skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to probably be unwisely candid in this answer.

It's a game, and a game that often in large corps involves deception, but I don't think has to. (Or perhaps I'm just making myself feel better by calling it "Crafting perceptions.")

There was a post a while back about a topic, "status fungibility." In a perfect world, you'd be in a team where everyone knows how hard that task is and you wouldn't have to say a thing. I've been on teams like that. They're fantastic. But in most worlds, you have a team where, if you're lucky, a handful of the people know _deeply_ what you're doing and the rest have a general idea. They probably aren't _trying_ too look down on you for being silent, but next to the guy who gives status updates translating what might be a simple task into something they perceive as a journey and time consuming, the human mind tends to use flawed heuristics that benefit certain types of overcommunication.

I've wrapped this in a lot of flowery and clinical language to try and not get incendiary about of it, but the crux is that you sometimes have to help your team see the value you bring, (The positive side) while recognizing (the negative side) that this enables an ecosystem where this opaqueness can allow others to use this intangibility to try and boost their standing vs. yours, so there's a degree of "protect yourself."

Sorry if this is a ramble. It's a topic I took a while to build mental models for (similarly introverted) and something that I've had frustrations with which is why I now try to look at it very impassively. I hope these thoughts offer at least a useful point of view.
Even in academia doesn't the US use CGS, and most of the rest of the world uses SI/MKS? We can't use the same physics textbooks.
Atlas is an airline, with 112 aircraft. Airlines aren't limited to passenger transport - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_airline.

That's certainly smaller than Delta's ~800 planes, but they're certainly not tiny.
Op amp on the Moon: Reverse-engineering a hybrid op amp module
More in "The Compensation Game: Productivity by RVUs, Collections, and Gross Charges": https://www.pamedsoc.org/detail/article/Compensation-Game

It also explains how RVUs and the ratio of revenue:RVUs are often used to calculate physicians' incentive-based compensation.
It's faster on my 2018 well-above-base-config Macbook, too. Somewhere along the way the original promise of this whole AJAX thing—faster updates, no page loads—got lost. The page loads are usually faster for real sites in the wild, where we have two versions to compare.
Most people drive more than X miles on Y% of their trips. For any given (X, Y) where Y is non-trivial — and 5% is non-trivial for most people — you can augment an X-mile battery limit by adding public charging stations. However the smaller X is, the more numerous and densely spaced those stations will have to be, which is deeply challenging given the layout of roads, and the cost of building charging stations. (This leaves aside the relative annoyance of making many brief stops vs. occasional longer stops.)

Manufacturers like Tesla control both “X” and the charging station layout, and have limited influence over “Y” except insofar as it affects their ability to sell cars. Presumably they’ve crunched the numbers and concluded that they can’t support a reasonable customer base on small values like X=50.
I'll summarize that, if I may: there can be a life outside work.
A misguided attempt to play off the “You might be a redneck” joke pattern popularized years ago by Jeff Foxworthy?
The US was also shipping a lot of soldiers to Europe in 1917 and 1918. I suspect in vastly larger numbers than Chinese labourers.
Amazon doesn’t own them, Atlas Air owns and operates them for Amazon. Groups like American Airlines Cargo and Emirates Cargo do have mixed loads though, but these Prime jets are more akin to UPS and FedEx jets that serve a single user.
The first book is amazing for gin recipes. It also gave me a much greater appreciation for how different types of gin work in different cocktails. Their follow-up book, Cocktail Codex, includes a lot more recipes for drinks with vodka.
Great to see a post about lightweight websites having over 100 upvotes.

To me, the "heaviness" of the web is making it much less enjoyable then it could be.

As a user, I regularly read the HN discussion of an article rather then the article itself. Simply because HN is so lean and other websites are usually bloated. So bloated, that I prefer to infer the content from the HN discussion just so I can avoid visiting the website.

I run multiple very lightweight websites myself:

http://www.gnod.com

I categorically refuse to add heavy assets or frontend libraries.

Many of my developer friends insist that "Normal users don't care!". I am not so sure. I wonder how big the target audience for "Lightweight websites" really is. Would love to see a poll that asks people "How much do you like the typical website? What are the most common reasons that make you dislike a website?".
Does adding standard extensions result in similar complexity for the resulting core with similar features? The authors seem to address this:

> Fewer instructions. RISC-V has many fewer instructions. There are 50 in the base that are surprisingly similar in number and nature to the original RISC-I.30 The remaining standard extensions—M, A, F, and D—add 53 instructions, plus C added another 34, totaling 137. ARMv8 has more than 500; Fewer instruction formats. RISC-V has many fewer instruction formats, six, while ARMv8 has at least 14.
This refers to spacecraft. Is that an accepted term for airship?
For the curious, xb95 was kind enough to tell me how they call Rust from Elixir - it's via Native Implemented Functions:

http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html

> As a NIF library is dynamically linked into the emulator process, this is the fastest way of calling C-code from Erlang (alongside port drivers). Calling NIFs requires no context switches. But it is also the least safe, because a crash in a NIF brings the emulator down too.

