skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apollo was not the product of a 'purposeful and unified nation'. The period 1961-1972 was one of the most politically turbulent in American history, to an extent we forget today. Politically motivated bombings were routine news! Apollo was the product of its time in interesting ways, but let's not deceive ourselves about America in 1969 being any more unified and purposeful than it is today.

I have nothing against doing hard things, but I think sending people to Mars is a hard, dumb thing, and that the money for that will be better spent on mechanized probes to more interesting places (like Ganymede or Europa) along with space telescopes. Other people feel differently!

But I am tired of the amount of special pleading in this debate. Everything is hard on Mars, because it is on Mars. Antarctica has water and all the air you can breathe, and yet we can barely function there. If we send people to Mars, it will be a one-shot deal like Apollo was, and then all the space nerds will be sad again. Better to fund robots at 1/10 of the level of a manned mission, and get to explore the entire solar system instead. If people are dead set on humanity having a 'backup plan', then the Moon is right next door and we can even set it up with wifi.
ETH is more of a commodity than a share in some enterprise.
Venmo for Business?
I'm searching for an app like Venmo or Square Cash that doesn't have monthly transaction limits. I need to reimburse several hundred volunteers on a monthly basis. I'd happily pay for the service. Can anyone provide recommendations? Thank you!
Powershell Module for Apache CouchDB
Just because there are many lines of code doesn't necessarily mean it's badly organized, hard to navigate, or spaghetti like. People have this idea that high LOC files = bad. It's really complexity of mental model of code and difficulty of navigation that is bad. Repetitive code isn't elegant but it it's often more obvious.
Talkspace mentioned they were HIPAA compliant in 2016: https://www.talkspace.com/blog/how-talkspace-keeps-your-data...
> Unless Google does something extremely stupid people are going to stick to it.

Like removing APIs used for Ad blocking effectively crippling Ad blockers?

> Everything sync with safari. Makes life easy.

Firefox can send tabs between your devices, not sure if it can sync them in their entirety. Not sure i'd want it to though.
CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview
Yet, the appropriate context to judge the contemporary dandelions is "modern times."
`<hr>` too? And `<marquee>`?

Did you see any variance between browsers? Hopefully not, with "common" CSS like this, but it would be interesting.
That actually sounds like a quirky rephrasing of a solid guideline on how to live: do whatever you want, unless and until it harms others.
Concentrated Solar Heat using flat lenses
It does sound like an economic system still. Anecdotal evidence, but of the people I know, those that can afford single-income household with kids are those with pretty high income, or eligible to social support, or really running two-income home with one person doing work in the "hidden economy" (e.g. gigs, or trading stuff via Facebook groups). "Just enough to eat and a warm roof" is pretty much the definition of living in poverty in the western world; no surprise people don't want to settle for that.
The article seems to imply direct causation of the results from membership in a 'generation', but it seems much more likely to be the result of length of time spent in the labor market.
But what happens to the bags after they have been picked up from the carousel, i.e. not lost?

Over the same time period there has been an increase in wheeled luggage. This has been a game changer. In the olden days people needed a taxi even if the hotel was a short walk away from the airport. This was because without the wheels it was quite a struggle to move one's luggage.

With the wheeled luggage people can get public transport that bit easier. So they are willing and able to walk a bit.

The wheeled luggage has not been welcomed by all. Demand for taxi airport runs diminished considerably with this innovation. But do people get parted from their luggage on the way on and off trains/tubes/buses more than in the olden days when a taxi driver was there to take responsibility for what was in his/her vehicle?
There are MacBook images strewn about the article, which definitely fits with hip coder culture, but I doubt he started coding in the Mac ecosystem, given how he started out in gaming? More likely he started coding in Windows....

if so, then all the MAC art in the article is slightly curious to me. Totally fine (I am currently a Mac user, and I’m sure the author is now as well) of course.
Venus is Earth’s evil twin – and space agencies can no longer resist its pull
My 38 year old friend installs security systems in homes and businesses. This job involves crawling around attics in 100+ degree heat. Trying to imagine my very healthy 60 year old father doing this is... Well it's not happening. I suspect my friend's body will be shot by 50.
The Government of Canada enacted that policy because it's what the people of Canada demanded. The government doesn't make us be welcoming, we make the government be welcoming.
Well thank you, I know feel compelled to spend unnecessary amounts of money.
Good code is like underwear. Simple, short and and a joy to look at
And that is also awful in so many other ways.
It happens on such a small scale that security isn’t needed
> but with cloud computing becoming an increasingly winner-take-all market, it leaves little room for the software's authors to generate revenue via hosted offerings of their software.

There simply has been no time where a startup doing SaaS of open source software (whether it's own or someone else's) had a strong route to profitability; this isn't an emergent property of evolving market conditions.

