skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what you see on social media, in the news, etc. it might seem like "wow there are people out there who are self taught and made it big! I can do that!" But keep in mind, these stories are out there because they are rare. Most people who don't go to school, even those who shared the dreams of making it big, end up failing. The ones that succeed are unicorns. The inherent structure of school forces you to follow through with learning, projects, and eventually completing a degree.

There are multiple benefits to this. First you have a base to fall back on. No matter what you do from that point on, you have a degree that declares that you are at least somewhat competent in your field. You can't go any lower than this new platform you made it to.

Secondly, having gone through college for a degree in a field that I do not work in now, I can say there is still immense value in getting any degree, especially a science degree. The most important thing you learn is how to think logically, think for yourself, and how to problem solve logically. These are things that are often taken for granted, or overlooked.

Thirdly, you learn about a multitude of topics that you may not have bothered to investigate, which broadens your horizons, and makes your a more informed and intelligent person. Same goes for meeting new people. You meet people that you may never have had the chance of interacting with. Universities aggregate people from all over the world. You will make lifelong friends and connections that can be just as important in a career as technical skills. This also results in learned social skills and emotional intelligence which is immensely beneficial.
I was rather confused by the section describing a "white and blue ... white and green" image that doesn't actually contain any green.

Eventually...

> The lower surface is blue and not green because I'm lazy

Being lazy is fine (I've rendered zero black holes myself), but he could at least be consistent.
Aren't there a few such projects to fund moon shots?

What/where is the best list of moon shots being currently worked on and backed?
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
I can't stand this tendency among software engineers to think that their life is made worse by contact with the judgements of others and that this kind of thing muddies the purity of some kind of monastic, apolitical life of software engineering. Everything is political and largely subjective and it's off-putting to me to see people who think they have a duty to avoid contact with this crucial part of life.

Most professions, hell most circumstances in life involve judgements. You can have disagreements as to how those judgements are handled, or find the nature of how conflict is handled to be overly contentious or disconnected from seeking resolution or for it to be fought over low stakes, and that's fine I don't disagree with any of that. But judgements are important, politics are important, and frankly I find it disgusting that places like hacker news foster this idea that our profession needs to be disconnected from these things.
Tessel 2 allows both JavaScript and Rust for embedded devices and they do ok.
Same for cities. If anything, I have a weaker social network after moving to a big city, but the ambient energy makes me feel less alone.
Here is my response to this: https://andrewkelley.me/post/string-matching-comptime-perfec...
Ask HN: Why are here so much of new york times links?
I mean there were proven time and time again that their headlines are MISLEADING and even the whole article FALSE. And of course the crystal clear bias!

ps: i'm not an american, so don't attack me 'tolerant' left. ty!
The sides of the iPad are tapered, you can grab under the edge even if it’s flat. If you needed it to not sit flat my case would have made it harder to pick up.
This is really sweet. I wonder what the cost was to do this for every unit, and at what point in the production lifecycle her death occured?
The Zune HD was really a great device. Hadn't heard about this dedication, but it's incredibly touching.
Starting in the 1940s, the USA stopped using passenger transport on trains in favor of automobiles. In the 1950s, a huge highway system was constructed/upgraded in order to make military mobilization effective. No similar program was ever executed for rail systems.

Today, all long-route passenger service is handled by Amtrak, a for-profit corporation which is both a monopoly and subsidized by the Federal government. The only electrified Amtrak rails are in the northeast, running from Washington DC past NYC to New Haven, Connecticut, and then a different electrification scheme from New Haven to Boston, plus a route across half of Pennsylvania. Everywhere else across the country, long-haul rail is strictly diesel.

The person you quoted is talking about the portion of the NYC - Boston route just north of NYC, going through a fairly expensive area called Westchester. It is noted for high incomes and high property taxes. The train tracks are not in good repair and there are too many at-grade road crossings. The result is that Amtrak is chronically late.
Agreed. The only phone it works on is the SE and they just killed it. Maybe all of Apple’s designers are right handed and have long thumbs.
As long as we're on the topic, not all of what we (the laymen) think of as dinosaurs were dinosaurs! Maybe you knew that already but I only recently discovered that fact and now I'm sharing it. From the wikipedia page:

"Other prehistoric animals, including mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and Dimetrodon, while often popularly conceived of as dinosaurs, are not taxonomically classified as dinosaurs. Pterosaurs are distantly related to dinosaurs, being members of the clade Ornithodira. The other groups mentioned are, like dinosaurs, members of Sauropsida (the reptile and bird clade), with the exception of Dimetrodon (which is a synapsid)."
Worse than that: imagine that they not only charge more based on the brand of electric car being charged, but they also sell (or are planning to sell) their own brand of electric car, and they know it won't be as good, but they'll offer to let you charge it for less than the other brands.
but the existence of XML was not integral to how the crime was structured, I'm betting.
You can use Wordpress and install a recipe theme to add recipes.
> The Acela has 3,442,188 yearly riders.

