skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, your larger point is correct. As a US->UK immigrant, I won't dispute that the US is behind the times with payment systems.
The world's largest drill keeps getting stuck in the cars buried beneath the city.

Northwest Harvest's food bank lost their lease on Cherry Street, but there's still a soup kitchen under the overpass, supporting the unofficial Cherry Street Tent City.
This could help but also could make restrictions a lot worse with owners using zoning and historic classification to reduce their taxes.

I.e. it's not fair to tax above it's current use if that is the only allowed use, so some owners fight for restrictions on their own property that end up being permanent.
> Do you rally need a $1000: -pair of shoes? -pants? -tshirt? -jacket? -pen? -<add our own>?

> No you definitely don't need. You want!

That's a weird way to start an argument, because I definitely don't need a $1000 tshirt. In fact, a quick tally suggests that my entire wardrobe cost slightly less than $1000 (retail value, not present value).
With ‘McMansions’ in crosshairs, Fremont putting squeeze on two-story homes
Ruby Serverless Platform
I’m happy with this. The trauma from events that happened decades before my birth still haunt me.

Still, we have a long way to go. Linux and Mac are full of triggering words and concepts which need to be made acceptable.

If only Unix didn’t have a kill command. Then I’d finally not be triggered each time I had to end a process. The killing of child processes is still quite traumatic.

The man command. Sexist. Mansplaining at its worst.

As for the finger command. I’m not sure what to say.
Yes, Europe better protects it's workers.

Thankfully, the EU puts workers' welfare above a single person's idea(no matter how excellent somebody might think their idea is).

> Setting up a business also involves compliance with every law related to your business,

??? That's a bad thing? I'm delighted that businesses have to comply with minimum standards before they can trade.
Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach After Public Pressure
For all the talk about "whataboutism" this is a perfect example of it.
A bit of an over the top title, but (disclaimer: I work at Karat) the main thesis is really interesting. Essentially, it's cool to be part of a new specialty (hiring) being born out of an industry I've worked in for a little while now (tech).
You were right it's because of the covalent bonds formed, however the biggest difference seems to be not in how these are formed with other elements but how carbon is essentially optimal at bonding with itself creating huge chains.

This property is why there are so many different and interesting forms of elemental carbon.

These chains are the scaffolding for all biochemistry both because they are very stable and also because they have very interesting properties.

Chains can be either open or closed depending on various factors such as charge, temperature and other forces that play on molecular levels allows you to play with that geometry.

Having strong chain bonds not only builds stable chains but it also build chains that can change their state while remaining intact and biochemistry heavily relies on the ability to change the geometry of complex molecules without breaking them apart.
Rust: too little, too late.
That isn't taxing a "minority group." It's just progressive taxation, an idea almost everyone accepts to some extent. "Taxing billionaires out of existence" could be achieved simply by increasing marginal tax rates.
> Why not X?

Since when does X[1] support system-wide configuration/deployment?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
Any "sanitary code" presumably applies to things like sewers and water supply. If it can prevent the kinds of things I'm thinking of, it's just zoning in another set of clothes.
TIL jank is an actual term people use in formal documents.
I also wonder how much population density has to do with this. The distances that freight is moved over in the US seem far greater than in Europe. The same applies to people, rail travel is much more available/popular in the denser parts of the US, but for the west coast (for example) the useful stops are fairly far from each other, Seattle and Portland are relatively close at about 170 miles, but then its another 600 miles to Sacramento, or 680 to San Francisco. Even with (I wish) high speed rail, those are long journeys. Of course you can have long train journeys in Europe too, but there really aren't any sizable destinations between Portland and Sacramento (sorry Salem, Eugene, Redding).

I guess it feels like the distances involved in the US are more advantageous to freight, and in the EU are more advantageous to passengers
Oh, and it had nothing to do with Chavez nationalizing industrious sectors and covering for his failures with the unsustainable crude oil prices?
Ask HN: I want to move to USA, what I need to do?
I am from Argentina and I want to move to the US and start a business, I have capital to invest and I am a developer myself. Any of you have experience in this? Is this possible in the Trump's era? Also I have Polish citizenship too.

