skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This si full FUD and I don’t known the author objective. Those satellite will be in low orbit where one of there big problem will be to keep theire orbit. Their end of Life depend on how much fuel they have, and when they have no more fuel they decay. Or takes only some months (or at most a des years for the ones in higher orbit) to burn in the athmospher.

The only problem Witness so much satelite in low orbit si tracking them during their life which us easy for thoses as they require precise tracking for being operational.
Automatically reducing an argument to saying someone is equivalent to an anti-vaxxer kind of sidesteps the issue and is a logical fallacy. If there is a problem with the argument, elucidate the issues, but "Reductio ad X" arguments are not valid. This is a large and nuanced issue, which requires more thought and argumentation than can usually be contained in a HN comment, but I think the reduced thing we have here is whether computer code predicting a certain outcome should be trusted -- and, more importantly, making major decisions based on that prediction, given the nature of bugs and problems we see in normal code. I believe we all agree that potential consequences are far worse, we simply disagree on how to treat those consequences and where they come from. Because there is so much at stake, it is best to be more sure of what is happening and to take the right choice, instead of the first one we thought was correct based on a limited, and potentially flawed, computer model. If the computer model predicts dire catastrophe, then we should take it seriously and do another one with even greater resources in order to ensure the prediction is correct and what course of action should be taken. Perhaps it is right in predicting catastrophe, but not in predicting the -right- catastrophe, in that case we could spend a large amount of resources on the wrong solution and miss the right solution, which could end up being even more catastrophic.
It depends.

I've worked with both SCCS, RCS, Perforce and git. The way SCCS and RCS did it was a pain, but Perforce's was IMO more feature than bug. When Perforce told me "uh, X is editing this file you're just about to edit", talking to X was usually a good idea for some reason I wasn't aware of. Sometimes X was working on one issue and I on another, and the deeper cause was actually the same. Sometimes X had forgotten to check in some work and would do so immediately when I asked.

Not always. But often enough that I liked those locks. (Hated the RCS/SCCS locks though. Those had far too much cost and offered too little value.)
I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be better for the test of the world if humans became extinct. Our impact is limited mostly to earth now, but if we make it into space we'll just go and ruin other planets. It's already very very difficult to get everyone to agree and work together to spare ecosystems and species on our own rock so imagine how little traction there would be to not destroy some distant planet none of us call home. Humans are short sighted like every other animal, but we have much more destructive capabilities. This can't end well.
thanks ! but we would prefer something that had open source availability (the gitlab model) as a fallback measure.

im seeing labelbox and i think they follow that - https://www.labelbox.com/
System76 does not even design any of their laptops, they are all (currently) rebadges of Clevo machines. They do plan on releasing original designs with in house manufacturing at some point.
The Linux desktop never took off because it lacked preinstalls. This could be due to immaturity, but at the time Microsoft was strong-arming OEMs, so it was unlikely to happen either way. Now it's too late.
Alternative explanation for modern writers: write then there is less breaking news.

“Important” news feels important and one may feel more justified in attending to it.
America Misunderstands the Declaration of Independence Because of a Typo
Why would "forc[ing] third world countries to actually become competitive" happen at all, if it had not happened before outsourcing was a thing? I would think these workers would just go back to "earning around $2 a day, or less, in the so-called informal economy of odd - or dangerous - jobs." If you think they are acceptable collateral, at least say it in as many words. If that's not it, please explain.
> change our paradigms, economic system, and other social factors.

As the famous quote goes: "it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism:_Is_There_No_Alternative
A professional meteorological mapping and modelling tool we use at work has exactly this: A simple "declutter" slider.
And it is easily one of its most impressive features - so incredibly simple (esp. compared to all the other bells and whistles it offers) and yet constantly proving its usefulness in everyday use.

Gmaps & Co. have become even more tiresome to use since I actually have experienced how much more comfortable it could be.
Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communities
Naughty Dog (game dev) have used it to some extent. This has been up on HN more than once. They have even done a presentation on RacketCon 2013.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12203694
Principle 4.3d; Choose your habits well - Ray Dalio
And seeing the mess that third party unauthorized repair people make out of iPhone repairs, I wouldn’t trust most people to do it right.

An iPhone battery replacement is $29 (at least until the end of the year), how much do you think an iPhone screen would cost on the open market?

I’m seeing prices of $170 for an iPhone X repair kit.

https://www.digitalsupplyusa.com/collections/iphone-x

It’s about $100 more to get it done right with a warranty.
Most animal species are insects, so probably that is the majority of animal species that will die out. Insects and grubs, worms etc though can be very important to the local ecology. Loss of some could damage human food production that relies on them in sometimes very indirect ways.
As a long time Mac user I agree. My 2011 MacBook Pro is nearing the end of its life, even after ssd and RAM upgrades. This month I’m buying a System76 Gazelle to replace it. Been waiting years for Apple to deliver a laptop that meets my needs but they’ve gone the opposite direction I wish they would.
Blond Power (2003)
Recent FreeBSD's do not, though the what[0] command has been ported from SCCS and is, IMHO, the only part of SCCS which remains relevant.

