skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that was part of the Space Shuttle's original purpose, but the reusability and cost didn't work out that way:

"The original plan, ridiculous as it was in hindsight, was for STS to be the sole US launcher of all payloads.

However, after the loss of the Orbiter Challenger only seconds into mission STS-51-L, US policy was changed to only allow the Shuttle to launch scientific and military payloads that required human presence. This destroyed any economic rationale for making STS self supporting or a revenue generator.

The first 4 missions were test flights, so omitting them, you can see that 11 of the 21 "operational" missions before the policy change carried commercial satellite payloads, often multiple, up to 3 comsats per mission. A total of 18 commercial satellites were deployed from the Shuttle. "

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/10352

The original purpose of the Space Shuttle was to be a highly reusable launch system to make frequent launches (including commercial and govt satellites and space probes) with minimal refurbishment time/cost. That sounds an awful lot like SpaceX's current goals, doesn't it?

Yes it had some mission profiles that the current SpaceX fleet can't do (large extended-duration crew missions in LEO, orbiting laboratory, Hubble repair) but there are also profiles that SpaceX can do that Shuttle could not (anything that involves stage 2 going beyond LEO).
You just say "I feel better" if any scientists or doctors ask you if anything changed. You'll be a placebo-effect supporting data point in no time.
What are benefits of GPSIII vs the previous versions
That's generally caused by a combination of a cheap/bad high speed DVD-ROM drive and/or bad ripping software/options settings. What seems to happen is the ripping software is running a marginal drive/dvd at full speed and disabling the drive retry on error. Combined with all the soft ways these drives fail it results in a bad rip.

This used to happen to me a few years ago, and it was overwhelmingly just a sign of a marginal drive. For about 10 years, I was replacing drives about once a year. It doesn't happen as frequently since I started using bluray drives (usually LG) to rip DVDs and a piece of software designed for "piracy".

Anyway, two software things to try, are lower the ripping speed to 1x-2x, and make sure to leave the drive retry on bad sectors enabled. Most decent ripping software will have options to control the error correction/retry logic. The problem is some copy protection schemes leave bad sectors on the disks, and this will hang a lot of the "honest" ripping software that doesn't know how to deal with it.
>Which would you rather have? A 1.5m tunnel, or an energy source that would change the future of human civilization?

oh come on we have more important stuff to spend money on like the 1 trillion annual spent making sure Boomers are comfortable on social security, or 90 billion on food stamps.

/s

It's depressing how we live hand to mouth rather than investing in the future. We could solve the majority of the problems facing humanity permanently by investing a fraction of our budget into these areas.

Health care is a supply and demand problem that can be solved with AI- Berkley already has AI surgical bots that can suture intestines better than a human. Imagine being able to do most routine surgeries with bots that share, learn, and improve from every surgery done on the planet?

Global warming and energy production in general could be solved by fusion
I strongly doubt that there is any rational risk for prosecution given the police response to the first crime, but I would worry more of escalated revenge from the criminal.
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-November/00...
>> "Actually [...] I believe."

My disagreement is not out of ignorance of who these people are and what they think. I promise we're not going to agree here. Nothing can come of pursuing a subthread trying to agree on definitions for political alignments.
The Big Brother of Things
Is python really meant to be a beginner-friendly language? I tend to think of it as lisp-without-parens, and lisp is not very beginner friendly.
From your link, "A booby trap may be defined as any concealed or camouflaged device designed to cause bodily injury..."

There is nothing about his project designed to cause any bodily injury. This is a very important detail.
I agree. One is used to bring supplies to the research station, the other was used to build the research station.
Given the police's complete inaction vigilantism was inevitable.

I wonder if an industry of decoy packages will spring up, maybe "sticky" or "smelly" glitter. Or heck just go full ink bomb.

I wonder where the law stands on this? Can you really be liable if someone steals your property then causes property damage using it?
It seems unfair to complain that Python 3 breaks backward compatibility and then also complain about the reason that Python 3 broke backward compatibility (i.e. broken string encoding in Python 2).
This, yet again shows just how far the computer science is from real natural language processing, despite of all "AI" companies' claims.

Unless they have all and everything hardcoded, even such natural thing are impossible to process for the "natural" language processing programs.

All cloud "AI" and "natural" language processing services should really be called "lots and lots of hardcoded stuff language processing"
We often use empty DIVs for catching mouse events.
That's nice of you to say.

It might be that I know enough to know that I know nothing.

I've worked in academia and Neuroscience, have studied Autism for my masters and created technology to teach people about Autism. Have volunteered in an adhd charity, worked around clinicians and neuropsychologists and had countless discussions on the topic of diagnosis.