It's perhaps being acutely recognized because there was a particular time when companies started around open source software and, either initially or after a period with no clear business model, adopted “we’ll do SaaS of our core open source offering” as the whole, or a central piece, of their business model, and pretty quickly realized why, despite hosted SaaS being a commercial reality longer than cloud computing has even been an idea, SaaS of a particular open source software product—while sometimes part of the business of a broader SaaS provider—has never been a common successful standalone business model supporting companies centered around the open source offering, and certainly not for company is looking for the kind of growth modern VC-backed startups hope for.

They like to spin stories about AWS being predatory, evolving conditions in the cloud market, and attacking open source, but the real issue isn't with AWS, or cloud computing except insofar as that happens to the modern place where hosted SaaS is found, but that they've adopted a combination of SaaS-centric business model and growth expectations that would never have been realistic with open source software (and which I suspect they will next discover isn't much more realistic with their new relatively liberal proprietary license model either.)

> If you think that the Cockroach Labs, Redis Labs, Mongos, Elastics, etc., of the world provide a net benefit to the software world, I think you have to contend with the fact that there is going to be fewer such companies in the future if AWS keeps eating their lunch.

Software that serves as underlying infrastructure for other software has value to end-users that is with reduced by risks associated with being proprietary, and but also has value to it't is reduced by the non-exclusivity that exists when it is not. That's fairly obvious, and an intrinsic problem for such software being efficiently provided in a basically capitalist system, but unless one’s ideological preconceptions make it difficult to accept that capitalism may not always be as perfectly efficient as it would seem to be in theory under the kind of ideal assumptions sometimes encountered in Econ 101 classes, or unless one has invested in firms without business models which ignore this dilemma, I don't see how that is anything to “contend” lwith.
Math checks out except the problem is not randomly distributed - certain airports have a very much higher rate of lost luggage (LHR, JFK‚ CDG, looking at you!) and some types of luggage will be more prone to disappear.

https://www.primelinkinsurance.ca/blog/worst-reviewed-airpor...
That would be true if they didn't sometimes take your cabin bag away from you and put it in the hold.

(The last time I flew with United Airlines, they did that. Then they cancelled flights so I had to stay in Chicago overnight, and wouldn't give me back my cabin bag with clean clothes and things in it. Then they lost that bag and I didn't get it back for another three days. That was about a decade ago and I have never flown with United since then, nor will I ever again.)
Is it surprising that items in range 64 - 120 is larger than 0 - 5?
I think you would find it difficult to conjugate _the translation_ as the conjugation tables/rules differ between the languages and the mapping is not one of one. For example, English only has 'you' but French has both singular and plural forms. Russian has the declension as well (Именительный, Родительный...)

I think it would make more sense to normalize at the _source_ language as I wrote originally. See also the other comments in the same sub-thread.

As to the other ideas, like I said "10 pages". And a lot of them about the system that really accumulates the knowledge about you to give you the best training. See, for example, https://solaresearch.org/ for academic foundation of that and https://french.kwiziq.com/.

But here is a couple of other thoughts. Feel free to contact me if they spark anything:

* Synchronized text and audio (e.g. Amazon Whispersync). Has been done by many people but was usually done by hand (was too expensive) or by text-to-speech on the fly (which was awful at the time); yet it was always welcomed. TTS is now much better, but also maybe some work can be pre-calculated (rather than immediate).

* Use the Google API mentioned before (syntax tree) to extract sub-sequences (named entities, stable expressions, etc) and present those instead of individual words; this helps to see them over and over within different sentences. Even showing a verb and its dependencies is useful. This also allows to include grammar references for tenses/irregular verbs/expressions, etc.

* Dictionary entries by the normalized form (lemma) of the verb, noun. Flashcards that first show the multiple contexts line of the same verb in the same form, then same verb in other forms and only then translation.

* Color code the text being read by word type. So all verbs as red, all nouns as blue, all adjectives as green, etc. Also see https://langliter.com/, they do (and lemmas) that as "highlights".

* Color code the text by words known. Green as those learned already in that exact form. Yellow as those learned in different form (different tense, different conjugation, etc). Red as those unknown.

* Pre-flash. Analyze text (small chunk), compare again flashcards and compile the list of words/expressions and let person practice them first. Then read the actual text with the hope to increase the speed of comprehension.

* Slightly further along are things like "Words of the day" emails that analyze your flashcards to give you more words in the same category (arm+leg=>offer head). Or touch typing game using your own flashcard words. Or conjugation table training using collected context.
I too enjoy taking my keys to the kingdom and piping a bash script with it to do stuff.
This assumes an even distribution of likelihood this will happen, which is far from the reality. You can proactively reduce your risk — don't check in late, watch to make sure the check-in agent actually puts the tag on until you see it go down the conveyer belt, don't book tight connections, book even more generous connections in complex airports when you have terminal changes across the airfield from each other or airports with a poor reputation for mislaying bags on connections, use transfer airports that have been explicitly designed for rapid transfers (e.g. MUC). A general rule of thumb is if you are going to have to uncomfortably rush to make a connection, your bag is even less likely to make it.