0 - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=what&apropos=0&sek...
Thank you for your feedback. I made it more orange. :)
Neutrons can be contained in a magnetic bottle, even if they don't last long in isolation. Presumably the same is true for antineutrons, although I don't know how hard it would be to slow them with magnetic fields...
Depends on the country:

The USA:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN?locat...
8 Ways to Ensure Team Accountability in Your Startup
If the people maintaining the black boxes I rely upon have an easier job keeping it functioning and correct, I would say that is very relevant to me
The environment is a complex web of interdependent relationships between species and ecological processes. You remove enough relationships and it'll just collapse.
Yes, you're right; I phrased that incorrectly.
> We run the risk that the act of deplatforming can become as extreme as the hate speech it seeks to banish.

So, they're saying "I won't help your speech reach millions" runs the risk of being as bad as encouraging the idea that "all $ethnics must die" - speech which as very real and deadly consequences.

I don't know where to even with that. Someone has not though it through at all. Is the rest worth reading?
Editors embedded in webpages

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https://glslsandbox.com
https://shadertoy.com
https://codesandbox.io/
https://codepen.io/
https://codeanywhere.com/
https://codeshare.io/
https://www.codechef.com/ide
https://js.do/
https://codebunk.com/
https://stackblitz.com/
https://coder.com/
https://www.remoteinterview.io/codepad
https://vertexshaderart.com
https://greggman.com/downloads/examples/html5bytebeat/html5b...
https://glitch.com/
https://jsbin.com/
https://jsfiddle.net/
https://webglfundamentals.org
android to iphone.. thats like deciding which gulag you like better
A long time ago, I was using racket at the largest hospital in Massachusetts analyzing DNA sequences of MS patients. I used racket to create a GUI that allowed non-technical biologists to create custom bioinformatics pipelines.

I found Racket to be great and highly productive. If you are looking to use racket at work I would recommend you look into working as a software engineer for academia.

If you are the only engineer around, you get to use any language that you want.
Anecdotally speaking, I tend to write well late in the nights -- when everyone's gone to sleep. I tend to focus well, think throughout the evenings. I think it also depends on the most distracting-free time. For me, it is late night.

Can it also be about geography? I am not sure if there is a correlation between the region an author belongs to and his writing habits. I couldn't find any reference in shared article.
Ask HN: How do you improve as a self-taught programmer?
Earlier this year I learned to code and built a janky restocking program for my business using Python and SQL. I built it by making a blueprint with the help of my partner and then learning and progressively building each part.

However, because I built it with lots of Googling, I'm not confident in the code, and I feel like I don't know what I'm doing. It works but I feel like I built it out of scotch tape and that it will break at any moment. Because I built this for my own business, there aren't any managers I could show my code to, and the programmers that I do know aren't that interested in reviewing my bad code. Every time I've shown my code to someone they look a little horrified and then very confused.

For example, for my restocking program I needed to reverse-engineer Amazon's sales rank algorithm. It required an understanding of mathematics that I lacked. I went to a hackathon to meet more programmers but most of them were front-end and not familiar with curve fitting and the regression modeling stuff.

I want to know that I am doing the right things, following best practices, and get more confident in my coding ability.

What would be the best way to get there?
No, they are complaining about mistreatment on the basis of opinion. Minority rights are important.
> Why should a company use it over Clojure?

Not wanting to support the JVM ecosystem.
...which was submitted by the same account.
I have no inside info, but presumably it's a call-out to potential journalistic sources. The call-out emphasizes secrecy to assuage fears of retaliation by third parties not happy to see the news spread.

The reporters Edward Snowden reached out to almost missed out on the story because it seemed too much work to install and learn to use the secure communication tools Snowden asked for before saying what it was all about.
what do you do? I mean what exactly is your Job sir?
> So precisely who is going to pay for all this, and the reduction in growth it’s going to entail?

Speaking of rational choices: if faced with paying everything you have or your own extinction, the most rational choice would be to pay everything you have. Nobody would spontaneously make that choice, but it really is.

Making this a very irrational question, in a way.
What about people who can't afford it now, though? There are literally billions of them.
Use SVN just like everybody else.
Dropbox Paper (https://paper.dropbox.com) uses a modified version of Ace. Paper is based on Hackpad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackpad) which used Ace:

https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad/tree/master/etherpad/src/...
>It's easy to forget how different other education systems can be.

