skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't really even talk about what's "good" for an ecosystem in this large of a context though. Any criterion you would care to come up with or name, is gonna end up being a human idea. You can't see the world except through eyes.

Example: Is clear water inherently "good" or is it just something humans like? These mussels prefer the dirty water. Maybe in the Zebra Mussel Bible, the cleaning of the lake water is called "the coming apocalypse due to our greedy exploitation of nature" and the polluted years are remembered fondly as "the good times."

Is an island populated by a larger number of species more finely-adapted to smaller niches, "better" than an island overrun with mostly generalists (cats and a couple of prey species)? In other words is biodiversity "good" or is it just something humans like? Certainly greater biodiversity is associated with longer periods of unchanging climate/geology/etc. that, to us, resemble our (maybe fitting, maybe not) concept of an "equilibrium." Not coincidentally these periods include the one we've been in for a few thousand years now, during which all writing, agriculture, cities and civilization developed. So we tend to think of them as "natural" and as a "norm," that we maybe will or maybe won't disturb. But those periods are only part of the story. There are also those dynamic, changing, cataclysmic periods. And when those are going on, biodiversity tends to be less initially, as shown by the mass extinctions visible in the fossil record.

Just to completely take it over the top, is life better than death? Cuz the natural order seems to think they both should happen in almost exactly equal measure. Plus, "An empty glass is full of opportunity." A dead tree is a great boon to the next generation of little trees that grow on the rotting trunk, not to mention all the fungi etc. that survive by doing the rotting.

I dunno, it's hard to formulate any "puny huuu-mon" judgments about anything that don't just fall apart.
ah sorry I always equate PayPal to venmo - there might be a valid way to refund on PayPal but certainly not venmo
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> (funcall #.(lambda (x) (1+ x)) 5)

Not sure what you intend to mean, but for a CL file compiler, that's not valid code. No CL file compiler needs to be able to externalize a function object.
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My philosophy professor in a college was also a Professor of Magic History in a School of Witchcraft and Wizardry[1]. Really. After that I do not pay much attention to such a things, I prefer to judge by what people say, not by how do they look.

[1] http://ostentum.ru/en/
But it seems that "dying of CO poisoning while staying cool from the AC" would be worse?
One of the comments I heard was that while the physicists knew that wasn't possible, at that point, they were 1) battling with politicians who weren't overly concerned with anything except perception, and their own asses, and 2) wouldn't know enough to call them on the lie, and felt that claiming such a thing was possible might "wake them up" and hopefully provide some forward progress.
You are correct. The result would be an elliptical orbit, though, not the circular orbit that the post you replied to mentioned.

I don't know if the person edited it after you replied, though.
What? I thought the LTE spec had certain required technologies that were patented and supposed to be licensed for a reasonable fee, and QC just got in trouble for tying those licenses to chip sales.
FWIW, I had the watch face separating issue as well. I had mine replaced at Best Buy (well, not actually replaced there, but they were who I dealt with). You should call back and see if you can get yours replaced. It was a well known flaw.
This is classic Innovator's Dilemma behavior.
That's a sad story - just did a quick search and it sounds like it hit a lot of people hard. Years of trip logs and photo albums gone, on very short notice.
> This comment from a 'boeing engineer' has basically no information content.

I found his "3 Business Cultures" quite informative:

https://kuow-prod.imgix.net/store/77d64a0b1331588db82efa7812...

> Creating an environment where companies have to be afraid to admit mistakes does not help us find the root causes of problems and change the system to prevent those problems in the future.

'Feelings' ("afraid") are not operative here. A company in a highly regulated industry has a societal and legal duty to be forthright regarding their product. The sort of "fear" that companies need to feel is "being afraid of getting caught lying or covering up their mistakes".
Three and twelve are very different from each other. Even three is very rare and often comes with complications.
Today I discovered the 'Billion Tree Campaign' was started by the UN in 2006. Wiki says they'd planted 15B trees in 193 countries by 2018 (315M in the US).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Tree_Campaign

Looks like the UN handed the program to 'Plant for the Planet' (Germany) in 2011.

'https://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/en/home

It'd be fantastic to see this organized nationwide in the U.S. ... and promoted as part of the campaign.

P.S. This video, 'Planting Bare Root Trees With A Dibble', shows how very easy it can be to plant a seedling. Anyone can learn it in a short time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqa3yeLxhk
Yes but many such active adversarial networks prevent most traffic besides http/tls leaving the network. DoH solves this problem.
> Is this opinion rooted in the American hatred/demonization of unions?

More or less. Unions are viewed as anti-corporate (rather than an balancing factor), anti-job, and anti-right wing by the Republican party. Even someone who believes in unions in the US would see unions as political.

