skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure they can even get all of the data back.

The probe has limited data storage capacity and even more limited bandwidth to send it back to earth.

I’m guessing they have a protocol to prioritize data from different instruments as well as prioritize data purging if there is an opportunity to look at something more interesting before everything could be sent back home.

It can be a heartbreaking process for some of the teams for sure.

My best bet is that they get some initial indication of what data was collected then prioritize based on what they think is the most interesting or valuable from what was collected.

They were still retrieving data form the original Pluto flyby as this one was planned I’m not sure if they even got all the data from pluto yet.
We the people of the United States of America elect the people that write the laws. If we don't like what they're doing, vote them out and vote in people that will write the laws we want.
Interesting thoughts. What would you think of as a good closed ended question? I always worry that if I'm to specific I'll get false negatives (do they really not know what protected means or have they had a brain fade under pressure?)
There are some markets where the real estate business is insane, you don't get to make those studies.

I once had 30 minutes to make an offer on a flat, I actually matched the asking price... and was outbid an hour later.

Current price for that flat is 50% higher now. I'm still renting :( .

And it was a sketchy part of town with known crime (mostly theft, not violence).
I still use Hurricane Electric tunnels fir my v6 and ping times/throughout are so close as to be in the noise for most everything. It probably helps that I'm using a tunnel endpoint literally 10 miles from my house however.
> Try it out yourself: think of a historical project where you know the outcomes and can estimate garage competence for each team member and see if it makes the correct prediction.

Nope, it , IME, significantly underpredicts delivery.

If you change your success metrics to something that takes into account the completeness, correctness, and/or operational success of what is delivered, I think the problem reverses to overpredicting success, and I think the source of that is that focussing on garage competence of team members ignores that coordinating work of a team effectively is its own critical skill, critical defects in which will cause otherwise competent teams to deliver garbage.
Do their paid versions have ads too?
Try to Fit Arcade game for android. How many holes can you pass?
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China’s economy is at a tenuous juncture in its development and that shocks potentially threaten the achievement of key goals

Say what you want about Trump but he knows when he has leverage.

It can hardly be lost on the Chinese that Canada, a rule of law country, is simply carrying out contractual obligations

Authoritarians don't believe in the rule of law.

Not just in the sense that they don't have respect for it and wouldn't implement it. They don't believe other governments actually don't have influence over the judiciary. Often for good reasons because courts are sometimes willing to bend the rules for the benefit of the government.
Okay, let's break your points down.

> Do you refuse to fly if you are "against fossil fuels"?

This is a false equivalence. Being an fossil consumer is very very different from directly working in the fossil industry. Consumers will use whatever is most convenient or available. It's up to the industry to come up with feasible alternatives, and air travel will be some of the last fossil usage to transition. You picked the hardest end of the scale to setup a straw man. Why not ask "Do you ask your utility if there's a 100% clean energy option?" That's on the lower end of the energy transition difficulty curve for consumers, but it's still not relevant to the argument I was making (working in the old energy industry).

> What makes you against fossil fuels vs being neutral if you have a stance where you believe externalities should be taxed but that outright bans are too destructive? I consider pro carbon-tax to be a neutral position. I consider "anti fossil fuels" a position of wanting to ban it regardless of externalities being priced in.

It seems you and I have wildly different opinions about what constitutes neutral vs anti, and I worry that your definition is mostly informed by pro-fossil interests. Anti-fossil people aren't zealots or a cult. I'm only anti-fossil because of the reason you stated for being neutral: externalities are not being priced in. If they were, I wouldn't be anti-fossil.

Millions of other workers in clean energy and climate science have the same attitude as me. We're only in this fight because fossil fuels are killing people, so we're stepping up to help stop that. If fossil fuels weren't so destructive (e.g. carbon taxes offset the damages), we could all go do something else.

> No, being incapable of critical thought makes you susceptible to propaganda.

I seems like this is another argument assuming anti-fossil people are zealots incapable of critical thought. Having a position on a topic does not mean you have stopped thinking critically. Often, it means you have already thought critically and have decided on your opinion, and that you simply haven't come across a convincing enough argument to move you away from your current position.

I'm anti-fossil because I've reached the conclusion that fossil fuels are becoming more and more destructive for society, so we should make strides to curtail their usage. There's totally a chance that something could come along to alter my conclusion, but it hasn't happened yet.
With or without the robots, it still comes down to process control which isn't a real concern by a lot of the fly-by-night suppliers in China.
I wish I could find the article, but I read an excellent write up of Chinese manufacturing by an expat fixer a couple years ago.

The suggestions were basically: (1) don't think about manufacturing in China unless you visit the factory, owners, and engineers; (2) preferably, have someone onsite during manufacturing runs to do initial QA and refuse delivery if required; (3) assume the other party will cut costs anywhere you permit them to; (4) assume quality will drift cheaper, even if the previous batch was perfect.

