skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly everything that actually impacts your life in a positive way had absolutely no beginning or relation to space travel. Short list:

Cement,
Electric Turbines,
Indoor Lighting,
Compression,
Photography,
Assembly Lines,
Printing Press,
Fertilizer,
Bicycles,
Internal Combustion Engine,
Vaccines,
Heavier than Air transportation

You can find efficiencies and improvements that came out of space programs, sure. However I've yet to see anyone make a compelling argument that the specific period that was spent on the goal of going to the moon actually impacted anything to a greater degree than anything developed specifically for terrestrial problems. For the cost, it was a terribly inefficient way to solve earth problems.

I'd argue that the most impactful thing to come out of our space program has been GPS/GLONASS/BAIDU positioning and timing systems. It was designed very specifically to enable terrestrial activities and has no relation to space exploration. It's not even functional beyond MEO.
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I strongly agree.

Another great part of this particular interface is also minimal cruft. All you have is data text, descriptive text, and a bunch of small graphics, all but one meaningful (the sine wave representing communication seems to be just a gimmick, though it still carries a few bits of relevant information). No useless animations, no useless framing, no "material design", no nonsense.
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Despite all the comments pretending this is all super ok scrapers are obviously not aboveboard. Sites may try to place limits on you or your account but it is unlikely you will go to court over a TOS violation unless you're really abusive.
You can believe in free speech while advocating for moderation. There has been many attempts over the past few years to turn the free-speech argument into one against moderation, because in order to moderate a platform it necessitates censoring opinions.

A lot of these arguments remind me a lot of the days when I used to play Garry's Mod. Where people claim admin abuse, censorship etc for being banned or told to go away as a result of ruining the game for other people.
But the whole point of the regulations is to satisfy a community of people who are unhappy with how they are being treated by current sites. The community already exists and is looking for a site.
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yes to all of these -- Nim also has those intrinsic benefits that statically checked and compiled languages bring.

Arrays? As pleasantly nimble as Python arrays to say the least. Pointers are lengthy discussion, but suffice to say that pointers are smartly handled to avoid their pitfalls at runtime (while integrating with external C if you really need to)

Time time and again as I went through using Nim, what really stuck with me was that the designers had thought through these practical matters so very well, and even in its current < 1 version the language is remarkably complete and robust for practical programmers.
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I learned this through Haskell, it enforces the "functional core, imperative shell" approach through the IO monad. Now I find myself repeating the same pattern in other languages(js, java).
Ah, TIL, I didn't know VAT was not charged when selling to a business! So it was I who did not understand how VAT works :)

I thought pavlov was under the impression that the VAT you pay when buying automatically cancels out with the VAT you charge when selling, so the only people who VAT affects are end users.
For a general statement I agree with you. I find it even a good thing to teach everyone, not just journalists, basic data hygiene.
The target audience set however is far from general. They are journalists and non-profits.
Such entities have adversaries such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations haunting them.
Even most well trained security professionals are far from qualified enough to deal with such actors.
In other words, people should be honest with the journalists and tell them they are not competent enough to assess or commit trade offs.
On most occassions, knowing you are not secure is the best security you can get as it alters your behaviour accordingly.
Or the tribes are engaging in, forgive me, tribalistic behavior where they fight for the pride and power of their own group without any regard to the bigger picture. It's like they see themselves as rivals to another sports team, only with race and supposed religion. I say "supposed," because, do they really practice it?

So you could say they do have a bigger picture in mind, their religion, but you would be talking to a skeptic were you to say that. In the end, it may be their right to protect their perceived (or claimed, or claimed-perceived, each of which is different) interests... and we should protect that right to an extent. But it's sad that they are blocking science. And I think they're doing it just for the pride of letting their team win a contest which means nothing (aside from pride) to them, and a lot to astronomy.

This was all super off topic but I find it pretty interesting.
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> presumably because you can be unconscious, and still unlock your phone?

You can, in the US, also be legally forced to unlock your phone by fingerprint, while you can't be forced to input your password, AFAIK.
Unless the terms of the investment specifically state that the private entity becomes subject to those laws, I would say no, but it is a valid question to ask.
If you really need to open an attachment, it’s best to open it on Google Drive, in the cloud. Let them deal with any virus issues.
Looks like "Mathematics of Quantum Computing" to me. All the analysis fun is missing.
You are the kind of person who made me flip out trying to do abstract algebra homework. When you're trying to get help figuring out a problem, and everyone just keeps responding "group actions are the magic hammer," it is absolutely no help whatsoever. Clearly, the problem is that I was taught group actions very badly, and I needed someone to sit down and explain them to me so that I could see why they would be useful. But nope, too busy being smug to actually explain anything.

