skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NASA Names Astronauts for Flights to International Space Station
Efficient Supply Chain’s only get mentioned when talking about Amazon or Walmart’s but it’s unbelievable how complex Apple’s supply chain is and how much it contributed to Apple.
The linked writeup is a little light on content, but the dweb summit went well. There's interest growing in the space.

Broadly speaking, the projects are solving either monetization, privacy, or publishing. So, when someone says, "can we decentralize?" they usually have one of those 3 things in mind, and are looking for a way to remove a fixed intermediary. There are subgroups within that - for instance, people who focus on decentralized naming (namecoin) tend to be pretty into censorship resistance within publishing, but decentralized publishing can also mean just reducing barriers to creating websites.

From the slashdot comments -

> 3. The realisation that the web of the nineties, where everyone and their grandma could make a website, is pretty much dead. And no, I do not mourn those Geocities webpages, I rather mourn the fact that it is way too hard to get stuff online without selling your firstborn son to one of the big dragons (Google, Facebook etc).

The dream of the 90s web is alive and, yes, in portland. (I can think of 6 people working on it there.) It's an impactful thing to solve; the more that people can publish independently, the less of a problem silos become. You still have to index/aggregate/discover and can come up with protocols to do so, but even with servers to do the indexing, independent publishing moves the ball down the field since it keeps data and software in the user's control, and free to move between applications.
> 64 miles per hour (29 metres per second)

my units’ sense just got violated...
It's a little faster because of no nonce error correction shenanigans.
Not that much human progress honestly. Most of the people who push the progress ball forward, do so not just because of access to information. They need to be in the right labs, receiving the right training, surrounded by the right mentors etc.
Generating random points inside a sphere
As soon as the monetary reward for doing well is dependent on government contracts, free market values and morals no longer apply.
We survived without vaxines or antibiotics otherwise we wouldn’t be here.

There is no indication that this lunacy is in any way shape and form is genetic.

Also the irony is that the vast majority of anti-vaxxers are vaccinated they will sadly survive their children might not but due to the sanitary conditions and herd immunity of western countries we will need a much larger portion of the population to be unvaccinated before we see major negative effects.

This is why we often see outbreaks in various spots that host large immigrant populations which are more likely to have lower percentage of vaccinated adults and even host asymptomatic carriers.
When I was 19, I did use this option a few times. Success rate was about 50%, not awesome.
Oh so cool this!!
While I do fully believe in the benefits of vaccination, and am vaccinated for many things myself, I do think it's very important to question the formulations of certain vaccines.

I mean, a lot of vaccines are made in China and other places that have lackluster health and safety standards. Just this past week, China has been in an uproar over tainted vaccines. There is legitimate cause to be wary of whats included within certain vaccine formulations, despite the science underlying vaccination being sound.
As I played around with 4D toys, I did start to gain a sense of things that were "Behind" or "In Front" of me in 4D space, that is I could start to feel their presence after they had been pushed out of sight, if I knew in what direction they were moving in the 4th dimension. If I didn't know that I could only feel that they were near.

It helps that there is a little visualization that is just a line-per-object showing where you are, and where all the objects are intersecting the 4th dimension, that you also use to move "back and forth."

One thing I found myself doing was grabbing objects at one of their edges in the 4th dimension, by moving myself to near their boundary, and then using them like brooms. It's really easy to understand with the case of a hypersphere, since at its edge it's just a smaller sphere than at the middle. So you grab that small sphere at the edge, and push in the direction towards its middle in the 4th dimension, and it will act like a bowling ball. You won't see the stuff you are pushing around because the sphere is "ahead" of you, unless they roll around the sphere, then you'll pass them. Once you reach the edge of the 4th dimension, all the stuff you kept pushing will be there.

Predicting how 3D intersections change as objects rotate about in the 4th dimension still seems like chaos to me though, except in the case of hyperspheres, which basically don't change as they rotate, but I only played around for about an hour or so. The only way I found to rotate objects in the 4th dimension was to have them collide with each other, or the walls and floor, which makes it kind of hard to carefully experiment with their rotations.
Blocking inline CSS is more difficult than blocking external resources.
The editor is indeed TUI. But TUI doesn't support editing/saving local files, which write.pub allows.

There are multiple other features, like WYSIWYG diff and version control that make this app compelling
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> How much human progress has been lost to academic profiteering?

More general: How much human progress has been lost to copyright laws?
The behavior isn't changed, right, but it depends on python behavior. IF the python behavior changed somehow, than the C behavior might as well, and due to the A implies B & B implies A basic structure of the system, very weird unpredictable behavior might result.
> The reason it's bad to spend so much on astronaut safety is because the cost is so enormous and because the people at risk are very well-informed and participate voluntarily.

That 4% fatality rate would likely be much higher if safety was lower priority.