A good friend does some manufacturing there for his business, and spends about half of the year over there coordinating.

So, yeah, some random order off the internet from another country? Routed through Taiwan? You're not going to have a good time.
Delver of Secrets is a 1/1 that can transform during your upkeep, so it might turn into a 3/2 on your second turn, but it's definitely still conditional and not guaranteed. Wild Nacatl is a 1/1 for G that gets +1/+1 for having a Mountain or a Plains, so again, you're not getting a vanilla 2/2 on turn 1 for it.

Also neither of those are in standard right now.
Ask HN: Is it risky to use React-Native?
React-Native seems like a great solution for a new startup -- sharing codebase for iOS and Android is huge help addressing scarcity of resources.

Before starting a new project in React-Native, I'm wondering, how big of a risk that Apple will ban React-Native apps from their store in the future?
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I'm not sure what you think is a reasonable alternative. In general, having some F2F on-site interviews is in everyone's interest. I'll agree that there should be some reasonable pre-screening before everyone makes a significant time investment. But the reality is that if you're job hunting you may well have to take some time off--especially if the opportunities aren't local.
Wow, I didn't know the gender gap in primary and secondary education had closed so much. That's incredible.
Is that the effective payload data rate after error correction has been applied or the actual transmitted bit rate meaning that the payload rate is much less? I've read that NH uses a 1/6 Turbo code for forward error correction. If true, that would imply that the transmitted data rate is actually 5 to 10 kbps or the payload rate (after e.c.) is 200-400 bps.
I'm simply pointing out a fact, which isn't my imagination, I've worked in Japanese high tech PCB plant in China and saw first hand what the reality is, according to the Chinese who went to the company's Japan operation to study, the Japanese made better products using older equipment.

Chinese bullet train technology was bascially bought from Germany and Japan, and I've read mutiple times that they know how to manufacture it by designs (still rely on those two for some key parts), but don't know how to improve it coz don't know why.

But the propaganda made it sound like China invented it, and it's so advanced.
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Crossposting my comment from the blog:

The Rust example looks a bit strange, since you're matching on a variable, but don't actually use it.

Instead, you could write the match like this:

let div_by_three = x % 3 == 0;
let div_by_five = x % 5 == 0;

match (div_by_three, div_by_five) {
(true, true) => println!("FizzBuzz"),
(true, false) => println!("Fizz"),
(false, true) => println!("Buzz"),
_ => println!("{}", x),
}

...or even like this:

match (x % 3, x % 5) {
(0, 0) => println!("FizzBuzz"),
(0, _) => println!("Fizz"),
(_, 0) => println!("Buzz"),
_ => println!("{}", x),
}

Furthermore, inclusive ranges can be written like this:

for x in 1..=100 {
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Cotinine and Krill Oil Reduced Depression in Mice Subjected to Restraint Stress
This is why I vehemently disagree with anyone that claims creating a startup is easier today than in the past.

Not only are the low hanging ideas saturated (ie website monitoring, brand monitoring, fitness apps), but the bigger ideas require a lot of data, and the big tech companies have the clear advantage.
People mostly create software with the objective that it be useful to humans. FLOSS has its own ideas about how software should be written and shared, but the objective remains the same.

Market share doesn’t necessarily mean how much cash software makes. Firefox for instance was once a big, very useful open source contender in the browser market.

I agree that there is a large number of arseholes in the open source software market and that it would be better for everyone if that problem were solved. There’s also a huge number of great people who I at least can thank for introducing me to the world of programming and open source as a kid. I’m also not completely white and western, and I never remember my weird-sounding name being a problem in these communities.

I find that the focus on diversity for its own sake misses the point, and I haven’t yet seen any evidence that its encouragement matters to open source projects’ success.

Why not just try and just make a nice environment and let the diversity come naturally if it wants to?
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Government pensions aren't insured like this and also have widespread issues with leaders coming in an slashing contributions so that they can spend the money elsewhere; eg, Illinois on every level of government. The insurance at least protects the pensioners to some degree.
I really like this. Good fun!
Try Ctrl+V first, if it's not been bound to paste. No idea how a german layout affects things though.
> From time to time I've run an analysis on the use of alternative image formats on the web and it never comes out to be worth it.

I just checked the Google homepage, and even the New Year's Eve Google Doodle currently being shown is a good ol' GIF, rather than a modern format such as WebP. And this is with me using a desktop Chrome browser that definitively supports WebP.

> Like many things, the costs of switching image formats are definite, but the benefits are questionable.

One easy way to get some of the benefits without incurring the switching costs is to leverage Cloudflare Polish[1]. I've used it at a few places, and have had good experiences. Although the majority of gains came from optimizing images that were poorly optimized to begin with, rather than the incremental improvements that occurred from enabling WebP support.

