skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equating democratic socialism in western Europe with what happened in Romania is fucking disgusting. Having lived in communist Romania, I can say that it was nothing at all like western Europe nor is western Europe, or other places like it, in danger of turning out like communist Romania. These are the rantings of an idiot who simplifies politics to left and right without nuance or understanding. My family and I lived in communist Romania and I don't need to be reminded again why we ran away or why America is closer now to communist Romania than western Europe. I'm talking Trump's America, not Bernie's. But I guess this article just panders to simple-minded morons who understand nothing of actual history or politics.
Well, but that's the thing. Do you have only one network, and does everyone belong to the same network?

I was on Facebook for the network effect - then I got into indie game development, and all of the other game developers and gaming press are on Twitter. So I dropped off of Facebook and moved to Twitter. I still pull up Facebook occasionally to cross-post something to friends, but it's a different tool for a different purpose.

In theory, nobody wants to join multiple social networks. In practice, I don't see people actually all that worked up about logging into multiple sites. My siblings jumped to Snapchat with no problem even when they were still using Facebook. When I started moving away from Facebook I told them to start emailing me - also wasn't a problem, they handled it fine. I run a small Discord server specifically for people who want to talk to me about the stuff I build. It's a really tiny community, but it's still a useful enough tool that I'll probably never build a Facebook page for anything I release.

So those are maybe 3 or 4 tools that have successfully migrated communities off of Facebook. There are maybe 1 or 2 communities left that I have to take care of, and then I could just flat out delete my account. Certainly I'm only checking Facebook maybe 2 or 3 times a week now because of a few stubborn holdouts I haven't convinced to move off yet.

Network effect is definitely a thing - but it's probably not all or nothing. It might be fine to replace Facebook for only for one or two communities. It might be fine to say, "Okay, all of my college friends are on X, but all of my professional contacts are on Y, and my hobby model train community is on Z." And multiple small, federated social networks are likely to be better at serving small communities than something like Twitter or Facebook is.

How necessary is it to you that there be one service that you use to contact literally everyone? I was on the side of "pretty necessary," but the more that I think about it, the more I realize that distributing my contacts across multiple services is not actually all that much of a problem for me. In fact, it's often quite helpful, since it allows me to tailor content more.
Other industries have controls that prevent simple passwords from being used. Who audits the missile control groups?
I suppose I might be a little naive, I assumed this use of lasers might be as a weapon but the lasers are "merely" used like a scarecrow. [though the article points out that some scientists will analyze whether this does harm to the birds].

The article points out that this is actually more humane than poisons or guns (which are presumably among previous technologies used to protect the crop).
Classifying humans as invasive to particular regions is an interesting idea. I wonder how it would play out legally.
Cloudformation supports more AWS features than terraform.
Supreme Court jurisprudence on voting is kind of incoherent: it's fundamental but not really, expressive except
when it isn't, etc. That only concerns whether someone has the right to vote. Opting not to vote is a political statement.
The media is full of articles about how to avoid being stressed out, how to manage stress, how to avoid being stressed.

Hardly do they ever even discuss that maybe our current labor/employer power balance and paradigm is fundamentally unhealthy, and only exists to fuel the greed of rampant crony capitalism.
Easy there fella. Keep that hyperbole pointed in a safe direction.

Tell us how you really feel.
Normally, foam contains a lot of air. But that kind of foam will blow itself apart in a vacuum.

In the video, Thermal Protection System Engineer Betsy Congdon says it's 97% "air."

I can't say whether it's actually air, or she's simplifying things for the general public or not.

She also says twice that "water" is used in the radiators. But I'd have to believe that NASA's using something that absorbs/dissipates heat a little more efficiently. Perhaps whatever it is will end up in desktop gaming rig cooling systems eventually.
On the contrary. A simple data proxy involves not much computation, but mostly reshaping; what kind of thing you have becomes more important than what thing you have, and eliminating confusion in the former realm is precisely what static-typed code with proper modelling, excels at. And any competent static-typed language will have enough macro-like capabilities to generate the model code (along with as much of the boilerplate as possible) from a JSON Schema or similar.

(Confusion in the latter realm, on the other hand, is one of the most common sources of remaining bugs once typing errors and other footguns are eliminated-with-prejudice.)
In this case, the "corrections on the fly" refer to all of the real-time responses that the software makes without ground involvement. In the case of a solar limb sensor detecting the sun, the probe will abandon its data collection for that near approach, and go into an emergency response that has been made as straightforward and deterministic as possible, to maximize the chances of recovery for all single-fault and some double-fault scenarios.