As for HN, a lot of people are going to be self-educated in advanced topics. That means there's going to be holes in people's knowledge, especially as it relates to alternative theoretical treatments.
It's a minority of tech workers who will end up at a FAANG-tier company, but it's not a tiny minority. There are hundreds of thousands of people being employed by firms in this category. It's less like winning the lottery and more like winning a dice roll.
Probably French. The free.fr email/www addresses and the French typography of having spaces before punctuation other than plain commas and full-stops (like this ..., or this :, or even this ?) give it away. :)
Thomas Jefferson wanted a revolution every 20 years, but we don't string up, draw and quarter our entire government every other decade.

It isn't ridiculous to question whether eighteenth century political and cultural standards should always apply to a 21st century state. The Constitution isn't holy writ. Somehow much of the rest of the world manages to have free, democratic states without a 2nd Amendment or its thesis that a free state requires an armed and violent populace and a lack of any regulation on firearms.
The obvious problems and conflicts here are multiple.

1. People may wish to not have activity on multiple services connected or associated. This was certainly true for me when I found that G+ and YouTube accounts, independently created, though sharing a common email address, were conjoined.

2. Google is put in a position of advantage as regards online identity. This persists across several dimensions:

a). Google apps and services share an authenticator with the browser itself. Other parties must implement their own authentication schemes, unless ...

b). Third-party applications utilise the Google Chrome authenticator, in which case

i). Those third parties leak user identity, activity, and all but certainly fraud and abuse detection, including both false negative and false positive determinations, to Google.

ii). Other browser venders, including Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Opea, and others, are rendered as second-class citizens from an authentication standpoint.

iii). Consequences of a loss or freeze of an account now extend to multiple third-party services.

c). Loss or freeze of an account locks people out of their own web browser and all that entails; cookies, bookmarks, history, extensions, configurations, extensions-related data (say; Zotero).

3. The centralisation, stakes, and attractiveness of attacking people's Google identities rises yet higher. Data exfiltration, access to browser and local system state, denial-of-access attacks, and more.

The privacy, anti-trust, security, conflict-of-interest, general risk, and other implications simple boggle the mind. That this was quietly rolled out with no apparent announcement or consideration tremendously reduces my already greatly-diminished trust in Google, its leadership, and its stewardship of critical Web infrastructure and protocols.

Chromium is likewise affected.

What were they thinking?

Were they thinking?
> This means their members do not partake in these types of wellness plans.

Oscar members get discounts for walking a certain number of steps a day, and other somesuch things. They are functionally equivalent to employee wellness programs, in that consumers (be they individuals or business) are offered discounts in exchange for fulfilling some behavioural change that intuitively seems to make people healthier, even though there's little evidence that it does. I'm speaking to their prevalence in the industry.

I get that it matters from an accounting point of view that they're an individual marketplace insurer versus a whatever. It doesn't matter from the point of view of why insurers generally like these programs.

> Oscar can't legally use the members previous medical history to underwrite/rate their policy.

Oscar does a lot of things to select for healthier pools. Their marketing is carefully tuned to a particular kind of healthier customer. You're underestimating how goddamned savvy they are. That's not illegal, but it's effective.

There has recently been a rule change that allows insurance pools that are "guild"/union targeted, like only plumbers or insurance offered for the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Surely you see that, if that average writer is 28 years old, and the average plumber is 45 years old, I don't need to look at their medical history or anything to know which pool is healthier?

Even if I pick a pair that's the same age, I bet you the average highly paid programmer at 28 (for my hypothetical programmer's insurance) is going to select for a healthier pool than my 28 year old warehouse and teemsters worker insurance.

> Oscar has little to no insight to whom they are offering their products.

I think when they place an Instagram ad, they're pretty much guaranteed to be "offering" their products to a younger audience than the average American. I don't need to look anything up to get that incredibly cost-impacting insight.

Or maybe I'm targeting iPhone versus Android, and iPhone users are just wealthier on average and therefore just healthier on average.

I get that ANY American can buy their insurance. I'm not going to litigate the role of marketing, because it's pretty obvious that it matters.

> This is based on the fact that they are currently acting as middleman in the system and any increase in costs is merely passed along, hence continually rising cost of healthcare.

From the article:

> The Cleveland Clinic's Rogen, who credits the wellness program for holding medical costs almost flat for the past five years...

