skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you are right. I think that was part of the appeal. Even though I didn't have a PC nor could I afford one as a teenager I religiously read these computer magazines cover to cover including all the ads. in fact I enjoyed reading ads more.
The people who built Stonehenge probably didn't have wheels or domesticated horses.

Also, Wales is hilly [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wales&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images...], and there is a the choice of a either rather dangerous river [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=severn+bore&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=...] or the Irish Sea [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wales+south+coast&t=ffab&iar=image...] to get past to get from Wales to Stonehenge.

On the other hand, all that water probably helped when they had to get the stones there.
At that point you just insert a spook into the foundry as an employee and have them swap the files. No need to waste time or uncertainty.
There’s something ancient and royal about the face of the cheetah, in slow motion it’s simply majestic.

The music adds to the experience for sure, i found myself wiping my eyes halfway through.
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The two sides are not equal. This is a mistake I see constantly. One's dumb beliefs are not equal to science. Why would anyone respect the stupidity of anti vaxxers? How about throwing those assholes in jail for endangering not only their children but everyone else also? That would be better than the tax break proposed by Australia as it would apply to both the rich and the poor equally and be an even better incentive.
The TSMC factories are mostly back online though. At worst theres just a one week delay on lead times now.
Embossed letters that are geometry in CAD would be much better in a realtime engine as a normal map, lots of things like that.

A full fidelity CAD model for something like a bolt can easily be two million polygons if the draftsman isn't careful.
Those aren't terrible per se, but I think the relentless immediacy of you're manager's chat or request would get annoying, especially on a weekend or holiday as the article discussed.
Don't use docker to run your app in development
> That's a bold and sweeping assertion for which you offer no proof whatsoever.

It's self-evident and you aren't providing evidence, you're arguing definitions. The internet is politically neutral. It is designed to carry data, without respect for its contents, point of origin, or destination. All participants in the network are treated equally, all forms of communication are treated equally.

Now, you can say "neutrality is a political statement". And if you want to define it that way, then sure, it's political. But I think that's a fairly silly, meaningless definition.
If material can be removed, it's not irremovable.
Why do people make a huge fuss over git? Why?

What is the war they're fighting? Do they have performance anxiety? Are they fearful of some unerasable backlog of mistakes people will hold over their head?

I have never found myself in a position where destruction of data was an issue.

I have never found myself in a position where commit conflicts could not be reasoned about, in terms of the code itself, with total ignorance of the nature of the repository.

Git records parallel tracks of sequences of events. That's it.

How is git hard? Why do people freak out about how insane it is, to change text files? Why?
I have so much that I want to say about this - but beyond all the politics and moneyed/tenured interests holding back change, I can see that Jupyter notebooks are the disruptive innovation that will force publishing to modernize. People I work with are producing notebooks that fuse text, formatted equations, code, and interactive figures in a way that looks and feels like a top-quality paper. Except with this paper, you can reveal the code that produced each figure, probe and alter the analysis methods directly, and download the raw data behind the figures (it's an attribute of the plot object! Imagine that!). This format will win. It's too useful and solves too many problems not to win. The only question is whether academicians have the foresight to build in a decentralized DARE I SAY blockchain/smart-contract-based peer review system to circumvent the rent seeking publishers.
I spent some time working in a fab. Nothing is cheap, competition is tough, yield is everything. 99.8% yield on each step of a 500 step process is good for 38% overall recovery.

These events have been shown to be very rare, and the costs would greatly outweigh the benefits (for the time being).

The cheapest piece of equipment was the stand the FOUPS come down and rest on. From memory, that was easily 5 figures, perhaps low 6. Every other piece of processing equipment was insanely more expensive.

Queuing theory is an active field of research with great applications in how wafer processing. The total process has to be looked at. Wafer priority, wafer value, planning preventative maintenance on the machines, etc. could all be taken into consideration when scheduling when wafers will run.

Retrofitting every "robot" that grabs FOUPS for a much heavier load, upgrading the tracks if needed, replacing every single FOUP, adjusting factory flow and inventory holding areas, doing qualifying trials on the FOUPS (to make sure they're functioning correctly and not leaking), etc. are considerable expense.

Prioritization of wafers and timing the preceding step so the required machine is certain to be ready in the window would yield better results from a strict business ROI perspective.
Tesla Says Its New Self-Driving Chip Is Finally Baked
Oh, I thought you were purporting to be an advocate of science.

Should we not use the scientific method to measure what percentage of the time medical diagnoses are wrong, medicines are withdrawn after being prescribed, and health outcomes of those born at home versus born at the hospital?
The down votes on this thread are insane. Science is not perfect especially medical advice.

Even though I think vaccines are safe and hugely beneficial I find the ideas that the safety of vaccines are "beyond debatable" to be the most rediculous of the arguments on both sides.

