skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX has been launching the Falcon 9 for the past 6 years straight with only two launch failures and one partial failure out of 65 flights. Their older Falcon 1 didn't do great, only last flight survived out of five tries. However, SpaceX has had near consecutive launch success for the past 10 years. They threw themselves into the deep end with space. They do things the cheap and quick way and hope that it works. When it fails, they can quickly reconfigure and try again, their investment is low. This model helps you get really far really quick, so much so that they are now competing with ULA. ULA's tech has heritage all the way back to the Convair days when slapping a satellite onto an ICBM was a new idea. All of those small companies like Rocket Lab are just starting their success but this is literally where SpaceX was 10 years prior, launching small stuff with mixed results. If SpaceX can get off the ground with 20% success rate of their first design, I doubt Rocket Lab will have trouble with 80%.
I dunno. It can just be that the intended audience is expected to know these terms already. It'd be weird to call any Nature paper an explainbrag simply because it uses field-specific terminology.

Personally, when little things like that piss me off, I find it more helpful to introspect "why do I have such a strong emational reaction to this little thing?" than to go about laying moral judgement. I find this approach is especially good at promoting effective communication in places where it's easy to misinterpret intenions, like text.
> I can't tell you how often I'm sorting something with someone (like Christmas ornaments) and want to explain the fastest route to sorting them.

I'm imagining you using quicksort to sort ornaments, but then I started thinking that sorting algorithms aren't as helpful in real life as they are with computers because your brain can comprehend "the big picture" and do precision swaps or innovative transformations that a computer wouldn't know to do.

For example, say you need to slide some wooden blocks into a long slender box. The blocks have letters of the alphabet on them, and you want to load them such that z is in the very bottom and a it at the very top. You arrive at the table and you see the blocks are sorted - but in the reverse order. You could use a sorting algorithm to optimally correct this, or you could just flip the box over and load from the other side...
Try this: https://deepwork.me/
Requiring the package to be signed for is an option; most people don't want it because going to the post office to pick up your package is a huge pain, and thefts are pretty rare.
> And Gawd forbid you make the mistake of running 'sudo pip', because that can screw up your entire computer!

virtualenv is your friend.
You can invest in SpaceX. They regularly are available on secondary market places.
A transaction log is too detailed and specific. Typically an event log lists actions from the business domain rather than what got affected. It should explain what happened, not how it happened.
Could you clarify what you mean by "soft-skill"?
Yes didn't he say he meant to cause offense? Using that word (or any word) to offend non blacks does not somehow cause it to grow tentacles and attack every black person alive. Context and intent matters and I don't think you or anyone else gets to make that call on "hidden motives" or effects beyond what is stated on record.
Yeah.

“Hello officer, I made a booby trapped package and I...” gets tased “argh no you don’t under- “ is handed off to the secret service

I doubt the cops would look kindly on what is at best (funny) vigilante justice, at worse a violation of some federal law.
The Google of ten years ago was the company we should have trusted the internet.

The Google of today has essentially removed the founders and become a search for profit. Once they split the company 'for accounting purposes' it meant the google part of alphabet was going to be run for increasing profit almost exclusively, which mean just what we are seeing now.
The flip side is the IAU came up with a definition that only allows 8 planets in the universe and ceased to be relevant for a common sense definition of planet which existed well before they did.
> I will never use words I hate, like the trendy and artificially constructed words "zhe" and "zher." These words are at the vanguard of a post-modern, radical leftist ideology that I detest

> Peterson has criticized the use of the term "white privilege", stating that "being called out on their white privilege, identified with a particular racial group and then made to suffer the consequences of the existence of that racial group and its hypothetical crimes, and that sort of thing has to come to a stop

Emphasis mine, both. What do you call someone who is very strongly against the left while protecting white privilege? We have a non whitewashing word for that.
I certainly don't deny that.

Personally, I'm still not going to perma-dye someone's car.
You have no clue what is happening in SA right now, and how it will end up if the far-left keep providing a platform for this kind of racist vitriol against whites.
While content has always been assumed to be outside the purview of security, I think there are at least two ways to look at it:

1. Of recently developed Internet technologies, disinformation is seems undoubtedly the most world-changing. Democratic government is literally falling in some places, fascism is rising, as well as hate and oppression. That's orders of magnitude more impact than AI, for example, which gives us facial recognition and, potentially, self-driving cars.

