skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would have very interesting market dynamics that the article touches on a little bit. In order to actually make use of the gold, you have to build some sort of industrial base in orbit. So while the total pool of gold within humanity's grasp would increase substantially, the availability would not necessarily increase in the same way.

If I buy gold in a commodities market, it is kept in a holding area and rarely moved, but I can for a fee have that gold shipped to me if I really wanted to. Since there is not a substantial price difference in shipping gold to one place vs another on Earth (within the same order of magnitude at least), it doesn't really matter "who" I buy the gold from, so for purely terrestrial markets, gold is gold.

But space-based gold would be much more expensive to ship back to Earth, even if gravity is generally on our side in that case, since you are subsidizing the infrastructure required to make that happen. And this probably wouldn't happen that much anyway, since the space-based gold would likely be kept in space to build more space-based infrastructure.

So would that create 2 different prices for gold? Or would space-based gold be much cheaper than terrestrial gold, offset by some coefficient that would be its relative movement cost between realms?

I am by no means an economics expert, I'm just musing. I believe I'm essentially talking about arbitrage, but need to refresh my memory on this.
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I'd suggest a different triad: cost, price, value.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/48rd02/cost_va...
All these quotes remind me of another quote that I like:

Simple and dirty beats complex and clean any day. - Learn C the Hard Way
> You might say "use a slider then if you want to pull it up/down". True, but a slider takes a lot of UI space which sometimes is very precious. More importantly, the slider resolution is limited to it's height, while a knob could for example use the whole screen height for a full turn.

Perhaps the solution is to make the slider pop up if you press a button?
That is something I thing about frequently. On one hand, I think it's great to have self-sustaining homes/neighborhoods that require minimal manual repetitive work. Then I think that there are lots of people who know nothing but that. knowledge". If you lose the ability to adapt and learn (something we all probably do as we age), then you are left out.
Well, you can star it on github, too. :]
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I'd like to see IEC 60320 C13/C14 which is already common with computers, it is small, easy to use and properly covers the pins. But perhaps it isn't as mechanically robust when connected and disconnected often?
Anyone want to build an 11/70 with RSTS/E, send me a quote. I don't have the skills for this, but want.
Additionally, Telegram uses MTProto instead of TLS. What they should be doing is MTProto in addition to TLS. But, no.
Why is it too crude to compare those salaries? The gulf between 30k and 78k is enormous. The UK nurse certainly isn't making up all, or even most, of that difference in government benefits.
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These are all good arguments for now, but if climate change progresses as feared at least some of them might become moot. Once sea levels have risen a few metres, say in a century or two, being able to lower the sea level in the Med might be seen as a positive. Changing environmental conditions could change the calculation in favour of plans like these.
Serial was ubiquitus but hardly universal.
Loosing hours to the "change the baud, bits, reboot it" dance whilst bit-banging cts by shorting things with resistors, all just trying to get a terminal. Mating wildly different number of pins, pinouts and connector shapes whilst being mindful that some devices want -48v and others between 3 and 5, it was a frikkin' mess.

Lots of problems; big mess. So they unified things to a universal standard, whilst still keeping the spirit of serial alive. And by that, I mean wildly different plugs, different numbs of pins, incompatable pinouts, crazy voltages, drive issues and more. Truly the interoperable future is here.

(what? no, pass me _the_ usb cable. Idiot; it's the one that looks like the inside out apple cable. But not _that_ inside out apple cable, because although they're identical on the outside and will plug together....)
Some of A, some of B. But there's plenty of ways to expend clever that don't make the code harder to read as well (clever architectures that aren't obvious before you create them but once they are built are still readable). Clever tricks that require being clever to read as well as to write are the dangerous ones.
This entire post is a humblebrag about how the author gets laid L M A O
I downloaded VB4 from an AOL mail server when I was 11. I made the mistake of forwarding the email, which AOL considered making a pirated copy of the software. Came home from school the next day and our AOL account was terminated.
But you're widely ignoring all the privacy issues that come with cleartext traffic. Why would you give up this clear win for consumers and users and relegate them to easily trackable, non privacy-preserving techniques?

Do you not see that you're literally arguing against privacy here? Why should amateur radio not get the same benefits? All I hear are arguments in defense of regulation and Kafkaesque government bureaucracy.
What do you mean with "spin out"?

(sorry English is not my first language)
After seeing your comment, I dug into my Subaru Legacy's menus and found the option to force-check for a software update. Alas, there was none to be had. I think the next step is to e-mail the dealership and get them to lobby Subaru of America to port the fix to my model.
This is usually a better way to get multiple single points of failure than it is to get a more resilient system.
The Space Shuttle didn't burn gasoline or exhaust carbon dioxide, it burnt hydrogen and exhausted water. So it didn't create meaningful air pollution when launched.

