skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start with the end in mind. Everyone dies. I try to die on my own terms.

There's a lot to think about in death. How do you die? Who will be at your funeral? What do you leave behind?

You can control how you die, by committing suicide. But that's wasteful. Your life is valuable. But like any valuable, you shouldn't just keep it locked up. Valuable things should be used or traded - risk your life something that can kill you but is worth it. Start a business, climb Everest, volunteer to help in a dangerous country, be an activist for something worth dying for.

You'll want to think about what happens after you die. You'll have stuff. What happens to it? Does it go to your family? A cause? Does it disappear in a disorganized jumble?

Also the afterlife. People have literally sat down for thousands of years pondering this. Don't reinvent the wheel; dig up what others have researched. As time goes on, a lot of religions are hijacked by people who want power. It's best to read the studies of early scholars than latter ones.

At least two thirds of people were born with the wrong idea of the afterlife. Statistically, you're one of them. Don't idly follow whatever you were born into. Pick something consciously (your default is fine). Run experiments. If it doesn't click, try something else.

Your life is exceptionally valuable. It belongs to only you. There's nothing wrong with being a cog in the corporate machine. There's nothing wrong with being an acstetic monk. You don't need to contribute anything into the world. You don't need to have a family or even a cause.

But whatever you do with your life, it should be a conscious, deliberate decision.
A cross language, in process ABI does exist for all platforms. It's called the C ABI. Almost every programming language can export and import C ABI functions and data.
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I used to run an Airbnb on the side. It was a mad success, but took so much work that I stopped being a good engineer and all my coding projects went to shit. So I closed the Airbnb, and projects I proved. Recently the guy sitting next to me on a flight suggested one day a week driving heavy trucks (semi trailers). In Aus, this pays $50-75/hour. Probably the same in the USA.
Unfortunately, this is a fairly common work around for govt sites. Same goes for designing a site for multiple browsers, just throw up a caveat that "site is best viewed in IE circa 2001" to avoid actually fixing the problem
Do you want to do something about it?

Then a good way to proceed would probably to study why we are all freaking out. The basics for why too much CO2 is a problem are actually quite simple and might be accessible to you experimentally if you so choose.

(What the exact consequences are is more complicated and we have uncertainties on the results, so that might be harder.)

edit: (While some of the models are actually open-source and you can download them, running and understanding them in a useful manner is a full-time job.)
Poker. I'm not able to make enough for it to be a full time job, but it's more pleasant than driving an Uber. Sometimes makes for good networking too.
Depends on how recently the Johnny-come-latelys who wish you weren't there first got there.
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Nothing, my day job is already enough.

Rather spend time with family and friends.

However, if I was forced to change job for whatever reason, probably something related with cooking.
> There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

-- Mario Savio

I really think there is something to the idea of not going along because you just cannot. I think sometimes the "no" comes first, and then comes finding or making a way, maybe.

Though I think disgust with what one is complicit in, and the sheer inability to go on with it, are ultimately also based on positive values, and on not betraying oneself, so it's always a "no to X, to uphold a yes to Y" IMO.

from https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/marchapril/feature/the-t...

> Arendt had removed the guarantee of absolute innocence and automatic guilt from the question of moral responsibility. What did she put in its place? The capacity to exercise an “independent human faculty, unsupported by law and public opinion, that judges in full spontaneity every deed and intent anew whenever the occasion arises.” And who evidenced this capacity? They were not distinguished by any superior intelligence or sophistication in moral matters but “dared to judge by themselves.” Deciding that conformity would leave them unable to “live with themselves,” sometimes they even chose to die rather than become complicit. “The dividing line between those who want to think and therefore have to judge by themselves, and those who do not, strikes across all social and cultural or educational differences.”

Hannah Arendt's essay "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship":

https://grattoncourses.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/arendt-pe...
Finding People at the FCC
Bosque Programming Language from Microsoft
”a liquid-oxygen drenched cigarette basically explodes when lit”

Doesn’t seem to be true. At the least, that’s isn’t guaranteed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t48QWjtoVfw
They're oaked beers are good, but TBH I find them overly-sweet and a little one-dimensional.

They sometimes do "seasonal" specials, which can be more interesting.
There are two different effects at play here. On the one hand, there will be a dark age because all the stars will burn out. This has nothing to do with the cosmological event horizon.

The cosmological event horizon is caused by the accelerating expansion of the universe. Space is expanding uniformly, so the more space there is between us and some object, the faster it is moving away from us. Objects that are farther than the Hubble Distance from us are receding faster than the speed of light, and so their light will never reach us. Over time, everything that isn't gravitationally bound to us will recede into the distance, redshift and disappear, leaving only our galaxy within the observable universe.
Thanks for posting. I have always wanted this. Just ordered 6 (accidentally, meant to order 3) and I’m hoping it’s as awesome as I’m imagining.
> That's a misleading comparison, because we're not talking about some ancillary aspect of the design (like rubber tires).