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000060737...
> purging if there is an opportunity to look at something more interesting before everything could be sent back home.

This is not a risk as, with high probability, there is nothing else on their trajectory they will be able to look at for the 18-month downlink time.

> I’m not sure if they even got all the data from pluto yet.

They did. It's true that they have limited data storage space, but they have had plenty of time to download the entire data set from Pluto.

https://futurism.com/it-took-15-months-but-all-of-new-horizo...

I believe the major constraint is how much data they can take during the short flyby time, not storage space or downlink time.
Plenty of environmentalists all over the place. plenty of people not happy about it. None you will hear about because who would you hear it from? The 9 o'Clock news?(Brought to you by Ford and Chevron.) Even "grass roots" social media platforms; You subscribe to any local Texas groups on twitter/insta/whatever?

Texas is a single state with 4 times the land mass of the entire UK. Do the people Glasgow stop what they are doing, take vacation time and go to protest a new Tesco building over a historical site in London? Likewise people in Houston have little reason and large costs to fight something happening 500 miles away. Nor do they have anything to say about or vote to cast in (almost) any elections that would have (directly) altered policy in the area, which is again, 500 miles(800km) away.
I would argue that BeOS was not a failure as an OS, but it was a failure in the market where it couldn't find a clear place for itself, and was attempting to break into a market pretty much totally dominated by MS at the time.

Remember in the time of home computers, there were many good Systems that were pretty much from scratch implementations (Amiga, GEM and Archimedes) so the idea of creating a totally new OS against the incumbents (Windows and OSX) is not totally pointless.
How the selfie stick was invented twice
Your example is a one-person example. MIT grads on average earn $223k 10 years after graduation (1) while Georgia Tech grads earn $115k (2).

(1) - https://www.paysa.com/blog/harvard-vs-mit-which-tech-grads-m...
(2) - https://www.ajc.com/news/education/this-how-much-alumni-geor...
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Of course it is. You are claiming that the lack of success of nuclear shows that it doesn't work financially. The same can be said about the effectiveness of solar. If it was so effective and could support most of our energy needs why haven't it?

The reason nuclear is expensive is because of the regulations around it NOT because of the technical issues of building a nuclear power plant.
> I’m skeptical both that: Lower tuition would make taxing endowments more likely

Yes, if the tuition were reduced by increased endowment subsidy, the political cover for the endowment would not be much affected.

But that strategy would limit the value of that cover (for the university staff) by 1) ultimately limiting the size of the "politically justified" endowment and 2) limiting the overall resources they control.

Re: 1), if the university contains cost inflation below endowment retained returns, the endowment eventually grows to fund 100% of tuition. At that point, the question "why do they need more?" becomes obvious and unanswerable.

Re: 2), note that the article implies an "agency" effect with university personnel, in that they benefit by their control of the institution's resources. In companies, such effects are seen in executives taking higher than market salaries and excess perks. All that diverts income from equity owners to managers. In a university these might be above-market salaries, research budgets, job security, prestige, trips, subsidized housing, etc etc etc -- diversions of endowment returns from "teaching" to the staff.

The agency model argues that university staff benefit from _growing_ costs, which give them more resources to control. The story that education costs rise faster than inflation and middle class incomes removes the limit on the size of the cost base / resources controlled. It also "politically justifies" an ever-growing endowment.

Thus lowering tuition simply by paying ever increasing portions of tuition does not serve the university staff. The point of the article, I believe, is that those staff have an ongoing interest in _increasing_ the costs to be subsidized by the tax-free growth of their endowments.

(It is also worth noting that such arguments justify more than protection of endowment returns: state funding for public schools, federal "overhead" payments for research grants, etc. We might even wonder if the endowed universities play a "cost-setting" role for higher education generally. They operate at ever-higher cost, sustained internally by the endowment returns; those costs then help justify the budgets of unendowed schools. "Hey, if you want the kids of Michigan to have a first-rate education, this is what it costs, just look at Harvard." If so, and MIT, Harvard et al began controlling costs, those controls would then ripple over time throughout the whole system through those benchmarking effects. Thus even unendowed schools would have long-term political interest in protecting those endowment returns.)