2. In other contexts, such as some business databases, the accuracy (completeness, correctness, consistency) is taken very seriously. We thought it wasn't a serious issue with unstructured data and non-commercial communication, but clearly we were wrong.
I think the technical answer here is yes but, given the fact that the police themselves were too occupied to pursue the original thieves, I find it equally unlikely they're going to pursue the vigilante

IANAL - but I'd suppose they could sue you and may even win but it's not going to do much for their public image in the best case and the worst case they get prosecuted for theft.
Wanted to second that the author mentions C as being "simpler" alternative -- doesn't make much sense as it is quite a "footgun" it itself. I'd much rather search for missing indents in Python than debug segfaults in C. Also, package managers are almost not a thing in C land. Did OP try Rust -- that may check quite a few of his boxes...
Superblack spray paint is very expensive (eg on a roof of an illegal building) and the image would make it clear that something is hidden there and immediately flagged for manual inspection.

Clouds also don't help as the city only does flyovers on bright summerdays without any clouds.
Google maps adds a lot of articial clouds, but that's probably from their gov. sources to hide something sensitive.
Agreed to a point. But please give AOCP a try. It is much more readable than it is given credit for. So is SICP.
We sure wouldn't want to upset people stealing our belongings.
De-paywalled article link: https://outline.com/dNX9E4
> What stops Patreon et al from becoming extremist? (On the left)

Enough people leaving if they do not agree with Patreons views

> IMO, it has already happened. The far-left have already crossed lines that are tremendously damaging for society, while at the same time they point the finger at countries like China for engaging in the same kinds of actions they themselves are engaged in.

Right. We also need to look at ourselves in terms of surveilance and social score systems, which no doubt also exist in some form in european countries and the US.

> Free-speech is not just some alt-right or far-right conspiracy to oppress people. It's a fundamental value that our societies are built on. The idea of free-speech means that some people will say some extreme things, and free-speech is what enables you to point out their extremism so that people can be better informed.

Agreed. Free speech is important. Everybody should be able to say what they want, or stay quiet if they choose. However, this does not mean that I have to let my racist neighbour hold a talk in my living room.
For the laymen such as myself what do you mean by 'launch a constellation'?
> Given the police's complete inaction vigilantism was inevitable.

This makes me wonder: who is responsible for the lost package? I would expect, if the deliverer can't prove they delivered the package (because they didn't get a signature), they're responsible for the loss and need to pay for the loss.

The recipient certainly can't help that someone left a package outside. If the loss is for the recipient, then I can certainly understand the vigilantism, but that's a pretty awful system.

I'm glad I can usually pick up my packages at my neighbours'.
Those were like $300 androids.
> You don't have to memorize a framework any more than you have to memorize the STDLIB

While that's a valid opinion, it also misses the point. A framework is the opposite of a library. A library is something you call from your code. A framework is something that calls your code. (Fill-in-the-blanks coding, if you will.). Those are different skills and different use cases. For the former you can consult the man page for a specific API, but the latter requires some domain knowledge.
Well this is not the key indicator. The key indicator is the absence of pause between the words, that's how we differentiate between "peanut butter" and "peanut, butter".
A lot of people talk to themselves. Most small-time thieves are not known for incredible intelligence. If you look close enough to realize it has cameras, you might realize you are on video and should get rid of it quickly. Consumer products are far more reliable than rolling your own solution nine times out of ten. Had he failed to recover the device, the video still would've been pretty cool.

If it's traceable, throwing it in your own trash isn't much worse than throwing it elsewhere, since it already has the coordinates of your house anyways. GPS works fine on small packages and a lot of businesses/products exist specifically to take advantage of this. Also note that as full-featured smartphones, he's likely got the full power of Google Location Services in play, which can identify what floor of a building (or parking garage) you're on, and of course, even if it failed to get signal in the parking garage would surely show location up to the parking garage. Inside a parking garage, a bright white box is not hard to find. Also, he has four GPS devices facing different directions, so he's got a lot of backup for failure here.
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Yeah, if frameworks weren't around everything would be in vanilla javascript. Thats awful.
The Three Body Problem series is probably my favorite fiction I've listened to in the past couple years.
I recommend removing the "Show HN" prefix, which is not allowed for blog posts, before a mod changes the title of your submission to sth you may not like.
You're assuming that if it's fake, the spray is still real.
No need to use that word. The DMCA is basically toothless at this point and can outright be ignored. You get a notice that can be safely thrown away. It's basically "don't do that again". Then you do it again.

Honestly it's always been pretty easy to ignore it since it's inception unless you are running a counterfeiting operation.
>A satellite constellation is a group of artificial satellites working in concert. Such a constellation can be considered to be a number of satellites with coordinated ground coverage, operating together under shared control, synchronized so that they overlap well in coverage, the period in which a satellite or other spacecraft is visible above the local horizon. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_constellation
Exactly how much power does the ICO have over the Met?
For the context who have authority to spend 1triliion USD like this when majority oppose the same ?
It sounds good...in theory. In reality if you are not up to the latest or so, you wont get a job unless you have a contact with a lot to say in the hiring process or you are an expert in some rare domain.