Sounds like a pretty good use for Rust!
It's something akin to talking about the problems independent burger stands are having while McDonald's is taking over.

US oil output is projected to rise to 16-18 million barrels per day over the next decade approximately, from 12.x million expected in 2019. At 16m barrels per day, the US will be producing 50% more oil than Saudi Arabia. To do that WTI oil merely needs to remain above roughly $50. At $70+ sustained oil, US production will add a million barrels per day per year.

On the flip side, sustained $30-$35 oil would be a catastrophe for OPEC and Russia. They'll cut and or restrain production expansion as necessary to keep oil over a minimum price. Saudi needs $65-$70+ oil to avoid epic budget shortfalls going forward. Russia needs it for spending to placate domestic popularity re Putin. They don't like giving up demand growth to the US, however for now they're not really net suffering a loss of output so much as ceding global growth to US shale. They'll keep doing that for quite a while yet, while hoping US output plateaus in the coming years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17503917
I wrote C compilers for several large companies in the 80's and 90's. Everyone in a compiler group had something like this if for no other reason than to demonstrate why "bugs" weren't bugs but "features". My code -- very different than this -- works to this day, but only because I keep it up-to-date with the C standard. Over the years, it's been very useful, especially when moving from one platform to another.

Most code really doesn't need this much detail -- "sizeof" is your friend -- You can start with something like this:

sizes.c

#include <stdio.h>

int isBigEndian() {
int x = 1;
return(*(char *)&x != 1);
}

int main() {
printf("This is a %s endian machine\n", isBigEndian() ? "big" : "little");
printf("char: %lu\n", sizeof(char));
printf("short: %lu\n", sizeof(short));
printf("int: %lu\n", sizeof(int));
printf("long: %lu\n", sizeof(long));
printf("long long: %lu\n", sizeof(long long));
printf("float: %lu\n", sizeof(float));
printf("double: %lu\n", sizeof(double));
printf("long double: %lu\n", sizeof(long double));
}

compile as: cc -std=c17 sizes.c

...and add whatever else you need as you go along. A version of my compiler information code is in my forthcoming book.
Can we do airborne ground-penetrating radar yet?
I know I'm splitting hairs, but they want lethal and accurate weapons. When they pull the trigger, they want the person they intend to "neutralize" to only be hit.

They do not want to decrease their lethality. The threat of usage of a weapon (lethality) is what keeps a lot of engagements very small, or not even happening at all.
Fuselage, Empennage, Ailerons...
At the moment, the primary drivers for acceptance are evidence of interest in the field and evidence of grit, regardless of life stage/demographics. Criminal record is OK too.
On the Importance of Mentorship
Many religious leaders believe that lying to people is immoral -- or at least they used to it until they made a moral judgement that abortion (e.g.) was so much worse than lying.
This is nice. But she is still using images right? It's the same. Choose a great texture, apply it to objects.
Hmm, there's lots of ways you might go about measuring who has "written significant portion of what's there" and this "number of edits" is a poor one indeed.

But the nature of Wikipedia means that entropy/rust/rot is a very really thing - and the wikignomes that tirelessly keep articles together in the face of endless silly vandals and clueless people "just trying to set the record straight" are big part of that. Internally there is some recognition in the relatively new "Thanks" feature - and the "barnstar" business. However, just as with Steveen Pruitt, I suspect that the main driver for editors is being able each day to make the world a slightly better place.
The Librem 5 will have 3 hardware kill switches -- for WiFi, Cellular, and Camera/Microphone.
We need a Web again. A hypertext document browsing system. Update the basic elements like they should have been updated 20+ years ago (sortable tables seems like a no-brainer to include in base HTML, there's got to be a way to update frames so they suck less and fit 90+% of the legit uses of AJAXy page updates, improved form elements like you get in a real GUI toolkit, file upload with preview, and so on) but NO javascript, NO talking to any server behind the user's back. Once the page loads my network connection should be silent until I click a link. I should get a preview of what a form's about to send. Anything but a GET to any server but the one I'm currently on, flatly disallowed. Somewhere you can browse hypertext documents with high performance, in safety, with no spying.

This one can be abandoned to spyware and apps. Whatever. That's fine. But I don't want safe hyptertext browsing comingled with the same program that can and constantly does load spyware and other abusive junk.
Researchers Develop a Soft Robotic Finger with Self-Perception
Mods: this is the direct link to the article at ICCAN: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-02-22-en

(Also the current third party link doesn’t seem to load (for me) ‘Resource Limit Exceeded’)
That's a very interesting question.

