skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ben Bova had this all figured out a few decades ago. I this book as a kid and found it utterly fascinating. To my kid-brain, all the details had clearly been worked out and it was just a matter of getting some astronauts up there to break regolith.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1005249.Welcome_to_Moon_...

I can't find a picture of it now (aside - in 2019 I actually find it surprising when I cant find a picture of something I remember) but there was a thrilling section about how tourists at Moonbase could fly inside the low-gravity / cavernous pressurized living quarters by donning large mylar wings.
And where would that be? Hammond? Baton Rouge? Morgan City? Watford Gap service station?
In person or online?
> Python mostly scratches that itch for me, but even there it has multiple methods to do the same stuff within the standard library, like list.sort() and sorted(list)

There's also the list vs tuple thing. I can understand it from an efficiency point of view, but it isn't as consistent as just having one such data structure (e.g., a perl array)
I installed brave to test its crypto implementation, but its not available. Kept using anyway for the adblocking.
I am still using it occasionally. It's for capturing network messages like REST services. It can also capture local SSL traffic by injecting certificates.
Actually, you purposely spread a baseless lie about the politics of the Vegas shooter.
> although AppImage doesn't have a concept of automatic upgrades like Snap

And that's a good thing. If I wanted my system to force software updates on me, I'd use windows.

Users should always have the ability to control updates. Always.
I'm using Unraid for my NAS currently.
It hosts pihole, a local nginx proxy, and a unifi controller in addition to other containers. I can also throw on some docker containers to build chromium and other large projects in their target environments.
With 14 billion dollars you could move a lot of that culture and history to somewhere with less need for swimming lessons.
"an American billionaire".

Would be interesting to learn why he was denied eight times, or granted one on the ninth try.
They have. I made FDA regulated medical imaging software. (Diagnostic and treatment software.) And HIPAA was always front and center with us, as it was with any such business or healthcare delivery organization that wished to continue as a going concern.

We have to instill the same urgency on the personal data side, that HIPAA has instilled on the healthcare data side.
I’m used to the exact setup it offers me. I built a keyboard with custom macros to interface with some shortcuts that the desktop offers and I’m very particular about having them all available.

That alone isn’t a deal breaker, it’s not very difficult to replicate all the tweaks that I prefer, but I also have a 144hz monitor and Gnome has some of the best support for that that I’ve found. I don’t like having my window manager lagging behind, and the combination of the two leave basically only Gnome in the intersection.

Besides, in my experience, there isn’t a huge benefit in changing either. I try new options now and then and never feel like I’m missing out.
Well done. Zoom's the only video conferencing app I've come across that has been reliably pleasant to use.
Yeah I agree that in a perfect world, people whose jobs will entirely consist of working on a computer, mostly in an IDE, should not be interviewed on a whiteboard. But the whiteboard is a filter for people who are so unfamiliar with programming that they can't reason without the crutch of an IDE. For example, I've seen some people who can do amazing things with Scratch IDE, but can't sit down in front of nano or vim and hammer out code to save their lives. IDE's can be a crutch for thorough learning of a language, and I learned that by leaning too hard on JetBrains, then trying to dev over ssh on a raspi.
Hey frnkshin, sorry to hear that, which step of the verification process didn't work for you?

1) Didn't receive email
2) Received email but link didn't work
3) Link worked, but verification didn't
I get what you're saying, but most modern chargers solve this problem.

I plug my phone into a usb-c charger for 10 minutes and I've got 2~3 hours of charge.

If I really need to be away for a long period, a portable battery pack works just fine (still only needs to be plugged in for a few minutes to get me hours of charge).

I don't really have problems with my battery dying during normal use. I DO have problems with gradually reduced battery life as the battery degrades.
Providing relocation assistance to incentivize people to go elsewhere piecemeal, rather than trying to move them all to one place together?
Some LandscapeGAN Art
Textile Textures
A lot of the current problem in New Orleans is that it's built on deep layers of silt which are slowly compacting. And channelizing the Mississippi has resulted in loss of protective barriers offshore because the silt now goes right out the end of the channel into deep water. Bonus the bedrock itself is slowly tilting sinking towards the gulf.