Thanks!
So finding SETI is all about finding compressible data ?
Some other part of the plant might cause nausea and vomiting? Looks pretty half-assed to me. As if there's no way to harvest one part of a plant separately from the rest of the plant. As if the patient wouldn't notice nausea and vomiting. As if these aren't very common side effects for any number of pharmaceuticals. As if a physician wouldn't be qualified to weigh such side effects against the benefits of the treatment. As if a patient wouldn't be qualified to weigh such side effects against the benefits of the treatment.

But sure, tell a patient to find a new doctor, when you know absolutely nothing about the situation. If I seem somewhat inflexible on this issue, it's because I (and friends of mine) have been pressured to avoid nonpharmaceutical treatments that experience has shown to be effective. On this topic I am not indifferent.
I suspect that if someone could deliver a fully autonomous car at say 2x the cost of a regular car, the next immediate problem would be massive autonomous traffic jams where you would still need mass transit to work back scaling costs on the transport networks.
> Deciding that something sounds bad means it is wrong is exactly the same error as deciding that something sounds good means it is right.

False equivalence. A correct paper inherently has no flaws, while a wrong paper inherently has at least one flaw. It is very possible to be able to immediately detect some classes of flaws, and that in no way means that one can immediately find all of the flaws.

When I was a TA, I found several people who cheated. One person I discovered because there's no way a struggling student in an introductory C course is going to pull out code with gotos and register keyword usage plastered everywhere. Do I claim to have caught everyone who cheated? Hell no.
You want companies to pay more taxes than is legally required of them? What la la land do you live in?
That's entirely different than what this thread is about. Many different ways to build and host a site, although many would find it simpler to just run Ghost or Wordpress and have the GUI for their posts.

You can still use a CDN in front of a very tiny VM. Some new blog engines even support running on serverless/FaaS platforms for every easier deployments, and once FaaS evolves into just running Docker containers then the circle will complete and we'll have the best of everything.
I'm certainly no expert, but the Wikipedia article on the subject says this:

> All radio (and microwave) antennas used for transmitting or receiving are intrinsically polarized. They transmit in (or receive signals from) a particular polarization, being totally insensitive to the opposite polarization; in certain cases that polarization is a function of direction. Most antennas are nominally linearly polarized, but elliptical and circular polarization is a possibility. As is the convention in optics, the "polarization" of a radio wave is understood to refer to the polarization of its electric field, with the magnetic field being at a 90 degree rotation with respect to it for a linearly polarized wave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_(waves)#Radio_tra...

So it's less that it helps, and more that it's inevitable.
It's less about "why would I use ansible?" and more about "why wouldn't I use docker?"

That heavily depends on if this is a "learn new tech" thing or not. Some people view setting up a blog as a challenge to solve, and some people just want a blog up and running so they can write. And if this does it in a simple to follow guide that is reliable, the tech behind it doesn't really matter.
This is a step in the right direction. Too many folks are in the system for crimes they didn't commit or bad evidence.
Not the second time, and that’s really the important part.
It's a daft and janky adverb.
> volumes: - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro

Please for the love of all that is holy, do not ever do this! Giving access to the host's Docker socket is equivalent to giving a container unrestricted root access to your host. Mounting the socket read-only doesn't protect you in any way either, because you can still connect to and write to the socket! Seriously, try it:

% touch /tmp/docker.sock
% mount --bind -o ro /var/run/docker.sock /tmp/docker.sock # this is -v /var/run/docker.sock:/foo:ro
% docker -H unix:///tmp/docker.sock run --privileged -v /:/host -it ubuntu bash
# # I couldn't write to it, but I can connect and write to the connection...
# cat /host/etc/shadow # whoops!

