know if aspirin ever had a patent, but if it did it ran out 100 years ago.
Nim have Arraymancer https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer sure it isn't easy but still most of top dogs have some libs supporting BLAS/CUDA etc.
Depends how things play out once we are done with the virus crisis. It's possible that we will see crazy level of production and consumption to compensate the down time, resulting in way more carbon emissions. And governments will surely want to boost their economy at any cost, that could be quite bad for ecological policies.

Definitely not what I personally want, I'm in Europe and hope that EU members use the current situation as a way to work closer together and come with even stronger environmental regulation.
There’s no way Starlink will be better than fiber. You have to pay a 25 ms penalty just to play, and then you have the cost of each hop, of which there are many.
Many jurisdictions (including mine in Calgary) are telling people NOT to visit hospitals. We’re supposed to do the health authority’s online self-assessment and call our local healthcare number to get instructions.
Aren't the lungs re-inflated because of the positive pressure differential?

If your whole body is inside, there is no pressure diferential to inflate your lungs.

Am I missing something?
No, it does not have the same semantics of exceptions.
Way more harm than good. "Intellectual property" locks up ideas, which hinders human progress. That might be tolerable if the monopoly so granted was short. But it's not, it's what, life+70 years or something? And it never gets shorter - we only increase copyright term.

The legal setup around copyrights and patents is also indicative of "bad". We can no longer inspect some item and decide whether or not it's copyrighted, for example. We have decided that the default is "assume copyright". You basically have to have a trial to decide whether some use is OK under one of the exceptions to copyright. This limits educational and critical use, and this, in practice, limits free speech.
I see it more of a restatement of the status quo. For all the talk in the UK of an EU superstate etc, each member state remains a sovereign country and can unilaterally shut its borders if it wants to. Yes it’s probably clipped the wings of the federalists but they never spoke for the whole EU.
Ok let me get it here cause there are a lot of misunderstanding my post on top.

Swift have built in simd same about Rust
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...

Nim have arraymancer https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer

@inbounds it is just compiler option u can use it in any language with LLVM backend i would be suprised if Julia will be faster then Rust/Swift or Nim in this regard.
But True about GO in that particular case.
Those people because important because of good ideas, the ideas are not good because they are important.
Once in a while I try to write some nuanced opinions I have that don't slot well into the liberal "tribe" I usually slide into, but I think could result in some profound dialog if everying is engaged in good faith. I don't agree with a good deal of liberal policy, but they kind of have a monopoly on moral accountability and sanity at the moment, so that's where I'm rooted.

Problem is, I can't write about something that goes against the tribe's hive mind without getting viscous pushback. Usually the pushback is rooted in either a complete misunderstanding/ignorance of what I'm saying, or simply not caring what I have to say if it's not in line with the current narratives.

Anyway, I found this article interesting (I have no idea if the guy's NYT rant is valid). I don't write much anymore because I don't like the negative consequences that comes with it. Good, honest debate can be fun, but it's nearly impossible to have even with people that you share virtually everything in common with.
Maybe he was being ironic, or not even ironic but using the word sophisticated in it's narrow meaning of complex. In the same way one might describe flat earthers as having a sophisticated world view.

If you believe in a sophisticated explanation where a simple explanation exists, you're probably a believer of nonsense. Occam's razor, basically.
I don't know how best to articulate this, but it would be something like "Walter Cronkite never gave you a narrative."

I don't think the fallacy lies in the power of institutions or print but the human desire to attribute deeper meaning, principle, design, intent, or structure where it doesn't exist.
What about spiking the Bret Stephens piece about the controversy over the science reporter who was fired? That was this month as well.
tbh I generally like SSC but I'm not sure I agree with him on the name part. He writes a blog and agreed to an interview. His name was elsewhere. I don't see why he gets to set the rules - it isn't like he's an anonymous person in the midst of a sexual assault case or something.

He said over and over again that he thought it would hurt his psychiatric (I think) practice. I don't really see how that's the NYTimes issue. If I wrote a blog about computer science but also had a day job as a stand-up (or visa-versa) it isn't every single news outlet's job to only write positively about me or to never mention that I have the other job.