All I can conclude, is even these guys can't establish the correct way to diagnose and it changes often.

I have no chance. PTSD and Autism are both extremely complex.

And, the new DSM-V is very controversial.
Yes it's a fair comparison but it's also a terrible comparison, since the shuttle was crippled in that area due to other requirements tackled onto it.

If you're talking about the one aiming to be best in the field to describe how good it is performing, you usually don't compare it to the broken clock of the group.
At first I thought this comment was just funny, then I had the thought that it's actually plausible, then it hit me that it's not only plausible but inevitable.
What are people's thoughts on if this is staged?

Considering the views / subscriptions are the main motivation here, it might justify the expenses poured into this project – that is, it would be quite a waste if all that effort went into the build just to have no one actually take it off the porch.

If actors were used, it would explain the lack of police involvement (it's easy to say, "police weren't interested" ).

An obvious consequence of it being a production without disclosure is the copycats that this will spawn.

Edit: just to add a bit more food-for-thought in response to comments such as, "why do that to your own car?" or "why get sprayed with fart spray": what makes you believe it's their own car (could be a beater picked up for a few hundred dollars) or that the fart spray actually smells?
Sensory issues in DTD? Can you link me to this?
Generally because people don't want it. Shipping used to be a lot stricter about signatures, etc, but people usually aren't home when the packages get delivered, and package theft isn't a significant enough problem to make the extra security worth the inconvenience.
tite should have been "man in wheelchair forgoes body replacement surgery after falling in love with attractive woman who only loves men in wheelchairs"
> A populist would generally be opposed to the concentration of wealth and power in a small subset of the population.

You (or the author of the full piece) seem to be describing Socialism. Populism is sometimes but not necessarily opposed to a wealthy elite, and the type of populism on the rise in the US and Europe seems generally to be a vague conception of a cultural elite, instead. Seems odd to bring into this discussion.
Knuth says in the Preface to Volume 1 that "A shorter version of Volumes 1 through 5 [chapters 1-10] is planned, intended specifically to serve as a more general reference and/or text for undergraduate computer courses; its contents will be a subset of the material in these books, with the more specialized information omitted."

I realize he can't shorten what he hasn't written, but I wish he had been able to write this shorter version years ago, and then work on filling in the details in the now-ever-expanding sequence of in-depth volumes.
I interned on the the space station.

Say what? I didn't know they had interns up there.
If I had to guess it’ll be some kind of named Symbol under the hood.
Can confirm there is a lot of NSFW content still on Tumblr the following day - I am in the process of completing a 1TB archive of some of it.
How do you say they have a 5-10 year advantage over Electron/Rocket Lab? They've already done a commercial launch and have 11 launches scheduled for 2019. They could very well be a viable competitor with a strong cost and time flexibility advantage in 2020.

SpaceX has a huge payload advantage over Rocket Lab, but small satellites currently pay a lot of the bills at SpaceX...
I think the broader point is that the 'free speech' sites that these guys make end up being overrun by the alt-right and the out-and-out fash.

But, on the question of Peterson being alt-right, his arguments for a willful re-adoption of mythical 'archetypes' as a basis for modern society is... well, excatly what happens with all far right ideologies, where a conception of social order is influenced by lobsters. (Cherry-picking bits of animal behaviour to explain human society is a mug's game, but if we were going to go down this route, why not create some vision of frozen gay ice cream orgies and child rearing, based on penguins?)

But the real smelly herring in Peterson's schtick is his conflation of Marxism, post-moderism, and general identity politics. It's an invented bogeyman, detached from any real analysis of the cornerstones of modern poltiics. Again, it's absolutely a key strain of any rightish movement.

A lot of this could be explained as him being more of a grifter than anything, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> implicit string concatenation

C and many other languages had that before Python, and it’s very useful to be able to split a single string over many lines in your source code. Python very wisely also implemented this feature.

> - pyc and pyo files littering the filesystem after running

Fixed in Python 3.
MIT Deep Learning
Looks like they just have a wildcard subdomain setup, https://asdfasdfa.stopdatamining.me also loads the same site.
Many people on the autistic spectrum find their sensory issues traumatic. I've interviewed a fair few of them and it sounded awful. It wouldn't surprise me if there's correlation. Because the two are quite possibly linked, especially for DTD rather than PTSD.
It hasn't lost meaning with me, when I read "alt-right" I read "racist trolls".

If you're saying it doesn't apply here, that's possibly fair, but one incorrect application doesn't wipe out the term.

And to echo the point in my sibling comment, these new sites that emphasize free speech (definitely a good cause) tend to immediately face the question of, "how free is speech, really?"