I think within the context of chemical rockets, engines really are sorta ancillary! Not to the same extent as rubber tires (I used that extreme example just to make my point clear), but engines is just not where the large improvements in things we care about will come from.

> More engines can also mean more chances for failure.

Agreed. I wasn't arguing for either strategy since I don't know enough to have an opinion. I just wanted to point out that more engines was a plausible best strategy, depending on engineering details, and we shouldn't choose metrics that immediately disqualify it.

> Regardless, the Falcon 9 Heavy also has substantially lower maximum thrust than the Saturn V.

Agreed, Falcon 9 is not an example of an advance in total lift capacity, and total lift capacity is important. BFR/Starship may exceed Saturn V, but if so it will be a very slight edge which is not impressive after half a century. So I agree that this is not where the advances are happening. But, to pick another extreme example, the even older Spruce Goose was only recently dethroned in total wingspan, but this doesn't mean no dramatic advances in flight technology have occurred.

> But that doesn't mean you get to relabel incremental improvements as revolutionary.

abledon's original comment said "pushed the limits of spaceflight technology". I was the first person to use the vague word "revolutionary", and I immediately clarified what I meant: orders of magnitude improvement in metrics we care about. And I think the SpaceX tech, both completed and under development, really can lower mass-to-orbit prices by a factor of 100.
Would like to hear more about this, specially from an European perspective and EUR-denominated investments.
Your comment isn’t helpful - can you provide details or a citation?
Like Snowden...
>advisors would not allow them to top-author papers they were basically sole contributing

As an aside, how is this possible, or legal? Can't a student (can't anyone) submit a paper to a journal on their own? IIRC Einstein was a free-agent when he submitted all those papers in 1905.
This is a build tool for Java and C++ code. Good luck deploying those without a build step.
Since repealed, right?

Later

Yep. It was rescinded in 2018. There is no longer a mandate for DNSSEC in federal government IT that I'm aware of.
Surprisingly, Crystal Geyser had the same problem over ten years wars ago and claimed to fix it, but they’re still on the list.
As the wikipedia article explains, the Chinese text is unremarkable. But here's the poem spoken - it's actually pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vExjnn_3ep4

And an English translation:

In a stone den was a poet called Shi Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten lions. He often went to the market to look for lions. At ten o’clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market. At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market. He saw those ten lions, and using his trusty arrows, caused the ten lions to die. He brought the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den. The stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it. After the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat those ten lions. When he ate, he realized that these ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses. Try to explain this matter.
My parents had a black x68000 of uncertain modification. It was worth a few yearly incomes in early nineties Russia. It worked till 1996 or 1997, when hard drive failure put end to it.

A repairman that came to fix it took a look at it, and was like "is it even a computer?"

From that time, we still had a black NEC Ultralite by 2006. When I returned back to Russia in 2016, I got to know that parents threw it away. Again, that was an extremely expensive thing for early nineties.

Father liked to buy toys like that for mom on his business trips to Japan.
FreshBooks. I don't hate FreshBooks per se, but I hate that after they updated their interface and API, the new version only works with Stripe. I have to pay to stay on the old interface so that I can use it with PayPal.
> "Bob Marley sang that people who forget about their ancestors are the same as a tree without roots," says Kano, 62. "I checked the lyrics as a teenager, though they became more meaningful to me as I matured."

A stark contrast to the 'accident of birth' attitude prevalent in much of the West.
> The last thing I owned like it that felt kinda similar to it was my netbook, an Asus Eee 1005HA-P.

For those who still have a netbook-class device laying around, Debian GNU/Linux still works quite well on those, better than Lubuntu in fact. (Of course in most cases you're limited to the i386 branch due to lack of amd64 support in hardware.) With 1GB RAM or more, you can even do some light web browsing in current versions of Firefox.

(Today there are cheap ultrabook-class laptops from Chinese OEMs that are broadly similar in some ways, perhaps even more solidly built with metal frames - but the Linux support is very hit-and-miss, and there's essentially zero reliability in the longer run. You might be better off buying a cheap refurbished ultrabook that's from a well-known brand and with verified Linux support.)
An attacker that controls routing can bypass the DNS entirely, so it's hard to see how protecting the DNS from that attacker serves any meaningful purpose.
I do business strategy for startups through topographical business maps. It's the best strategy tool out there and helps avoid costly mistakes. It also aides in acquiring funding.
To be precise, the cosmic event horizon isn't shrinking: it will always remain at the Hubble Distance. However, everything that isn't gravitationally bound to us is receding from us at gradually increasing speed. The cosmic event horizon is the distance when that speed exceeds the speed of light, making it impossible for light to reach us. Just like an object entering a black hole, it will take forever for objects to actually cross the horizon, but they will smear out and redshift, becoming too faint to see, in some finite time.
Breville coffee grinders are impossible to get internal parts for. I designed a 3D printed upgrade for the main wear-part in their BCG800XL and BCG600SIL Grinders.

