skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even given lunar materials etc, if we are incapable of altering our current industrial trajectory from the top down (lack of political will), what on earth makes one think we could direct any space activities from the top down?
It's currently sufficient for human leadership to favor selfish and group-harming goals, and there is no indication that this would change in orbit, lol

One currently sees the opposite of top-down coordination of space activities, after an initial cold-war-inspired display of bravado etc.
(private ventures contracted to life public sector payloads into orbit) and you can be assured that plenty of both consumption of earths resources and pollution of earths atmosphere and water occur as byproducts.
Private enterprise would seem to offer a "willy nilly" approach to anything, as such.
I attempted to opt out of airport facial recognition returning from Colombia in March 2019, but was denied at several levels and ultimately forced to take a picture or otherwise remain with the police until I surrendered my photo. It was such bullshit, but they would not let me back into the US without giving them my photo.

This was Spirit airlines in Washington DC.
Very nice.

I do not believe the spread of knowledge works this way, however. For one thing, knowledge is productive. Consider a population of agents each having a body of knowledge some kind of prolog-like set of facts and implications. Clearly the receipt of the same new fact p by different agents will have different logical closures. If for some agents but not others there is the fact p |= q, then the spread of q might appear to work quite differently than the epidemiological model.
Parent said that newspapers counterbalance the potential to use libel law to silence people. This suggests to me that publishers have de facto protections and rights that individuals do not.

I would love to learn that I have been badly misinformed, and it is in no way true that infamously flexible UK libel law is not mostly defended against with a well-funded legal department.
As someone who has been a freelancer and ran a web development company for a time (now I work in DevOps), I would suggest that the market for web development as a freelancer is limited. Honestly, I think that you would spend most of your time picking up clients, who regularly will not want to pay the rates that would cover your costs, let alone allow you to make a profit.

However, contracting seems as strong as it ever has done, especially in areas like Javascript and Python development. I would opt for contracting rather than freelancing, especially if you are able to get remote contracts.

I know lots of people who do make a living from web development, but they are largely within medium sized companies that have a marketing/sales budget and are able to cope with multiple large contracts simultaneously.
I was not happy at my old job any more and decided to try if freelancing works for me.
At first I was struggling a bit. You have to get projects, figure out how everything works, get insurances and so on.

Now I mostly work for a recruiting agency. They get a cut from what I make (quite a huge cut actually), but they in return make sure that they have work for me.

I am still figuring things out. What I most struggle with is finding a good work-life balance. I work way much than I did before.

Before starting to freelance you should make sure that you have enough money to survive ~3 month without any gigs. It will also take a while until your first gigs are paid. Something to keep in mind.

Being on Linkedin is absolutely essential imo, if you don’t have a network already. I just use the site to answer to recruiter-messages, that’s it.
But do you offer remote work?

There’s plenty of need for developers, yet almost no companies consider remote positions.
I always say that any use of screens, given their captivating mimetic and sensorial nature, should be preceded by a clear intention regarding what will they be used for. Moreover, I wholeheartedly agree on the fact that electronic devices--any kind of devices, really--should only be used for as long as they are required to accomplish the task at hand, which has ben decided a priori. Anything that deviates from that is effectively dictating our behavior to a harmful extent.
Pension plans may not be able to get better returns, but they can specifically balance their assets and liabilities better by picking specific investments and/or buying/operating private companies.

An index fund will underdiversify by only selecting public companies, and over-represent companies with short-term interests (the total opposite of a pension plan!).

The underdiversification or index funds is a particular issue ex-US where stock markets only represent a few sectors.

Pension plans can sure screw up, but they can also be unbeatable.
I built an AI web app able to design simple graphics as well as a human being
Hello,

I worked on an AI as a side project for the last 12 months with the objective to mimic the behavior of Human when designing simple graphics with text and images. I am launching it on ProductHunt today. Would love to get feedback and UpVotes from you guys if you like the project. :)

Of course, the performance of the machine learning model is not yet 100% as effective as a "Human" would but the algorithm will improve itself over time. Try it by yourself, it is 100% free and open to use.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ai-designer

Few Upvotes to boost the launch would be fantastic!!

Don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions regarding the approach and Data modeling.

Thomas
I agree - we will need to adopt permaculture on a wider scale in the future to survive climate change. I will definitely check out the book you have mentioned.
I use https://goodbudget.com/ which has sync facility which i found lacking from many personal finance apps. I checked their privacy statement and they don't sell or share our info with third parties.
NAT adds latency to a number of applications (VoIP, video conferencing, gaming). Not so much in the translate IP/ports and keep some state, but in connection establishment. CG-NAT only makes this worse (not to mention it's becoming impossible to troubleshoot when issues arise).