To answer your question about software upload, the PSP has 3 redundant CPUs (primary, hot spare, backup spare), and each has multiple boot images. To upload software, the team uploads it to an inactive image of the backup spare CPU, promotes it to hot spare for long enough to collect the data it needs, reboots it into the new image, and then rotates it into the primary role, which is a seamless transition unless something goes wrong, and then the new hot spare takes over again within a second. Once they're sure the software is working, they can update the other CPUs. Before any of this, new software is tested on identical hardware set up on the ground with physics simulations.

See also, "Solar Probe Plus Flight Software - An Overview" from http://flightsoftware.jhuapl.edu/files/_site/workshops/2015/
Humans are a threat to biodiversity, but so are starlings:

http://blogs.longwood.edu/kepleasants/2013/03/15/invasive-sp...
> heavily debased the Yen

What debasing? USD/JPY has moved around 110 for 20 years now.
IIRC there's also no such thing as property ownership in the US sense - it's just a 70 year lease, which can be renewed.
There is an interesting article about Tragedy of the commons in evolutionary biology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016953470...

There are multiple ways evolution tries to solve this, but it's hard. Insects are particularly good at it.
I built the same thing I'd planned originally, so the point is moot. YAGNI does nothing to stop you from misunderstanding the problem. And in the case of my problem, the metadata was fresh anyway. Generating it from scratch would have the same migration cost, but all the original tooling existed so I wouldn't be building the feature from scratch.

If the point is "what if the whole concept was wrong?" then sure, you got me. But the point is that I _did_ follow a YAGNI mindset and paid a considerable cost. Even if I had built the wrong thing, that doesn't negate the fact that technical debt had accumulated and prevented me from doing the thing I actually needed to do.
All the fucking time. While there is an attempt to avoid and standard deployment procedures hopefully. Sometimes in an emergency you just get shit done and fixed for a client. I heard a mantra regarding this from a pretty big consultant at a major company: be bold be brave, deploy

I guarantee your financial information has passed through that product.
The medallion system reminds me of feudalism. It blows my mind that taxi drivers would defend this system and not flee to Uber/Lyft/etc.
link from HN August 2020:

Help Maria Konnikova Get Back On Her Feet After A Run Of Bad Luck (patreon.com)
Chinese people know that protesting is illegal and that their government is oppressive. It largely doesn't matter to them because they don't want to protest.

How they are investing their life savings is clearly the more important thing they should know about.
> Anyway, my point is not that you should interpret probability functions in a linear fashion just that non linear interpretations are not nessisarily more accurate.

Was I supposed to understand that from your previous comment? I didn't, and I don't see how I could have.

> their are some error bars on that zero

There'd better be, because the true probability is somewhere within those error bars: I'd be very confident (but not certain!) that the true probability is not zero. What if you turn out to have been imagining all your life up till now, a googleplex is much less than you think, and you're actually an immortal chess-playing machine? That's unlikely, but I'm fairly sure the probability is not zero.

Zero is a probability (unlike the title of the page I linked to) but it's a very special one, mostly of theoretical interest.
I think the biggest question you missed is "does a warranty count as a warranty if the manufacturer doesn't actually tell you about it". A previous thread on the topic noted that the game and its marketing materials don't actually mention any kind of warranty anywhere.
Sorry, but I really have no patience for these purely "philosophical" discussions of probability. I don't see a single equation on that page but I can assure you that to compute a probability you are assuming some form of the likelihood, ie the way you calculate P(D|H), applies to your problem.
Turkey's government was on that way already, Trump just gave it an extra push.
I think you're being pretty uncharitable with that interpretation of educator's incentives.

That said, I think valuing relative beginners and non-programmers into the fold is and will be a strong point of the python ecosystem. It has fewer of R's excentricities and some of Java's straight forwardness while remaining relatively terse and to the point.

I think this addition would absolutely cut down on very frustrating boilerplate. The question is the cost to the ecosystem which is going to come down to speculation in any direction.

My opinion: no one change like this hurts a language much at all but the fear comes from the death of a thousand cuts.

This feature does two things: adds slightly crypic syntax which is very obvious to career programmers but somewhat opaque and unmemorable to anyone else.

Worse, it makes bad patterns convenient. Deep None filled object hierarchies (though occasionally unavoidable) will always be problematic in some way. This only serves to make those idiomatic.
If you ever write a manifesto I think you should grab the libsomebullshit.so domain name
It may not be him but it's the same tragedy as Douglas Schifter's.

Facebook note: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1888367364...

"A Driver’s Suicide Reveals the Dark Side of the Gig Economy" :
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/nyregion/livery-driver-ta...
In every government I'm aware of, humans have the most power of Right compared to any other animal, so my expectation is "thrown out of whatever court you choose."

Then again some countries maintain Nature Preserves and National Parks. Hm.
It's worth listening to this advice. Having kids is really hard. And rewarding. And leads to hard changes in your life that you might not have taken on otherwise but in the end are often good changes. Forgive yourself and your fears as often as you can.
Who's to blame? Who brought them to the US?