The storefront is through ShapeWays[1] and I use iFixit[2],[3] to drive the traffic. It passively makes enough to cover my own coffee needs forever. I spend about 20 minutes per month fielding questions. This all happened because my grinder failed and I could not get parts.

[1] https://www.shapeways.com/product/NASLAGCCP/breville-coffee-...

[2] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/BCG800XL+Grinder+Jamming+due+to...

[3] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/BCG600SIL+Dose+Control+Pro+Coff...
It fits into the narrative that the Zuckerburg's want for their target market -- a peron that you can track everything they read and learn and consistently target with ads all day long.
I feel like HN is getting to the point where, if I'm 24 hours late to a DNSSEC story, other people will have gotten the main points I'd have made first, and those points will be voted high on the page. You're all grown up, now, HN.
It's relatively easy to get in London and cheap.

But was impossible to get in Singapore for years. I now found a supplier that has a few.

Of all places, Japan had good availability. But they seem to have a thing for Belgian beers.
I'm an amateur musician. I have a website where I review music gear, especially MIDI keyboards (have a bunch of them).

It brings in a steady $1k+/month almost completely passively through Amazon affiliate commissions
>> It’s not on someone else to tell me what I should and should not want.

That's true.

>> If I desire it and a company provides it for a price, it doesn’t matter that the smart refrigerator is a waste in your vision.

People are not good at knowing(or at least acting) on what will make them deeply happy, happier over the longer term, or even just happy. Psychological research tells us that.

Add to that the power of advertising, so yes, people do want many things of little value.
Did you try antimicro? It's what I use it to play Unepic using a controller to send keyboard presses. The game is supposed to have controller support, doesn't seem to work but it works flawlessly with antimicro, though the controller doesn't provide quite enough buttons for all the hotkeys in that game.
That's just plain wrong. German PoWs in the USSR had a death rate of 15% to 30% depending on the sources, while Soviet PoWs in Germany had a death rate of 57% to 65% depending on the sources.
I used this for a small project where I needed a quick GUI interface and it was great to use. I just made the GUI using FLUID and linked the buttons to my code. And I was able to compile it statically to all 3 OSes without too much trouble. Plus it's fast.
Longevity in aviation in particular is fascinating. The Douglas DC3 aircraft for example is a more than 70 years old design and is still in use. If it works don’t fix it.
256 bytes of RAM, plus insane amounts of ROM (a whopping 4kB, acccording to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Chess)
I'm a bit alarmed at how disinterested people are being here. Here is China, a global power, doing all it can to undermine Western countries and amass influence/power, and nobody here cares. While they steal the IP of the companies that allow us our quality/way of life, you guys are all "Ah, well, we do it too". Well, fuck, I hope so, because the US is the only superpower with anything resembling Western values that I'd like to see remain the dominant value system. And the West is the only cultural sphere that has any interest in things like due process, democracy, free press, freedom of speech, etc., while China and Russia are more than happy to jail anybody who's critical of them or their policies if they can.

- A concerned German
Are we at the point of desperation in the death gasps of DNSSEC where its advocates are now blaming other protocols for not rearchitecting the way they use the DNS to make it DNSSEC more viable? Because: nobody was ever going to do that.
I wonder how they account for REITs there. Weyerhauser owns more land than the top several individuals...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyerhaeuser
How did you get started?

I've been wanting to get into this for awhile, but find myself procrastinating mostly out of uncertainty and fear of failure; but somewhat out of just having no idea where I should start, what tools I need to start, and what is achievable for a beginner.
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> I think within the context of chemical rockets, engines really are sorta ancillary! Not to the same extent as rubber tires (I used that extreme example just to make my point clear), but engines is just not where the large improvements in things we care about will come from.

They're not ancillary because propulsion performance metrics really drive the things you can do with the rocket. (Same thing in airplanes.) Acknowledging that "large improvements" will not happen in that area is a concession that we've hit a pretty hard wall on what we can do with this technology.
Curious how you go about that. Have a website?
Yes, it is a lie.
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My goal is to extract as much money as I can out of the tech industry, without compromising on my values. While I'm doing that I'm trying to build up a small food forest which will help me avoid the pyramid altogether.

My only hope for humanity is for at least 30% of the population to do the same, but I'm not holding my breath.
One has to wonder if the same problems exist with airbus
My partner and I train and board dogs. The money isn't amazing, but it's fun and rewarding.
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>The economy is not a zero-sum game. If I make more money there is not someone else losing.