I honestly don't know if Reddit or Twitter, if started today, would have survived the onslaught. I don't know if anyone's figured out what to do that feels both "adhering to free speech concepts" as well as not becoming the next alt-right forum.
It turns out there is a simple, though not trivial, conversion from Cauchy to Vandermonde, so all error correction techniques apply.
> You're comparing how much it costs to move 1kg with a Mini Cooper vs moving 1kg with an 18 Wheeler

Most of the Shuttle’s payloads were aggregates of smaller payloads. For big stuff, sure, the Shuttle retains its mantle. But it simply wasn’t launching that much big stuff.
> $1 ointment/$76 ointment

When prices can be 76 times higher at one facility than the one next door, with no notice to the patient until their bill is overdue, there's obviously no way to price compare at all and market functionality does not exist.

> in-network/out-of-network

Vox doesn't say it, but doctors and hospitals are purposely orchestrating the "out of network doctor in an in-network hospital" to raise their fees. It's a deceptive trade practice.

The US medical system is broken. The solution is single-payer (none of these problems exist in single-payer systems).
"The students found the writer voicing negative opinions much more intelligent and persuasive than the one voicing praise."

Well, this resonates. One of the things I do when scouring online reviews is to search out the negative reviews. I dismiss reviews that are irrelevant to the product itself and do (what I hope) is a reasonable job filtering out the less-informed negative reviews. When I find a good, informed negative review I tend to search through that particular reviewer's history to then find what they HAVE reviewed positively. Because I do tend to think that person has more expertise/knowledge.

Until I find a good, informed negative review on something they've rated positively.

An aside: This site has lovely design.
I actually think both programs have benefits and downsides.

A friend (a founder of a dev tool company used by most Silicon Valley companies) and I were just laughing the other day about the issues with CS grads.

His main concern with the smartest CompSci people was their bias to write code and reinvent tools, as everyting else was boring. Graduates are over focused on algorithms, and CS programs rarely teach engineering.

Just a counterpoint to “bootcamps are bad.”
With my limited knowledge, I prefer GPLv3 for most of the stuff I write. This is mostly because I would expect anyone enhancing the code to give it back.

I would not release something that I write with Apache or BSD. These are "do whatever you want" licenses and might bite back. The whole Redis + Commons Clause debacle(if I can call it that) happened because Cloud providers wrap Redis in their services and charge for that without providing anything back to Redis. This is the "do whatever you want" part of these licenses.

I have doubt if anything that I make will be so successful, but in case it is, I would either want to earn by it by keeping it closed source, try some other way to earn by keeping it FOSS, but surely would not want only the big corporations to earn through it.

Last point to cover my ass. I understand that the Apache/BSD are pragmatic licenses and probably the main reasons why Open Source has turned even companies like MS to consider opening up their stuff. Only GPL wouldn't have done that. But somehow as a user I would prefer the latter.
I think Google does have choice, they could forego revenue when it's knowingly generated by efforts to censor and oppress people. "how this world works" absolutely includes people & companies that betray their ideals for money, but there are those that stick to their principals too [0],[1]

[0] https://moxie.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292327
Having once had a package thief open/dump packages in my back yard, next to the house, I would prefer you don't do that.

The packages were some rolls of vinyl, a box of sealed granola snacks, and some inexpensive jewelry, all rejected by the thief. If the person was homeless, I'm surprised they ditched the food, it was nutritious and shelf-stable. (I redelivered the packages.)
The most effective programmers don't learn libraries. They look them up. A good library has embarrassingly greppable documentation, and has a regular enough design that it's easy to predict when it should have a built-in facility to help with whatever you're doing at the moment.

The most effective programmers do spend time learning design and architectural patterns, data structures and algorithms, stuff like that. Because you need to be familiar with those sorts of things ahead of time in order to know when to use them, and also when not to use them.
You couldn't pay me enough to be an "actor" who had their house or car glitterbombed.
Personal solo side projects that I'm just hacking on, I use MIT mostly because it seems simple. If someone wants to use or fork my software, I don't really care how or what they're doing with it.

None of my projects address significant enough space that I would figure they're being incorporated into anything of business value anyways.

If I have a GPL dependency, then I license it GPL. I would probably use GPL or Apache if I ever was working on a project that I actually thought would provide business value to someone or was going to grow any kind of community around it besides me.

I'd like attribution just because that seems nice, but I don't have the time or desire to figure out or enforce something like GPL.
What is wrong with the m prefix for members?
Adds too much friction to the system. Yes theft adds friction too, but the relative effects of each are weighed and the lowest cost option wins. If they don’t do it this way, a competitor will, and then that competitor will win.