What the place needs is about three meters of compacted fill under the whole city. ALA Galveston TX and Downtown Chicago.
Ohio seems reasonably safe. Maybe Cleveland will see real estate prices go up for the first time in 20 years?
I live in Rockland County, NY. Known for 2 things, potholes from the endless road work, and now measles!
This says three main factors:
1.)sediment flow changes - we changed flow of Mississippi River to benefit a lot of upstream communities (for flood control/farming/maintaining river boundaries against nature's desire) - continuing to do so robs Louisiana of land mass
2.) subsidence - pumping out water aquifers and extracting oil (without replacing fluids) cause land levels to sink
3.) sea level rise

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/03/land-loss-in-louisiana/
All three together paint a pretty grim picture of the future of New Orleans.
Any update on this? That's insane they could just request your banking info. Can other websites do this?
Most of the Netherlands only exists due to sheer bloodymindedness. Nearly 20% of it is actually below sea level.
Money buys powerful friends. America has been for sale for a long time.
It's neither. Erosion and sea level changes are not at all the problem here.

The problem is that keeping the lowest point dry causes subsurface water to be removed from the area. Also, that water doesn't get replenished. Things tend to shrink when they dry out, and the land under New Orleans is no exception. It's becoming like a shriveled up raisin or sponge.

The more you pump the place dry, the more the place sinks lower.
Um, not really. PEP8 explicitly says to use `cls`:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#function-and-metho...
Good for him. Nice to hear about success stories. Zoom is excellent. Markedly better than WebEx, in my experience.
1) They certainly don’t blame lack of silt
2) There’s a new power plant going up at Michoud (albeit a bad idea for other reasons)
I'd go a step further. IMO the second it hits a hard drive it's compromised so just the act of having that in the log would count.
I would think a USB containing an info graphic about the dangers of plugging in random USBs is a far more efficient education tool than one that destroys the hardware of your staff. Worse, what if they took it home and used it on a personal device?
Might those be snap packages? It sounds like a similar annoying I had, where df would be filled with /dev/loop entries, multiple for each snap package, to the point where 20% of the lines were actually useful. That was enough for me to purge every snap package from my install and remove the snap core altogether.
High school football is most commonly full-contact/"tackle", and the source of most football-related injuries, because most players don't advance beyond that level. I think that in most of the country, K-8 schools don't organize football teams, but I did know kids who played flag football in park district youth leagues.
An adblocker keeps you from being exposed to an advertisement. This means you'll be adding zero value to the ad. What I'm talking about is a boycott, and you'll add negative value to it. I find this much more effective, and again, it has had no discernable negative effect on my life. I research to find the things I need. Word of mouth is more powerful, and gives more value to people's opinions.
"But what I was looking for was something that I could do for a living that was also driven by this type of motivation: the intrinsic kind."

Read the study I linked in my other response. Doing something "for a living" means you expect to be rewarded for it. According to the study, if you do something that intrinsically rewards you, you will eventually lose motivation to do it when you expect to be rewarded for it. You're setting yourself up for failure.

I experienced this same phenomena almost 15 years ago. About 2-3 years after I started programming professionally I hated it. I kept at it for 10 years, being miserable most of that time, then I changed to a management track.

I fucking hate management. It's a mix of babysitting adults and coping with regular disappointment. Nevertheless my life overall is much better. Don't, however, misconstrue my hatred of management to mean that I do my job poorly. The hatred actually makes me reflect on myself and my skills, and I constantly seek to improve them. Hatred is also a source of passion. Use it wisely.