We should debate and question everything. There have been other medicines that had been considered safe and then were found to have long term side effects. And of course countless others that were considered safe and never produced side effects.

Just because it's considered safe now doesn't mean we fully understand every aspect of the human body and chemistry and diseases well enough to say that vaccines will never be harmful.

The absolutist language actually makes people more skeptical. If we stick to un-arguable truths like: " In X studies, only 0.01% of people had side effects and each of them had pre existing conditions" sounds way better than "It's undebatably safe and you're an idiot/danger to society if you think otherwise".

People will make good choices if you respect them and stick to the facts.
> Now, LibGen serves a similar purpose (but there's lots of stuff elsewhere that it doesn't have either...)

Do you know a good place where one could find this lots of other stuff? Asking, let us say, for a friend.
> when you contact me asking me to explain a technical topic in detail because you don't understand it, why in the world would you not want to show me the article before publication

Have you asked? What did they say? That would be interesting to learn. I don't feel that more expressions of outrage on the Internet are valuable to me; goodness knows we have had enough of those!

IME, usually quality publications get the facts right (and as importantly, they are not wrong in regard to the subtleties) on technical topics in which I have expertise. They might not go in depth enough to interest me, but if I have expertise then I'm not the audience.

In areas where I don't have expertise, I rarely see quality publications get important facts wrong, based on future reporting and on non-partisan, outside experts, though of course no human effort is perfect.
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> I dated a lovely woman who descended from the very Inuit tribes you two are hand waving at

Wow. Just wow. You're bragging about dating an indigenous woman? I find that to be very colonialist and sexist. Your use of their lived experiences to make yourself appear woke is also problematic.

I'm just kidding. Could you imagine how insufferably boring I would be if I left comments like these sincerely?
Big $$$ in corporate espi0nage and sab0tage
Even if it's just a "VPN" to your own home router.

Then I guess people would crack the VPN auth protocol.
> Other disciplines are more enslaved to elsevier, but CS has always been more free.

The arXiv (http://arxiv.org) has a good claim on allowing one to extend this "more free"ness to math and many of the physical sciences, too.
> Why do people make a huge fuss over git? Why?

It's unclear to me what you're referring to, but the part I can answer is this:

> How is git hard?

IMHO because it is not intuitively obvious what it means for your "HEAD" to be "detached", or for you to "rebase" onto a "remote branch", or why "checking out" a file reverts your changes, or why "checking out" a branch suddenly clones its files, or why you'd "add" a missing file to remove it, or why you "committing" doesn't actually commit your changes to the central repo, etc.
I've been using this for probably 6-7 years now and it's become a standard part of my workflow. I've never had problems using git, but scm_breeze makes things faster (shorthand commands for common operations), and adds some nice bells and whistles. It's never caused a problem for me in the entire time I've used it either.
> The answer for many jobs is yes. We know this because volunteers exist, personal projects exist, people help each other fix their roofs and cars and fridges, etc.

Volunteers and especially personal projects really strike me as activities one undertakes when they have secondary means of survival and/or safety nets. The latter is commonly mentioned as problematic in terms of requiring GitHubs from job applicants.

The existence of these people is not sufficient, we also have to prove that these people are not distributed in some highly biased way, which I suspect, they are. There could be a lot of consequence to such biases. For instance, software developers creating software that blind people can't use.
I played with one contact, and if you have vision as bad as mine you know there is essentially no chance that I would be able to build a stereo image of the ball with one eye uncorrected. I know this because I had to relearn how to play, and I found myself using other cues for depth, like what the ball was occluding.
This looks super neat. Will try it out. Although I’m a sourcetree user... lately `git add -i` has changed how I use got massively.
I couldn’t imagine it, no, because I care more about the number of hairs on my scrotum than whether you consider me boring or, really, any larger opinion you’d have of me at all. HN opinions of my character are like fruit flies: annoying, tiny, and wholly irrelevant once disposed of appropriately.

Thanks for the content-laden rebuttal!
“Since you’re almost certainly being intentionally obtuse, as usual,”

Kindly get bent. You clearly don’t want a conversation or even to be understood, you just want to shout at people so you can feel better.
I really hope I live long enough to see scaled-up spectroscopy of exoplanets [1]. (I don't have enough optimism for hope for actual imaging.) It'll be fascinating to get a sense of the true range of world-types out there and see how often planets end up developing life.

(Picking up oxygen would be a high-confidence indicator of the presence of life, since oxygen reacts with everything and so can maintain a stable fraction of a planet's atmosphere only by continual replenishment, the only known mechanism for which is biological.)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4156723/
That's my bread-and-butter. I take a good SaaS and strip it down so it's simpler for people to use (and for me to build). Then I sell it for significantly less than my competitor. Simple & cheap is "better" for some people.