Since astronauts don't oversee the entire build process, nor all of the maintenance, nor do the review all of the source code, etc etc etc, they aren't really well informed.

I believe you mean to say they are well informed of the risks, but the risk (4% fatality rate) is only that low due to astronaut safety being a high priority.

Also, as far as I understand, astronauts are usually paid[1], so they participate voluntarily only insofar as I participate voluntarily at my job: sure, I choose to go, but it's not volunteering for tax purposes.

1. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/astro...
The response rate is quite low for these requests, i’ve found. It’s much easier to find a copy via google if the paper is at all popular.
The fact that there's still countries where you can cite philosophical preferences to opt your kid out of vaccinations speaks to some sort of fundamental disconnect that's hard to put one's finger on.

The scientific evidence supporting vaccinations is undebatable, the fact that parents can opt their kids out because they disagree with reality and put other people's lives at risk should be as abhorrent in the public mind as drunk driving.

After all, maybe there's someone who disagrees with the science of how alcohol consumption impairs driving, and how this, statistically, will kill innocent people. Shouldn't they get to disagree with reality and put innocents in harm's way?

But with vaccines the harm is too far removed and only visible through statistics, you usually can't point to any one unvaccinated child and say they caused so-and-so to die (unlike in the case of drunk driving). But the image of a child being forcibly separated from its parents to be injected by agents of the state does produce a visceral image of harm.
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I lasted about halfway through the first season of Discovery before the nonsense was too much for me, but looks I'll be paying for CBS again!
While I understand the numbers benefits of vaccines and their ability to eradicate diseases, here are a few points from a devil's advocate:

1. No medicine is 100% safe in all circumstances. Vaccines do have published risk of complications and while tiny are not zero and sometimes are greater than the risk of contracting the disease itself.

2. As a general rule, I don't want any government telling me what to put in my body or my kid's bodies. Why not ban sugar that leads to far more health conditions than some of these diseases? Why not force people to eat the government recommended ratio of fiber, fat, calories, etc.? Sure, people might be physically healthier but at the expense of freedom of choice.

3. The flu and common cold kills lots of people per year yet those vaccines are optional for adults while some are required for kids, why?

4. Vaccines are required for kids to come to public school in CA, but not required to go to placed where they're in even closer contact (sports, pools, etc.), why?

While I think free vaccines, good education and honest dialogue are important, punishing dissent doesn't seem right. I think understanding that non-vaxers have legitimate concerns helps create a better solution than enforcement and blame.
It’s already a new breed of identity politics, anti-vaxxers are the left’s climate change deniers.
My top rollerblading speed was 24mph back in highschool (going downhill for extra acceleration, and measuring using one of those side-of-the-road "you are going this fast" stands meant for cars), and yeah, the direct contact with the ground does make for a much different and more exhilarating feel than cycling.
A) I'd rather fix the problem in my lifetime

B) more seriously, antivax is a symptom; the real disease is memetic. At some point people gave up on fact-finding processes and the value of expertise. That is a disease vector where social media is the cholera-ridden communal water pump. Some of the things it spreads are harmless (moon landing denial) and some are even more dangerous than anti-vax, such as holocaust denial and sandy hook "paid actor" lies.
Which vaccines used in western countries are made in China? You wouldn't just be saying this without evidence would you?
The publication infrastructure should be implemented and funded by the governments, preferably, as part of some international agreement to share the costs. The only valuable service that traditional publishers do provide is acting as a trusted authority that verifies publications. The rest (distribution etc) is already provided almost at no cost by the internet. Apparently, when there's such an oligopoly of few for-profit organizations, there's no good for anyone except them. Since a big part of research is paid by the taxpayers' money, they have the right to replace the dysfunctional market with a niche communism and run their own government publication agency.
This is such a great, inventive idea. Would definitely like to have something akin to that as a screensaver, for example.
> greater than the risk of contracting the disease itself.

This is a circular argument. In G7 countries with highly developed economies and medical systems, the reason why the risk of contracting a disease like mumps, rubella or polio is extremely rare is because almost everyone is vaccinated against them.
That seems like it would necessarily lower the quality of the journal, not to mention your own paper.
> Ah yes danger to the profit motive.

I see no problem in a profit motive. I see the problem that countries enforce censorship via violence (I am talking about copyright laws).
>but DDJ stopped a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dobb%27s_Journal#End

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/farewell-dr-d...
1. tsmc does a ton of fabbing, including, but not limited to, amd

2. intel aren't that stupuid
Car-Industry here- if a line stops mid-production- every 5 Minutes, you destroy 50.000 + wasted employee-payments and energy.

You get the huge choir of suits, breathing till fungi grows on your neck very quickly. Good times indeed - at least its lousy paid.
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It's not necessarily something to not be proud of, though. NASA's space shuttles ran on something like a 386 CPU. That's what was available when the system was designed. Probably one of the best "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" examples. Swapping out to newer components would have meant replacing so much of the system, that it wasn't worth it. Especially if it was doing everything that needed to be done.