Plus, the options you mention are always available for special cases, and are sometimes used.
2018 in Review: 10 AI Quotes
I don’t really follow the author’s story. She scaled a business from 0 to 10k users over 18 months and quit. Now she is consulting on growth? The whole thing feels very internet market-y. I think we could learn more from why she quit considering the title of, “why founders fail to grow”.
Yes. Just is different forms. C++ has been through similar compatibility hell.
Saturn's Rings Are Beautiful, but They Won't Last
in 2012 i had a project where i realized that frontend frameworks would be the right approach. i analyzed what was there (knockout, ember, angular and a few others), and picked angular as the most agreeable. that was before angular was popular.

then i stuck with it until angular 1 was essentially no longer kept current.

i evaluated again at that point, and this time picked aurelia. i'll stick with that until i run into a problem that aurelia can't help me with and then i'll start looking for alternatives.

same goes for backend frameworks, or platforms. i am still working with the same one that i discovered in 2004. not going to change until i run into a problem where this platform doesn't fit.

in the meantime i am learning more exotic things like common lisp and smalltalk (rather the opposite of shiny and new), to get a different perspective on programming, but not to help me solve todays problems (except for fun).
The law says booby-traps are illegal. Depending on the damage/injury you cause, you will be prosecuted. Two wrongs etc etc
The process of stealing peoples data, there physical appearance data in this case, in the name of security and billing the tax payer billions of pounds for the priveledge, isnt going away very soon.
Yes, but for a reference types that value IS a reference, so if you change a complex type, that change will persist after return to the calling code.
> Professor Canavero is now working in China where he has received funding for his research while Mr Spiridonov, who became world famous for his readiness to be decapitated for science, has found his own extraordinary new life.

> The computer expert worked for two years with Dr Canavero but now accepts the doctor's first attempts at the futuristic surgery will be on Chinese volunteers rather than him.

Umm. With the recent BMJ report about forced organ harvesting from political prisoners and the crispr baby scandal, this doesn't make me feel comfortable.
I think the huge volume of 3rd party libraries that Javascript and Python have show that prioritizing developer experience over technical perfection leads to a more useful language. I hate Python's quirks but it's the first language I reach for if I'm just fetching data from an api or doing some web scraping. It's so fast and expressive that it makes up for the negative parts of the language.
I wouldn't call that the left, but just that capitalist have found that they can profit more by sharing the values most people in their market share. Most Americans, for instance, are much more progressive on social issues.

It's just faux-activism, which doesn't address the actual system of oppression marginalized groups face.

Extreme leftism is when workers control the means of production and run companies democratically.
Theif steals package, opens it while driving, crashes into another vehicle or otherwise damages property, life or limb. Maybe the theif has a hard time seeing you, but the other injured parties would likely sue you under the biggest pockets doctrine.
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon by Valley John Carreyrou
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep by Matthew Walker
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World by Hans Rosling
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Phoenix Project by D.M. Cain
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Tia T. Farmer
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
- Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
- Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Atomic Habits by James Clear

Most are about self improvement...i wonder if this bias says something about those who recommended the books. Was hoping for some new fiction books to put on my audiobook list.
The core message is solid, that knowing how to build systems without frameworks is must have. However you must know popular frameworks or you won't pass interviews. I had some absurd experiences due to not having Angular experience (false), I couldn't even reach the technical interview, since HR somehow decided I'm unqualified :)

I would rephrase the message as Stop relying on frameworks for your careers sake.
Yep, I grew up there and great town. I don't want to live there now but it is a great place :)
> shuttle was supposed to be cheaper than multiple manned rockets, but not cheaper than regular satellite launches

This isn’t how it was sold to the public.

> I interned on the the space station

Thank you. Without the ISS, we wouldn’t have SpaceX.
Why not use the sort of dye that banks use to protect ATMs?
As a random delivery person do you know the neighbor's relationship?

If you know both parties personally maybe you can, but that's a rarity these days for anyone outside of certain companies. Amazon's ad-hoc delivery service never sends the same person twice.
Understanding the For…of Loop in JavaScript
I use spaceflightnow[0] to keep track of launches. Not always 100% up to date but usually updated pretty frequently, good enough for me.

[0] https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
Anthony Levandowski: Pronto AI
Out of curiosity, why is the API's insistence on the Oxford comma a downside, seeing as it works for almost all lists? Is it due to overriding editorial preference - e.g. news orgs style guides?
> package theft isn't a significant enough problem

This guy had his package stolen many times in a short space of time. Seems like the problem is pretty bad?
Imagine how much money you could make hawking shit you stole on eBay and how little income tax you'd pay on it.

Until you get caught.

Leasing a car isn't beyond the reach of petty criminals.
Goodhart's law comes to mind: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."