(The full container escape is left as an exercise for the reader. It's pretty trivial though.)

To be fair, there are unix-like DAC controls that do restrict this somewhat but given that most people run containers as root or they don't use user namespaces this is still an issue.

Please stop doing this, please stop telling people to do this, and please stop making images that access docker.sock. I understand that this is something that a lot of people do, so it's obviously not exclusively the fault of the author for doing what the majority of people appear to be doing, but I think that this deserves to be said much stronger than it was in the past (people still expose Docker over the internet -- which is literally a free root-level RCE for anyone who figures out you're hosting it).

And yes, AuthZ plugins exist but nobody really uses them as far as I'm aware -- and personally (as someone who maintains container runtimes and other low-level container tools) I would not feel confident in depending on any AuthZ plugin's profile to protect against a container escape where you give unprivileged users access to /var/run/docker.sock. Even if I were to write one.
Yes, it was based on Warlock, the WarCraft 3 map! I had many fun Friday night LAN parties playing that map and wanted to recreated it!

It's TypeScript, canvas, React (for the UI elements), NodeJS and socket.io on the server. The entire simulation is run on the client. It is deterministic so it is just replaying the action stream identically to all the other clients to stay synced. The server is running a pretty simple loop really, every 32 milliseconds it collects all the actions and broadcasts them to all the clients. If there is anything else you want to know, feel free to ask, I'm happy to talk about it :).
You can read amazon drm encumbered books with amazon cloud reader. You can run adobe digital editions via wine.

You can also read your ebooks on your nook, kindle, or tablet which would probably actually be a better experience.

You can buy dead tree books.

You can buy non drm encumbered books.

You can buy dead tree books and then go and download a digital version of the same work from library genesis knowing that you have supported the author but not drm. Then you can read on whatever device you like.

If you are poor you can skip the first step and just read the books.

Your local library still exists and is positively full of books.

Many libraries provide free access to technology books via Safari Books.

The claim that you can't enjoy books without windows is a curious claim when so many options exist.
As evidenced by my username, I can say confidently that you are correct. The depth perception gained from two eyes is only good at very close ranges and doesn’t play a big factor in most driving situations.
If you include all DoD spend include VA, it is well over 20%. Why this portion ? Because it is mostly unnecessary and just needed to foster faux nationalism
I think that with all the money and power that comes with being a superpower, some bad acts are inevitable. There's just too many tendrils on the beast to control all its machinations.

Still, all things considered, I truly believe that America is relatively good, fair, and just, given the circumstances. Just imagine what the world would be like if positions were reversed, and China or Russia were the unchecked world superpower. I suspect such a reality would make you yearn for the balance we have today.
How did you leap from the existence of Houston, which has little zoning regulation, to that being the cause of market stability? How did you rule out the immense economic effect of the shale oil boom (guess what Houston's known for), and the effect of very specific and strict Texas laws regulating home lending?

Answer: you can't. Houston is a rather unique environment, and discussing it would be an interesting afternoon's work. It's not simple, though. You might notice: it is rather spread out, for instance.
Half off-topic, but it makes me think of the evolution I've observed in video games over the past decade or so. Back in the days, I remember buying games which were coming with a thick manual to learn what to do, the commands, etc. Nowadays, I feel like it doesn't exist anymore. All games come with a first level of "tutorial" were the player learns as they play.
> Point 1 makes no sense

Because all the companies operating in China already cooperate with the Chinese government. Google entering or not entering China changes nothing about the control of the Chinese government over its people.

> so this does what for the Chinese people?

Bringing a better search engine back while leaving everything else (like censorship) at its status quo.
Why would anyone be wanting silver coins for that bread?
Starcity (YC S16) Is Hiring a Senior Back End Software Engineer
The closest approximation I can find is pp. 292--293. (I don't have a copy and haven't read it in about twenty years, so there may be a better approximation available.)