Some of this comes from machine poltics of the early 1900s, but that being a real factor in American democracy has passed from living memory for the most part. It is much more rooted in the corporate supremacy of the 1980s with strikebreaking and what not.
I once used an 85W portable solar panel to charge my battery while driving after the alternator failed.

It was surprisingly effective at keeping the car operable, at least until the sun went down. I didn't have any accessories running, so it was just the ECU/fuel pump/injectors/ignition it had to keep up with.

The experience left me wondering what MPG improvement it would be to embed solar cells in the trunk lid and hood for charging the battery in the daytime, offloading the alternator.
Will definitely look into it!
Somehow this manages to be simultaneously sexist (why not an everybody-in-tech event?) and hostile to the fact that the typical woman might just want something else in life. That's impressively cringeworthy. By effectively calling out the STEM women as being abnormal and weird, you discourage them.

BTW, we never see an effort to get boys and young men into childcare and midwifery, and very little effort for nursing. We also never see an effort to get girls and young women into road work, engine repair, roofing, smokejumping, garbage collection, oil rig work, and lumberjacking.
It does make me wonder what it would have been like if Denmark had not sold the US Virgin Islands. Although, I feel the islands might be doing better today than they are now.
I know a popular app used to do this by saving an item to the keychain, which persisted between installations. I'm not sure if that's still possible but I would look into it.
"Intel laid off most of their CPU designers 5 years ago."

Got a citation for that?
It's like the meatspace world never learned the golden rule of the internet: don't feed the trolls.
> "Dr. Matloff is grossly underestimating how painful it is for beginners to, eg, figure out when they are dealing with a column of strings vs a column of factors."

This is just sapply(df, class)... Is this not found in R 101 material that beginners are likely to find?
Both of you are proposing an emotionally charged witch hunt.

As one of the top comments stated, embracing a punitive culture toward engineering accidents has no long-term benefits. In my work (and this is probably true in any successful organization) even the most severe screw up is examined honestly and without emotion so that it can be prevented from happening again. If the immediate response is to fire a bunch of people or throw them in jail, people are going to do everything they can to avoid responsibility and ultimately fixing the problem.

If in the course of an investigation it comes out that Boeing execs were willfully negligent or malicious, then we can start discussing throwing people in jail and bankrupting companies, but that shouldn't be the first reflexive impulse.
Not sure about the environment of the British Isles, but that of North America is not and was not a monolith. Sure natives in some areas were burning some vegetation, but that didn't happen everywhere. Actually in some areas the burning was only of undergrowth, so that it actually made the canopy more dense than it would have been without burning.
I can't connect to this website, is it geo-blocking?
Generating UX/UI in the backend doesn't imply to use old tooling.

React server side rendering, Vue's Nuxt, etc are all modern ways to render UX/UI in the backend for example. And there are more.

The discussion of rendering server side goes deeper than just performance or using a "modern" framework.

There is for example: how many teams can work on a single application at the same time and deploy independently features in an efficient manner.

How can we share business processing flow requirements between the web version of an application with the native mobile application counter parts in an efficient way, without implementing everything three times.

Or other aspects mentioned here, like predictable performance etc.

Or choice of language, in the backend your choice of languages to choose is greater and/or simpler than in the frontend.

You can add more monitoring in the backend about aspects of your application than you can do in the frontend.

Obviously, the frontend has advantages as well. I.e. if something needs to be calculated, animated it is almost instantly available to the user when done in the frontend.

Frontend can perform functions offline, can use device specific features: like camera, contact list, push notifications etc.

Thus I prefer to look at the requirements and pick the tools for the job that best fulfils all the requirements for a giving application in a given organization and strategy.

If that means i do more stuff in the frontend, sure fine. But I wouldn't go for GraphQL just because it is "modern".
Being "modern" is not solid reason to choose a technology unless you want to attract developers that like "modern" technologies. Which could be a valid reason as well for some organizations.
There's a similar web game - http://www.factoryidle.com, for those who can't/won't play FactorIO, with a similarly addictive quality.
I'm not making any accusations, I'm merely stating facts. Those are easily reachable on FreeBSD reviews portal, simply search for Shawn's patches.
Not sure about the parent post, but my lease also has a similar restriction. In my case, it's just re-asserting a restriction passed through via an HOA covenant[1].

But I'd also restrict it as a landlord. An improperly installed window unit can easily lead to water damage through improper sealing or installation, can stress the window frame if it isn't braced appropriately, and be a major falling hazard if installed on upper floors.