Divided by about 200 workdays a year and you end up with about 17,000. Even tripling that as you adjust for things and you probably have less than 25,000 semi-regular riders or better.
In the early days of electrical service, this sort of price discrimination was common. There were often separate pricing structures for consuming energy used for electrical lighting and "power" (everything but lighting). I presume that's why so many electrical providers are still named "X Light & Power" -- electrical light and power were originally sold as distinct products.

Report of the rates for lighting and power service. National Electric Light Association., 1903:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu56609884;view=...

See for example page 9:

"Norwich, Connecticut:

17.5 cents per kWh for incandescent lighting. 10 cents per kWh for power. Discounts ranging from 5% on lighting bills of $10 to 20% on bills over $20. Discounts on power bills range from 10% on bills of $10 to 70% on bills of $400 to $600."

Note that the electrical lighting prices start higher and also have lower discounts for high-volume consumption.

Fortunately, the adoption of standardized electrical outlets made this sort of price discrimination less practical over time. Also fortunately, the providers didn't have any sort of fancy Deep Power Inspection systems to determine when a consumer buying "power" was beggaring the provider by converting power to light.
I don’t have firsthand experience but my understanding is that Facebook shares a similar culture. No idea about others though.
>I'm not personally arguing in favor of inefficiency. I'm fairly neutral on the topic.

How can you be neutral on the topic of efficiency?Efficiency is better full stop. Might as well say you are neutral on famines and poverty too.
https://www.facebook.com/events/274792553136223
Ok, we changed to that link from https://gitlab.com/robigalia. Thanks!
There are performance implications to adding noopener, as outlined in inhttps://jakearchibald.com/2016/performance-benefits-of-rel-n...

While the above link suggests noopener is beneficial to add as it will prevent the parent JS process from being paused by long running scripts in the child process, it may actually slow down the site being opened because of the additional time required to initialize the new child's process.

It also prevents sites that want to auto-close their opened tab/popup, like Facebook and other sharing sites, from being able to call `window.close` after sharing is complete.
>For most of these comments, it just comes down to "why are you right? What's your experience?" There's so many armchair speculators that get upvoted. If I can't go through your post history or look at your cred, why should I trust you to be correct about complicated topics that I might not understand?

It's a discussion, you're supposed to evaluate the other's arguments and exchange ideas, knowledge and opinions about the subject, not a lecture where you're supposed to trust the other to educate you.
From the pictures a few links through, it was silkscreened on along with some other information that was going to be there anyway. I imagine if it was before that silkscreen was made, it didn't cost anything extra.
SBIR Grants are supposed to finance "moon shot" projects. Unfortunately the way they are granted is very "opaque" to put it mildly and without going into more detail.
Off-hand CMU/Waterloo are the only places I know that offer a SWE degree, and it's mostly distance professional graduates.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://github.com/hibiken/stories.
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We're considering enabling sending requests in bulk, but need to balance that with the desire not make it to easy to abuse the service.
Even if you believed that companies were following the law, which I do not, then you still have to contend with the fact that most software shops are run in such a slipshod manner that you virtually garunteed to have your data stolen when that company is hacked
Even though a small amount of good and consistent guidance/mentorship can make a tremendous difference, a huge part of software engineering is being able to largely mentor yourself.

Where do you feel you are now, and what are you looking for, exactly?
The mods especially don't 'arbitrarily censor' comments.
Or add rel=noopener to all links today and be protected now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wotd/feed/rss2
and 5000 others :)
The MPB has those characteristics in the dark.
This guy has been on the Koch payroll his entire career. Expect to see a lot of solutions that involve rich people keeping all their power and money.
> Bob's social needs are low to non-existent, and while he has loving family and friends, he enjoys sustained solitude. For example, weeks of overseas travel where nobody knows him and he doesn't talk much are great fun for him. ... It's easy to decide all that mess isn't worth it.

This sounds like me. I prefer — have learned to prefer — solitude, and prefer to enter human interaction only when I can withdraw from it at will without any awkwardness.

"The mutual exchange of vulnerabilities" often ends in bitterness, especially in cultures where putting yourself in a vulnerable position is seen as naiveté and the "streetwise" are ready to take advantage of those who do the former.
Arguably off topic, but hilarious.

