skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, the Russian Wikipedia mentions the following: during descent the drag parachute failed to deploy the main parachute, either because they screwed up during manufacturing (there was supposed to be some paper between the parachute and the box which it was in, and instead the box got hot, the paint melted, and the parachute stuck to it; a hypothesis - there is no evidence - but a plausible one), or because of thermal protection, or because the walls of the parachute compartment caved in because of pressure differential. The main parachute did actually deploy later, but got tangled up in the straps of the drag parachute which was supposed to be blown off by an explosive device, which didn't fire.

It is true that the flight was in response to the increased number of US flights over the preceding year. But I wouldn't necessarily say the catastrophe was caused by the rushed schedule here (remember, this was the _very first_ manned flight of the Soyuz), nor would I say that anyone was "saving" anyone else, or that Komarov knowingly embarked on a death mission. To say so would imply mind-reading powers, and I don't know anyone who possesses them, least of all some American dudes who wrote the book to make a buck.

The Wikipedia article also says the Soviets stopped manned flights for a year and a half after this disaster. All three of the hypothetical flaws in the parachute system were preemptively addressed, the Soyuz was considerably re-designed to improve safety, and six additional unmanned flights were carried out to make sure shit like this never happens again.

To this day, only two of Soyuz capsules resulted in crew loss out of 142 launches, and Soyuz is considered the world's safest manned space platform, and also the only one that's operational at the moment.

To "embellish" a tragedy like this is extremely disrespectful and irresponsible. I lived in the Soviet union in 1986 and remember when Challenger blew up Russians reacted with shock and commiseration, not some bullshit "embellishment" that invents astronauts "cursing" as they plunge to their death.

The capsule doesn't even have radio during the stage of the descent, where it is claimed Komarov cursed everyone, especially if it's spinning, as Soyuz-1 was, and there was no recorder left after the hydrogen peroxide fire. From this I conclude that everything that's not supported by the Soviet archive documents is total made up bullshit.
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Robots must cost less and be force-controlled to enable widespread, safe deployment in unconstrained human environments. We propose Quasi-Direct Drive actuation as a capable paradigm for robotic force-controlled manipulation in human environments at low-cost. Our prototype - Blue - is a human scale 7 Degree of Freedom arm with 2kg payload. Blue can cost less than $5000. We show that Blue has dynamic properties that meet or exceed the needs of human operators: the robot has a nominal position-control bandwidth of 7.5Hz and repeatability within 4mm. We demonstrate a Virtual Reality based interface that can be used as a method for telepresence and collecting robot training demonstrations. Manufacturability, scaling, and potential use-cases for the Blue system are also addressed. Videos and additional information can be found online at berkeleyopenarms.github.io.
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> It's not like it's a button you can press to "turn it off".

Yes, there's literally a button you can press. No rooting, no reflashing necessary.

Google Account -> Data & Personlization -> Location History

Done. In fact, as is mentioned in this article even, Google explicitly alerts you when you first enable it and allows you to opt out of it.

Once you've done this, the only time Google will get your location is if you use Maps or Location API services.
I got a kick out of Significant Locations when someone told me about it. It says I go to a liquor store every night at 7pm. Of course, this is the corner store on my block, but without context it looks like I drink a lot of beer. It didn't really bother me enough to turn it off.
Google is tracking your location regardless of what settings you toggle how. They have been forced to admit that much.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/433742-google-takes-he...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqw81WF_eqw
Working as staff at a major university, I get to interact with a lot of students in biology and often hear back from them once they graduate. At least for biology, the job prospects are not great. With luck, you may make a living wage and have a full time job with job security by the time you reach middle age, but there are so many students that graduate and end up working at Whole Foods, or waitressing at the Cheesecake Factory, or being a personal fitness instructor at a private club. Those are all jobs recent MS degree graduates from my institution are currently working while they wait for something better to come along. Sometimes something better doesn't come along.

Of course, the situation isn't always that bad -- students graduate and can do quite well for themselves, but there is no guarantee of a good job if you graduate with a BS or MS in biology, and that is a little different from graduating with a degree in math or CS. At least, that's what it looks like from my vantage point.
You mention scenes. Perhaps that is the key. I went through life without ever having to be in groups of people where any of this is warranted. Perhaps if you are involved in scenes with a high percentage of people with extreme social inaptitude - there is no way around it?
Ok but there's a distinction to be made. Right now on the front page of HN is a thread about LEO using Google data.

Most people probably think the data they're handing over to big tech is just used for an immediate, apparent purpose. Not stored and shared.
>It's hard for me to think of interjecting "Alexa!", or whatever it is you have to say, as anything but explicit consent to be recorded, and for that recording to be accessible to Amazon employees and contractors under some reasonable non-disclosure terms.