Edit: actually it burnt both solid fuel and hydrogen, about 2.2 million pounds of the former.
Reddit has zero presence or significance in the IRL graffiti community in case you weren’t aware
Hi there,

I sometimes try to help normals relate to me by asking, "You know Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory? I'm like a stupid, slighty-less-social-idiot Sheldon Cooper."

I identify with Dr. Cooper. (BTW it sucks being like that. Don't ever think we do it because we like it. There are a few perks but it mostly sucks. Also, it's like living in "Idiocracy". I can't watch that movie because it's too painful. That's my life. From my point of view y'all are running around pouring Gatorade on the plants talkin bout "It's got lectrolites!" It's getting seriously scary now IRL too: where the fuck are all the fucking insects!? We should all be fucking terrified right now.)

Anyhow, from my POV the "average" programmers should GTFO and stop peeing in the pool. I would fire 90% of working programmers. They're not needed and actively counter-productive.

Also, FP is coming on stronger today than ever before. You are in actual fact just wrong.
Yeah it's probably a parable, but the point it makes is valid.
Yes. Needing any of these to secure your application means the app code is broken.

Every WAF I've used breaks URL's randomly because they're just pattern matching against known attacks to a definitely broken system.

Any properly engineered system is invulnerable to all attacks a WAF would catch at the HTTP level
Yeah, but I would say it depends on context, clarity is very context dependent. Do what makes the code easiest to read taking into account that human limitations.

Sometimes splitting out code makes sense by making the underlying structure clearer, sometimes it makes it bothersome to find the actual important details. For instance, logic that filters what jobs to run based on conditions, it might make sense to abstract the logic for the conditions into one class per condition, to make the filtering logic clearer.
I don't know how often unions actually impact what the business does instead of how it operates, but here's an example: "Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant" [0]

> Mosch, who sits on parent VW’s supervisory board, asked top management to provide specific information as to how the growing shift to electric cars and digital services will affect employment at Audi, which has 88,000 workers globally.

Having worked at places where management was deaf to employee concerns about the direction of the business, and seen the consequences of bad management fall upon those employees, I can clearly some sort of leverage would be good for engineers. Perhaps that could involve forcing a company to invest in new technology, thus allowing you to grow as an engineer- and perhaps making your job more secure by making the business more competitive.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13986889
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Its much harder to go the self taught autodidact route now compared to when I started mumble decades ago.

Yes I know there are outliers but the vast majority of entrants are BSC grads.
This reads like you're equating collective bargaining with salary negotiation, but there are a ton of other dimensions where negotiating as a group would be beneficial. I've worked at a number of companies where I was well paid, but had an expectation of overtime. The environment of crunch produced a product that was so unstable I had to be on call, and was occasionally awoken in the middle of the night by things that would never have made it to production if there had been industry-standard practices in place.

That's where collective bargaining could come in handy in software. There needs to be some recourse for when shitty companies abuse its employees.
As a consumer I can buy gold leaf for around $10 per square meter.

Estimates that I have seen are that the big cargo ships are around 400 meters long and 50 meters deep. I'm not sure their surface area, but let's call it 60,000 square meters. (22,0000 for each side of a wall of those dimensions, and some amount for the bottom. So to gold plate it is a half-million dollars. https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-cost-to-fuel-a-cargo-... estimates $130,000 per day for a ship under power.

If gold plating worked, lasted, and didn't leave damage, someone would have figured out that it was worthwhile to do already. So if you deal with it professionally, by all means look into it. But I wouldn't be too hopeful.
Scheme, there chibi-scheme that compiles to wasm. My favorite feature is that it is very easy to express (html (code "in s-expr")). On the bad side, the interaction with JavaScript side is kind of pain. I did not figure out (nor tried whatsoever) to create a (general?) message passing kind of facility, that would allow me to do both DOM manipulation and XHR.
Dropshippping
The disparity was expected and that is part of the reason that the House of Representatives is based on population.
You can't improve R because it's already the maximum that the circuit can handle.

A is in practice the same across regions.

V is the only factor that ends up mattering.
This fight has been brewing for a long time and I've been a user on both sides. I sailed across the Atlantic in 1993 and 1996 and we used a Pactor modem and a service called Sailmail to send and receive email via marine HF radio (1 to 30Mhz). The service is still active and is an alternative to Winlink unless things have changed.

I'm a licensed ham these days (WT1J) and use HF for my hobby. I use voice and open source digital protocols. All for fun and learning.

I think the reality here is that Sailmail and Winlink are used by folks to check their email and they treat it like regular email, which means they conduct business over it. The system has become popular with yachties around the world - many of whom are wealthy retirees or remote workers.