Plus, should your luggage get waylaid, there are other things you can do to hasten its recovery: have a fairly unique bag that is unlikely to be mistaken by another traveller as theirs, clearly label your contact details inside and out in case the paper tag gets ripped off.
Plastic is revolutionary in the medical field, that may be one of the final niches where its use cannot be prevented.
Ask HN: No option to delete my account at HN?
Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers
The atomic_signal_fence in queue pop/push seems suspicious. Unless you are doing something like asymmetric fences or actually synchronizing with signal handlers you probably want atomic_thread_fence. Still I'm not sure why you want a fence at all there. Publishing is done by the atomic_store to queue_rd and wr which already include (I'm being fast and loose here) the equivalent of a seq_cst fence.
This prediction ignores the probably best-funded area of research on the planet, that is inventing ever more complex business models in order to retain the gains instead of distributing them.
> You can use your Android phone with non-Google operating systems without hacking your phone.

I‘m not sure that’s true for every Android phone.
Right, but in the context of this discussion the cost primary function of the car (moving my butt from one place to another) has increased, or, in the best case, stayed the same.
Congress Revives Ban on Altering the DNA of Human Embryos Used for Pregnancies
Everybody should already migrate to something of their own domain or proton mail or the likes.
We assume stable orbits because it is unlikely that every galaxy we look at, near and far, exploded at the same time, and we just happen to be seeing them at the same moment in their evolution as they fly apart.

People have really though this stuff through! Some of them for years!
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In order to make this happen you have to get rid of age discrimination laws. If you want someone to hire 'less energetic' workers, those employers need to be able to pay them 'less energetic' salaries. That's going to be a tough sell for voters who tend to be in that age block.
Perhaps there very little to gain. Airport security can ask you at any time to see the corresponding stub for your baggage tag. So you want to steal a bag, what are you risking it for? Some clothes?
Euthanize the Christian busy-bodies who force women to have babies of their rapists and force people to live when they don't want to. No individual had the choice to be born, but to have agency, the decision to die should ultimately lie with the individual.
When my bank sends a login token via SMS, Safari can also copy the token out from iMessage and autofill the value - which is quite convenient, but also a little too much for my preference.
Amabrush Files for Insolvency
Might I suggest checking out Fastify. Very similar to the way Express is, but on an average of 10% to 20% faster.
While getting scratched now and then is part of life for someone who raises cats, it is not normal to have one's cats scratch guests unless the guest has provoked the cat. It is not hard to teach them not to scratch and bite. It can still happen accidentally but it should never be a regular occurrence.
Ending in 2020, Nasa's Infrared Spitzer Mission Leaves a Gap in Astronomy
Cy Wakeman has an interesting twist on the validity of engagement stats. She claims engagement is more valuable when coming from highly accountable employees (i.e. employees who take ownership of problems). From her perspective, engagement without accountability generates entitlement.
That doesn't mean the kids will necessarily adopt the values of their parents.
I did mean not thank you :) I also agree about the conversation about post-growth
For mobile have a look at https://www.bam.tech/

I've worked for their sister company (Theodo) which makes web apps. They work with employees but sometimes when they get too much demand they can bring freelance on board

Really good working environment there
Live. Laugh. Love. Why?
Had raised $5 million on Indiegogo. What a scam in hindsight...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/amabrush-world-s-first-au...
It seems like the answer to this would be the same as the answer to the other question.

The laissez faire baggage claim is refreshingly delightful in contrast to the hell that every other aspect of air travel has become though.
No, you're talking about something else completely. Check page 1-18 in the linked document for an example.
Nice work! I would suggest adding a controls screen that fades out. Took me a while to realize I had to combine aiming with the mouse and WASD keys for movement to get everything going.
Because overwhelmingly bags are full of clothes and cosmetics. The majority of which will be already used in some capacity.

Even the most opportunist thief probably doesn't want someone elses old clothes and half empty tins of hair product.

Even worse if it's a return flight - that means the clothes are dirty!
That's really neat - as you can edit the page you're on, which changes the visibility or styling of the source code of the page. Until you can no longer see the source code depending on which styles you change...
Bullshit. If I install privacy respecting software over non privacy respecting software then you have to assume I want to keep my privacy and don't want you tracking me.
if you expect your lock to uncontended, forcing an exchange might be better. You can then switch to the test and test and set pattern of failure.
I don't care what my neighbors do, however cutting long grass helps prevent tick and flea infestations in my area so it does have a purpose. The ticks especially enjoy the long grass. I do however work towards planting more permaculture in my yard so that there's less grass to cut. The grass provides an excellent ground cover and builds up the soil in the meantime.
Pedant: English has y'all and 'all yall', both plural forms of 'you'.
>Are they bound by it when they receive data or only when they pass it somewhere else?