I guess I'm just trying to explain why. Your business specifically is a middleman in a system, and you're passing costs along. But there are some actors who, by their accounting have held costs "almost flat," whatever that means.

I'm speculating as to the mechanism by which costs can remain flat, DESPITE your accurate picture of a continually rising cost of healthcare.
I expected a train
> Nobel-prize data suggest the productivity of American science has fallen

Nope, it could also be that suddenly the rest of the world is starting to catch up. There is a fixed number of Nobel-prizes, it's not a measure of productivity -- unless you figure research is fixed sum game.
funny that they have power down to the milli-watt and it's so stable. Anyone know what the update rate is? Is it with every second?

Cool looking web site
>Hackers that have showed up at an IRL conference are probably not on the more paranoid end of the spectrum.

If you are able to think critically about risks, going to Defcon isn't very risky.

Mass surveillance means that "the man" probably knows[1] you have an interest in security whether you attend or not.

Hackers of many skill levels attend Defcon... merely showing up isn't going to suddenly make the FBI start bugging you.

[1] https://thehackernews.com/2014/07/beware-of-nsa-if-you-are-p...
Amazon Alexa? Wait, the AI there is meant for vendor lock in. Roomba vacuum cleaners? Spotify? As a business you stll have to buy stuff to recover VAT and sell your product 20% inflated.
Build it and they will come right?
Famously there is no consensus of how to interpret the equations of quantum mechanics, which naturally restricts introductory discussion to the mathmatical aspects.
This seems like rich fodder for a tech debate: Trump's Twitter bans were deemed unconstitutional, how does that apply to the companies themselves? Is Google's discussion to change algos after the immigration ban just? Should antitrust laws protect not just consumer rights & competition, but voter rights & viewpoint diversity? How do you build a better algorithm for political threads?

Instead, even on HackerNews, you just see partisan criticism, minor viewpoint suppression, etc. This is ground zero for fixing these problems.
Part if this is about enforcing the safe harbor provisions that exempted them from liable lawsuits for content posted on their sites. Media outlets can be sued but these tech platforms cannot but the entire argument for that was that they were neutral platforms. As soon as they started to ban people based on subjective criteria that went out the window. The fact is that safe harbor is what allowed them to grow, but you are no longer an unbiased neutral site when when start to curate content.

Now if they were subject to the same laws that traditional media is then I would agree with you on your first point, but then again these companies would never have been able to grow to their current size if they were.

As to your second point, the party is not calling these views republican. It is however stating that their views, no matter how repulsive, deserve an equal opportunity to express themselves in the public square under the first amendment.....and the fact is that these platforms have become the public square..... Jack Dorsey admitted to that during the congressional hearings and safe harbor strengthens that argument. Now if they want to use the private company excuse that's fine, but then lets strip out the safe harbor provisions since they are not acting as neutral parties.
You know what? You're right. The more I look at them, the more similar they seem in tone and quality.
Not at all, I just had a really good experience setting up my company with Stripe Atlas, and would highly recommend it.
I see your point. So basically we need legislation (preferred) or regulation (FCC, meh..) to bring companies like Google and Facebook into the late 20th/early 21st century?
>they've implemented a feature in Android to just blacklist phone numbers as spam in one click when a new number calls you

Are you saying the feature is that you can block phone numbers? Or is there some central list?
you could pass a video url retrieved by youtube-dl to VLC instead of downloading the video.
Lets also remember Aubrey Daniel who worked hard to prosecute these war criminals.
"What are some of the specific factors that might ameliorate or exacerbate the effects of dyslexia over a lifetime?"

I remember a study that compared dyslexia rates among mother tongues (or countries?). The dyslexia rate was much lower for people who spoke languages where you could predict the pronounciation from the spelling -- e.g. Spanish and Italian. So maybe people should stop speaking languages where words are pronounced in unpredictable ways -- e.g. English, which was among the languages with the highest dyslexia rateś, Maybe US citizens with dyslexia should simply move further south over the border to Ḿexico?

Unfortunately, I cannot remember the exact study. Could also be fake news.
Yup. This falls into "There are exceptions but it's rare."

The UK, Norway, to some extent Denmark, are much more open than say Italy, Germany, Spain, or France. Top-tier places in the UK are very open and international, mid-tier places aren't as diverse as mid-tier US or Canadian universities.
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There already defines to include\exclude features: H264E_MAX_THREADS=n, H264E_SVC_API=1, MINIH264_ONLY_SIMD.
Complete documentation still in progress and subject to change. For now only comments in minih264e.h and minih264e_test.c can tell how to use it.
You could easily buy three children for that; train them to code and hire them out and use the profits to fund your business.
What now?