Sample:

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy

mr. darcy: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Hi ;-)

elizabeth: What the fuck.

mr. darcy: Well, this is the first time that opening line didn’t work.

elizabeth: I could easily forgive your pride, if you had not mortified mine.

mr. darcy: So . . . no sexual congress?
To read you've hired engineers without the degree. Some brilliant people just needs an oportunity.
In tons of business they just discard the CV that don't show degrees.
A good talent chasing makes this world better in a faster way. But not everybody can find the spark in potential genius.
Strange that the page talks about it being for $3 esp32 devices, but the only esp32 devices it can run on are the preflashed ones which are $12. What?
What would be an example of a language/framework for web development that avoids the dependency shitshow you describe?
I think it’s pretty central to the question of why there is no European Google or Facebook or Netflix, etc.
I have to say, Starbound was a nightmare perormance-wise...
Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB?
This is just insane. Photoshop takes less space than that, most fully functional desktop apps take less space than that. If you work for FB, or know someone who does, can you enlighten us as to what in the hell is in that HALF a GB (!!!) app?
IIRC a sphere of neutronium about 150M in diameter is equivalent to the mass of the Earth.

Of course, if you had one of those spheres it'd blow up in your face and ruin your day. Probably wreck a bunch of the solar system, too.
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Solitude is drifting on the ocean or through space in your ship, putting into ports or landing on planets at your leisure.

Loneliness is not knowing anyone who still talks to you after you disembark.
I love the faster one. Grabs much more attention. Great game! A satisfying thud on touchdown would be nice. (OT: this was the very first lunar lander I played on my father's ZX81: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlS3fr3t4Fg)
Have you heard the ancient tale of Unidan The Redditor?

Unidan had credibility when it came to biology and ecology. When he commented on matters within his domain of expertise, he got all the upvotes. It was great having someone like that around. When there was a topic/thread/question about biology that one needed a credible answer to, all one had to do was summon Unidan typing his name.

It's a great pity he broke the rules and was banned.
The problem is not so much the security of Javascript itself but the craptacular state of the Javascript/Node ecosystem where pulling in random unchecked dependencies is the norm, for example. So lowering the barrier of entry to already bad IoT to Javascript programmers that have no clue whatsoever about embedded work is likely going to be a mess.

Also the fact that you need a pretty beefy MCU (=costly and not just the price of the chip itself but also the stuff required to integrate it on the board - e.g. all the RF stuff) just to be able to run Javascript on it - and cripple it in the process, because then the majority of the processing capabilities of the chip are going to be wasted on interpreting Javascript code instead of doing something useful.

I wish these guys luck if they think they can sell this software to embedded developers. There are some very good reasons why most embedded work is still done in C (not even C++!) and languages like Javascript on microcontrollers just aren't a thing - and not because they don't exist (e.g. Micropython, Forth, even Lisp ...)
> "A strand of spaghetti snaps easily"

Just not into 2 pieces.
Every object has its own gravity, no matter the shape or size[0]. This is taken advantage of in sensitive experiments that measure the gravitational attraction between human-scale objects[1]. The experiments are done to determine Newton's constant, G, the constant governing the strength of gravity.

[0] Even massless particles like photons have gravity, as it's actually energy that bends space and not rest mass.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment
That's an odd accounting. Acela isn't commuter rail. I'm sure some people use it for regular commuting, but your numbers seem to suggest that's its primary use. It's not.
I mean that's what some people said about smartphones almost 10 years ago, ironically, and now even homeless people have them.
Indefinite Causal Order in a Quantum Switch
No paywall: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04302
Interesting, didn't know that, thanks.
Autoencoders lead to other ideas. Understanding AEs and VAEs help you understand GANs, CycleGAN, PixelCNN, Pix2pix, and so on. AEs teach that you can do other things with neural networks, apart from supervised learning. VAEs teach that neural networks can parametrize more complex distributions.
> We suggest the most relevant content by traversing a user-specific graph that connects people, content, and activity signals in privacy-preserving ways.

Details would be welcome here. From the linked portal and whitepaper I just see a discussion about mostly their operations practices that may offer some protections against inadvertent data disclosure to third parties but nothing about how they preserve any of the users’ privacy from their own servers.
Branding, 100 MB page loads, d3.JS, and original WebRTC fuckery... 2nd closest thing to a dick slap you can deliver over TCP/IP.

