skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus, it's not as if 0.14 AU (it was actually further than that according to Wikipedia)) is all that close, it was still well over 20 million km away or over 50 lunar orbital radii.

It just sounds small when you write it as 0.14 because it's a small fraction of an AU, but an AU is freaking huge. If we sent a probe to Jupiter and it only got within 0.14 AU I can't see that being considered much of a success.
> The question was about the overall size of the industry.

And to me it seems he was spot on. The whole world and industry had to change before anyone could achieve that.

Your own links tell how much the growth has been in recent years. The interview was in 1996.
Yup. Passion can substitute for paycheck to some extent ("I don't earn as much as I would at $mundane-job-X, but at least I'm doing what I love!"), at least for the first couple years - and by then, it's much harder to change your career path.
Anything calling itself a 'breastaurant' is just a really crap strip club with a food fetish.

Besides, that isn't really what I was getting at. I don't think it is what the author was getting at either.

What I was trying to get at is that enjoyment of food is highly subjective and this writer says he gets himself worried if he sees pretty women enjoying themselves at the same restaurant he has just entered. He is basically setting himself up for a sequence of self-fulfilling prophecies that start from having an utterly ridiculous set of biases in the first place.
My guess is that churches used to take that role for a large part.

Now with the internet, it is is much easier to find wider scale and more specific groups so people are turning to these instead.
Why I mentor on Exercism.io
What I get from that statement is that religion is a more sustainable cult i.e. a cult that recognizes that demanding total control is a poor strategy in the longer term.
As clearly stated in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article I linked, you’re confusing the “Deep South” and the “South.”
not far from the truth, but I guess it comes down to where to you place the technical debt (up front with statically typed langues), or after you have something working (dynamic languages). I favor the later because of the low cost of experimentation, but you do need get around to hardening the system, and that part has real costs.
Yes, imagine the chaos if Walmart failed tomorrow.
A machine to reverse climate change
These American Cities Are Losing the Most Brainpower
Assume innocence over guilt is for individuals. For huge entities, the sane approach is to doubt them and request continuous never ending proof they are well behaving.

Currently the opposite is happening.
Ask HN: How do you monetise or shut up free-riders?
In the last five years, my modest attempts at internet B2C met an increasing number of vocal, self-entitled or just angry free-riders that added a lot of noise without providing any value. I understand free-riding is just another social expression these days and cheeky devs can just exploit that by offloading beta-testing to them. In the mid-to-long term of the life of a service, though, free-riders inevitably become a nuisance. How do you keep that noise under control? The simplest way is to fence your service by just giving one or two features for free without any assistance, while charging for the core, that is a paywall. Any other way? More subtle strategies to convert at least a part or have some acting as evangelists in disguise? Thanks.
Perhaps a dumb question, but how exactly does an abdominal pregnancy occur? The Wikipedia page is really unclear. The text sounds as if this can happen without a rupture to the uterus or a fallopian tube.
How would you track that? From gathering anecdotes on HN?
I never had to do that, so don't know if its an issue. I suspect it might not be smart enough to invalidate cache when you switch toolchains.
I think the problem is manyfold.

While prostitution shouldn't be a crime in the first place IMHO, having illegal street prostitution at the front of your door is something you definitely don't want and is worth fighting against. The same would go for drugs or even stolen bread if there was a black market for it.

It has less to do with the morality of it being legal/illegal and more with the people gathering in front of your door that don't seem to care for the official morality. They are not hippies, they are tourists taking a vacation from morality and treating your area accordingly. I.e. like a dump.
Do you have any physics forums to recommend off the top of your head?

There are often interesting discussions under each video on Khan Academy, I know this one too https://www.physicsforums.com/, and this one in French https://zestedesavoir.com/forums/savoirs/sciences/
A couple of points: specialized language in science is needed because science deals with things like genes, particles, and mathematical constructs that we have no words for in normal language. This often means that papers in, say, biology, are not only not understandable to chemists, but even to other fields of biology studying different things. This really isn't in the case in the humanities, which deal with the human experience we experience in daily life. There often the point is to sound as complicated as possible to hide the fact that nothing much is being said.