Yeah isn't it weird how Europe and Asia care more about exam scores when applying to schools than how far you can kick a ball or how much money your parents have...
Yeah, these are typical excuses used by crooks.

Unless your current debts have a payment plan set up, the priority is them.
My understanding is they work with Clevo to design new machines and then both companies sell them.
> So because Apple releases new software and hardware every year, that means that the phone I’m already using immediately stops working?

In apples case, yes. You might very well be able to install the latest iOS on your 2010 iPad, but why bother? It's going to be so slow that you'll want to throw it out the window. Do t want to update? Good luck reinstalling your applications after a wipe because they all require the latest iOS api version and you can't install previous versions.

Let's not pretend that Apple's business model isn't built on people throwing out all their idevices every few years and rebuying everything altogether whenever Apple dictates that the old connector isn't good for you anymore or that micro USB is for losers.
Frontend vs. Backend (Film Scene)
Notifications, as you rightly mentioned, are a huge problem with Android. Some manufacturers implement battery saving measures which force kill applications so they can no longer process notifications.

I used to work at a team messaging startup Flock and we used to get a lot of complaints from users about missing notifications. We were able to detect impacted users and reduce complaints substantially using duplicate acks from xmpp fcm and app. The details are outlined here in case anyone wants to check out: https://hackernoon.com/notifications-in-android-are-horribly...
React Native's Back End to Open Up to Other Frameworks
So, you think these businesses took an existential risk with their reputation for the ephemeral benefit of looking cool? You are seriously underestimating the acumen of the folks who each went from zero to critically central providers in a cutthroat industry in less than 10 years.

Stripe/Paypal's constituents include their employees, businesses, and end users, all of whom have lots of choices about which network to align with. Their job is to project both a service and identity that align those folks to maximize the value of their network effects. They decided that the wedge of people who are worried about deplatforming (either Gab specifically or in some holistic way) is smaller than the wedge of people who would rather not be in the same ecosystem as Gab. I seriously doubt you know those audiences better than them, but if you're right then you have a great idea for your own fast-growing business.

BTW, the above doesn't have to be interpreted some cynical, 5-dimensional chess game analyzing user segments. Individual and brand identities and ethics are part of how people make purchasing/participation decisions, whether they are calculated or sincere. Sometimes a part of what makes people and their companies succeed really includes values they articulate that don't seem like part of the core product. You may dismiss those ethics as chasing some sort of trivial coolness-or-PC-ness, but enough other people take them seriously to move a lot of the world's money and time around. If it's tempting to dismiss that chunk of peoples' motivation as some sort of NPC ignorance (edit: apologies for putting words in your mouth if not), you might actually be defending your lack of effort to understand and adapt.
Schools Enlist AI to Detect Vaping and Bullies in Bathrooms
Oh I confused pointer auth with the newer ARM MTE [1]. That (nearly) eliminates use-after-free/buffer-overflow.

[1] https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/arm-a-prof...
I was hoping the author was going to list alternative stable mobile OSes with privacy and users in mind, or maybe lay down the reasons for starting a project hard forking an existing OS or something...but he literally just said he wants to move to iOS???

Honestly, (and personally) I feel better knowing that I am running an Android ROM with publicly available code on Github than any iOS any day
>> satisfy the requirements of every platform you build on top of

This sounds simple, until you realise the requirements aren't well-defined, or that the definitions can be changed arbitrarily (and retroactively) by the platforms.
It depends where you are.

I'd argue the SF Bay Area is not being driven by investors (many investors think it is bad to invest given the very low rent yields), but by supply constraints themselves.

The supply constraints are not so much financial, but being driven by residents who don't want their neighborhood to change. And since they don't suffer (no property tax increases come with the home value increase), there's not much push back other than the moral argument that their children can't afford homes anymore.
On the notifications part, I had a Huawei phone for a bit and encountered the same issue. Huawei does some crazy things to keep the battery from draining. It does kill almost all background apps. There are some settings to stop this but it seems like a crap shoot whether it decided to listen to them. I thought android had gone down hill and eventually tested out an S9 and realized it was the Huawei android flavor that did this.
I think racket would be a good choice for internal company tools. It’s batteries included philosophy allows you to create very complex apps with minimal effort.