If these lasers are used to prevent these species from damaging the ecosystems, then OK. But AFAIK, it was never the intention to discriminate between invasive and non invasive species.
I'm the original author. This was created a few years ago, at a time when very few browsers fully-supported grid, and although I still use this frequently as a reference, I never took the time to update the disclaimer at the top of the page. If I'd thought there was any chance this would pop up on HN I probably would've updated it awhile ago.

At this point, Grid Layout is well-supported in enough modern/evergreen browsers that I don't feel this disclaimer is still necessary. As others have posted IE 11 is really the only reason not to aggressively use grid for many projects. I'll be removing this warning shortly.
Thanks as well.
China's foreign influence operations in Western liberal democracies [pdf]
My experience is the opposite. I think Hold 'em opens up the game for playing more. Unless you're playing some crazy home game with wild cards, the classic 5-card games (draw, stud) are "you get 2 cards and fold most of the time." And since you have less information about the other players' hands, you can't exploit (bet) marginal edges as well. The 7-card games (including 7-card stud, which is a classic) are more fun.
We have blueberries planted at home but the deer always get them first. We’ve just come to regard this as a cheap form of entertainment. We also grow Rainier cherries, but birds spike them with amazing accuracy. They divebomb the tree and somehow spear only the cleanest, freshest, best part of the cherry on their way down. It is impressively accurate work at very high speed.
based off of postings on Reddit, Facebook, etc. there's a general attitude of being despondent due to the current economic and political climate. Something has to change

Maybe spend less time on Reddit, Facebook, etc... Things probably aren't as bad as they look through the lens of social media.
… Which I hope was trying, apparently without success, to get across. It just seems like a ton of work and maintenance.
Yet some humans try to save other species. No other species does that.
The AWS CLI for CF is simple and consistent with other AWS CLI's. You can also use one of the language specific SDK's such as boto3 or use AWS CodePipeline to create/update stacks.
This may be related to Bethesda transitioning to distributing its PC games directly via Bethesda.net and cutting out middlemen such as Steam. They want to capture the full price of a retail copy, and to do that they are cutting out resellers on all platforms to drive people towards their own new platform.

https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-wont-launch-on-steam/
Much credit to you for changing that in the example. Will give it a try to see what the advantages/disadvantages are next time I need do do more complex tasks in parallel (I generally like Dask, but I would certainly need to try this out to know where each is better or worse--or if it's just a matter of taste).
FINALLY, the inability to browse was my biggest issue with scihub.

All these sheltered academics were heralding it as the best thing ever, without even the basic user experience expected this decade.

Yes, I know about the chrome extensions.
Very interesting indeed! Do you have any sources?
I’d also love any experiences people have with Google’s Google Deployment Manager. For
me, the product felt like it had many flaws that also had previously tended me away from CloudFormation (specifically, not full support for beta or alpha features and questions about inconsistent states during failures). I decided to go with Terraform since it feels like the industry standard and had full support for even quite new GCP features.
With 200km/s deep orbit we should have probably brought several tons of fuel to do Oberth burn say for a piece of the probe which would then pass by the Vojager in a few years and be on track to get to alpha centauri in several thousand years :)
Sure.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/forty-percent-of-the-worlds-bir...

"Agriculture has the biggest impact of all human activities on birds, threatening 74 percent of the 1,469 species at risk of extinction."

It's just laser. It's OK. Their retina doesn't seem to be affected. They just don't fly here anymore. Can you see a bird?
Exactly. This is a HUGE point of interest that, in complex multi AWS account or multi region scenarios, can make or break your infrastructure.
I think the argument is something like: you could understand what invalid curve point attacks are, and once you did, you could look for them everywhere, and if you did that, you would have found this error as well.

The math behind invalid curve point attacks is pretty straightforward, it's some polynomials and points on the Cartesian plane. You saw this stuff in elementary school.

Then, someone needs to point out to you "oh check out what happens if you allow for invalid points" and now you have a pattern to go hunting for. Then it's luck - do you get to Bluetooth before someone else, or do you find something else, or do you just re-discover other peoples stuff?

Maybe it's elitist to say "the math is pretty straightforward" but you know what, it's a system of two variables and you can plot it. You need to know about division, multiplication, and modular variants. No monads, no tensors, no mixed Gaussians or method of moments or greek letters or 128 dimensional spheroids.

Maybe that kind of math makes your eyes glaze over but I am pretty confident that if you cleared your mind and sat down with pencil and paper and gave it an hours honest effort, you would come away with an understanding.
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you also don’t load one line of code more than is absolutely necessary

Coincidentally, I spent the weekend banging around with an old TRS-80 Model 100, and it's been very interesting to see what workarounds and compromises were made to conserve space.

For example, the machine ships with no DOS at all, so if you're working with cassettes or modem only, you don't have that overhead.