Users don't explicitely care because they don't know. It doesn't make much difference when viewing YouTube videos, but there's more to the Internet than cat videos.
Everything should take 20 minutes
>All my life I've thought spyware was developed primarily by evil Russian and Chinese hackers.

Yep, manufacturing of consent at play.

But this aside, I have a friend who worked in Israeli company whose main business was to sell phone exploits and customer data by using the still very insecure SS7. Basically they were registered as voip operator, but according to my friend that was only a cover, and the real business was selling surveillance data they were gathering via SS7.
That’s the more traditional scamming/phishing, which has been going on since the days of ICQ...
Absolutely agreed. Redis is a godsend for small time traders like us. I've scaled up to where I'm trading on about 20 crypto exchanges in addition to dabbling in stocks and prior to redis I was using flat json files to store all my data so every time a new price came over the wire the bot would read the file, parse the json, append the price then write it all back out. That was quick and easy to put together and it worked great at first but later when I had all the exchanges going even with an 8700k and Optane drive the computer would just fall over when volume got high. Got sick of that, converted it all over to redis with rejson, added another 32 gigs of RAM and problem is utterly solved. Redis' built-in queue has been extremely useful too as a job system.
It's not really very difficult to fire people in the UK.

https://www.irwinmitchell.com/about-us/newsletters/employmen...
Nice idea! This seems to ignore smaller streets though, why?
What is astounding to me, both in O'Neills plan and Bezos offerings (and Silicon Valley Solutions in general, LOL)
is the level of social and historical ignorance on display, as if we don't currently contend for control of resources, as if we are currently managing anything responsibly, and as if the political and social implications of such a project are occurring in the literal vacuum of space, rather than in the highly politically charged landscape of human endeavors.

These folks appear to avoid current events like the plague. Jeff Bezos is still highly involved in assisting the US government and it's various military and intelligence entities in seeking advantage versus other nations.

Taking nationalist ignorant policies and mentalities with us into space seems... retrograde, stupid, and doomed to failure. Inelegant.

There is a reason that all seriously futuristic sci-fi puts us WELL beyond this petty nationalist nonsense currently causing people to re-re-visit the 1980's yet again...
what freelance website do you think is the best out there?
> conclusion reached by experts worldwide.

A relevant group of the experts don't agree with the conclusion, namely those working for the IARC/WHO.
Probably not. What would be the point of that?
True. Math nerds get excited by the ratios, roots, and groups, but all of that is a rabbit hole - useful for DSP code, but it will do nothing to help you write memorable music.
SQL is itself a high-level abstraction, and I have seen cases where an ill-conceived data abstraction layer has just added complexity without improving the quality of abstraction (I have also seen many cases where poorly-designed database schema have nullified the relational model's power of abstraction.)

With regard to your question, I want to be able to see both the abstraction and the implementation, as, depending on what I am doing at any given time, I might need to understand either.
I am very new to the space.

I'd probably like to have a go at replicating some of the Blue River, Bilbery ideas but on a budget. That is sensing weeds or crop issues on the move therefore requiring global shutter. Uniform light throughout the day/night is another issue I am thinking through.

Working through fastai when I get a chance but my biggest issue is finding domain specific datasets.
You're raising a lot of interesting points; I appreciate it! (No pun intended)

I think that meditation might be better viewed as a practical tool that assists in doing what you are suggesting. The idea would be that meditation trains you to focus on the present, objective reality which would in turn make you more likely to appreciate a cup of coffee. My understanding is that at least in the Buddhist tradition that is the stated purpose of the basic breathing meditation that most people are familiar with.

Thats not to say that it might not be an ineffective tool, but I don't think its necessarily contrary to the approach that you are talking about.

Could you explain more about how you would approach things as opposed to gratitude? I think I'm understanding now what you are getting at, but I'm not sure I'm understanding the practical steps that you are advocating as an alternative to meditation.
Because you prefer it?
>Building at the high end (the kind of stuff HN cares about) is partly an exercise in artistic style which winds up being political.

>Building at the low end is apolitical.

You have an decidedly odd view of what people are interested in and what makes something political.
> I wonder if that's the joke.

Yup. According to Wikipedia, Linus said: "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."
Same.. usage may vary, but I have only kept notifications for messaging (but none on "groups" and I user "Favourites" for the calls/messages while on DND. Everything else sits in absolute silence as it should (for me).
SSDs have effectively zero random read access overhead when compared to traditional drives, because the overhead is a couple of orders of magnitude smaller. Also for SATA connected SSDs the effect of this read latency is reduced by bottlenecks elsewhere.