Same thing with your OS/2 system. As long as it's working, there's really no need to change it. The fun begins when it no longer works and needs to be replaced. How much of the factory will then need to be replaced/updated just because the controlling computer can no longer operate the older equipment? That's the type of scenarios that give managers nightmares.
Great work!

Have you seen this one? https://levskaya.github.io/polyhedronisme/

Also, you have probably seen Wenninger’s books, but if not those are great.
Growing up in the 1980s I never thought I'd see a world where a sizable percentage of people both believe that we never landed on the moon, that the earth is flat, and that vaccines are a mind-control plot by some shadowy cabal of "globalists".
Does anyone with good knowledge of the space want to chime in on the state of the open source ecosystem? In particular, what are the canonical libraries for Java, C/C++, python, go etc. ecosystems? Does everyone just use Minisat or Z3 bindings in their language?
Most vaccines are not made in China, at least not those that are in use in the West.

The West has had plenty of its own tainted vaccine issues but it’s not in any shape or form an excuse to not vaccinate just an excuse to have better standards which we already have.

Even with all the possible problems, side effects and complications vaccination saves millions of people each year.

Vaccination isn’t just about you if you don’t vaccinate your child you not only put them at risk but more importantly you those who cannot be vaccinated at even more risk as they would have a compromised immune system to begin with.

The sad truth is that not-vaccinating your child would likely won’t kill them due to modern medicine, however it can kill those who cannot be vaccinated which is why the moral imperative is for society to mandate vaccination because if we have one rule for a just society regardless of what system we use is that the strong should protect the weak.
> favorite obscure polyhedron (the rhombic dodecahedron)

Obscure? Come on! The rhombic dodecahedron is the Voronoi cell of the FCC lattice, making it (arguably) the most natural 3-dimensional analog of the hexagon. It shows up all over the place!

You might enjoy these rhombic dodecahedral dice https://www.mathartfun.com/thedicelab.com/SpaceFillingDice.h...
I find it hard to get as outraged about this as everybody else does. Part of this stems from the fact that I think the history of forcible medical interventions has been over-aggressive as often as it has been under-aggressive.

For example, there was a time when doctors deemed it prudent not give babies breast milk, to take the baby away from the mother for observation after being born, prescribe DES to try to prevent miscarriage.

I imagine vaccination is not one of these cases, but there's a lot we don't really understand at all about the immune system (e.g. why autoimmune conditions like allergies are growing so fast), or the human body in general.
Australia has taken an interesting approach to the anti-vaccine issue - if you don't vaccinate your child you don't get the tax break/welfare for your child. It is amazing when it affects a parents hip pocket how their views on vaccination change.
How does society reconcile this "all opinions are valid" viewpoint with the fact that anti-vaxxers are actively putting others at risk due to reduced herd immunity? It's not theoretical -- we have data that shows outbreaks of "cured" diseases in places with reduced vaccination rates.
I haven't played The Mind (yet), but this card "game" uses non-verbal responses to make a quick and surprisingly accurate psychoanalysis of the respondent: https://medium.com/@jasoncomely/be-honest-are-you-lying-to-y...

It's based on the word association experiments by Carl Jung, who later published his findings as The Association Method.
You are assuming that superstition and mass hysteria are new phenomenon.

What's new is the internet.
US anti-vaxxers trend white and wealthy. It is in no way a "left" movement. Unlike with climate change denial, there is no major political party in the US which has integrated anti-vax into their platform. It is an insanity fully removed from the US political spectrum.
This. Nothing is 100% good or bad. The conversation on both sides has gotten laughably hyperbolic. Like any medical intervention the pros and cons of each vaccine need to be discussed rationally and with full informed consent for each patient. Other commenters posting outrage casting anti-vaxxing as mental derangement or child abuse are going to get as far as the worst kind of anti-vax rhetoric
> The scientific evidence supporting vaccinations is undebatable, the fact that parents can opt their kids out because they disagree with reality and put other people's lives at risk should be as abhorrent in the public mind as drunk driving.

Indeed. And although this might sound extreme: should be considered child abuse too. You're making a massively uninformed choice that could kill or disable your child and others that aren't physically able to take the vaccine. Being an idiot shouldn't be any excuse for this behaviour.
No mention anywhere of how it was ensured that the benchmark measurements were taken after the code had been compiled by the JIT (specifically, C2 on HotSpot)... seriously?
That's awesome! I'm a huge fan of tui so I was curious.
>anti-vaxxers are the left’s climate change deniers

They would be, if all anti-vaxxers were leftists, or if the anti-vax movement were politically and ideologically motivated by leftist politics the way that climate change denial is by the right, but no.