I have zero expectations of my work and there is no reward that would make this work meaningful. I have removed my career's power to bring me into existential crisis. My advice: don't do something you love for a living, and/or learn to remove your occupation's ability to contribute to your self-worth.
Very, very happy for you!
"All of the above"

The MCAS itself did exactly what it was programmed to do. One of the sensors feeding it, which was not redundant (!), malfunctioned, and MCAS acted on the data - garbage in, garbage out.

By not having sufficient redundancy, MCAS was designed in a failure-prone way. This was justified because the failure would be like another kind of known failure mode (runaway trim), and pilots already had a checklist for it (the key point being to turn off electric trim).

The problems with that are:

1. The problem a malfunctioning MCAS (acting "correctly" based on bad data) introduces is intermittent/erratic, making it harder to correctly react to it. Especially since the pilots weren't aware that a system that would act like this was on board!

2. Humans make mistakes in high-stress situations, which is why accepting something that introduces additional problems and relies on humans to handle them is a bad idea.

3. Turning off the electric trim also made it hard for the pilots to correct the situation, as it disables the manually-controlled but motor-powered trim. One theory is that the forces may have been too great for the backup solution (trimming manually) to work, a situation that old (but not current) manuals addressed.

MCAS has a limit how much it will trim, but any trim input by the pilot resets it, and lets it move the trim by the limit amount again.

This is just a layman's interpretation:

From the flight data recorder, it seems like the Ethiopian ET302 pilots only partially corrected the wrong trim, then did turn trim off. After this, there was no noticeable adjustment in trim until the pilots turned electric trim back on to be able to use it. They used it to trim a little bit, and 5 seconds after their last trim input, MCAS triggered again and drove them into the ground. [1]

On the other hand, the Lion Air JT610 crew doesn't seem to have turned trim off, just corrected it each time MCAS trimmed down (only for MCAS to trim back down 5 seconds later) [2] - until they once only trimmed a little against it, so that they hadn't corrected what the previous MCAS trim had done, but unlocked it for another one. MCAS applied more trim, and that was it.

This could likely have been avoided by telling the pilots about MCAS and how it works, having a separate switch that kills MCAS but not electric trim, some sort of indication that MCAS is working, some sort of indication that the AoA sensor is broken, redundant sensors, and countless other things. The most likely reason why those weren't implemented seems (for me) that adding them would likely trigger the certification/training requirements that Boeing was trying to avoid.

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2019/04/05/bjorns-corner-et302-crash-...
[2] https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/L...
Sure, it’s small in the singular. But what happens after you get yours, and I get mine, and so one. That’s not affordable.
Make sure you get enough sunlight or take Vitamin D3 (along with a good multivitamin). I was taking 6000 IU at one point and it seemed to make a big difference since I was outside rarely. Taking 400 or whatever is supposedly recommended did not seem to affect me.

Although you might need to get a few blood tests if you are going to take a significant amount like that. If D level is not low at all then I guess you would not want to try that.

Ear plugs help me also.
Thre's a type of shoreline protection that is free and self maintaining.

It's called mangroves.

But people know better I guess, so we better keep throwing money at the problem we created.
They have some weird tiers where the max length of a web meeting is something silly like 40 mins. Ok laugh, why do people need more than 40 mins, but this makes that tier useless because any serious company is going to have people who need to meet over 40 mins. So it’s a tier of service which exists for the sole purpose of upsell.
More curious why he even tried 9 times. Australia is very accepting of Chinese migrants, and there's plenty of talent to hire.
Boeing put out an emergency airworthiness directive after Lion Air. It doesn't tell pilots to lower flaps. AoA sensor failure causes IAS Unreliable warnings, and the checklist for that item demands that flaps be left alone -- if you don't know how fast you're going, lowering flaps could cause a wing stall.

It's not reasonable to expect pilots to disobey checklists. We would all be less safe if they did. If pilots are following Boeing's instructions and planes are crashing, that's on Boeing.
As another anecdote, I've not noticed an increase in human waste over the last few years, but I have noticed an increase in discussions about reporting it.