In the 90s, using a Pactor modem and SSB was pretty much your only cost effective option to have any kind of email access.

These days you can buy an Iridium Go for less than a Pactor4 modem and the rates are reasonable for text and email. In fact Sailmail integrates with Iridium Go now.

I think the arguments made for banning Pactor modems on the HF bands are legitimate. Other than Pactor 1 which is open source, Pactor 2, 3 and 4 are proprietary and you can't decode them if you're listening in.

You are also not supposed to use the amateur bands to conduct business, and yet that is exactly what is happening much of the time someone is downloading/uploading email via a Pactor modem on the amateur bands.

From the FCC: "The amateur and amateur-satellite services are for qualified persons of any age who are interested in radio technique solely with a personal aim and without pecuniary interest. These services present an opportunity for self-training, intercommunication, and technical investigations." Source: https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-divis...

So checking your stock portfolio from the Bahamas or communicating with your lawyer is not allowed. However this is near impossible to monitor because Pactor 2+ is proprietary and so no proof of this can be submitted.

What the hams are arguing for is in the spirit of the amateur bands: Make the protocols open source and unencrypted so that all communication on the amateur bands are essentially open source and we can all participate and help regulate each other - while learning from each other.

This feels reasonable to me. Kick the Pactors off and let them use Iridium or Inmarsat.

PS: I don't buy the 'interference' argument mentioned in the article. Pactor is low bandwidth and doesn't cause interference that I'm aware of. It's just occupying some bandwidth and can't be understood by others.
I need the state of the art hardware so I can .... open a terminal.
In the US I typically receive very poor care from people with the title "Nurse Practitioner" who are usually hired for the exact purpose of getting people to do doctor-like work for cheaper. They are ok at dealing with very normal conditions like the flu/cold, acute non-critical injuries, etc. (which you honestly don't even need to get care for anyway) but not good at dealing with issues outside of that
An organic farmer friend of mine, who works a leased plot single-handed, told me he figures he's making $12/hour at it. The plot is big enough to scale up, but at $15/hour here in California, he doesn't see a way to make it work.

Highly-automated agribusinesses, especially those located elsewhere, don't have this problem. Neither do farmers willing to break the employment law. But my friend for some reason doesn't seem to want to become a professional criminal.
You know all the advanced research and tech used in the UK telecom industry system post ww2 (first electronic exchange etc) was built by union employees.
Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux and Git
I actually don't agree with the severity if the cut, but the University System in Alaska is known for overspending and the massive amount of administrative jobs that don't go into the education of young minds.
The thing that makes it sound so much like a fist-shaking "back in my day" is that it reduces modern music to popular, heavily-promoted, commercially-successful popular music.

There is money to be made out of superficial music, fit for consumption as a background to parties and dance, tailored for the least common denominator in terms of intellect. But that has always been the case; nostalgia aside, the "current" music of pretty much every decade has been pretty bad. Sure, the greatest hits are, well, great. But if you dig a little, you'll find that the songs that were just below the greatest hits in terms of popularity -- but hugely popular nonetheless! -- are pretty bad.

But there are plenty of artists making good music today. And frankly, I think the current situation, where we have things like Bandcamp and Youtube and whatnot is better than ever before. If I'd been a teenager in the 1970s it's extremely unlikely that I'd have heard of bands like, say, Malicorne -- superb music but with success limited to their own country mostly. Nowadays, if there's a great band making great music in Ittoqqortoormiit, there's a good chance you can hear about them and listen to their stuff.
Is it not a bit of a large jump from "shell script" to "chef"? There is some inbetween.

I understand a shell script is not suitable for orchestrating a datacenter, but sometimes it is suitable for installing a couple of things.
But then where would we get non-irradiated steel from? We're already harvesting it from old, pre-nuclear-era sunken ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
Data-Oriented Design, Entity Systems stores data in a SQL or NoSQL like way. A table is an array of structs. It's sorta like MUMPs or a language with inbuilt Redis instead of variables or lisp with an embedded prolog.
Looks promising. Some things I'd like to see explained:

- How does rendering work? Is it using retained mode or not?

- Does the system prevent unnecessary work, such as repainting of certain elements (even when scrolling, since scrolling can be implemented using a less expensive bitblt)?

- How easy (natural) is it to change the UI hierarchy once it is running?

- Is memory management natural? Is there a form of garbage collection or reference counting for UI elements? How easy is it to accidentally refer to deleted UI elements?

- Does it make use of a GPU if available?
Bulk rock or regolith is vastly more abundant and works well.

See O'Neill's original designs.
> I typically find it very difficult to understand complex functions

It seems to me like "complex" and "ability to understand" mean the same thing, so this phrase doesn't have much meaning.