Not that it takes advanced skills to avoid most of those potential problems. But there's a reason many apartment complexes nowadays deadbolt utility closets and require maintenance calls for something as mundane as periodically changing out air filters[2]. Making any presumption about the sensibility and competencies of your tenants is a recipe for costly disasters.

[1] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-the-difference-...

[2] For those less familiar with HVAC units, there are one or more air intakes somewhere in the house. Inside the air intake is a filter that traps dust and other particulates so they don't recirculate through the house. These filters get clogged up over time and need changed out every 1-3 months.
Whenever they release a new version, I'll boot it up and waste the better part of a weekend to get another mega-base running. Always satisfying
This. The CEA is not government-backed.
Xkcd #2172: Understanding Lunar Cycles
FYI, if you do a git shortlog -sn | head -n4 in the SBCL repo you get (as of now):

4025 Douglas Katzman
2887 Stas Boukarev
1695 Nikodemus Siivola
1596 Christophe Rhodes
The power supply in this case was just a wall-wart plug and I always thought they were just transformers which are too simple to fail. But thinking about it now, there must also be a rectifier in there at least. Maybe there's much more than that...
I like to share the facts and dissolve the myths around HardenedBSD. There's nothing copypasta about it.
Yup. Sattelites are roughly car sized. Think how many cars are on earth and yet cars aren’t covering the surface of the earth.

And earth orbit is an even bigger surface area.
That would be some super interesting co-evolution. My guess is "no", but only for armchair reasons - way outside my area of expertise.

My understanding is that mouth and throat cancers are realy uncommon before middle age, so the moderate but ubiquitous fitness loss from the cold is probably worse, evolutionarily speaking, than the substantial but infrequent fitness loss from dying of cancer later in life.

It seems plausible, however, that the mutations which make cells cancerous might also impair their response to viral infection.

/armchair
I think what you're describing is not that every person has their own little version of political correctness, but that every group has their own subgroup of people who have an instinct to police speech. I'm personally fine with whatever speech you want to use (with the exceptions that are enshrined in U.S. law; no inciting violence, etc.), but I may choose not to interact with you. And I suspect that a sizable chunk of the population actually feels this way.
I don’t see the connection.
Sadly, this doesn't apply to America. Our grocery stores are very much homogenized, and in many parts of the country the only grocery store will be Walmart. Urban areas will have higher end chains that stock a wider variety and some foreign and independent stores with unique selections, but once you get past the cities and into rural America, your options for groceries are about the same from town to town.
Just use one with biggest following ie. Jekyll - you'll get tons of tutorials/themes/extensions.

Using standard representation of posts (ie. Jekyll uses markdown - which integrates nicely with R markdown/bookdown) is a plus.
No, it wasn't a 'symptom' of anything. The Space Shuttle was a remarkable engineering achievement, made at enormous cost, built and managed by great people who had only the best intentions. Yet it still failed in a spectacular way, because the engineering wasn't perfect and the management wasn't perfect. In the end Challenger was destroyed by the failure of a cheap gasket, and the gasket failed because the decisions made and processes which produced the environment in which those decisions were made around making a go/no-go call was imperfect and failed. It doesn't matter what political process is in place, it doesn't matter how good the people are, or how good the engineering is, or anything else for that matter, spectacular failures are inevitable. When one happens, we have to learn from it and figure out how to build organizations and engineering artifacts that are better in practical and achievable ways, not try to use it as some kind of evidence that our pet political theory would have somehow let people make perfect decisions or make rubber gaskets invulnerable to cold weather.

It turns out that if you take some task that is incredibly hard and inherently complex and performed by a very large number of extremely qualified and smart people near the limits of human experience, and you want to do that task in a better way it isn't going to boil down to something simple or obvious.

In fact, if the US political process is so broken, why is it the only process that ends up with space shuttles sitting in hangers? It's certainly not perfect, but since nobody can point to a political process that results in better space shuttles I don't see any evidence that humans have so far developed a better political process if you are measuring it in units of 'space shuttle reliability'.
FWIW the Starret tips on maintaining gauge blocks says not to leave them wrung overnight.
That's also possible, being British I had sarcasm and detection built in at birth. We usually just call it chatting as most conversations get liberally laced with it here. :)

Decades on the net has been an interesting education that some, for some reason especially American, don't recognise sarcasm without the helpful /s. I learnt to pull my punches online on that score years ago. On the [vouch] front I'm not hugely bothered as it doesn't really detract from using HN, more surprised as I don't generally trigger moderator interest anywhere I've been since BBS days.

I'm sure dang will respond in due course as to whether I rate forgiveness or not.