Another possible cause of the rise (with no evidence to support) could be demographics of the homeless population.
I imagine propensity to poop in public is correlated with other behaviors that make it difficult to get off the street.
If SF is getting people off the street slightly slower than new homeless people are being added to the population, and the set of people being reintegrated are less likely than the median to poop in public, over time we'd expect to see a slowly growing homeless population that is increasingly likely to poop on the street.

There may also be a matter of changing norms; if there's already poop on the street, adding some more (vs making the trek to a public restroom that may be unsafe) isn't as unappealing.
Is the point that everyone who might become rich should be able to get a US visa?
It wasn't particularly easy to adapt. Lots of people died and it took decades to get footholds.
To be fair anything is better than WebEx. Glad it finally has Linux support in the browser though, but it was way too late to the game.
And a link in that uses the phrase surreal bildungsroman, which makes me feel like I've been validated by the New Yorker. :)

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sci-fis-difficul...
That doesn't work. If you hash on the client then the hash IS the "password" and is thus sensitive info that you'd need to hash again on the server and shouldn't be stored anywhere in plain text.
I don't like it either.

I think Babbage saw the machine as implementing a mathematical function, which is why he thought the question was ridiculous.

I suspect that the people who asked the question did not realise that it just calculated a function and were thinking of the behaviour of machines more generally, e.g. their ability to take in rough materials and produce a fine result, or maybe also some kind of canalization whereby approximate inputs would produce a valid and precise output.
"Yuan, Zoom’s chief executive officer, joins Alphabet Inc.’s Sergey Brin, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk as immigrants who became billionaires after helping create Silicon Valley companies.

"

Above, are all legal immigrants that applied (themselves, or their parents) -- for visa via a US embassy (sometimes the US embassy is not in their native country, happened to many immigrants from former USSR)

They did not cross the US border illegally, and then demanded a refugee status, while avoiding the court system to prove their claim.
> As a non-American, can someone explain to me why the army was responsible for this work?

Because...path dependency. The Army Corps of Engineers has long been responsible, largely, as I understand it, from mission following capacity rather than vice versa.

> When does the normal tender/contractor process not occur?

It can, but that process requires
a government agency over the top, and the ACE is the responsible agency. They contract out work.
New Orleans isn't the most unsustainable place around. The intractable swampy surroundings have prevented it from becoming as suburbanized as most American cities; if you look at it from a satellite, there is a sharp boundary between the city and the swamp. The situation is much worse in, say, Miami. Many other coastal cities will also need levees and have uglier boundaries.
Same with Firefox on Android.
If there are 1000 commits per day (which wouldn't be that many), that's 10 master breaks per day.
There are lot of good options and even open source solutions for video conferencing. The one thing I like about Zoom is that they have a Linux package, but their hardware acceleration support on Linux is crap.
I’ll give the age old answer. Work earn more money then donate it.
I'm surprised no one mentioned "The Invincible" by Stanislaw Lem. Basic idea of the story is exactly what you're describing, "self-replicating system", with "creators long forgotten".

I recommend this novel, among with many others ("Fiasco", "Eden" and, of course, "Solaris"), for anyone who likes good sci-fi about "first contact".
I've seen a lot of different hypotheses arguing settlers reached Americas earlier and more-often than has been recorded. A couple days ago some were talking about one idea, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674298
Expert: AI-Generated Music Is a “Total Legal Clusterfuck”
That's close to what I was about to post as well. In fact I believe physics grads would also be a decent fit in HFT either as quants or SWE dealing with quants.
What beautiful writing. And so wrapped in tragedy.
How much federal aid is given to California wild fires vs. east coast hurricanes vs. New Orleans floods? How valuable are those regions to the financial health of the country?
That’s something for geologists to answer. All I can say is the place we know has historically sunk and we know is sinking and will continue sinking in the future due to soil, hydrology, etc., is not the place to rebuild.
Amazon China will no longer sell Chinese goods
You mean, like, a profitable business model?

