skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A grandiose claim offering nothing better than "don't want to go into details" counts as unsubstantive and flamebait, two qualities that are deprecated here. In the future, could you please either make a comment like this substantive, or just not post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ah. Hadn't noticed that. Most of what I watch on those services, especially when traveling, is their original content so I hadn't noticed it wasn't for everything.
Coon – new tool for building Erlang packages
As a side effect, btw, you can't watch Netflix if you habitually use a VPN (as they block proxies).
at least some of the documentaries from PBS and BBC are downloadable as well.
I knew about that but I was thrown by this

> new VAT scheme

whereas this is from 2015. I was confused by language where you described it as a law to target Amazon. Now I see that was just an opinion.

> my solution was to stop selling into the EU

Interesting business decision. Was the cost of compliance that high, or was your revenue that trivial?

> though amusingly once the UK leaves the EU I'll be able to start again (by just ignoring the EU's VAT rules)

Well I was having a conversation with one of the UK's foremost VAT specialists on Friday, from one of the UK big 4 accountancy firms. He was very clear that the general opinion is that the UK will align with the EU for VAT. This was a response to my question about the catastrophic cashflow impact that losing the VAT rules on imports would have to UK businesses. He told me not to worry, as VAT alignment was simply a necessity.
Computer models can predict gender with 95.6% accuracy based on typing style
Isn't the fairing just a simple pair of metal casings. Why bother to recover it?
I believe the two boosters were previously flown and were of an older block/generation (block 3 and 4 if memory serves me) where they are focusing on block 5 as the final revision and all future Falcon rockets would be this same standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Block_5
There are significant differences. Depending on the case, it can be more or less effective.

1) If you intern all strings, then you're guaranteed to have one copy of "Hello World", which this doesn't (you could concatenate "Hello" and "World" twice).

2) String interning doesn't let similar strings share the same array. The Ruby trick lets you have

"Hello World"
"World"
"orld"
"rld"
"ld"
"d"

all share the same underlying array, whereas string interning gives you a separate array for each.
They are the older version, so not useful when there are a lot of block 5 versions available.
Yeah. I guess in space flight you can't just double the calculated requirement. That would be expensive.
Posting because of the potential interest of the debate on the Erlang mailing list concerning the propriety of the project's name.
I believe when the refund is not the customer's fault (though some choose to do it then), that the refund is typically "by the medium paid" (with some waiting, or such, for things like uncleared checks, etc.), but I'm not sure if that's a product of merchant regulation, consumer law or 'policy'.
Scroll to the bottom and click around the slideshow. It's in with a number of others not mentioned:

https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/single-trapped-atom-...
This is a blatant lie combined with omissions.

I’m a “full-service shopper” in a zone without any in-store teams, meaning that I do the shopping and the delivering. Since I’ve started, I have only seen the order commissions steadily deteriorate to the point that they are now about half of what they used to be a year ago.

I can assure you and anyone else reading that the so-called service fee is not going to any of us in the field. And many customers have stopped tipping assuming that the service fee is a tip.
No matter what infrastructure you're using? You won't believe how many payment systems out there are not very MOSS friendly. If you are a developer and cannot use VAT MOSS logic as e.g. plugin you basically have to get IP country code, add country VAT tax and adjust the payment plan. Yeah... all really really trivial if the payment system is not used to dynamic pricing on different country of customers! I hope you see the irony. This is all very unpleasant for small businesses!
After a couple of pages I'm still not sure if the author is serious. Maybe I have misunderstood, but it seemed as if he's saying that the real problem with consciousness is people thinking that there's a problem with consciousness. I happen to believe just that, so seeing this idea decorated with scientific slang is very funny.
They are selling fundamentally things that dont belong to them.
Musk on public transit: "there’s like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer"

This "other people are weird and gross" idea strikes me as exactly the wrong kind of sentiment needed to help humanity pull itself together. And I'm the sort of person who believes that motivation is a good predictor of outcomes. So I agree, this is not the kind of visionary I want to follow.
In the beginning, I was definitely not productive at tuning or making changes to a PID loop. Over time, I learned via looking at the code, reading online, and getting training from very experienced automation software engineers. I'm by no means an expert now, but we were able to turn changes around in minutes and be confident in the outcome, instead of hours/days with some doubt as to what would actually happen in the physical world.
> Those two boosters, which were used in previous launches of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, will not be reused again, Musk said in a post-launch news conference last week.

Why did SpaceX spend resources to get them to safe landing then? I presume, they rather maintain their routine and maintain the success of landing the booster. It would probably be expensive to change their standard procedure.