The "Sokal Text" affair tends to overwhelm Sokal's bigger accomplishment, the book "Fashionable Nonsense" (with Jean Bricmont). There he shows how famous scholars like Lacan and Deleuze threw random scientific terms into their works in contexts where nothing scientific is being said as a way to sound "deep".

The reproducibility problem in science is real, but oftentimes people confuse reproducibility (i.e. I give concentration X of compound Y to mice of strain Z, and 50% develop cancer within a month and you do the same and get a similar result) with failure of generalization (You change the concentration or mouse strain and get a different result and write a paper saying I'm wrong).
The OP asked for an example of a large program like BIND, I gave him/her an OS, which naturally also contains something like BIND, but apparently we now move the goal posts for how much users it has.

I love how people hand have the fact that even projects like the Linux kernel, with their stringent processes aren't able to avoid CVEs, to the point it became the major focus of Linux Kernel Security Summit 2018.

Yet we all know that only newbies do major errors in C. /s
Thanks. I wish I wasn't surprised. Just disappointed.

I've had prior run-ins with Dean Logan. A leopard can't change his spots. I'm now mad at myself for thinking things have gotten better.

Thanks again.
The help from dr_mack@yahoo.com was fantastic, My lover left his other girlfriend and we came back together.———— I am so happy ————-forever.”
The 5 most important words in business presenting
Bourdain is one of the best writers in the culinary world you will find. His sense of clarity comes through in his writing. I wish he wrote more about how he developed this skill.
Several bits of Firefox are written in Rust now. Looking through the bug reports, there has yet to be any CVE in any of the Rust-rewritten components.
No mosquitoes, no snow, little rain, constant 60-70 degree weather.

Homeless is easier in California. I imagine a lot of New York homeless people die in the winter. Not true in a place like LA.

There's definitely a selection effect completely separate from any political/economic factors (though of course those have an effect too).
> But where in the gut does misfolded alpha-synuclein originate, and why does it form? The working theory is that it’s formed after repeated immune response in the GI tissue.

Immune response in reaction to what? I'm not sure how closely leaky gut syndrome is associated with pseudoscience by the HN crowd, but seeming connections like this make me wonder if there's credence to it.
Blizzard's Battle.net is an interesting example [had to edit my post a few times with additional thoughts]. They use 8 digital characters instead of 6, and they're using an implementation by the company Vasco. Contrast that to Steam who only use 5 characters, but these being letters instead.

If you enable 2FA on Battle.net you get a unique companion pet in WoW (usable in a pokemon-esque metagame). Collectors are after these.

Blizzard also didn't do enough about gold buyers until they added the WoW token (legalised buying/selling gold with Blizzard as trusted third party) and added a way to easily create gold (garrisons, crafting, both for the masses).

The issue with SMS is that it is very cheap to catch these, if you have physical (vicinity) access. A Stingray device gets cheaper every year.

Once Blizzard invests more in mobile gaming (beyond Hearthstone, such as Diablo Immortal) the 2FA and the game will be once again more often (but not always) on the same device. FIDO2 using NFC/USB would solve the issue though.

> I have never fallen for a phishing scam or managed to land up with malware on my computer

How do you know this for sure?
Mistreating outsiders because they are outsiders isn't justifiable just because it is popular. The idea that they are "probably there to solicit sex" is not relevant (nor is it defensible based on available evidence).
New leakage of Facebook user data, including private messages
> I asked her to "cut the bullshit."