The trick is to find a good niche, so you can build a bunch of semi-related SaaS apps and cross market them. I've found developer related SaaS (web browser testing, PDF generation, log analysis, cron notifications, etc) are highly saturated.

To be fair, none of my products qualify as "startups". But building a lifestyle business has a lot of perks (no stress).
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People are a lot less individualistic than you might think. If you want to change opinions, change the messenger.
I used to train in C152 that had been fitted with extended fuel tanks; before used as a trainer, it had been used to patrol pipelines in remote parts of Texas. With full tanks, it could fly a long time.

It was a tiny plane. And I was a shitty pilot. Ferrying one across open seas would be amazing and terrifying.
> are YOU tired of typing every git command directly into the terminal, but you're too stubborn to use Sourcetree because you'll never forgive Atlassian for making Jira? This is the app for you!

lol
Translated: “I have over 64,000 karma and am somehow surprised I have an unfavorable reputation in a regular reader, and my reaction to that is to get feisty.”

You’re right though, I’ll drop that, that was unfair and unnecessary. I apologize.
I want to edit the commit message of a commit that is 5 commits in the past, that I have not pushed yet. What is the command to do it?

Okay so it turns out I made a minor typo in that commit and I want to change it without adding any more commits. What is the command to do it?

Okay so now I want to take all commits that have "bugfix pickme" in the subject and cherry-pick them to master. What is the command to do it?

With a decent interface, these actions are basically trivial. I've been using git for several years and I have to think way too hard to figure out what to type just to get what I want to happen. All too frequently I just say 'screw it' and make a sad commit because my job is writing software, not wrestling with git commands.
The Year there was no AV gas in Australia...
There's been at least a partial copy in Alexandria and Amsterdam for a long time, and they opened a full replica in Canada last year. At least I think the Canada one is done, can't find a blog post saying it was finished. https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/03/faqs-about-the-internet-...
I mean, you're kind of framing it as a yes or no situation. It's more a question of degree.

And you could theoretically look at history before the modern concept of capitalism to see what gets done and what doesn't. I'd argue that saying we didn't have airplanes is underselling it by quite a bit - we went through how many centuries in which things barely progressed? And I'm talking things like "kids not doing quite as much".
This link really puts the choice of Azores in perspective in terms of efficiency:

http://www.gcmap.com/map?P=YQM-YYT-SMA-DKR&MS=wls&MR=600&MX=...

The northerly route is much less efficient although probably a lot safer.

Buy the way these are some wonderful links. Thanks.
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1 Satoshi is currently worth $0.000069, and transactions are being approved for as low as 2¢. So this isn't currently a big problem.

In the future, bitcoin could be extended to have more digits. Or perhaps this will be dealt with on a second layer. Lightning transactions could deal with sub-satoshi quantities.
Can anyone in robotics/drones speak as to how far away we are from Slaughterbots? [1]

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw&vl=en
> I know this is a controversial view, but how much progress has been lost to intellectual property in general? I do not think the temporary monopoly on an idea incentives innovation.

Why not? You're saying things that seem to fly in the face of what almost any economist thinks, that fly in the face of common sense, and that fly in the face of actually asking people why they do what they do.

So why do you think what you're saying is true?
Looks nice but I think you need some better documentation before anyone can use it.
The intro was well and good, like a soft and gentle foreplay. Then suddenly, the conclusion was like a bang! Head spin again. No idea what just happened. Is monad like a mutex?
Err do you mind explaining what the blockchain has to do with this?
Venezuelan President Targeted in Failed Drone Attack, Minister Says
The NSA probably already has them.
>but after hearing about how shitty academics are treated during their entire career (phd, postdoc, faculty, publishing), including the low pay, politics, and giving away the rights to their work, they seem like one of the most manipulated and least self-confident demographics in the global workforce.

I'll both agree and disagree. Starting with disagree:

A lot of these problems arose mostly in the last 20 years, and is somewhat dependent on the discipline. To give you an idea, someone getting an engineering PhD with, say, 3-5 papers published in peer reviewed (but average) journals had a good chance of getting a tenure track job as late as, say, 2005 - without doing any postdocs - no concerns about impact factors, etc. Most advisors were not slave drivers. Now if you switch to something like biology or physics, then it was much less likely and you needed a post doc. Still, if you went back another 20 years, you'd likely get a tenure track job straight out of a physics PhD.

For publishing, most academics never cared until the last 10 years or so. The cost of journals to universities did not explode until some point in the 2000's - so even less prestigious universities would subscribe to most journals an academic needed.