For the common home/office/other user the difference between zero and effectively zero is, well, effectively zero, so the two easily conflate. It isn't so much a myth as a convenient simplification.

(The fact that there is still latency is very easy to show though - just throw something like crystaldiskmark at an SSD and show the measured throughput difference between the sequential and random tests.)

For NVMe drives where the bottlenecks of SATA are removed the difference starts to become more noticeable, and on any SSD random write latency is more significant than random read latency, but NVMe has only recently become common for the general user and the tests that people usually look at are random read not random write as for those common users this is the most significant measure in terms of how it will affect their day-to-day use patterns.
> git reset HEAD~ --hard

Seems fairly magical compared to other stuff here. To me at least. Can anyone briefly explain what it does?
The problem with opt-in annuities is that the seller charges a boatload to account for the risk of your longevity. I guess you would advise buying an annuity and stock in the annuity seller?

My chief complaint about semi-forced annuity purchases is that those that opt-out and retire without savings get back-stopped by the state anyway.
Some abstractions don't seem to give anything useful at all other than homogeneity across code bases and slightly nicer looking (but not simpler) code, and yet they still see wide use.
As We May Program – Peter Norvig
Any summary of the key difference. As long as it opinion with some ground, it would be nice to see competition of ideas not just one voice
I probably can't convince you of anything, but there are definitely two sides to this story. You can choose to listen to Stevens Curl if you want to. You can choose to listen to Theodore Dalrymple as well. Like Stevens Curl he is a blowhard with very iffy politics.

As a trained architectural historian (who has spent years in the UK) it's very clear to me where he is coming from, and it's not a rational place. HN is a terrible venue for discussions of architecture because it's full of people who think their own blinkered opinion is the law. Stevens Curl is just like that.

Edit: even the conservative Spectator has Curl's digits: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/modernist-architecture-i...
Taking care of sick, old, unemployed people is 60% of the US Federal budget:

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

The solution is for people to take care of themselves, not the rest of society, and to dismantle the welfare state, in coordination with dramatically reducing income taxes and eliminating payroll taxes. People have 'saved' for retirement and ill health for thousands of years - why can't we expect the same now in an age of economic plenty and stability?

The problem will only worsen with a swelling population of unproductive, idle old people that expect us to take care of them.
13+Node.js+Frameworks+to+Build+Web+APIs
I’m not sure what he’s talking about. We have a social security equivalent, and then you may have an employer pension.

Private companies have mostly stopped their pensions. Government employees usually have pensions, and they’re very well managed.
It's not clear to me exactly what they are asking.

Are they saying that anything you create on company time belongs to them indefiniely? That's fairly commmon in the UK and I don't have any stong feelings about it.

Are they saying that anything you create after you leave belongs to them? That's definitely not OK, but it's not clear that's what they are saying.
Yep sure, I was just reporting from the Android side since your comment caused me to go check.
HN is not a community when drive-by down-voters are allowed. If they provided a comment with their down-vote that would be community.
You couldn't get into a circular orbit that was always 47 feet from the surface. That's impossible anyway, because a great circle route across the moon's surface is not a perfect circle, it dips down into craters and up over mountains. But could you achieve a stable elliptical orbit whose lowest approach to the surface was 47 feet? It sounds plausible to me, if not particularly safe.
> They are constantly leaving early

In Melbourne (Aus) we have phantom buses, the app shows its on its way but it never comes and then quietly disappears from the app as well.
See also this recent Numberphile that considers the eventual guarantee of extinction based on the rate of reproduction (using the example of surnames) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z34XhE5oRwo
I've used numpy without much trouble, but matplotlib really shows how creative and non-intuitive interfaces can get when developers are left to experiment with function and method parameters in a dynamic language.
Something I learned from my ex-girlfriend many years ago about the labeling of mental diseases in the DSM, and insurance always stuck with me. In order to allow doctors to bill for a consultation, or prescribe medicines, they need to code it. If it is not a cataloged disorder, no insurance, no pharma around the condition. A good reason to try and get a label for the DSM. I think there are far too many diagnoses of ADHD in America vs. say Europe, and I am even more skeptical about the actual category of ADD, ADHD and similar mental disorder acronyms. We strive to hard to label any behavior different than some statistical norm as aberrant, and in need of correction. I am not a doctor, but there are some professionals who also have this opinion [1,2]. I am not saying ADD, ADHD are not real descriptions of what people seem to identify with, or experience, but that maybe we are pulling in a lot of others in the wide net of attempting to normalize our children and society. Personally, I believe people need to identify with something, or have reasons for feelings or behaviors they can't seem to find cause for, or label.