Yikes.
Readers read books. There should be a way to signal errors like that and get them corrected. Also a way to make simple edits in our own ebooks in the reader.
Retrieving the Hamiltonian from the Model in TBTK
The article is about how California is different from the rest of the capitalist states. Your argument makes no sense.
The colon wasn't needed in DOS. If you added it, it was just ignored.
By that measure, all of human society is a cult.
Depends on the company. OP is quite correct, often the lunch buddy is another interview, sometimes it's just a way to give junior employees some exposure to the process, sometimes it's it really is just lunch.

I interviewed once with a finance company that recorded the entire day, openly, including the break room. I interviewed with another company, where the ride from/and to the airport was part of the interview - I was a little suspicious at the time due to the nature of the "conversation" and had it confirmed through a contact later.

Human creativity exists on both side of the hiring table.
How to 10X User Adoption with Customer Feedback
stop spamming me, stop harassing me to get paid version, show me why linkedin can be valuable instead..when i talk to people i barely hear "oh linkedin helped us find this candidate" so what does linkedin do?!
About 1) sounds like it's the 70's/80's again (Yuppies with sweatpants and bitcoin?)
Sure: your immune system is a mechanism for finding proteins and binding to them, so you could in principle inoculate people against the conformations you don't want.

I'm not sure that would be a good idea as you know which ones you don't want in certain situations but you likely have no idea if the same ones are useful elsewhere.

BTW if by "drug" you mean small molecule monotherapy, I rather doubt it.
PRN would be the default priner, LPTn would be the various ports. It will work if you have a printer connected to LPT1, got example. LPT on its own isn't reserved.
I completely agree with you about programmers, but what you are saying about entrepreneurs doesn't make sense to me. It's like saying there are too many inventors and not enough ideas...
Ask HN: Last full time job a year ago, thoughts on how to get back on the horse?
My last full time job was a year ago.

I barely tolerate my jobs: I resent spending most of my week working on "urgent" tasks that don't really matter other than making their requester more political capital so they can play their game of thrones, while my only upside is that I get to keep my job and do more of this.

For the last year, I have been tutoring people learning to program. This is rewarding but it's only 15h a week and the hourly rate is low: 95% of my after tax income goes to living expenses, and I'm frugal.

I had a three month streak of interviewing this summer and it was so dreadful that I would rather read the dictionary than doing it again. I still check job ads once in a while but don't feel very excited about dealing with yet another dysfunctional entity to make the shareholders more money at the expense of my sanity & freedom.

I feel stuck, and I'd rather make as much money as I should as a developer than surviving: this would put me back on track to save for retiring earlier (I'd like to retire before 40 but only have 25% of the required capital to date.) I have considered self-employment, but I have no network and suck at sales. The only people offering contract work are agencies who are looking for warm bodies to fill seats.

I could do this 3 days a week, but sadly no-one ever looks for part time developers: it's 8h x 5 days a week or die. I have noticed that when self-employed, I feel differently: there is still crap to put up with, but I feel more in control and don't mind as much plus the hourly rate is much higher than an employee and I can get more than 2 weeks a year off.

I'm hoping to hear from people who have been in similar situations: how did you get out of it? How did you reconcile the soul-crushing work prospects with your need for autonomy? I live in Canada, so while it is similar to the US some things can be slightly different.
Yeah I hope we can eventually find a way to price these kinds of things more accurately. Like a sibling comment says: price in the externalities of low-density living and let those who want to pay them pay them, or else increase the density of the area.

In your case it's sounds like you're paying it to some extent: longer and/or more expensive commute.
There was no intent to put words in your mouth and I wasn't suggesting the presumption originates with you.
Yes, I enjoyed his point about choices you make just out of school having profound reverberations for the rest of your life.

I think that is, as you allude to, real in software as well. Having a stint at the FAANGs, or other big names like Microsoft or even Oracle, opens up doors, at least a crack.
Mmh maybe you can learn enough to understand what people are talking about generally, but there is no guarantee that you will be any good at it
- $38k Entry level dev

- $65k Lead developer

- $125k Director of development

- $180k Product director
"This leaves 90 percent of them as Californians who had a home there at one time."