Edit: I should add that I would think it highly unlikely I'd have resurrected comments heavy with sarcasm, I've been well aware for years it doesn't fly around here.
all of them are suspects, you have just not been caught yet
You can use them in concert with a Sine bar to create precise angles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_bar
There are nuances that to me make R data frames, especially with Magrittr, simpler to work with over Pandas. Pandas indexing always seems to get in the way.

I have been using Python a lot longer than R, but the Pandas syntax is taking longer to internalize.

Maybe it's just me?
There's a great Sixty Symbols video about gauge blocks and how they work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgL_qH70KAU
How much of that water is glacial though and will be gone when Greenland melts?
Theres an xkcd somewhere about that
> It takes an engineer to build a bridge that just barely doesn't collapse, by an acceptable safety margin that still provides economy.

Holy crap, that truck in oncoming traffic just barely avoided hitting us head on!

If that driver hadn't adjusted their speed appropriately for the road conditions and planned on switching lanes a quarter mile back we'd all be goners, bro.
Thanks for the feedback - I can definitely understand it not being intuitive. If you want to remove the alert for now you can do so from the preferences window (it's the "Mute get back to work alert" option).
Ok. I understand
"Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. Large organizations always tend to develop software this way, and I expect this to be as true in a hundred years as it is today."

As Apple and other companies have demonstrated, OO libraries and frameworks are also a useful way to promote a hardware platform by facilitating the adoption of proprietary languages and code by third-party application software developers.
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OP,

I'm going through something similar - work at a FAANG company, have 250k+ in savings, contemplating quitting for a few months because things at work seem soul-sucking.

I went through the same trade-offs you mentioned. In the end I've decided to just take the plunge. When I'm 50, I don't wanna look back and think it'd have been extremely easy to take a few months off and see what that turned into.

PS: I'd love to get in touch and share our common insecurities if you're up for it. I live in the Bay Area and am reachable @ wantToQuit@impish.33mail.com
This is not true as far as I can tell. HFT does not appear to be part of spacex’s strategy at all.
Yeah and there's already a lot of providers of satellite internet. But, Starlink has not published their pricing, so it's unclear how much of the market will they capture.
We're hoping to add analytics in a future update.
So far Greenland is a relatively poor and miserable place, with a population of only 56,674.

Comparatively, Alaska offers a much better role model for arctic governance.
In hot climates, even when the air temperature returns to tolerable levels, radiant heat from the various surfaces is no joke.
I don’t know if this would be useful to my projects, but the documentation is impressive. Well done!
I routinely send Amazon packages to a locker downtown instead of my house so I have someplace to walk to mid day when I really need it.
> "Maybe you and dang have a different ability to recognize sarcasm."

Sarcasm and snark rarely improve the quality and direction of a discussion, which is why at least snark is explicitly mentioned in the guidelines. Whether or not one recognizes something as sarcasm is orthogonal to whether a comment overall appropriate and constructive for the forum, and the latter is an overriding concern.

> "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why not use 4G? Starlink's bandwidth (price per gigabyte) is probably not going to be great.
Fun video from Sixty Symbols explaining the underlying forces at work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgL_qH70KAU
If you use he high low system it's a +EV bet to take insurance when the count is +3. At that point the probability is greater than 1/3 that the dealer has a 10.
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Yes, thank you, I agree it operates more on a subgroup level.
with filter splitters being a thing now, I think they would be, yes.
These would make poor imaging satellites you are correct, but what could possibly be more valuable intelligence than a global scale firehose of data. Just the metadata of packet routing across the constellation would have huge value to intel agencies.

To say nothing of the implicit value in denying an adversary access to that information.
I heard that some Danes are proud of having the largest country in Europe. Selling Greenland would certainly change that.

But as I am not a Dane myself, take it with a grain of salt (and it might not be true either, depending on how you measure other countries e.g. Russia).
You mean DRL's? They lead to a significant reduction in crash rate - and since much of a car's carbon impact is tied up in the manufacturing of the car, that is likely a far greater impact than running the DRL's all day.

Plus, with LED DRL's becoming more common, the power drain is much less significant than the old incandescent lights. My old car ran the 55W headlights at around 40W each for DRL's. My new car has a DRL LED module that uses around 3W.
Won't this offer internet to everyone on Earth?
GP is obviously not talking about HFT on the NYT, but HF arbitrage between different global exchanges.
Maybe, but it will probably have lower total througput due to the large size of the cells. One of the reasons why 5G is faster is due to smaller cells.

In any case there's no official data from Starlink, on costs, on speeds, total througput or almost anything (if I'm wrong on this please post links!).
Crushed or ground glass is already used in concrete:

http://www.concrete.org.uk/fingertips-nuggets.asp?cmd=displa...

Interestingly, it can be either aggregate or cement, depending on how finely it is ground.