Racket is significantly more expressive than clojure in many different ways (nice gui tools, very sophisticated macro system, good IDE)

I wouldn’t want to use racket for applications that would have thousands or millions of concurrent users. For programming in the large, clojure wins by a long shot.
A bit painful to read considering the iPhone SE-series is now discontinued. (Despite that the SE is still a very good phone. Wish more manufacturers made devices with these dimensions and polish.)
I wonder how many of the people arguing for the good of deplatforming have, in other circumstances, argued that internet access is a human right. Also, those denying that internet access is a human right decrying deplatforming. It’s interesting the interaction between those two ideas.
That's very vague. Collapse how? According to other comments we have already remove 60% of species, why wasn't that enough to cause a collapse. Other species take up the slack left by those removed.
This Is What Chamath Palihapitiya Thinks About Products
Not sure one mistake disqualifies all a company’s products, especially since none of them have a perfect track record.
Having discovered the TCL programming language because of a single person using it in a bioinformatic lab I can second the recommendation.
Facebook doesn’t allow you to target groups directly however it allows you to target interests. Interests are auto generated based on how you use Facebook (and that includes groups).
The Settlers II
Yes I updated the cursor css property to "inherit". Thanks :)
What material new information is that?
That video shows a white blob (or sometimes a black blob) moving slightly between two lines. And then at the very end it slides off to the left.

It adds nothing to the narrative.
Read other peoples code on eg. github. Or just write code for years and years - you will occasionally be disgusted by your own code and refactor it to be more readable/logical for yourself. Over time your style will improve greatly.
The problem is that what’s rational for the group is not what’s rational for the individual.
>> That my $.25 artisanal dog cupcake business can't get the services it needs at the price I can afford doesn't raise complaints.

If you can't get services you need at any price isn't that when competition authorities [ought to] start investigating?
Great initiative. I often wonder why Racket isn't used more in the industry, especially when you see much more niche languages being used...

One note about your site: You are subscribing people to a mailing list without sending a confirmation email?
Why ASO Depends on Reviews and Ratings
you're greatly overestimating how much the compiler can optimize code.
You can write Haskell in the Racket environment[0].

Racket has a lot of well-designed and well-documented libraries that are a joy to work with. In his Racket manifesto Mathias Felleisen (author of The Little Schemer) describes how Racket is supposed to be useful for programmers at any level.

I'm currently working on a web app using the Datalog[1] back end. I guess that's very similar to Clojure's Datomic or core.logic, and I'm not sure which is "best", but Racket is certainly good.

[0]: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2017/05/27/realizing-hack...

[1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/datalog/interop.html
And the people who know the product best are the ones employed by the company who actually built it, so they have a built in advantage in consulting/support.
Would a small format desktop with a vesa mount for the back of your monitor, like a NUC, be an acceptable compromise?

The main problem I've seen eith that sort of thing is that there still aren’t many 5k monitors on the market and I’m not sure the LG one will work with Linux over USB-C. (Would love to be wrong on that if anyone knows better).
But for those people the food needs to be free, not cheaper - feeding them shit quality food just so they can afford it is the wrong solution as well. We need to be growing good quality food and those who can't afford it need to be given support to get it. Canned pasta and corn is not a solution just because it's cheap.
The number of requests sent to Google or Apple seems like a poor metric to judge privacy impact. A single request with my bank account number carries a lot more information about me than 1,000 with my battery status.
To say that I'm ditching Android is a pretty incomplete statement - because there is no one Android. It really matter which flavour of Android we are talking about. And which specific device. For example, the bloatware might not be a problem on a unlocked Pixel device.

At this point, both iOS and Android are in pretty stable states. It comes down to individual preferences. Author primarily seems to have an issue with Google, which again is justified.
FYI, there doesn't appear to be any cryptocurrency involved, which is a plus for me.
That's a pretty horrifying story about those push notifications. The biggest use case of my customers for creating native apps around web apps for iOS is push notifications, that's immensely huge for businesses. Losing push notifications means your application loses it's value.
Honestly, who really cares that much about what smartphone you have these days? You have one with a good enough battery and the same apps as anyone else, and the speed is all fast enough to not notice. At this point the technology has converged.
React Native Dev: Is It the End of React Native Development?
> I wouldn’t want to use racket for applications that would have thousands or millions of concurrent users. For programming in the large, clojure wins by a long shot.

Can you explain why?

Because it's been used more in big prod envs? Or for reason intrinsic to the languages themselves? If the latter, which ones?
More than that, the benefits would not be felt.

A PWA erases the cost of downloading the JS library, so that startup of the app would be the same as relying on having the same library bundled with the browser.

As far as latency goes, browsers won't beat what is already possible in HTML/CSS; or else, they can optimize the engine to match the performance and everyone benefits. That's why browsers' devtool editors are unsurprisingly in HTML/CSS (I believe Chrome/Firefox uses CodeMirror rather than Ace, but it works similarly).

Finally, functionality varies from one app to the other. One may want tabs to autocomplete; another may want them to input actual tabs; another, a number of spaces. Some may need multiple cursors, and some may need the editor's algorithms to not be too slow when the data to edit is compiled text (say, a single-line 100k minified JS file can crush the performance of your text editor if its string data structure is not ready).

There are no outstanding benefits to having a library be bundled in the browser.