Sounds made up. Source?
Samsung Foldable Phone Display Specifications Confirmed
Easy way to discriminate is whether you'll have your budget or not.

Yep. Though it's usually easier for them to just go with the bullshit line, "We can't afford to pay someone with your level of experience."

Translation: We don't hire people over 30, but we don't want to get hit with a federal lawsuit.
Trump is an establishment guy. At a minimum he needs the establishment to protect the republicans so he can protect himself.
> If Tim Cook opened a research center or similar in an SEC college town like Auburn, AL, as an example

His alma mater as well.
We have a functioning planet with a well developed eco-system, we do not have a back-up

What is so hard for people to grasp about this concept? We have an incredible thing here, it would be impossible to engineer something like it in its vast complexity. Why would you not try to maintain this complex machinery and avoid throwing it out of kilter?

It's like watching parrots trying to run a fusion reactor.
> They should come and just destroy us before we slowly destroy ourselves!

Your misanthropy doesn’t even make sense. We should be destroyed because we are going to destroy ourselves? As in, we’re going to fall off a cliff, so why not just push us off pre-emptively?
I loved that man, Bourdain! He's open, honest, and utterly brutal in his descriptions. It was so unfortunate that, in the end, he was unable to shake whatever demons were haunting him.
Apparently, "feces" where "faces" should be is a thing as well.

"feces sticking out of large pipes, looking hungrily at the camera"

https://archive.org/stream/The-Colonel-Who-Would-Not-Repent/...
Why bother with baroque consensus algorithms at all, and not just use USD? Because new systems with new properties will enable new capabilities.
"this gives us e&#64259;cient space-time trade-o&#64256;s"
:-(
Having visited the Bay Area, I found it a ruthless place to live in.

That’s why I never left Romania. The cost of life here is manageable enough that the possibility of me becoming homeless is practically zero. And it’s not SF, but we do have some startups and software companies here and I can work remotely too.

Given the trouble you’re facing, as an unsolicited advice, wouldn’t it be better for you if you moved someplace where the cost of life is lower?

Personally I find it incredible how highly skilled people in the US, especially in California, can become homeless.
A Greyhound bus to Fresno is $22 when bought two days in advance.

Twenty-two dollars.
I was in Colombia and South Africa last year. Those Uber drivers also used Waze.
Thanks for that. Elsewhere on Wikipedia there is the Merlin XII as having this feature:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin

...beginning in 1939.

Ford - Manchester UK only got going in 1940.

I didn't realise that Ford in America turned down the job, that must have been Mr very contrary Ford for you!

I must have gleaned that 'fact' regarding the Rolls Royce blueprints being no good for Ford from the History Channel. I do wonder though about how much Ford thinking influenced Rolls Royce and their shadow factories elsewhere in England, where they did use relatively untrained staff to crank out the volume.
The Clojure standard library has had the the 'as->' macro for a while which serves the same purpose as the "magic wand". It doesn't need to use '<>' as the identifier, but I usually choose to do so because I learned about the magic wand library before I learned about the 'as->' macro.

(as-> {} <>
...
(add-age 21 <>)
...)
But apparently people really did need moar jpeg.
Deal with that in the 2nd half of my paragraph.
Sheep euthanised after being violently raped by ‘dark skinned man’ in Germany
>the law gave police probable cause for a traffic stop, since plenty of people at first ignored the signs. He added that such violations are especially useful for regular patrol officers, who might not have the training or experience to spot the signs of a potential sex-work transaction.

>"We used to stop cars all the time with the signs in Hollywood. The majority of the time it was residents, but now and again we’d hit someone who picked up a prostitute and catch them in the act

So basically now that LAPD goes fishing more often LAPD catches more fish.
What is the difference between an ICO and an STO?
Keep in mind that there could be a very good explanation for such a no-show, like death of a family member.