I suspect this incident demonstrates the scope of disinformation campaigns and the industry that enables them.

It is totally possible that cramming a couple million fake comments into the FCC was done solely for the purpose providing a politician a "talking point" in favor of getting rid of net neutrality.
> Phrased another way: if the experts say "doing A will work but have tradeoff B, while doing C will work but have tradeoff D", it's useful to know whether the country prefers B or D so that the commissioner can pick A or C accordingly.

I don’t see how that’s a reasoned basis for picking one versus the other. If a court did that, would you say that was a reasoned decision? (“We have these two competing interpretations of the 14th amendment. The majority of the public opposes interracial marriage, so we will pick the interpretation that allows states to ban it.”)

As to your other point, independent agencies are set up so that the President can’t micromanage specific policies. But the heads are nominated by the president precisely so the executive can set the overall regulatory agenda and philosophies. Remember the context in which the APA was created. The government regulated things like what routes freight trucks could run and the prices. You didn’t want direct executive control over those things. But broad agendas, such as ensuring more freight service to the Midwest? That was squarely within the administration’s power to influence the agency.
Wonder if they use rustler [0], which claims it cannot crash the BEAM. Looks pretty good.

[0] https://github.com/hansihe/rustler
Completely different threat model. Unless you use an online password manager, the only copies of the file are on machines you control. Plus the file is encrypted and requires a password that only exist in your head. So now you need physical access and physical violence to break that scheme.
I don't understand why these boutique Linux system vendors all end up gravitating towards rolling their own distributions -- Pop!_OS (ugh) for System76, PureOS (https://www.pureos.net/) for Purism, etc.

I've been running Ubuntu on my machines for something like a decade now, and have experience with Debian and Red Hat/Fedora from before that. I know what to expect from these distributions. When you tell me you've rolled your own distribution, I have no idea what to expect, which turns me off from your product. And if the answer is "you can expect exactly the same as what you'd get from Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/whatever," then why bother rolling a new distro in the first place? Why take what should be a simple sales pitch and make it more confusing?

They seem to think the idea of learning my way around Yet Another Linux Distribution is an enticement. It isn't -- especially when the only community around the distribution is a single small company, which means that anything I do learn is unlikely to be useful beyond using that company's products. As soon as I buy from someone else, or that one small company goes out of business or loses interest in maintaining the distro, I can take all that knowledge and toss it in the bin. No thanks.

(Weirdly, the only company in this space that seems to really get this is Dell. I feel like I'm living in the Mirror Universe.)
You're talking about development of solar prior to 2000. I'm talking about after 2000. The big investment in solar production was at the behest of the Chinese government. They are the ones that spent the hundreds of billions needed to commercialize solar, not the US.

At the same time the US spent a $1T on fracking. And a couple of $T on pointless wars.
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Re GPS - civilian GPS signals are not the same as military GPS. P(Y) and M-code GPS signals chirp at 10x the rate as the un-encrypted (civilian) signals.

In the time you get one navigational update for your car/iPhone GPS, a cruise missile's GPS has received 10 updates, presumably helping him guide himself up the ass of some terrorist at ~500MPH.
How are did people take advantage of you that could only be prevented by being a jerk/liar/cheater ?
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I worked I Germany for 4 years.

At some point, a German colleague and I went on a visit to a French Institute. Their schedule:

9.00am everybody arrived.

9.30-10.30 coffee/chat time

10.30-12.00 do sone work

12.00-1.30 lunch time

1.30-3.30 some more work.

3.30-4.30 coffee/chat time.

4.30-5.00 wrap up work for the day

5.00 everybody left.

After 3 weeks working with this schedule, my German co-worker commented that she had no idea how French managed to get anything done.
Interestingly, medicine courses at universities don't seem to be as open (liberal in the web, sharing slides, references, etc) as in other subjects. I found out one reason for that is the obligation of secrecy for the patient (cases). Another thing I found out is that book stores in university cities have in average as many books about medicine as about all other topics. These observations come from my gf who started studying medicine in Germany. They surely are not universal.

However, one thing I always tell interested students who wonder what to prepare for/learn for a subject: Go to the website of any favourite university and look up the plan of courses/study regulations for your subject. It's typically public and gives you a good idea what a candidate for a thesis/diploma/degree should have learned. And in fact, in medicine physiology and biochemistry make a good part of the first semesters.
4-16x is an exaggeration. I've tried headsets that are 2x higher resolution than the Rift (i.e. 2k x 2k per eye), and I could view text the same size as my monitor renders.

No doubt 4-16x resolution would be nice, though. True "retina" screens are still at least a decade away.
I don't think sanitizing or deleting online accounts is that time consuming. I have about 600 accounts listed in my password manager, about 300 of which are categorized as either offline or deleted.