Utter hogwash. The voice activation is a form of user input, nothing more. By that same logic, you could argue that use of a keyboard is explicit consent to have all keystrokes recorded, and for that keylog to be accessible to the manufacturer of the keyboard, their employees, and their contractors.
Webiny – CMS powered by GraphQL and React
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19655893
Quick fix for Waiting for Dietpi-Postboot to finish – syntax error in expression
Thanks... https://github.com/theia-ide/theia
Is this a free rider problem?

While a developer is being mentored and improving, they’re still contributing to the company for the same salary even though their market value is rising.

Eventually, without a raise in salary, they’ll move to a company that pays market value. So developers aren’t free riders because the aforementioned; the new companies are free riders because they pay market rates.

Edit: it may be a free rider issue if the mentorship / training is orthogonal to their tasks. For example, if Starbucks started to offer their baristas CS classes, it’d be a free ride for employees. But what are perks classified as?
Watch again. The whole scene about building the air filter was portrayed as a hack developed by the ground teams while they instructed the astronauts over radio: https://youtu.be/1cYzkyXp0jg
A friend of mine is named Alexa. Is this consent?
Ooh. Dependent types and borrow checking. Yes please.

I'm into tools, so the weird language/environments I'd like to write include:

* A language where the program is constructed by editing a running process in-place with a debugger/IDE, then the process is "saved" as an executable.

* An iPad app that lets people draw dataflow programs with a pencil

* A SQL dialect that compiles to Kinesis streams and EC2 instances
Which places do you think are less deficient when it comes to respecting the rule of law?
What they're referring to in that article is that when you use Google Maps and as you're following driving directions, their servers get your location so they can compute your route and offer you better routes and notifications about accidents and such along the way. That part I feel I signed up for and is perfectly fine.

It's been stretched by media to make it sound nefarious, but no one has shown that they're actually sending location data when history is disabled and you're not using maps.
Why should anyone learn the reference manual of a man-made tool they suspect they won't use, when there are yet unlearned reference manuals for tools they will use?

Should people also read the instruction manuals for appliances they have no intent of buying?

An applicance maker should do that, to find ideas to steal. That's about it.

When it comes to learning for the sake of learning, there are more wortwhile things in the world. Learn a foreign language, for instance.
I have had Android devices for many years and this issue makes me want to seriously consider an is device. If apple really has nothing like this bank of locations stored and centrally searchable, why would anyone who cares be okay with Android? I feel like I need more info about Apple's security reliability.
Lessons Learned Conducting Code Reviews
Under Pichai, Google is doing everything it can to.

A. make money because that's the most important thing (e.g. China population surveillance projects).

B. Keep the trust busters at bay by making itself useful to the government any way it can (e.g. this).
The idea that every line must end with a newline is a restriction caused by the fact that on Unix we just see everything as a stream of bytes. So what you say makes sense on Unix, where that's true, and the argument falls apart as soon as you leave those assumptions. That's why this is a Unix-ism, and that's why people on other platforms (or even people on Macs) don't care so much about files ending with line breaks.

In the modern day, we are required to put a line break at the end of text whether or not there is a line feed there. This is rule LB4 of UAX #14, which all Unicode-compliant line breaking algorithms must conform to. According to the Unicode specification, the line feed is a break between lines, not a line terminator, and this is fine. Not all the world has to act like Unix, and most of it doesn't.
Revenge of the nerd-kings: Why some in Silicon Valley are advocating monarchy
"They are also working to digitise the manuscript, in collaboration with the Arnamagnæan Institute."

Send it to me. I'll have it digitized in about an hour. Just turn the pages and click with my phone.

Yes, I know that professional archivists would rather give birth to a goat than do that, but consider:

1. It's the text that's important, and a handheld phone camera captures that just fine. Try it and see.

2. It's immediate.

3. It's cheap.

4. The worry about damaging it irretrievably will be alleviated, as now a backup exists.
No? If the article has issues, and you have domain-specific knowledge to correct it, please share to the benefit of all of us. Just because there are a few issues doesn't mean the whole thing was a waste, especially if it motivated an expert to share.
I don't recognize the world that OP is describing. CS is still a good career option and pays well in relation to the level of skill and education it requires.

Having said that, it isn't a utopia and it isn't for everyone. One of the many reasons why I hate the current "Everyone learn to Code" trend is because if you don't love it, programming is as exciting as reading a EULA or TOS or any legal contract. That's certainly how some of my friends see programming, and I can totally see why.
Strictly speaking (and I am not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice etc), if you set up alexa, you presumably consented to the TOS, but others who might use it might not have consented.