Hadden and Ellie have a brief discussion about the potential to market dying in space as a "really nifty last indulgence", whereupon Hadden segues to the topic of immortality and says the following:

"Now, I'm not bringing this up so I can boast. I'm bringing it up for a practical reason. If we're figuring out ways to extend our lifespans, think of what those creatures on Vega must have done. They probably are immortal, or close enough. I'm a practical person, and I've thought a lot now about immortality. I've probably thought longer and more seriously about it than anyone else. And I can tell you one thing for sure about immortals: They're very careful. They don't leave things up to chance. They've invested too much effort in becoming immortal. I don't know what they look like, I don't know what they want from you, but if you ever get to see them, this is the only piece of practical advice I have for you: Something you think is dead cinch safe, they'll consider an unacceptable risk. If there's any negotiating you get to do up there, don't forget what I'm telling you."

(Please forgive transcription errors.)

https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6o51-W_z8MC&lpg=PP1&dq=sa...
Gamers know triple-buffering is obviously superior.
Can you imagine what people would say if European currency had Adolf Hitler's face on it? Can you imagine if the Nazis were still in power in Germany?

Chinese currency has Mao's face on it, and he was a much bigger mass murderer that Hitler. The party he ran is still in power, and still actively violating basic human rights of its citizens.
Something like KIC 8462852
BPA-free plastics seem to disrupt sperm and egg development in mice
But we didn't suspect EM radiations existed until we started understanding electricity, magnetic fields, etc. What else do we not suspect exists today but will be obvious in 50 years?
I don't know if we count as advanced, but our communications are moving towards light that's confined to fiber optic cables, and radio waves that are practically disguised as noise. We are making an ongoing effort to reduce the power level used by those communications. That doesn't seem promising for having someone detect us from a distance.

For inter-stellar communications of sufficient distance, some sort of massive object (i.e., a space ship) seems like the preferred method because it can go at almost the speed of light, but it doesn't spread out over distance, can make minor corrections to its course, visit multiple destinations, and do something such as return a message, learn about its surroundings, and so forth.

I'd guess that a civilization might go through a period where it is emitting lots of easy-to-detect radio signals, lasting maybe a century, so we have to catch them at just the right moment.
>noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away

that's only 0.00051 of a light year, or a few light hours away.. either me or them has a big math problem.
Spoilers.

In Blindsight, humans are the only intelligent lifeform in the Galaxy that are conscious. Thus, they're the only ones that produce art, entertainment, or just talk to each other for "no reason."

Other intelligent life in the Galaxy does communicate, but only to exchange resources in a mutually beneficial way. So when a bunch of Earth transmissions of War of the World's or talk news finally make it out there, one set of aliens begins receiving and decoding this information. As it becomes clear the information is meaningless and worthless, it becomes obvious to the non-conscious aliens that humans are waging an information attack on the entire galaxy. They are essentially ddosing the Galaxy with worthless em radiation. So, the aliens come to kill them.

Luckily the space vampires beat them to it.
Why protected bike lanes are more valuable than parking spaces
1. Hype driven development: NoSQL, microservices, serverless. Used in places where they do not fit. Same with CV driven development.

2. Risk-averse traditionalists/architects. Instead of choosing right modern tools they keep pushing for Oracle/PHP/Java whatever they know.

2. They pay me a small fortune but I always get slow Windows box. VirtualBox helps but it is complex and slow.
My three years laptop is a few times faster than new company laptop.

3. Not enough room for personal growth. I have family and I have less time to learn new stuff.
> intercept the protons escaping from the sun

Minor typo: you mean "photons".
Yes, it is entirely possible to do the right thing.

The trouble is 9 times out of 10, the only place you find it documented is in some random forum post where cargo-cult silliness gets critiqued, rather than by the folks publishing these how-tos.
Seems a more than respectable POV.