If you do add a floppy drive, when you first plug it in, you flip some DIP switches on the drive and it acts like an RS-232 modem, and you can download a BASIC program from the drive into the computer that, when run, generates a machine-language DOS program and loads it out of the way into high memory.

I don't have one of those sewing machine drives, so I went with a third-party DOS, which weighs in at... wait for it... 747 BYTES.† An entire disk controller with command line interface in 2½ tweets.

† http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=TEENY.CO_MANUAL
Possible yes. ctrl+f "Some scientists have attempted to find a middle ground between the two camps." in OP for more info and links.
Please keep an eye on your health. There are more studies coming out that this diet is not stable for the long term. Mostly it increase insulin resistance and leads to diabetes.

It might be that you respond because you have an underlying issue with a certain complex starch (see the FODMAPs diet that can help you see what sugar it might be) or a genetic/nutritional deficency.

On an anecdotal note, my brother went keto to loose weight! He felt great but a year later he had ankylosis spondylitis and open heart surgery. So it helped him in no way even though he los5 weight and “felt better”.
Thanks for saving me a click; I was about to get very interested in how they would have solved the inherent energy-efficiency problems of that route.

Guess we'll have to wait another decade or two for accurate direct-fire air defense systems. :(
Congrats to Friend dev team on many great additions and improvements for this release!
Ah, so hard to read. Look, in the web of the written word, it just doesn't work to use flush justified white text on a black background and a scrawny font weight of 300.

All those things do on a web page is make it hard for people to read your (presumably interesting) message.

I even tried to override the font-weight and text-align in the developer tools, but for some reason that didn't work like it usually does, and I didn't have the patience to pursue it further.

If you could please make this look like a normal website - dark text on a light background, no flush justification, and normal font weight - I would be able to read it. Thanks!
Then choosing where and how to store state using Terraform becomes another point of possible inconsistency in your infrastructure and thing to worry about. In CloudFormation, the state is coupled with the service, and you don't have to worry about it. It just works.
Charities call for urgent action over latest cancer screening scare
> I can say that there are differences in loading large (48-64 bit) arbitrary constants without a pool.

How arbitrary is arbitrary? ARMv7's Thumb2 format immediates are composed of a 8-bit field shifted by up to 5 bits. So you can form any 32-bit variable, but with limited precision.

ARMv8 modified immediates can describe a contiguous run of ones followed by a contiguous run of zeros, and SWAR variations of the same. So you can describe things like a repeating 0x3f... for example.

Do either of those formats encompass the kinds of literals that you need in the V8 JIT?

> so you can use pc-relative addressing ... at a penalty of one word

Since the RISC-V PC-relative addressing capabilities are similar to ARMv8 (adrp) and x86-64 (rip-relative addressing), I would have though that this is basically a non-problem. You pay one more live register to hold the page address, but you also get more registers, so I would think it mostly washes out. Where do you pay a penalty?
Engineer wants to get the datamodel correct up front to avoid costly rework and data migration in the future? - Not YAGNI

The key here is avoid costly rework. The counterpart to YAGNI, is Avoid Painting Yourself Into A Corner. APYIAC. Actually, that is first and foremost, and YAGNI is secondary. How do we know this? Because we know change is universal and unavoidable. Planning as if change doesn't and will never occur is like planning without acknowledging weather.
"there are many options for state storage too"

Just, no.
Bird-herding by drone is another potentially emerging technology:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17707305
I find that taking a historical perspective on scientific topics is quite useful, but particularly on this topic. How did we discover all of this? Why are people so sure that this is real? This is the best history I've found:

The Discovery of Global Warming
https://history.aip.org/climate/index.htm

It's very well-referenced, and should provide a useful perspective on the history of climate research.
Guy is depressed and crashes plane and you’re connecting to labor relations?

That’s a stretch!
Loved it, specially the native indians, and the chilling portrait of Adolf Hitler at the end.

These photos could make an even bigger impact a few years from now, when shown in artificially high resolution.

Edit: this isn't an AI-project as far as I can tell.
I find it increasingly difficult to relate to the optimism and idealism of the early Web – the use of it to amplify some of humanity’s worst impulses can be devastating. Fortunately, stories like this one make it possible to catch a little glimmer of that magic and it’s... exhilarating.

Congratulations, and I wish you all the best, and that you may serve as an inspiration to others.
Reading the dialog I think it's fair to say that both a) the man was not quite well, and b) the only motivation he actually DID suggest was the stress of low wage. So there's that.
> Put a sign or something.

Unfortunately, they can't read. (If they could, then that would imply them being intelligent enough to interact with humans in a civilized manner.)

Otherwise, your last paragraph rings true at face value.
TierZoo agrees with you.

https://youtu.be/ImYu9dJM4kQ?t=6m44s
TLDR: yes, they do (to some extent).