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/usin...
Anonymous with the same reason as usual.

What are the pros of stating things under your identity? The only I can really think of is that you receive a certain amount of 'credit' by default, yet on the other hand do you really want the reaction to things you say to be based not on what you say, but who you are? It's the reason e.g. getting critical advice from friends can be difficult. So I'm not sure this can even be considered a pro.

What are the cons? Everything you say, ever, can now be tied back to you. If you change your view, you can be portrayed as whimsical or inconsistent. Things you say can be spun or taken out of context to impugn your character or misrepresent your views. Imagine if everything you would have said when you were a teenager or young adult would have followed you around for the rest of your life. That's the stuff nightmares are made off! Yet that's precisely what posting on the internet under your real name will now entail.
Anything you can share code wise, curious to learn more.
Who buys your $1000 service? Most likely another business. (I don’t know about you, but I don’t need $1000 software services at home.)

If you’ve ever done business in the EU, you know that prices are negotiated and quoted excluding VAT. The VAT rate literally is totally irrelevant to B2B pricing.

If you’re selling B2B from one EU country to another, you don’t even need to collect VAT. Another reason why its rate is irrelevant to EU startups.
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I don't see how a blacklist of people (banned people) throws out safe harbor out the window. People will abuse your platform, and you can ban some of them when possible. That doesn't seem to me to make you liable for the rest of the people.

But if you maintain a whitelist of people through some manual approval step (such as a blue checkmark) I could see that being a different matter.
More America bashing, this article is pure propaganda. Our science is the worst! But somehow all of the technological innovation is happening here.
There is who cares about his data and who uses MySQL
I expected a ninja running through a city...
Would it be a mischaracterization to say that the generated C is basically the source of the Lua interpreter + the statically compilable functions from the Pallene program?
Repeating what I said in an earlier comment....they were able to grow to the size they have become because they are exempted from liable laws under safe harbor. The argument for that was that they were neutral platforms. They no longer are so they either need to remove the protections or be subject to the first amendment but they should not be able to have it both ways.....and I don't think there is case law to back this one way or the other yet...
Last I checked, Crystal had a tendency to use union types where it should use sum types. For example, if you have an array and you pop it and get nil, there's no way of knowing if you got nil because the array was empty or because the popped element was nil.
No, and I was slightly disappointed, but that passed quickly because space vehicles are cool too.
And none of employees laid off received severance: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043321927299813377.html
I don’t know about the ECG part, but buying an Apple Watch has definitely made me exercise more
I would build a chip-design around a idea i always had in my head, pre-caching data, by using instruction flow as a very primitive deterministic phyiscs simulation.
Cool, thank you for replying, I appreciate that.
The comment I replied to was talking about errors arising from mixing tabs and spaces and incorrect indentation levels that arise from it.

If a language either disallows tabs entirely or will refuse to run/compile code that mixes tabs and spaces in the same source file, you obviously can't get errors related to mixing tabs and spaces.
I have a couple of acquaintances who play in metal bands, and from their perspective, CD/download sales and streaming are secondary to touring. At concerts you get to engage directly with your fans and build a connection and a rapport that you just can't get from listening to a recording.

The very best thing you can do to support your favorite artists is to go to their concerts, and buy a t-shirt or some other merch while you're there. Nearly as supportive is buying downloads and merch through services like Bandcamp, where they majority of the money you pay goes directly to the artists.

Just in my little country of less than 6 million people, we have three big annual metal festivals, multi-day affairs with good coverage of both international and local bands. There has also been a marked increase in the number of smaller festivals that specialize in local niche bands with some international bookings, as well.

And that's just from the metal scene, my primary sphere of interest. We also have one of the largest and oldest general music festivals in Europe (Roskilde) and countless smaller fests. Accounting for all genres, not a week goes by without at least one festival being held somewhere, in a country where train travel from literally one end to the other takes just ~10 hours.

The festival scene has really exploded over the last 10-15 years.
> Redis Source Code is understandable even without deep knowledge of C

Came here to say exactly this - Redis is very cleanly written.
Very useful in business. It's tempting to agree with, "Hey, that $60M got us almost all the way there; for only 6M more we can finish!" But the real question is "Shall we spend $6M for a product that we think will generate $3M/year in years 3-5 after launch?"

Or if you prefer, "We've spent two years building the test infrastructure for our legacy product, and are within a quarter of finishing. Looking forward, will we generate enough support revenue to justify investing 10 people for a quarter (plus documentation)? Or have most of our customers migrated by now?"
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