Sometimes equivocation works, but in this case it doesn't.
Is the open source Lucee CFML now better than Adobe ColdFusion?
I actually adapted Jaaps work to a web version of the clock yesterday.

http://jenevoldsen.com/literature-clock
There is another component called Apache Arrow Flight, a new way for applications to interact with Arrow. Now that there is an established way for representing data between systems, Flight is an RPC protocol for exchanging that data between systems much more efficiently. You can think of this as a much faster alternative to ODBC/JDBC for in-memory analytics.
As someone with compulsive skin picking who gets LOTS of staph infections, Hibiclens combined with tubes of muciprocin left over from the occasional infection I couldn't knock out myself has saved me easily hundreds in copays (and lots of sunburns from doxycycline). That stuff is miracles in a bottle, I will not travel without it, every household should have some on hand. As soon as something starts getting red and hard and painful, I Hibiclens those sins away before it can even THINK about getting streaky, and within hours it looks and feels SO much better. Plus, it doesn't burn or sting like other antiseptics!
> a breached password is unrelated to its strength

But most of them were weak. And most of them have been cracked by hobbyists.

https://blog.cynosureprime.com/2017/08/320-million-hashes-ex...

512 MILLION is not a large number of passwords to check. What do you think the hash rate of modern GPUs/ASICs is?

https://www.troyhunt.com/86-of-passwords-are-terrible-and-ot...
If someone didn't want to feed their kid, you could use the same logic. Most people don't want someone else's kid to suffer because their parents are willful idiots. Most people don't want to get sick, either.
Literally just saw this on the verge, nice project. Sadly I don't have an old kindle. I do have an old nook but I don't know if its possible to do the same with that
It is intimidating even for a full grown man, and it's surprising when you get an asnwer (although success rate was ~40%).
You get labeled anti-vax for just not wanting to follow the gov't imposed schedule. Many are merely critical of vaccines, and prefer the schedule of Scandinavian countries, Singapore, Japan or Israel. Here a graph that visualizes the number of vaccines (US highest with 36, lowest have 11) children <6 should have gotten by schedule. It is understandable that many in the US are asking questions with that number of vaccines while some of the most developed nations do with so few, and seem to have a much better public health care system. I think Finnish health care is good enough for me and any children I may have. I prefer 11 shots over 36. Am I now an anti-vaxxer? Well, I've been called one many times, but I do not think so myself. I'm critical of any chemical that goes in my (child's) body. E-numbers, supplements, air quality, pesticides, BPAs and vaccines as well.

http://vactruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/number-vaccin... (I did not read any info from this website, just foud the image by ggl image search)
I’m not entirely sure I do know what you mean. Or rather I fear I know exactly what you do.

You are saying that “minorities” in Europe have, on a population level, radically different world views to native people. I’ve had to reword that sentence several times to avoid saying “white people”, and I think that’s the nub of the issue. What you’re introducing as a cultural issue seems on some level (statistical at best it seems) a racial issue to you. That’s even clearer when it comes to your Trump example which is what I was attempting to point out (US non-whites being no less immigrants than whites).

The problem for me is that taking a racial approach to political or moral issues is repellent, it simply isn’t acceptable to me to “revert to cultural generalisations of different races and ethnicities”, its lazy and utterly counterproductive.

I think it’s unfair to say I’m attacking you in bad-faith - my comment was very much material to what I saw as being generally wrong in your argument. For what it’s worth I saw and see no indication whatsoever that your literacy is less than my own. I hoped you would read the inconsistency I pointed out and see that it copperfastened the racial element of your argument. I see now you already know that. I’m not interested in debating your own experiences since they are your own.
"there's a lot we don't really understand at all about the immune system"

This, exactly this, is how the anti-vax movement exists! It is amazing how lay people will just dismiss the research and conclusions of an entire field of science with a handwave and an argument-less quip.

Maybe you'd be more upset if you had a child that got sick in an area where vaccination rates were low. Or if you had a child that had actual, real, medical reasons why they couldn't receive the immunization and need to rely on herd immunity for their literal survival.
Last post is only 2 weeks ago, seems too soon to make that conclusion?
Sorry but of anti-vaxxers as well as the anti-GMO crowd is a predominantly left leaning group politically, even more so in the US.
I think that's a little reductive - there is more to it in the same way that there's more to poker than hoping you get dealt a good hand (I'm sure that's opening a can of worms).

It's not a game designed purely for expert bluffers. Everyone I've played The Mind with has their own tells and quirks - even when they know the rules forbid it - they'll cringe at their hand, tentatively hold a card forward, or lower it to the table. It's just fun to pick up on these and have a laugh about them.

I'm sure there are people that will rules-lawyer the fun out of it, but with the right crowd this is one of the games I've been pulling out most frequently recently, and haven't heard a bad thing.