If the interview was gotten under false pretense as he said then that is shitty - but I think it is standard practice (and a good standard practice) that a newspaper publishes the identity of impactful people they are writing about.
To whom are they worried about regarding reputation. They already have a terrible one
> I was thinking if a virus was first spotted in New York City and it had a virus lab, would that be immediately blamed?

To answer your question: If NYC had a virus lab that actively mutated bat coronaviruses so that they could become infectious in humans, and then one day a human-infecting virus with 96% similarity to a bat coronavirus started popping up in New York City with no known origin… Yes, people would start asking questions about that lab.

Check out this commentary from 2015. This type of research was being subcontracted out to the Wuhan lab, despite public concerns that safety wasn’t tight enough there.

https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debat...

I get that people don’t want to discriminate against China, but this is very clearly a hypothesis worth investigating further.
I don’t think you really need to start a brigade against NYT here, they’re already a dying bunch because the American dream of the “middle class city liberal” they were catering towards is rapidly eroding away. Their main source of articles (Trump) has now been depleted, and soon they’ll have to resort to much desperate measures to keep eyeballs in, such as this one. (The writer doesn’t even seem to be passionate about writing this, it seems rather forced.)
Your broad definition of natural resources makes it hard to bring counter examples. But what about South Korea? (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_the_Han_River)
CodePlex (most commonly used for .NET projects) has support for Mercurial but I don't think its social features are quite as strong as Github's.
Its easy to cause hysteria over things one can't have one of the few senses to grasp. Radiation has no taste, smell or other subjective graspable metric. Thats how you can play on it and media knows it, as good writers do.

From now on, all small leaks should be denoted in crates of bananas. 1x1 meters in size.

I wonder at how many bananas my WRT54Gs radiates...
I do see you your point. And I don't disagree. I also don't think that this graphic novel is offensive - it looks interesting, well written and well drawn. It is certainly art, not porn.

However I can't see how Apple can curate for quality without also curating for taste. To run a store like this no doubt means employing hundreds of young testers and a bunch of draconian policies. To get them to understand the subtlety between art and porn (or good porn and bad porn) is no doubt asking too much. To do it in a way that will not enrage prudes, governments, religious types, anyone who wants to bash Apple for any other reason etc is something else entirely.

To set up a good 18+ store in this way will be nigh-on impossible without either dropping all rules (and therefore all quality) or risking the wrath of the moral majority.

Having the occasional piece of genuine art rejected to walk this fine line is no doubt seen as a reasonable compromise.

I hope that Apple can fix this - but I'm not sure they will be able.
Are we competitors?

http://www.facecash.com
I'm actually from ND and live in NYC. I just wanted to point out that ND and NYC are such opposite extremes that this particular thought experiment doesn't work very well. Other qualitative factors are more important than financial considerations.
a) I was replying to the parent comment and not the story with comment

b) Some people get more enjoyment being more rich than their immediate community than just being rich. This is true for everything else apart from money. Some people want to have more knowledge than others etc...
How did you calculate 33 inches?
Great cartoon. This needs to be submitted as a story. Thanks for the laugh.
There is a lot, $15+ trillion USD, of cash sitting in bonds/treasuries/etc around the world. Interest rates around the world are low if not negative plus many treasuries are hitting low if not negative rates meaning the groups or people sitting on these piles of cash look to invest in riskier VC/stocks/etc for a positive return.

This money is ripe for investing in active funds or financial management groups. The leader of SoftBank approached the Saudis years back and, allegedly, got a $45 billion buy in from a 45 minute meeting. That's a lot of cash on hand. The amount of cash sitting around has stuffed typical investment opportunities and led to (relatively) incredibly risky investing or active management like SoftBank/WeWork. It's mostly worked out for VC funds as if group A doesn't buy in for billions, group B and C are available for a meeting next week losing Group A the opportunity. And Group A has enough cash that they could lose the investment and recover via less risky investment opportunities give say 1 in 10 investments pays out 20-50x.