Putting all politics aside, NYT is a thought leader for our godless industry. You could learn a thing or two from them...
Generally most of the authors don’t get much credit at all, at least in the biomedical space. The first author or co-first authors and the last author. Everyone else is more of a hanger on.
I would go farther and say that when credentialism creeps into a community, it's done.

That said I very much appreciate the genuine experts who post here, and hate seeing them driven away by disrespectful people.

HN walks the line between experience and openness better than any other community I know of. It's not perfect but it's still amazing.
I worked at dneg when this very shot was being rendered.

From what I remeber there were a few steps to this being rendered, the first part was a massive particle sim. I was a systems engineer, so my job was to keep the system running.

That particle sim ate at least 7, if not more hard disks. What ever it did, it destroyed 8tb HDDs. The worst part was we couldn't take that file server offline, as the render needed to finish. But, not only was the render hammering and eating disks, the raid array was desperatly trying to rebuild the groups at the same time.

As soon as the group was rebuilt, another disk would fail.

so much joy. As soon as we had some slack, we migrated away from that server and gave something less stressful to do.
I'm sure there is a great video or a great book just for you answering this question but finding it among all answering the question in the ways that are not going to help you may be a problem. Threads like this may help greatly.

"In a nutshell" being the kind of open I mean means that every time you read/listen to somebody your prime interest is to understand them (even if they speak weird to nonsensical) and find how, when and why can this possibly make sense (if you fail - try harder and harder) rather than the opposite and being always willing to rationally disprove, correct and expand your view rather than to prove you're right to the others and yourself. In the majority of arguments (and whenever you read/listen to somebody whose views don't mach yours perfectly, an inaudible argument is happening inside your head and chances are you lack conscious awareness of this) each party seems mostly interested in defending its view and disproving that of the other but it usually is more beneficial to "be open" and think about how the opponent's view may possibly enrich mine.
The phenomenon of someone recognizing a source as inaccurate for their area of expertise, but still trusting other information from that same source, is called the Gell-Mann amnesia effect [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Right, this recommendation only makes sense for user-generated content where you've been infiltrated by spammers trying to improve their page rank. It doesn't make any sense at all in the context of controlled content
To be fair, "how can anyone go to the moon," and "who gets the moon when we get there," are two distinct questions.
Design for Non-Designers
It is quite enormous, given the high density of nuetronium.

When a neutron star spins very fast, you get a pulsar, which emanates radiowaves that we can detect with radio telescopes. When these tiny mountains collapse, the moment of inertia changes and the star spins a tiny bit faster. In the radio emanations, the timing of the pulsar very suddenly shifts, and we call those "glitches".

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01521

Pulsars can spin very fast, and aggregate in big globular clusters, which are thought to be the remenant cores of old galaxies that were captured by our galaxy. If you convert their radio pulses to sound, the result is quite amazingly annoying. I recommend playing at full volume in the office to spread the joys of astrophysics to everyone!

My former boss worked on this cluster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDx14fSCWIg
I've just revisited Rails after being away for 4-5 years, mostly doing frontend development. First impressions are it's extremly productive. With Turbolinks and Webpacker you can get a very near SPA responsiveness just using traditioional server side rendering and sprinkels of JS. Most of it comes out of the box, while the setup for a similar approach in e.g. Django would require a lot of time spent on setting up things, researching best practices, etc.

Did a simple test to evaluate: Make a simple note taking app with user auth and sprinkle in a React component. Took me half an hour to have the basic functionality in place. So far I haven't seen any framework with Rail's level of productivity.
I'll let you Google yourself. Other stories include family members unlocking the phones using their face as well. Neither is infallible.
Boom

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10052/what-would...

I mean, a really stupendously huge boom. There is no question that this stuff would be unstable outside I’d the gravity well of the neutron star, so if you could teleport it away, you’d have an incredible explosion. I’d even speculate on top of that first answer that as H was formed under the initial conditions of the explosion, you might see nuclear fusion for a brief time. Either way, it would be ugly.
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What about Amazon?
Your comment has inspired me to create an account, which I will likely not log in to again, simply to agree with you anecdotally in regards to the feeling of inter-connectedness experienced by lurkers.

I feel like I know many of you common posters, though you may never have known I existed up until reading this comment.

I had never really noticed or explored this phenomenon until you had mentioned it above.
I think modern C++ compilers are smart enough to eliminate the bounds check if they can prove that it never fails.
> It currently uses under 2 MB of disk space and requires a minimum of around 1.5 MB of RAM

Wow, that's an absolute unit of a JavaScript runtime compared to Moddable's XS7, which can run real apps on devices with as little as 32KB of RAM.

http://blog.moddable.com/blog/moddable-tech-presentation-to-...