I lived and grew up in Brooklyn during the 1970s, and it was interesting to note that my friends who remained in the city after having children had their kids on some type of medication (lithium, prozac, amphetamines) compared with my kids and a few others who left for the countryside, or another country. It's not urban vs. rural, but more an American thing. After having lived overseas for 8 years, and some other odd years in other countries, I returned to the US, and when I turned on a TV for the first time in a long time, all I saw were big pharma adds for everything from spastic colon to mental disorders. Fortunately, I killed cable and only watch films, or read, or watch self-curated internet snippets of videos, news and articles. When I stay in a hotel, I see the same adds pushing cures, solutions in the guise of attractive people in bucolic settings. It's no wonder there's a rush to medicate everything.

I truly feel compassionate for anyone who feels bad, or different enough to suffer mentally or physically. I know, since I have had my own battles for sure. I only hope we aren't somatizing the population of kids, and implanting the idea that something is wrong with otherwise "normal" children.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-theater-the-brai...

[2] https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/features/adhd-...

[3] https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/02/adhd-neither-d...
Depends whether the website is your core competency. If it's just there to display your rates or a bit more about your business then there is no need to have anything more.

For instance, I operate a bar as a side business. I just knocked together a WordPress site in a few hours because I don't want the website to suck up too much of my time or to become a cost centre.
That's not really true. There's lots of companies that offer remote front end dev positions in the UK - but only if you're somewhere else in the UK. Otherwise tax and timezones are painful.

I know because I've been looking recently..
In the US, there's this notion of a chilling effect. Even if nothing ultimately comes of it, police harassment has the effect of convincing people to stay silent. This is not exactly a win, and definitely the kind of tool that the less kind sort of government has used to suppress ideas they dislike.
Photons dance along a line of superconducting qubits
This is a really interesting topic and the article is nicely written.

What bothers me, though, is the effort to link the mathematics to 'real-world' applications. I agree that forest fires, disease outbreaks, and the spread of ideas might be good candidates for this sort of modelling. But I think you'd need an awful lot of solid evidence to back that up.
Not trying to promote electric toothbrushes, but what worked for me is to get an electric one, keep the charging dock right next bathroom sink, with the toothbrush latched on, so you have the visual queue/reminder to brush them 100% of the mornings/nights.
The main problem with ORM is not that they are a leaky abstraction. It's that for any minimally complex problem they are a bad abstraction.

Abstractions usually empower their user, ORMs remove power.
> Many people's lives have become a never-ending pastime.

How is that different from people spending time watching TV back in the 80s and 90s? Nothing new. Most people have never been very productive with the free time they have.

The main difference with a smartphone is that the access to content, at any time, is 1000 fold better than TV. But the behavior of wasting one's free time is pretty much unchanged.
I have a counterargument for you: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221200232_Algorithm...

It's variant called rewrite rules is used in Haskell's compiler for ages and is a heart of good vector algorithms (on par with C, including SIMD C).

I can't find a paper I read in 1998 or so where successive calls to fputc were replaced with fputs and with some other rules and same approach the OpenGL code was optimized to be as fast as possible.

It is pity that research that is twenty years old was not put into C# compiler.

And for a bonus, look at program distillation: http://meta2012.pereslavl.ru/papers/2012_Jones_Hamilton__Sup...

They transform quadratic concatenation algorithm (O(n^2)) into linear one (O(n)).
To rephrase, I'm not saying this isn't a historical milestone. Though since you're leaning quite heavily on this, I'll add that printed word is probably a bigger deal than most of the things you mentioned, even if it doesn't have the ring of space flight or nuclear fission. But, this is not what I meant to discuss.

To come back to my point, the astronauts were singled out and idolized and that didn't have a bearing on reality. If today someone were to muster modern science into an astounding vehicle of marvelous engineering and ambition, and it would require a human technician to operate, and let's say I would be that technician, you wouldn't say that I'm a hero or a person of extreme merit, because I would be just a technician.

Enter framing. If I would operate the device or vehicle on some interesting journey, and I would then go off to shake hands with some politicians, and there was some incentive for the media apparatus to spin this in some simplistic, easily graspable way, they would have everything they needed, and I'd become a vivid symbol of that marvelous flowering of our civilization (or of US, given the Cold War context).

Will you ask the casual observer to grasp the grandiose complexity of what led to this event, or will you just give him a pawn-head in the form of an astronaut and say "idolize him", thus letting him confuse a flashy front-man for the real thing?
Could buy one of those fancy electronic ones with a mobile app that can set notifications. Irony…
So reducing the cost will reduce demand? I appreciate this is sometimes the case with luxury goods, but it is hard believe that it would apply to public transport.

Do you have any evidence of a reduction in price leading to a reduction in demand for public transport anywhere in the world?