Starting late last year I went through my accounts and started either deleting the ones I have no intention of using in the future or, if deletion is not an option, sanitizing them. It doesn't take that long to sanitize 10 accounts, and takes even less time to identify whether a website is still online. I've probably sanitized or deleted around 100 accounts now, starting with the ones I guessed would have the most data on me.

I've also been pleasantly surprised by how helpful most webmasters have been with removing or sanitizing PII if they won't let you delete an account.

One notable exception: Airbnb. They claim online that they will delete your account if asked but refuse if you do ask. I had no intention of using Airbnb in the future, but now I'll actively discourage others from using Airbnb.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/240/how-do-i-deactivate-...
Now they're forcing everything to golang. As result loosing some good guys who don't like that pressure.
Yes, but there are economies of scale that Dell or Apple enjoy which will never apply to a seller targeting a niche market.

Not only do they get lower costs on parts, but they can afford lower margins per unit since they have much higher volume relative to the fixed costs of running the business.
None of these domain hijacking attempts would’ve been prevented by DNSSEC, right?

(Also kinda curious as to why pointing this out seems to be somewhat controversial? :)
It’s usually a massive red flag of extreme tech dysfunction if someone was able to get buy-in to build entirely custom languages / platforms / compilers / etc.

(a) management was not competent enough to realize this is universally a poor investment and refute the project.

(b) tech leads either chose this to solidify job security and leverage for bonuses, or else the choice reflects incompetent tech leads you don’t want to be working with or inheriting code from (especially not in a custom language).

Some notable other examples:

- Danish startup Area 9, which wrote an utterly embarrasingly bad custom language called Flow, which was acquired by McGraw-Hill Education as part of some software that manages student progress in digital materials.

- Goldman Sachs famously with slang

- Standard Chartered with their own custom Haskell compiler and language extensions

- Dropbox (sort of) with Pyston (custom jitted Python implementation) that thankfully is defunct now.

These are bad bad bad signs about a workplace...
If you assume good faith, yes. In the environment they were in where they knew that oversight was in friendly hands, however, I think they were just looking for enough to say the process was followed knowing that it’d be done before it’d get any critical examination.
Your comment makes little sense.

The article you linked is from a FOIA request. CIA's In-Q-Tel was an investor in the Keyhole product, and that Google has continued to receive excluive contracts for Google Maps.

The tweets note that Sergy proposed the name Bird mode, not the CIA, although the article suggests he (and Google) was closely working with CIA and US intelligence agencies. CIA also denied providing details on why/how they solid the In-Q-Tel funded product to Google.

Which is all to say, you should question what Google's doing with Maps and the massive amount of data its mining every moment its on, rather than passing off baseless statements as conspiracy theories.
Is wealth inequality inherently bad? I've heard of numerous studies that point out that people's happiness and wealth don't correlate much past a certain point. Is that 'certain point' a moving goal post?
2,067 at latest count... (I know it’s not a competition, but interesting none the less).
I would recommend avoiding laptops with nvidia cards if you are planning to run linux. They are a big hassle due to bad driver support.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project is basically what you described. Dynamicland also has similarities. Neither are mixed reality like Hololens but long-term I think it will be the application model that wins for MR.
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That's true of System76's laptops, but part of their pitch for Thelio is that it marks a shift towards them doing their own design and manufacturing in the US. See https://blog.system76.com/post/179592732883/system76-on-us-m... for details.
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Mongo moves your schema entirely to the application, in datomic you have to define your attributes (columns) before hand (enabling some constraints, like uniqueness and value types) but its up to the app to group them however you want (no tables), they called it the universal schema, it also enforces acids semantics. So is not as bad as mongo for structured and relational data.
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This is true. Many people use “live” pictures because that triggers the less obnoxious video chimes.
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"Would you ever want to be one of 5% working surrounded by starving people?"

Just go to a third world country or even places like New York or San Francisco. You'll see super wealthy, shiny places right next to homeless people or slums and the wealthy people seem OK with this or don't feel enough discomfort to do anything. Or they just do enough to get these people out of sight.
> How are people going to heat their homes?

Considering global warming, not natural gas or fuel oil.
The equivalent for Ubuntu is Ubuntu server:
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/installing-live-serv...

Fwiw I agree that the default Ubuntu desktop is a little heavy - but I also realize I'm not the typical target user.
Interesting article but hate that title - Data is not the new oil. Read a good refute here: https://medium.com/cognilytica/no-data-is-not-the-new-oil-86...

A better title for this article would be ImageNet Has Been Solved, onto the Next Challenge
What you would be looking is the pimax 8k[0]. Unfortunately it does support native 8k output due to limitations on the input. Hopefully they will release something soon with 8k support as I am in the same boat as you.

[0]:https://pimaxvr.com/pages/8k