It's great if you are, say, an ex WeWork CEO who can take advantage of the free money. You might even be paid in negative interest to take it on. It's a bit scary from an economics point of view but also highlights inequality given so many Americans are paycheck to paycheck or hold so much debt while there are trillions to push around in money markets and billions to fund losses at Uber and others.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/banks-are-pa...
That's to avoid paying for health insurance (two 20 hour employees with no insurance vs. one 40 hour employee with insurance). Minimum wage applies across the board, so cutting hours wouldn't change anything.
> LibreOffice absolutely chokes when I try to do any filtering or calculations.

File a bug. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/

It's easy to complain in an HN comment, but a clear description of the test case would certainly help with getting the issue resolved.
There are plenty of ways to view the role of businesses in society.

One particular way is "the triple bottom line": part of running a business is a responsibility for taking care of your employees, your community and the environment.

And minimum wage laws are a part of that.
I was thinking/reconsidering this same thing today too! ;-) I have to discuss with my brother, but I think it will be changed soon into "Made in the Netherlands". Thanks for the feedback. ;-)
Also, google can't tell me that I'm not allowed to drive if I don't give them personal information. I can't just go to DuckDuckGo's DMV instead of giving my data to the government.
This is the next iteration of natural selection - another item in the long line of complex and sometimes not so complex ways of monopolizing attention from the other sex.
We're using it for migration from sqlite to postgres. Never found a more useful single line command.
Based on the text it appears to be a Dutch venture. And the Dutch are pleasantly direct about things. That's one of the things I like about living in NL. And in this case, there's no point softening the speech.

Some people get dementia, and there are ways to make their lives perhaps more meaningful. This appears to be attempting to do that.
If persistence is not key, what is the easiest way to do this? Like if I am on a phone with grandma and want to see a local HTML page from her Mac, what do my simplest instructions for her look like?
Yea I decided I don't want a flame war. You need to chill man wtf.
Most people who remember "defragging" have no clue what it actually does, and those that do have no problem understanding the issue of "heap fragmentation".

And if you think that developers below the age of 25 are the main reason your standard Office apps are slow, I wonder when you think that trend started and what the workforce building them looks like.

Same with everything else that's part of what's "understand how file systems work" means for users. It's an abstraction that tells you nothing about the underlying hardware - not to mention the underlying hardware having evolved quite a bit over the past few decades.
> Too much opportunity to bikeshed?

Yes, and also too hard to set up. It's extremely dumb, but I'm much more likely to use something I can't configure, because if I can configure it, I'm going to want to, and it'll take forever to make all those choices.
This feels like magic!
They don't usually give details of how they caught them, because the next bad-actor will read that to know their tactics.

Search warrants are given on reasonable doubt. When it comes to cryptocurrencies, the feds have reasonable doubt on everyone. So it is always possible for them to get a search warrant.

I emphasized private keys, bec without them, no matter how much doubt the feds had, they couldn't prove anything.
While on our first pandemic vacation about three months back I had to acquire local currency and briefly froze in front of the ATM as it'd been over a year and a half since I'd entered that PIN anywhere. I had to mentally cycle through a few I've used over the years until I remembered the current one.
Speaking about 'bro' culture - seems like there is always opportunity to bash veganism.
That's possible, too.
Interesting idea. You could probably use the google image search api - http://code.google.com/apis/imagesearch/
Zynga is more profitable than Facebook itself, that must mean something.

Yes, it means something. The question is what.

It might mean that Facebook has strong incentive to steal Zynga's business.

Considering there are rumblings that Zynga is casting about for other platforms, Zynga might think so.

If Facebook could be the home of many profitable apps that it had fair and transparent way of taking a cut from, then you could feel like Facebook was likely to keep its ecosystem working. Until then, it seems like anyone building on Facebook is subject to continuous risk of, as you imply, a sea-change in Facebook's operations.
Presumably they mean that there were lower sales in Japan, but that material and supplies sourced from Japan weren't affected.