Does any know how many times a booster can be resued? What dictates its lifetime?
Good article. I would just add that the US took the lead in setting up the post-WWII political and economic order in part because it wanted to avoid a repeat of the chaos of the previous two decades, and that had in fact been characteristic of much of the world for many thousands of years. And a great many other nations joined in this order because they had some similar motives.

It is important to explain this because many on the left believe that the world was a peaceful, just, and prosperous paradise until Western imperialism came along, which is completely false. And lately many on the far right have been falsely claiming that the West was ditto a quite wonderful place until modernity.
WarGames and the HP1345A digital vector display
The root of that evil seems to be determinism or IOW dualism.
Obviously one of the things you don't want "too much of" is a pyrophoric fluid that you need to dump before you can let people near :-). Have they ever published their safeing procedure? I'm wondering if they recover more volattiles than the old shuttle did after it landed.
Whoa, so not only were the boosters landed, they were actually reused from previous launches! That's doubly awesome.
Supersonic, for a start.
Netflix also works in Firefox on Linux since almost a year or so.
You say that like city water never needs maintenance. My neighbor had roots growing into his pipes from a tree on city property, but since the pipes were on private property he had to have them replaced on his own dime, and also fix the flooding in the house from the backed-up sewer line.

I'm not arguing that septic tanks are better, and I apologize that many people reading my comment seem to think I am. What I'm arguing is that septic tanks are not uncommon. On the contrary, basically everyone outside of city limits is using one.
> Classic forums software was pretty much a web based NNTP gateway -- some even supported nntp integration directly. Posts were threaded.

Ah. We have a different view of "classic forum software". NNTP was before my time.
I fondly remember FUW in Bloomington-Normal, IL. If you go on YouTube and look for Scrub-E the janitor, you might find one of my matches.
the paperwork is a minor bureaucratic annoyance, it's not a significant problem

the significant problem is now the fact that I have to register for VAT domestically if I want to to sell to people in other EU countries

before if my turnover was below ~£70,000 I paid no VAT at all due to the exemption (giving me a competitive edge vs. big companies with better economies of scale)

after the new regulations if I make any EU sales I have to either fill in VAT returns for EU member state I've sold to (not feasible, that would be hundreds of VAT returns/year in many languages), or register for domestic VAT which will handle that for me, but kills my business model

the EU Commission doesn't see this as a significant problem, likely as it is a beneficiary of VAT (the VAT being an EU mandated tax)
To analyze/test the used boosters, or to put them on display, probably
I was under the impression that the center core's re-entry was faster than the previous Falcoln 1st stages.
We live in an age of lo-fi hi-bling, high consumer numbers from people who consider themselves experts in audio quality because they have a soundbar and a subwoofer don't really count for much.

I don't expect you to be convinced by me, but maybe one day you will experience some nice audio on a good system and then have a personal baseline to understand why calling something this small "audiophile quality" seems silly.
That is like saying Apple (iPhones) are a threat to Google (Android) when it was Apple that first brought touch-based smartphones to market.

Palm and Microsoft (through OEMs) both released touch-based smartphones years before the iPhone. They were very popular in the military, government, and legal markets, though a distant #2 and #3 to Blackberry (which did not release a touch-capable device until after the iPhone).
It's carbon composites, slow to build and about 10% of the total launch cost.
There's already a huge amount of free space in Threadripper - the active processors only take up half the space.

The biggest issue will be heat dissipation - but most games are GPU bottlenecked (especially beyond 8C/16T) and games generally aren't designed to consider the Threadripper module structure anyway.

You could probably add the GPU and a couple of 8GB stacks of HBM to the two empty slots, then throttle one of the CPU modules when the GPU ramps up.

I'd recommend a water block.
> Why did SpaceX spend resources to get them to safe landing then?

collect data + parts of the booster can be reused
Except people would happily accept variable pricing for content provided it was centralised.

Steam gets this so right - games change price all the time, go on sale etc.

It's the same phenomenon you see with landlords - rental properties go unoccupied for huge periods of time because they believe they'll get a better deal just in the future - with media we've let absurd copyright durations do the same damn thing, and probably at the expense of artists and content creators who I want to support.
Because if someone steals your money from a bank or you lose your PIN there is still a way to get your money back. If you lose your private key or someone steals it you can't get your money back with crypto.
The current version of the rocket is called "block 5". Those two boosters weren't block 5 boosters. Presumably the reason to spend resources to get them to safe landing was to learn things that will be useful in future launches; for example, those two boosters had enough ignition fluid to land successfully this time, but the main first stage did not.
They are older versions of the boosters, the new Block 5 versions are designed to be re-used many more times.
1 try not to get hacked

2 don't sell your soul to marketing parasites

Seems like common sense really but it has (US) companies scrambling. Good. We are GDPR!
Decentralization advocates make lots of specific arguments for advantages they claim it has.
> I've listened in on various conversations around health products over the years. HIPAA is a common reason given for not getting into the healthcare space and focusing elsewhere. A lot of smart people and smart products that could have been focused on health just never turn up at all, because of the vagueness, poor drafting and expansive reach of such things.