Depends on your accounting. As a % of GDP, the economy is absolutely zero sum. And some useless sectors (finance) have been taking a greater share of GDP.
And you think every person should be willing to walk away for some other job? How will that play out?
No, she was just was born into a time where enough suffering, has resulted in science progressing to the point and where her hearing can be fixed. The act doesn't change control over natural or personal. She was fated to get the surgery and whatever comes in life. She is no different than her reflection and similar to everything in reality. It's a shame people are so against understanding how things really are at the fundamental level.
This doesn't really answer the argument that the parent comment made. You can say DNSSEC "works" in the presence of a caching resolver the same way you can say the TLS Heartbeat extension "works"; sure, it's there, and it's doing stuff that the RFC says it should do, but that begs the question: why is it there? There are really no meaningful use cases left for DNSSEC.
Facebook AI Turns Real People into Controllable Game Characters
Facebook’s AI Research team has created an AI called Vid2Play that can extract playable characters from videos of real people, creating a much higher-tech version of ’80s full-motion video (FMV) games like Night Trap.
Clever. Do you have the intention to make more replacement parts for other products?
I tried kid’s YT channel. Too much work. I feel like I still have a shot.
Pretty bad article - most VPNs have a very high privacy focus, while ISPs simply store all your stuff. Even a bad VPN is better than not using one. SSL is unreliable (Cloudflare MITM, rogue certificate authorities, etc) and doesn't hide your IP. Tor is slower and blocked by very, very many sites (and does not handle all traffic! Unlike a VPN).
Yes, but there's a big difference between "the spacecraft blew up in the test harness" and "all of the stack traces were recorded and a CS intern is currently testing a patch and we'll be back in business by Monday". The press-release didn't really indicate how serious of a setback this anomaly is. Although now the article has been updated with "smoke seen for miles" which wasn't the case before.
Our agency does mainly Java, .NET, C++, JavaScript.

Any candidate needs to be very strong to warrant the respective department to replace one of those pillars.
Many people were reminded of this machine when they first revealed the groove-in-the-middle design of the original PlayStation 4.
I had those three mags, and I typed it in. A wonderful introduction to what you can do in Z80 machine code.

Happy days
I've dropped Google Analytics in favor of good old fashioned server log parsing with several off the shelf tools.

The load times of my site, the quality of my stats and the privacy of my users have all been improved.
Ask HN: How do you prove you're intelligent in your workplace?
Let's put aside the question of "why", and instead focus on "how" one could prove that he/she is smart.

How do you do it? By learning esoteric and difficult languages like Haskell? By learning purely abstract concepts from Category Theory? By applying the seemingly irrelevant tools to the problem at hand and getting superior results? By reading books all the time and having something to talk about? ...
> If you snore or have mild sleep apnea

BIG WARNING HERE: equating snoring to sleep apnea is NOT the same thing. Sleep apnea can happen when snoring, but it is only 1 kind of type of snoring.

If you have nightmares and wake up in fits suddenly, it may be sleep apnea and you need to see a doctor and get a sleep study.

If someone knows you snore but you don't, you might be a mouth or nose snorer and a sleep study won't help. Each of those has a different set of solutions that don't overlap and something like Xylitol may not work for you.
I design and sell T-shirts for ML/Data Science geeks [1][2]. I use Redbubble as a storefront which works pretty well.

[1] https://www.redbubble.com/people/nurikolan/works/34221227-i-...
[2] https://www.redbubble.com/people/nurikolan/works/34221296-i-...
Nice! I just got your order (thank you!) and just emailed you too.
I taught myself circuit board design and found a niche market that I designed a few products for that sold like gangbusters with zero marketing for a few years until the market cooled off and low cost knock offs started entering the market.

I also found that you could use the same CAD program that I learned to design PCB's to draw outlines to cut out on the laser CNC machine at the local maker space. I ended up finding a niche on ebay building open air computer cases. Because of the economics of shipping large items from overseas and the low cost of the materials I was using I was able to under cut the imports on price by like 60% and still make a nice amount of money on a $/ hour basis.

In hind sight the best way to find these kinds of opportunities is not to be looking for them. You really just need to get a really deep understanding of a hobby or industry or market that interests you in some way and once you have that then these sorts of things kind of pop out of the woodwork.
I follow your work! If you need a hand on Recharged I'd love to help and keep it live and up.
In retrospective, a launch abort tower may hav been better and safer solution, those internal superdracos may make it very hard to get back in the game .....
2081: A hearing aid startup runs out of VC capital and shuts down the centralized server that everyone's ears are dependent on, and publishes a blog post titled "the next step in our hearing journey."
This is the most fascinating side business I've read of! Does what you do ultimately help whoever you are following in their business? Have you seen them make changes that have helped the business in small or even larger ways?