That said, good luck getting a prosecutor to go after Amazon for it. You'd be better off speaking to an attorney about some sort of class action lawsuit, presuming that your ability to sue them isn't governed by some other agreement with the company.

Alternatively, the rules for keeping information on those 13 and under might be implicated.
>It's hard for me to think of interjecting "Alexa!", or whatever it is you have to say, as anything but explicit consent to be recorded, and for that recording to be accessible to Amazon employees and contractors under some reasonable non-disclosure terms.

That assumes everyone knows all the words which trigger a recording device and that those devices actually remotely record sound. Including a 90 year who hasn't use anything beyond a rotary telephone.
There’s active discussion on another NYT piece; this seems to be a dupe in spirit if not in fact.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19653647
No, what they're referring to is that if you use an android phone, either with a sim card or with google services authenticated, they are are recording the location of the phone to provide 'services' such as phone calling and play store access.

The only thing location history toggles is whether your location data is branched off to the location history product line. It does not toggle the existence of that data or the fact that it's archived at several other points.

Take the time to watch the congress hearing and note the very carefully worded answers and why they are worded that way.
True if you did it that way.
Which is why you would buy (or make) one and PCR the rest.
Besides if it aligns with the authorities goals it would not take much.
> The job of a police is not to do bad things

I will disagree, the job of the police is to follow the orders given by the state, which while it includes some good things it also includes bad things, such as jailing people that did nothing wrong - consider Turing for example.
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The holy grail is no complexity.

It's definitely light on details and the Object Management Group was and is def not the holy grail for solving IT problems.
It was based on his wording that I drew my conclusions, they provide many services outside of location history which do mandate on demand location data, you know? Do you have any evidence that they're still doing periodic location after location history is disabled? I had heard concerns but it seemed they were exaggerated last I checked. Should be pretty obvious in RE if that's true.

Ultimately though, you're still not getting around being tracked, your cell provider collects that location data even if Google doesn't. Just having a cell phone and a SIM puts you in a pretty awful state privacy wise.
You have to be in control. Have you ever played something like poker or blackjack, confident of your next move?

That's how proper risk taking should feel like. It should not feel like a gamble. It can fail but you should be confident that things will turn out well in the long run.

The key to this is to learn more. Learn about the environment. If you're investing in a business, learn the market, learn what they're doing, learn who the best player in that market is and what their unfair advantage is.

In fact, if you're investing, find the unfair advantage. Unfortunately, investing does involve a lot of research. The best stock investors I know will learn every company in the stock market by heart, pick out the best, and wait for the right moment.

Also don't be too worried about your looks. Josef Stalin was about your height, not very good looking, and he was able to intimidate soldiers bigger than him.
Ask HN: What is the best place to post startup real estate?
Where do you find startups looking to lease space? Our landlord is letting us out of our lease early if we help find new tenants. This is a great space for a ~25 person company or co-working space in the heart of Berkeley, but we need more space.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/d/berkeley-incredible-start-up-coworking/6865387090.html
> Why would you want to figure out the dependencies without executing script?

For the same reason that I would want to figure out if my script type-checks without executing it - making it easier to avoid bugs and reason about the program.
This article is confusing overall - it talks about STEM in the headline, then cites a general chart by Grattan Institute (a policy think tank) similar to another recent piece by Grattan's Andrew Norton (quoted in the SMH piece): https://grattan.edu.au/news/graduate-employment-is-up-but-fi... .

Not familiar with Australia, but there's also recent articles of it being in per-capita recession. (see https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/australia-falls-... )
Being paid to just read a book and no expectation other than to write a summary. Awesome!
I hadn't looked at this since I first read it — should have looked more closely.
In the first lecture of CMU's Practical Data Science course, the lecturer explains very well the differences between data science, machine learning, statistics and big data ("as far as this course is concerned"), between about minutes 2 and 15: https://youtu.be/IS279gXmfkQ
It's a shame google maps is so much better than the alternatives, but it's probably somewhat related to the amount of data they collect.
$0.00?
Probably a lot fewer then it has in others.
.ini files are the only good option.

I did a thing that used JSON for config years ago when I was young and stupid (60). Terrible choice. Someone in this thread said that config files need the amenities of source code. I agree. However it also needs to be readily machine generated in case your system is successful enough to support a UI for configuration.

.ini hits the sweet spot for me. I can edit it reliably. It's extensible in every way I've ever wanted.

I looked at TOML, mentioned below. I would like the array syntax but when I saw the Wikipedia article's example including something with quotation marks I realized that complicating it with array syntax means that you hop down the slippery slope to having semantic cruft to distinguish the types.

For .ini, everything is a string, period. You always know what you have. No debugging.