Neither based on my knowledge. They can do whatever they want with the data and give to whomever they want with no restrictions from HIPAA.

edit: Note that their privacy policy may provide protections and the government may get angry with certain sharing but only if it's politically useful (ie: tinder, hiv status and china).
Hospital delirium is the current accepted name for this condition. It covers much more than sleep. It includes the stress of complex and potentially life threatening medical and social conditions, confusion related to time of day and time unconscious, the effects of medication, and possible underlying mental health issues. All compound each other.

Your charge against doctors and nurses is extreme and unwarranted. Health professionals don't exacerbate these problems willingly or intentionally. ICU delirium puts doctors and nurses at risk of injury or even assault by patients with vivid hallucinations.
Unfortunately, if you spot that pattern then you will not guess the correct generalization. It seems that this may be a puzzle that's easier to solve if you aren't good at spotting easy things.
Dr. Kurz wrote a really great companion that uses brms, a fantastic wrapper that makes stan easier to pickup. I highly recommend it. https://bookdown.org/ajkurz/Statistical_Rethinking_recoded/
Biosecurity, Swine Flu, and AI
This is a really disappointing article. Valve has changed the PC gaming industry in multiple ways, actually keeping the market alive and rejuvenating it.

First, they broke the traditional publishing model with Steam, offering an entirely new way for developers (especially independent developers) to deliver their games to consumers without needing a publisher.

Second, their current project is clearly geared toward breaking the Windows monopoly on PC gaming and they have done a tremendous job so far. Thanks to Steam and Valve's efforts, more games are available than ever on Mac and Linux.

What is the author's take on Valve's interesting and revolutionary innovations on the business side of PC gaming? "Capitalism bad." It is an ideological piece with nothing interesting to say.
I would prefer if someone from an online game company could give their viewpoint; I think they could give a more understandable explanation than I could.
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Cool tool! But why would I use this over dnscontrol, Terraform or OctoDNS?
> >My parents and other retired people I know feel they've earnt their retirement, when they really haven't.

> Hasn't anyone who can afford to retire earned their retirement? What do you mean by "they really haven't"?

I think what mattmanser is point (if this has to do with state-provided benefits and not strictly employer-provided benefits, though arguments about market performance can be made there) is that, in many cases, these benefits either 1) will not exist at all, 2) exist in a severely reduced form, or 3) will have the goal posts raised periodically (30 years until retirement for you means your children will have to work 50 years until retirement).

If that is a correct interpretation of mattmanser's argument, then he/she is effectively saying that current retirement benefits receivers are receiving their benefits only by encumbering future generations with a greater burden than they bore.

As an aside, this brought to mind the notion that perhaps there is such a thing as time inflation, where past promises don't add up in the future and thus result in moving the goal posts. I've seen this crop up more and more with state pension funds in the United States (which always seem to have assumed the most favorable (and unrealistic) rate of return on their investments).
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Robust Prioritization Techniques for IT Teams
That presumption doesn't hold. It's pretty well understood, sociologically, that the creators of suburbs moved to the suburbs in no small part to attain racial homogeneity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

Cities used to be inexpensive. Not cheap, but not crushing. (We made them less so by letting up on the development of housing.)
Before I adopted my cat I thought that declawing was something normal, but after learning that they break the knuckles I just can't support it. When I trim my cat's nails I feel his little knuckles and its really adorable. Also when I'm clipping them I know he is super sensitive with his nails, so I can only imagine how it would feel to have them removed.

The thing that I don't really get is that people want to have an animal in their homes, but they don't like the true animal behaviors so they want to stop them from doing what they naturally do. People want cute and cuddly cats, but when the cat scratches someone its acting bad. In reality it's just responding to its environment and its acting like the animal that it is.
Adjusted for household size, millennials households are higher income than for previous generations at the same age: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/12/11/young-adult....

Millennial households headed by college graduates have an income over $100,000: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-yo.... For the silent generation in 1968, that was under $70,000 (in inflation adjusted dollars).
He thought using some billionaire called Calvin would make people pay attention to Bitcoin SV and money would solve every problem he has but apparently it didn't work that way.

He tweeted he has enough assets to dump BTC down to $1000 in an poor attempt to threaten the BTC community but he now even deleted his Twitter account.

If he was really Satoshi, somehow he seems to have lost most of his brain in the last 10 years.