As someone who worked extensively on HIPAA covered data and systems, there are only three options here.

Option 1) Mandate no data protection. This is how you end up with hidden security dumpster fires like Equifax, when public companies are involved (cost of security vs profit).

Option 2) Strictly mandate how companies must behave to be compliant. Example: DoD (I believe?). Legal requirements always lag technical best practices.

Option 3) Generally mandate what compliance results in. Example: HIPAA. Results in lack of clarity and legal challenges.

Of these options, I'll take (3) every time.

If a startup isn't willing to make a best effort to comply (which is specifically worded into HIPAA and substantially reduces penalties), then I'd rather they not be able to touch my health data anyway...
I love what I assume is a winking "pale blue dot" reference in the quote at the end.
Even being a seemingly simple structure it would still be expensive to build. I'm sure it also contains latching hardware, etc. used to release it. Seeing as it's mostly a static piece if they can get it down in one piece it's probably "trivial" (compared to a full core) to re use it, but it saves money (and junk in the ocean)
"Grey for a couple of months"? Are you an Amazon recruiter? Seattle had nine sunny days over a five-month period last year. It's objectively one of the grayest places in the US. Without the perfect summers we'd be fools to live here.
> a "no current coworkers" policy

So if someone asks, Can you add me on FB? Would you reply?: No, I have a no current coworkers policy. Is there a way to do this without hurting people's feelings?
I was able to complete freezes online for all. Are you able to say why it posed an obstacle for you to freeze your file please?
vDSL is what changed to make the speeds higher, but although it got a little better, it seems like the distances are still pretty limited.
I suspect that the DSLAMs have become smaller and cheaper, so that you can push those out of the central office and into smaller cabinets inside neighborhoods, which had the effect of making the distance problem appear to go away.

That still seems to leave truly rural areas out of luck, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL
Microsoft to Embrace Decentralized ID Systems Built on Bitcoin/Blockchains
They might have plans for them, like they did with this booster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_booster_B1019
>anywhere outside of the city

It's not quite that stark. I live in a population ~7K ex-urban town. I have town water. I do have a septic tank although I believe a portion of the town near the center has sewer hookups.
Dave Chalmers is definitely one of the best philosophers studying the hard problem of consciousness.

As a professional philosopher writing for other philosophers writings are very analytical and thorough, so reading and following them is hard work.
Is that also why the video feed was not working? SpaceX commentators said it was possibly due to vibration.
That's not the hard part of the VAT rules. If it was just asking the user what country they're in and then submitting sales figures by country, that'd be easy.

There are two hard parts to what the EU did, for businesses.

The first is you have to charge variable VAT rates and remit the collected tax. However VAT rates do vary not only by country but in some cases within countries too, and they do change, so you have to make sure you have a really up to date list of tax rates and geographies where they apply. Including varying rates down to the city levels.

But the real kicker is that you can't trust the user's claim about where they are. Users are financially incentivised to lie about their location because these are digital downloads. So if they claim to live in a low VAT region they pay less, but download the same files. Simple as that.

As a consequence the VAT regulations have a LOT of complicated edge cases and "guidance" in them about how to figure out where the user really is, not where they say they are. This is hard of course, the user may be using VPNs and so on. There is specific guidance on how to handle users who are on ships sailing between VAT regions, or planes that are in the air when a purchase is made. So you've got a really complex pile of logic to start with, and then you're also in an adversarial situation where the users are all trying to screw you over by forging their location. And if they succeed, you can suffer big fines.

Oh and finally of course, you can't use any technical tricks to figure out where the user actually is, because then you'd violate EU privacy laws ... have fun with all of this! In practice it has to all be outsourced, it is too much work to implement in house for all but the largest of firms.
Show HN: Design, develop and test with realistic fake data
It's nice to have PDFs mark themselves as such...
I'm not a fan of any kind of wrestling, but I do love fourth-wall breaking stuff in many mediums. Comedians talking about their jokes not landing, author's making up books-within-books, films that play with conventions and cliches.

I'm generally impressed with how, if done correctly, you can maintain the emotional connection that is often referred to as "suspension of disbelief" while making the unreality explicit.
It says right there in the article that it used up the fuel while attempting to re-lights the engines (without success).
I occasionally post this way when I realize part way through the original article that I have wasted my time reading an unsubstantiated diatribe that starts out sort of stealth-ed as a reasonably objective article (I don’t post this way about comments). My intention in such a case is to warn other readers who are not interested in that sort of thing not to waste their time. The last time I did this, I said:

"Exploitation and inequality is innate to the industrial-capitalist system; a fact well-known at least since the time of Marx." Citation needed?