In fact, I wrote myself a .ini interpreter that does some obvious stuff to make it useful in Javascript. Case-insensitive interpretation of true/false. Things that can be a number become one.

But then, slippery slopes galore. I added hinting to let me convert objects with number property names to arrays. Now I spend my entire life realizing that I didn't add the hint for this recently, quickly added case.

I'd be better off just always converting it where I need to use it.

It's my opinion that changing anything about the .ini is always premature optimization.
Assume that example.com and foo.example.com have different zone files which in-turn have different ns entries day ns1 and ns2. So if I query for the A record of foo.example.com will it be answered by ns2? If so can I assume that the .com tld server has entries for both example.com and foo.example.com?

So, what are the practical application of zones? I can think of load balancing DNS queries as one.
Maybe if the hypothetical device had access to closed captioning? The idea being that the closed captioning text for commercials should be easily recognizable.
I'm curious, what is your take on addressing systems such as Google's Plus Codes?
The related book, David Bohm's 'On Dialogue' [0] is short, fantastic and very much worth reading. I recommend it highly.

For those not aware of Bohm (although he's covered in the linked article) he's, well, a pretty incredible guy [1].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_Dialogue, https://www.amazon.com/Dialogue-Routledge-Classics-76/dp/041...
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm
I honestly feel like hospitals (and other similar facilities) need to be designed to encourage this. Get dressed, and then what? You’re wandering the floor and it’s only long boring corridors and other patients resting.

My dad frequents a newer hospital that has wider sunlit corridors and a nice greenery-filled common area, as well as a lounge-y area on every floor, and it’s a big difference from other hospitals and even short term nursing facilities he’s been in.

I also wonder if the culture of any particular type of care encourages this more than others. Postpartum, many on my floor that gave birth were wearing their own clothing soon afterwards. There’s a whole market for personal gowns for labor and postpartum. And given how terrible breastfeeding is in those maternity gowns, that’s also not a surprise...
It’s not news. It’s an interesting article. I certainly didn’t know about this.
It's a nice tool to generate json, but then so is jq. I hope to start using it.

jsonnet /dev/stdin <<< '{x: 1, y: self.x} + {x: 10}'

{"x":10,"y":10}
And Google had a similar issue recently where they didn't test their firmware upgrade auto rollback, so a boned firmware upgrade bricked a region until they could manually recover it. If they had rolled out to all regions at once, and all the devices were the same, it would have been chaos.

Often the only thing preventing mass upgrades from becoming mass outages is some part of the network just happens to work differently.
Ah I see, missed that the first time around. Another thing I’m wondering after processing this: did you ever try to ssh as the dm or daemon user after seeing the passwd file originally in ifs-subaru-gen3.raw?

P.S. Thank you for writing this! It’s super interesting snd very easy to follow. I’ve shared it with friends both for the content and also as an example of excellent technical writing.
In addition to the content, I really appreciated the site itself. Very simple, easy to read and fast to load. Good work!
I don't disagree, but ... should I care? I personally don't care where my funnies originated, only that I get them. If 9gag is a nice skin over ripping off reddit but preselected, why shouldn't I use that?
Instead of grouping people together with stem we could have a categorization that species people who can reasonably get a job as software engineers and then all other stem. Because isn't that really it? Bio seems much harder to do dev work, but it's common for mech engr, ee, some physics and math.
> A language where the program is constructed by editing a running process in-place with a debugger/IDE, then the process is "saved" as an executable.

It's been a few years, but this reminds me of learning Smalltalk back in the day, as well as how some Lisps (CL?) treat the VM as the program being produced
”Japan doesn't really need complex or quota-based immigration laws because foreigners are not super happy to live there forever once they've tried it.”

You’re just making things up now. People are clamoring to get into Japan. It’s one of the safest countries on earth, with one of the highest standards of living. Not to mention inexpensive health care and a surplus of good jobs. I lived there too, and personally saw the people trying to emigrate, from all over the world. And arguing that it used to be different misses the point: they’re becoming more open, and we’re closing off. It’s an indisputable fact.

”The US is different, of course. People like it here once they've arrived. I can't say why, nor do I buy the stereotype that US culture is more open or individualistic.”

If you think US culture is any less difficult to adapt to for an immigrant, you’re incredibly naive. It’s always hard. There’s nothing special about the US, except that we’ve been traditionally willing to accept immigrants. That, itself, is changing, and reactionary douchebags are making it a damned sight more scary and less welcoming by trying to protect the “different” way of life from
the scary, scary foreigners.
> One of my co-op student got offered a position in the States with starting salary north of $120k

Where? If it's NYC/SF/LA etc, then look at the price of homes in that city. Then look at the CoL. Then see if engineer compensation has kept up with CoL.