It's difficult to define "ability to understand" / "complex" without using either of those words in the definition. For example, you mention lines of code, nesting and multiple concepts.

I tend to agree with your examples, however not necessarily the lines of code. I've seen single large functions that represent an algorithm in a way that's easier to understand than the implementation that breaks it up into tens of little functions. It made liberal use of comments to explain each section of code in the function. I believe its advantage was that when reading, you could simply scroll down the function line by line rather than having to jump all over the file.
The problem is that everyone seems to disagree on what pedantry is and how much marginal a difference actually is.
I think it's more that you should be aware of the strong limitations they have and weigh that against cost imposed, and what better solutions are available. To take the IDS part for example, I've run Suricata in some locations and we thought of it as I guess a "low hanging fruit picker" for some stuff. Malware authors aren't any more immune to writing buggy stuff, having low quality code heavily made from Google copypaste, and so forth then any other software community. Not all users are running fully patched systems facing modern cutting edge malware either, in some settings you may have people connect running something ancient who click on every single "BROWSER XLR8TER DELUXXEE + FREE CAMS" extension ad they see. So in a few instances it's been a useful, low effort and automated way to notice somebody infected with something dumb and track it down right away.

But there should be no illusions about it substituting for strong network and application security practices everywhere else on the LAN, including some level of isolation. Full BeyondCorp style Zero Trust might not yet be feasible for everyone but there are strong lessons there that can be applied, and at the least that it's very dangerous to blindly trust even a "secure network" just because it's behind a firewall. Which unfortunately is still a prevalent attitude, and IoT is making that even worse for more and more people/organizations. It's unfortunate there aren't more widely available, better and more automated/visual solutions that would make it easier for non-experts to make use of stuff like VLANs and 802.1x. Some things may always take more experience, but I think the pure tech exists to do better then many places are now in terms of network protection and it's more a matter of UX/accessibility.

Also, it's not like it's always free. Even beyond false positives and such, there is a certain amount of hardware needed to run these things as connection speeds go up. When operating on 50 Mbps ADSL then sure, nearly anything can do it no problem, but push that up to 1-2 Gbps or more and at least right now that means significantly more chunky kit. In some places it won't even be a rounding error, but for small businesses (let alone individuals) spending that money should be weighed more carefully.
Collective action has been the challenge of humanity since the dawn of time. We've only been successful with one strategy: picking a leader.

If you want to learn more about this phenomenon, read Meditations on Moloch [1].

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Cookieless cookies (2013)
DNSSEC explicitly doesn't provide privacy --- in fact, it does the opposite --- so if you were waiting for DNSSEC to hide your queries from your ISP's adtech analytics, you'd have been waiting a very long time indeed. Firefox made the right call. DoH, by the way, is also an open standard.
Facebook makes out $635K of profit per employee, per year
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But this isn’t outside of interview conditions. In a production environment I would write production quality code.

At any rate now I know for next time precise questions to ask to ensure we aren’t wasting each other’s time. Had I known this before the code test I would have politely excused myself from consideration.
What you should really aim for is a simple class structure and simple functions within. Complexity at either level is not your friend and certainly not something the next developer to maintain the code will thank you for. That’s the person you should be designing for.
This is how I get research papers done with a collaborator! You need the one who wants to generalise a little more, and the one who wants to get it published and out the door. It's OK if these roles switch over time, but having both is good.
Interesting, are you able to build and run natively on your phone?
How do we agree that everyone needs more vacations? Too many voters are swayed by the talking points of the wealthy who tend to have a lot of influence in the media we consume. The counterargument can even be phrased in ways that are made to look like it supports the "little guy" rather than the oligarchs that are promoting the message, for example: "More paid vacation means small businesses will have more difficulty remaining competitive, and they are the cornerstone of the US economy. Don't limit our freedom by imposing this unamerican law"

Unions were the right way in the past because employers were typically the most powerful actors in society, with the ability to sway the actions of government. Unions represented an opposing force to their employers, reigning in that power. Today, employers are still the most powerful actors in society -- arguably even moreso than before -- and some kind of worker organising or other form of bottom-up/grassroots power is needed to counter the abuses of power by the wealthy. There are already good examples of gains being won by unions or similar organisations in tech. A good example of a modern conception of worker power in tech is the tech workers coalition:

https://techworkerscoalition.org/
I don't really know the trade offs. Maybe they believe a longer short range would be best?

There's a vehicle test track with Ericsson 5G in Sweden (Astazero) where you can stream while driving. I don't know how many radios they use. There are more installations around the globe for showcasing that.

There has been trails of multiple Gbit link to race cars, but that's more or less lab tests. With more cars you will need to share the spectrum.