Note that we don't have to fully believe the whole story to learn from it. The "market" for higher education market is clearly pretty weird, and explaining that will require so pretty involved stories.
Swiss army knife for hackers
I mean, ok, but then Mars will prolly just want to pull some sketchy shit so they can use it to further their terraforming, and what if some maniac Earther decides Mars is too much of a threat, and wants to turn it on them? And oh man do you want the OPA having access to alien tech?
I doubt we're ever going to get standardization on a given ip data type even within most languages, much less across them, but there's a tiny bit of hope that the various databases might converge on something vaguely portable. It's taken twenty years, but I'm actually seeing it with some other types. We just need to make sure MySQL doesn't release something where internally all ip addresses (4 & 6) are stored as 47 EBCDIC characters and silently corrupts your dumps if you're using a really-no-I-mean-it UTF-8 locale. (Not entirely fair to the MySQL devs, but a lot of database people have been burned by their approach and Oracle is not making this better.)
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I was born and raised in Texas, I still live in DFW, and I'm aware of the law here.

I'm also aware of sociopaths and their symptoms, but I see no correlation between them and thieves. Googling revealed no studies or data on the topic. But I'd argue that most thieves are like most normal human beings, and that their theft happens towards the few people they don't have empathy towards. Just because you don't have empathy for a demographic (my guess: thieves tend to have less empathy for rich people) doesn't mean you're a sociopath, it means you have a prejudice. Everyone has some prejudice whether they like it or not, but we are not all sociopaths. In fact, there are many other symptoms that manifest within sociopaths, and you'll have a tough time showing that most thieves have them as well.
Reminds me of this guy: https://youtu.be/_FX6rml2Yjs

It takes him 17 hours to say a 3-syllable phrase 100k times. Expanding, it would take 468 hours, or 19.5 days to recite this prime.
Sometimes companies maintain high friction/high cost crap like that to scare off acquisition.

A friend worked for a regional bank that had a strategy of purposeful obsolescence to maintain control with the core shareholders, who were mostly from one family. They were using 1980s era AS/400 systems with terminals as late as 2008, and had only 1 PC assigned to a manager in the branches, with connectivity via ISDN.
Chinese companies like Comac can produce airframes roughly comparable to Airbus, however they're still struggling with engines. It will be interesting to see if AECC succeeds in building a turbofan with fuel efficiency and reliability comparable to western designs. Without a good engine they don't have a viable airliner.
Prime and Punishment
Don't get me wrong, I didn't try to say you were wrong, just to elaborate a bit on your observation.

Anecdotally, once we had a couple of Chinese auditors in the workshop (Scandinavia) to assess the quality of a delivery we were about to make to a Chinese government agency.

Once they were satisfied that key parts - motors, pumps, power electronics - were made anywhere but China, they really only had two further questions - 'Where do we sign?' and 'When is lunch?'
The reddit thread already has one good relevant comment https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ab7hsi/comparing_pyth...
They want to make money, and make it fast, when you ask them whether they can produce it, they are not gonna let the business slip away.

Don't know it? Hire someone. No equipment? Borrow or lease. No plant? Find one. Still can't make it? Place an order to someone who can.
Probably trying to avoid all the silliness coming from the right wing.
Any actual users around to testify about this?
> Software engineers do 1-2 interviews per week each, it’s part of the job. I might be a minority, but I would refuse to spend two of my evenings per week interviewing people.

Why are software engineers doing interviews at all? What makes software engineers qualified to interview people (especially when you consider the need to avoid hiring bias, problematic statements by interviewers that expose the company to legal suit, etc.)?

I'm not saying that companies should go to the other extreme and have all interviews conducted by HR - that presents its own set of problems in that HR doesn't know how to evaluate candidates for technical skill. But expecting hiring managers to open up a few evenings per week in the irregular and relatively uncommon circumstance (if it's common, then you have problems with churn on that team, and you should consider firing the manager) in which positions open up on their team to evaluate potential direct reports is not even remotely unreasonable.
> I guess part of the problem is that get rich quick schemes do sometimes work,

Exactly. Kind of like winning the lottery. The winner is all over TV and news bragging so it makes it seem so easy to win. If people had to sit and listen to everyone who played and lost nobody would play it.
I have two daughters who took orchestra, we couldn't afford private lessons. They did well, the teacher was excellent and they enjoyed themselves. They never reached the "top" orchestra. Our school has 3 levels.

My third daughter played in the band, and we decided that we could finally afford $20 a week lessons from one of the instructors. She's in the top band and got to play in the county competitions. She's had alot more opportunity.

I don't personally think she's significantly better, even though the lessons have helped her notice certain shortcomings more quickly. I do think she's noticed more by the band leaders.
If you find memory tricks like this fun, you should check out the book moonwalking with einstein which explores the world of memory world champions. If you use the method of loci[1] combined with a memorized list of words (optional) [3] that are in the major system[2] you'll be able to remember quite a bit of stuff with ease.

I have the memory of a goldfish, yet after training lightly for a month I am now able to remember numbers the length of phone numbers and credit card numbers as I read them out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system

[3] http://www.rememberg.com/Peg-list-1000/
Wrong, any person can write a law (and has been done multiple times in the past.) We elect the people that AMEND and PASS the laws.