In a company the size of Amazon, there is always someone else who can step in. If not, it has serious management issues.
I’m not sure about that. I’ve spent almost 2 years in Thailand (cumulatively). I find Thai food in Canada is definitely way sweeter and much less spicy. I was able to find only one restaurant in Toronto that served authentic Thai food. The chef was actually a Thai, so that makes a difference.
The problem isn't NIMBYs refusing to sell. It's NIMBYs writing the zoning rules so their neighbors can't sell to infill developers either.

Comapre to Massachusetts. We have a law against snob zoning. So while there is a homeless problem, we're making steady progress because of developers buying people out and building apartments. (Mind you're, they're mostly buying parking lots, gas stations, and mini strip malls and putting housing there. And nobody's eminent domaining anybody.)
I’ve lived in Sunnyvale for six years now and one thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of the rv/mobile home parks have shut down and been turned into luxury apartments.
You are basically rewording nepotism so you don't have to call it by name.

As for his writing, I didn't find him sounding "like an a hole". To me, he sounds like a normal human being communicating honestly.

To each their own I guess, let just agree we disagree.
Exactly. After the passion wears off and you're left with a young family that needs food and clothing and medical care and you can't afford to buy a decent house, doing what you love isn't enough.
> Immune response in reaction to what?

Foods we're not biologically adapted to eat, for instance?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705319/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3402009/
I find it terrible naming. “Almost-x” is good but “2-almost-x” really sounds bad. “2-factor number” ? “2nd-order-prime”? Twime, Thrime? Even “2-quasi-prime” sounds better.
Won't this just become learned behavior? A lot of people that use prostitutes are repeat customers, they're just going to learn to not turn right. Seems to me that the turning right only serves to help police ticket or pull over individuals that could even be lost. It's basically like a speed trap that some neighborhoods enact to fund their towns and local police. Eventually it will move from punishing their actual target, to punishing everyone for ticket revenues.

Good luck getting it reversed. If there's one thing government is really good at, it's not reversing bad laws once their purpose has been served, especially if money becomes involved.
You're assuming direct causality. Think of the practically limitless number of major confounding variables here that are practically impossible to control for in a reasonable way. At the most fundamental think of the distinction between nations that legalize prostitution versus those that do not. There tends to be a very different system of ethos between these nations and this is going to trickle down to every single aspect of society.

So for instance I think it's extremely likely that you can show that legalizing certain drugs (such as marijuana) can be shown to 'cause' increases in sex trafficking. Of course it almost certainly does not but I'm making the educated assumption that nations that have legalized prostitution are going to have legalized drugs of various sorts more liberally than nations that still have criminalized prostitution. And so, lo and behold, we can show a correlation between legalizing drugs and sex trafficking if we assume that paper is correct that a link exists between sex trafficking and legalized prostitution.

Though indeed even the link itself should be called into question. For instance could the cause not be that legalization enables greater scrutiny over workers and thus the legalization itself helps to increase the detection efficiency of unlawful trafficking? Differences in what you're measuring mean nothing unless you are measuring things in the exact same way, with the exact same 'resolution'. Again you can try to control for things like this, but the controls are subject to just as many problems.

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Maybe the most important issue here is that this is an issue that is incredibly difficult to do right even when you are 100% impartial and objective analysis is your one and only purpose. In reality people are biased, and a negative result means you basically just wasted however many months researching this topic. And this is a topic where you could, even without malice or intent, show anything to be true if you wanted by just seeking out slightly different data, or controlling for confounding issues in slightly different ways.
If you have a Unicode library available, you might try asking it to convert the text to NFKD or NFKC normalization form. This will take apart ligatures (the former will also take apart accented characters).
Brave. That could have been some really bad rope burns or worse if the rope got tangled.
The question was about an example for a large program like BIND.
And a motel room in Fresno is about $20 a night, more if you want to know that the next room isn't a meth lab.

That adds up quickly.