The author's conclusion is a conclusion programmers get to after a couple of technology waves, when they have to face the fact that they have spent precious living hours learning something whose value has become marginal in less than a decade.

But there is no escape to this. Thinking that you will get by because you are an expert in the fundamentals is just wishful thinking.
He left a bright white box out that looked like it contained electronics in a very exposed spot easily visible from the street. Typically it's a more subdued brown box and the delivery guys will try to tuck it in a little so it's not quite as visible. He was hoping for this outcome and that affected the results.
Is there an analogue to this in the Apache Big Data universe? Similar to Kafka, perhaps?
Corn grows Americans to feed itself
Is Ethereum 2.0 overlooking communication costs?
Humans are volatile. Politics even more so.

Our options aren’t “high confidence converging predictions, or 538”.

The options in the current era for understanding of the electorate’s mood are “overly confident individual polls, poorly analyzed with completely inadequate models”, vs “538-style epistemically humble models accompanied by discussions of their confidence, which can be scored in aggregate after each election”.

I’ll take 538 any day.
> A name for the underworld; no punishments, but an eternity of playing Yahtzee with your great aunt in the grey mist.

I believe that's wrong. Hades was the greek name for the underworld, Tararus was the place within it for the punishment of the wicked, Asphodel Meadows was the indifferent place for indifferent people, and Elysium was the rewarding place for the especially glorious and distinguished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_underworld#Geography
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Mark reportedly lives in California, a two-party state. Wouldn’t he be running afoul of wiretapping laws, regardless if he’s recording criminals?
If your defense against theft ends up killing the thief do you think you shouldn't be liable?

The point is that at some point an "innocent" citizen crosses a line and is no longer innocent. We are just debating where the line should be.
You'd need a portable faraday cage right. Otherwise you'd be tracked right to it.
Can you elaborate? I assume you have to be an accredited investor?
Happy to see a Bob reference on HN. Fantastic series of books.
I'm always amazed at how little attention the Fukushima disaster gets.
OP here. More information here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWz1RDVoqw4
I'd be worried as well. Even if the criminals didn't remember where they got the package, now the video is going viral and it looks like the shows his home address on a map.

Edit: as someone pointed out it's not his address. I just re-watched the video and it's written on the map that it's not actually his house address.
And occasionally, the packages contain runny used cat litter.
The United States is big, with many different areas that have different levels of crime. Sometimes with affluent areas in walking distance of destitute areas, which is a whole other problem. One location being robbed repeatedly is not surprising, and not significant. If it were, Amazon would be requiring signatures instead of just sending you another one when something goes missing.
His experience may be extreme but, sorry to say, the UK is like that in many subtle ways.

Try living in the Home counties with a northern accent, for example, and see how you fare.
Large investors are comprised of smaller LPs. And early investors include early employees. That said, yes, most sellers are in the $15+ million size.
Nice overview.
However, if I search in the tread, I can find "Thinking in Systems: A Primer" only twice. There are a few other books with "systems in the title, maybe some of those are counted as well?
It looks more like they copied and pasted a generic privacy policy
Ohio was a gut punch of an audiobook.
I am home during the day (yay remote work!) but they (UPS) give a quick knock and set the package down and go to leave. Genuinely shocked when I open the door.
>there is still a peculiar notion of wholesomeness

It's less to do with wholesomeness than it is with a lower population density (there's also a lower crime rate in general in the suburbs, though it's less of a difference than it was 25 years ago).

In the suburbs you have far fewer people walking past your doorstep--fewer crimes of opportunity. You're also much more likely to be noticed as being out of place if you're driving around a quiet neighborhood looking for packages.
A few fiction recommendations:

Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple is the funniest novel I've ever read.

Man v Nature by Diane Cook is an inventive, insightful and sometimes dark collection of short stories that are often high concept but reveal a lot about human nature & motivations.

The Sellout by Paul Beatty is a funny and also literary novel by an author who writes endlessly clever, joyful and energetic prose.
> However, this does not mean that I have to let my racist neighbour hold a talk in my living room.

The actions of the left are more akin to investigating which bank your neighbour uses, then going to that bank and asking them to close his account down or you will cause a scene.
>Too many things could have gone wrong here, but they did not. The design is subpar in my opinion, for somebody who worked on a Mars rover. Custom printed board plus a bunch of smartphones, seriously?

What would you propose? The best design is often the easiest/cheapest one, and this looks like pretty simple.
Well, he has video of their faces, and possibly where they live, plus security cameras, so at least they'd get life or worse if they did.
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https://www.bollymeditube.com/2018/12/how-to-clean-nose-pier...
From the syntax proposal:

> Having a private field named x must not prevent there from being a public field named x, so accessing a private field can't just be a normal lookup.