If you’re a “serious company” then surely you can pay for a great service like this.
My assumption since the start of this is that it's telemetry / server log data. Honestly, I came really close to doing this exact thing.

My engineer: "Should we log the body of api requests?"

Me: "Yes, of course!....... waaaait a second. No."

The result was manually white listing fields that SHOULD be logged on each end point. It's a pain compared to "just log everything" or even a black list, but it's far safer.
Yes the free tier is 40 min for meetings with more than 2 people.

I switched to the first paid tier and am a happy customer. The best quality of service and software in the space I’ve seen so far.
Google has more people working on the problem than many other companies have employees.
I emailed you at the email address in your profile. Thanks!
An up front cost in learning doesn't mean you can't contribute.
Not if you defer additional infrastructure spending until the land has declined in value from water intrusion.

Insurance is going to pick up some of this until the land is declared un-insured. so, some parts of the relocation cost will be socialized if you like it or not, because premiums will rise in the market to offset this cost.
living on a foroeign celestial body will not be possible until we've proven we can live well on extreme environments on earth
1) deep underground , we dont' live well yet deep underground. google the largest underground city on earth by population. it's not big.
2) on the ocean. seasteading is a total failure, even seastading close to land. cruiseships and aircraft carriers are the best we've done, and they're sorely lacking.
3) antarctica ====SO SO. not great.
4) hottest desert on earth .

i'd venture to say that if you could make profit from enhancing our ability to colonize TOTALLY USELESS WASTLAND ON THE GRAVITY WELL OF PLANET EARTH, then you'd probably have some more gravitas in claiming to be able to colonize the moon in any 'sustainable' way which would necessarily include TRADING SOMETHING WITH EARTH, BECAUSE TRADE IS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF SUSTAINABILITY.

sorry for shouting but all things space related are almost always propoganda to promote government spending for open, or secret, military programs. go to nasa in houston. they'll tell you the same thing.

oh yea , forget the moon ,and forget mars .if you want to live on a foreign celestial body, mercury is it!. limitless solar energy can be used to do whatever you want. build cities underground. stripmine the solar wind and soil for protons and oxygen, and you get plenty of water. also 'polar craters' filled with ice blablabla.

seriously though. it's a tragedy we have not send a lander to mercury yet. our species hasn't even crashed a probe into the planet. that's a crime. stop with the crap about mars and jovian moons. let's hit mercury.
These "skills" might be frequent keywords in job ads, but if you're hiring a designer -- or trying to become one -- I think the following are better predictors of success:

1. Empathy: observing and understanding others
2. Creativity: coming up with new ideas, often by recombining old ideas from various fields
3. Knowledge of behavioral science: mining research and theory for useful insights
4. Communication: discussing, explaining, and presenting designs
5. Project management: keeping track and keeping up
6. Ambition: a drive to be exceptional
Public Holidays and Observances API for Developers
That was back when US immigration and state departments were sane.

Imagine applying and going through those hassles today.
> They did not cross the US border illegally, and then demanded a refugee status, while avoiding the court system to prove their claim.

The reason refugee applicants are recently crossing illegally is because the Administration has actively prevented lawful refugee application at ports of entry, going so far as to close ports of entry to prevent it.

And they aren't avoiding the application process, they are actively seeking it out and being prevented from pursuing it and punished for doing so.
Spectrum Scale is an IBM-made software app.

Fail.
I really really wish AppImages were embraced by more of the Linux Desktop community.
Societal Collapse Due to Climate Change Now Inevitable Jem Bendell BA PhD [pdf]
When you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail!
Unfortunately they have to do that, because there the only thing you can count on being present in any given Linux system is the kernel.
If you don't get federal disaster money for the tide rising, you shouldn't get it for forests historically managed by fire.