The quote was taken from an article on environment problems in India. My problem with this is only that they said it without showing their work. If Marx said this, cite him. If it’s “well-know” prove it. Since they don’t bother to support this anywhere near the text of the claim, I don’t trust them anymore. I’m out, even if I was inclined to agree with them.

I agree in general that we shouldn’t be rude or dismissive, but I think we also need to retain the ability to call out unsubstantiated claims that purport to be common knowledge, or are poorly attributed, and to protect our time.

In the rare case that I regret reading something pretty long halfway through, I sometimes quickly post this way, get down voted, and hope I saved somebody some time. Anyone who wouldn’t read the article knowing that statement was in it can then choose not too. I guess if this is more annoying than reading a bad article, I could stop doing it or at least rephrase.
I don't think any of the boat landings have ever worked live -- only the ones on land.
Going all in on the Culture ship names. I'd be happy if he just made 100(ish) more just to name them after every ship that Iain M. Banks named. They don't need to catch rockets, they can just link up and make a floating utopia.
> As it should for most users.
No, if it asks me and I say don't install any updates, and restart computer for whatever reason, all I see is installing updates screen, despite my instructions not to do so.

> Forcing? I'm not sure what you mean. You can easily change the default browser just like in any other OS.

Installed FF, went and changed default browser to FF, then Windows asked me every 15 minutes to change to Edge, resulting in changing it all by itself to be default browser without my knowledge.
Oh, it's linked to on the bottom in a way that it looks like it was created by the same person.
In exactly the same way that a camera can take a photograph of a star, which (for all but the Sun) is an infinitesimally small point of light. As long as the light intensity is higher than the background noise, it will render as a smeared out blob[1] due to diffraction.

[1] an Airy disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk
They justify it by the same reasoning that any other company justifies a layoff. How much money the company makes does not really factor in, they don't exist for the benefit of society.
They probably used a simple model (and experience) to determine the needed amount. But the model was wrong because, well, it encountered the real world. So they'll adjust in the future. Probably they could have analyzed the heck out of it for years, and gotten it right, but then that would take years and cost buckets.
1) Volume can be set by using Ctrl+Up / Ctrl+Down and moves in 5% increments.
> but if I'm on the business end...

How would you justify the raises and keeping the redundant positions -- especially if they were already paid market rates or if they were underperformers?
That's a great name to add to the stable of Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships:

- Of Course I Still Love You

- Just Read the Instructions

- A Shortfall of Gravitas

(and doubly great for you, u/ZeroGravitas)
Why not just have a freemium model like a Facebook Blue or something? I pay you money, I get no ads and premium control of my feed. I don't pay you money, I get what I'm given.
Beautiful comment! It really lines up with my experiences.

Especially the fact that "you may not even realize you learned until after the fact". Most skills I have, I cannot point to a specific point in time when I learned them, it's a really gradual process. You just have to pursue the things you want / like, and practice regularly. No point thinking about the big picture too much. It'll come.
yes, but only via Developer Console. Should I ask all mark it as inappropriate in Play Market? Sometimes Play Market upvoted some review, which have only dislikes and put them above positive comments. I fear to make things worse
It might actually, mostly due to buffer bloat on some modem stacks.

The anti-buffer bloat stuff from the recent DOCSIS (I forget if it was 3.0 or the one after) are supposed to help a LOT with latency issues. Not as good as fiber but close enough that global distance issues become dominant again.
> Americans don't usually like to preemptively create rules and regulations that could hinder innovation

What about software patents? Or gene patents for that matter.
It's traveling at hypersonic velocities when it's first relit. It's also far too large to fit in any wind tunnel to test that situation.
Over-hiring can be an issue as well. Too many cooks in the kitchen isn't a good thing.
There's a lot more to it than that though, especially if you're targeting normal people and not the HN crowd. What if the subtitles are delayed? What if there are problems with the encoding and there are question marks all over the place? All of this is very solvable, but you can't just say "it's very easy actually, just drag and drop".
Apple’s Software “Problem” and “Fixing” It
Perception is a funny thing. Average annual precipitation for each city and sunny days per year:

Boston: 43.76in / 137 days

Seattle: 34.1in / 152 days

https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/boston/massachusetts/u...

https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/seattle/washington/uni...
If I'm not mistaken, the SR-71 and A12 had enough TEB for 15 restarts. After doing an aerial refueling, they had to use TEB to get back to afterburner.