Once you got through tenure, it's hard to describe how you're treated as "shitty". You choose your hours. You choose if you want to get paid for summer or not. You choose what you want to work on. The pay is low, but it somewhat tracks that of industry (i.e. engineering professors still get paid more than humanities, etc). Having all that freedom should cost you in terms of pay. And just like in the real world, you can always get paid more if you do pretty good work in things that others care about (i.e. sacrifice your freedom somewhat).

Where I agree with you: In my experience, any group that insulates itself from the outside and uses only in-group metrics will eventually reach the stage they are in. If only they get to decide what makes one academic better than another, then you will get pettiness.
The scientists in the article suspect that the bodies were cremated elsewhere, and the ashes transported to Stonehenge.
Which interface can do the above trivially with git?
Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities
I use TortoiseGit's GUI for everything except features that it doesn't have, like git add -p. It makes life so much easier when you can just right-click and go to "Show Log", search for something you care about, then right-click that one commit in 2017 that messed things up and click "Browse repository" to look at the entire repo & diff arbitrary files without checking out a single file messing up your work tree. Trying to do every single thing with a command line interface just sounds insane to me.
this readme really speaks to me
Crazy. Sort of related, this sort of thing doesn't seem to be terribly uncommon in the middle east. There's plenty of footage on the internet of ISIS attaching mortars and grenades to drones and using them to bomb vehicles and buildings.
Could you say a little more about what relevance 0.48 has here?
>99.8% yield on each step of a 500 step process is good for 38% overall recovery.

What does that mean? Is 'yield' not the end usable product from the batch?
We don't give guns to kids, we don't allow drunk people to drive, so why would we allow idiots to not vaccinate and harm everyone else? All opinions are not valid when one's opinion goes against established scientific fact. That really seems to be a point mostly lost on Americans who think their beliefs are equal to facts. If that was the case, we should let people who think they drive better drunk do so and give guns to four year olds because without a conscience, they'll have no qualms about using them. The above two scenarios are as absurd as allowing people to go around unvaccinated, infecting and killing others randomly.
Hadn't heard this particular recording before. Wow. Alice In Wonderland take 2 happens to be my favorite of his I think. It's from the legendary trio days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgwPvFeBRIw
You're not wrong to be cautious and it's good to ask questions if you're concerned. But, in this case, it's almost certainly a joke (though I'll agree it is an odd one).

I think this because:

1.) I've tried this site with two browsers on different machines on different networks. Neither browser puts that particular security warning in markup on a compromised site.

2.) The site footer references the title. It isn't exactly an explanation, or rather, it isn't one that I understand. It may be an in-joke between friends.

Even in the unlikely event that this is an attack, it's unlikely to be dangerous to visitors.

I think this because it would be quite rare to find someone with the skill and dedication to own the site and attack visitors, yet who would still advertise his/her attack in progress.
I'm a pro with TortoiseHg so have all the concepts perfectly clear. Git is still hard with tons of command line syntax to look up and alias, no good GUIs, and poor error messages when things go wrong like Excel locking a file or not being able to pull. TortoiseHg lets me treat my commits like little bubbles on a graph and rearrange them at will. Git isn't trying not to be hard.
Did you perhaps mean “72km away”? If you did mean miles, that’s some very fast driving.
I think the point was that git is missing an interface that makes these easy, and it badly needs one.
Same, you can also drag them around to a new rotation.
I still don't understand how could anyone find this defacing useful.

Just give me the satellite or the Street View photos.

TBH Bing's "Bird's Eye" view was far more useful that the shitty resolution (mandated by law BTW) satellite photos.

Of course, Microsoft killed it :(
Interesting how I can get almost every single kernel to pop without burning in a plain paper bag.
Yeah, Tortoise makes life so much easier. :-) I just wrote about TortoiseGit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17689294
Purposefully messing up tcp/ip handshake
So I’ve been trying to find a way to mess with the obvious intrusion attempts to some servers I’m running. Most obvious are requests to “/wp-admin”, and the like. I don’t run WP but would like to mess with them by either leaving them hanging or maybe allowing them in to some weird honeypot/fake site?

Anyone got ideas or ways to purposefully screw up the tcp handshake or the like?
I'm out of the loop. What's the story here? Why are devs sad about Atlassian and Jira?
Was not aware; this is excellent news!
Say a conservative becomes CEO of AT&T. Should they consider the "damage" that will be caused by routing calls for liberals, embrace their political responsibilities, and kick suspected left-wingers off the PSTN?

Republicans are real people who really make up approximately half the voters in this country. The "threat to democracy" here is the suggestion that it's a moral imperative to rig core communications infrastructure against them.

Facebook hasn't "fundamentally changed" anything. Right wingers just happened to be savvier at manipulating the tools it provides, this time around. If anything, that's a surprise. One would expect social media to be good at rallying younger, tech-savvier, more left-leaning voters. One would expect the DNC to run the savviest social-media campaign, based on its track record in '08 and '12.