Why do classes support public/private fields of the same name in the first place? This seems fraught by nature?
There are two types of programming languages - the ones nobody uses, and the ones people complain about.
Given that the constant factors are so much larger and the number of items relatively small, we're unlikely to start really hitting the theoretical asymptotic complexities of sorting algorithms in these scenarios. But for what it's worth, like much real-world data, this sounds like a good fit for Timsort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort It probably benefits from having a lot more sequential access than random access; the physical world is even more punishing than a processor cache.
> Yeah I wouldn't call 48 young

I read this as sarcastic/self-deprecating humor
If locking up the criminal will only make it worse, then do something else. Take the crime as an opportunity to remove them from their criminal environment. Or let them do community service. There are tons of better options than locking people up.

But intentionally doing nothing about theft is just harmful. It rewards the crime and breeds vigilantism.
It does seem like our package receiving system needs updating in light of the huge rise in package deliveries. Maybe it's time everyone should have a large package delivery box similar to a mailbox where packages can be securely deposited out of view.
I will stick up for this person. I agree with all of the points listed here. But especially: Python version management and installation sucks.

A while ago I had a broken python ship with my Ubuntu desktop. Pip decided they were going to deprecate behaviour, and nobody updated or tested on Ubuntu.

Also it is slow and ugly. Just write it in Golang or something.
https://www.bollymeditube.com/2018/12/how-to-minimise-pores....
Your "fork" resource simply need to include a hyperlink to the cleaned self. Its no different then obtaining a "clean" page on the web, with the forms emptied, etc...

<fork>
<a rel="clean_fork" href="http://example.com/very_clean_fork" />
</fork>
If I paid you $200, would you spend two weeks in jail?

If getting that $200 meant risk to you (someone confronting you, someone else taking your money, risk of an officer giving you a beat down), would you still take it?

It doesn't take a lot of risk to offset the "value" of stealing $950 labeled-worth goods (which will net you <$250 in cash).
huh. "just send the same piece over and over again" is a less interesting implemetation of "least useful piece" than i would have expected.
Easy: get a bunch of DVD drives and a ~1 Gbps uplink. 2000 4.7GB single layer DVDs in three working days is about 870Mbps. Upload them as you rip to S3 and then send a pull request!

https://github.com/awslabs/open-data-registry/
I don’t know how the author decided that mamzanne meant mom Jeanne. It sounds like mamie Jeanne and is consistent with how French people refer to their grandmother.
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Sure, but do you really think the criminals will present him with a lawsuit... when they literally stole from him?
I'm pretty sure that would be a terrible living...
Again, it was an artificial benchmark. I sorted millions of integers. 2x is not measured in a real-life program. It's the absolute upper limit what you can ever expect. Most programs don't spend a noticeable amount time in sorting at all. Program performance usually is dominated by other things, like I/O. Now what is 50% of "not a noticeable amount of time"? Right, it's irrelevant.

But 2x is a hard number, so people tend to think it's important and forget about all the disadvantages which are hard to measure but have far more ramifications.

And for the rare cases where a sort really matters, you should use an implementation that is tuned to the data. That will bring you larger speed-ups. I could have said "10x" to sound impressive, and it wouldn't be wrong in most cases, but it's simply not possible to make a blanket statement. It depends. It could be more than 10x.

Even better, you can often construct the data so it falls out sorted. Speed-up: INFx. Machine code and compile time: Zero.

It's the same story for types in general. They lead to wrong and bloated design and boilerplate code when you overdo it. Which prevents the important optimizations that could simplify program structure enormously, and kill many more bugs this way.

> The greatest speedup would be on arrays that fit in L1 cache where function call overhead is going to be the most significant factor rather than cache misses.

The smaller you make the data, the less time it takes to sort it with whatever implementation, the less important the implementation is.

Furthermore, shouldn't we expect most sorting applications to be pretty cache-friendly? E.g. Quicksort scans the array sequentially, log n times.
Setting up hilarious traps for thieves and volunteering/donating are not mutually exclusive actions.
Because most soft skills are to be applied in a very tailored way. Not prescriptive, per se.
Someone could program the strategy from this CollegeHumor episode into Bastard Tetris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alw5hs0chj0
What about a big box of 'roaches? And the camera of course, that would be comedy gold.
I seriously doubt that andy sane person would glitter and stink bomb their own car.
GPS works quite well for that kind of location -- even in a parking garage, as long as it's not underground it's not hard to get a signal.

His design is just about right -- it's not overly complex and manages to do what it needs to do for a relatively low cost.