My remark wasn't particularly aimed at you, simply it followed OP's (and also my) observation that "Org mode meta-blogging" is a category by itself :)
Nobody said it’s true across the board. As the OP, I clearly said “many women”, not “all” or even “most”.
Moritz Simon Geist Making Techno Music with Robots
How does this map to the current state of commodity computing?

For example, it seems we already achieved that with disks, once embedded controllers attached to DMA-capabled HBAs became the norm.

A similar thing seems to have happened with NICs, as well as the ability to offload higher-level protocol processing (another mainframe-like feature).
The 520 bridge[1] cost approx. $4.5 billion

By way of contrast the Millau Viaduct[2] cost approx. €400 million and the Øresund Bridge[3] cost approx €2.6 billion — and represents an order of magnitude more engineering challenge.

Civil engineering in the US just seems to cost a lot more than in other developed countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Point_Floating_Bridg...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_Viaduct

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Øresund_Bridge
2 things is “a lot”?
The GI Bill still exists, for those who serve. The Post-9/11 GI Bill got me through college debt free.
> your average duck goes 100 mph

Apparently this was a record-setting duck; we wouldn't want to say "your average human goes 23 mph", even though Usain Bolt has done so.
I don't know that it would be possible with this design. The wings are a kind of plastic sheeting. They kinda look like bits of shower curtain, actually
These wings are obviously very thin, light and flexible. The battery is also a lithium-polymer one, which can deliver a lot of power for a short duration (eg: 20 watts for 5 minutes). With current tech, it wouldn't be possible for this robot. I also don't think it would be possible for this robot to generate enough power to keep flying continuously, even if you had 100% efficient ultra-light solar cells.

All of that being said, there are solar-powered drones with large static wings out there, typically based on glider designs. We can also imagine a design where a drone lands and recharges using solar power for ten minutes, and then flies for a short one-minute trip. With the fly-inspired design in this video, it could probably take off vertically.
> The fact that we can even speculate about quantum communication leads me to believe that radio is definitely NOT the end-all-be-all

Who is it that's speculating about quantum communication? Certainly not physicists. It's mostly just IFLScience!-class journalists seeing a term like "quantum teleportation" and assuming that it means start trek is real and write their articles based on that.

> I believe that everyone at SETI must believe FTL is possible because otherwise it truly is a waste of resources.

If everyone at SETI believes that mysterious FTL communication exists, then why do they spend all their time looking for EM signals?
No, please, it's not semantics, I'm directly refuting your claim. If burakumin and ethnic Koreans in Japan aren't racially distrinct from Japanese people, then discriminatory treatment of those people isn't racism. Your example doesn't support your claim. I'm inviting you to please explain how the example supports your claim. Maybe a good start would be providing an operational definition of "racist", as in "Japan is intensely racist".
Absolutely do not do this.

host your blog on https://pages.github.com or https://www.netlify.com
Modern mainframes are just cloud compute. These are services and microservices written in proprietary programming languages, using possibly-proprietary CPU and RAM. They're equivalent to a few racks of Windows or Linux servers behind load balancers. Or a small fortune in AWS services.

Cray, IBM, et al sell computing nostalgia and laziness. Their biggest product is the need to not rewrite code in an open system.
Probably sufficiently advanced could harness neutrinos? (At least in Star Trek that is proposed.)
> 100 years ago, NYC already had 20-story buildings.

Well, it was also land-locked and not earthquake prone.

Should we be surprised that different incentives produce different outcomes?
> How are more sensors going to tell the difference between a plastic bag and a cat?

Infrared transparency? Radar cross section? There are so many ways. Sensor doesn't just mean "webcam".
"Removed by user"
What? Stop and go exits because cars brake faster than they accelerate and humans have non-zero reaction time. The average velocity tends to zero until the number of cars on the road is few enough that those factors are less meaningful than the speed limit.
It looks like this would work, but you would have to use www.myblog.com instead of myblog.com since you have to use a CNAME to use cloudfront. Maybe using cloudflare's CNAME flattening?