skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're technically correct, which is of course the best kind of correct.

But assuming they're not the size of small moons, the surface area of any orbital plane is still bigger than that of the entire planet. That's a lot of space to fill with objects that have to fit into a single spacecraft.
They're just copying SpaceX. That's disappointing.
As an R user of some 10+ years, I think some of this is spot on and some of it is just silly.

Pretty much everyone knows the Tidyverse is slow to run, but many of us find it faster to write and very readable because it avoids one-time-use assignments (i.e. in `a <- f(x); g(a)` the variable `a` is only used once). Naming things is hard. Prof. Matloff's point is well taken though - you don't need the Tidyverse and it doesn't run faster. Fair criticism.

> The "star" of the Tidyverse, dplyr, consists of 263 functions. While a user initially need not use more than a small fraction of them, the high complexity is clear. Every time a user needs some variant of an operation, she must sift through those hundreds of functions for one suited to her current need.

> By contrast, if she knows base-R (not difficult), she can handle any situation.

Yet base R has some 1,346 functions. Another 455 functions in `stats`. I'm not sure the quantity of functions has as much bearing on learning as the quality and consistency. So this seems like a silly argument to me.

Mostly I think Prof. Matloff is forgetting that base R is kinda terrible and no one else has done much about it aside from RStudio.
Colds are dangerous to new borns just as the parent comment says.
Go and ask the nearest 10 local-business restaurant owners what the sentence:

> “may create, maintain and operate a microsite (“MS”) and obtain the URL for such MS on restaurant’s behalf.”

means. I can guarantee most of them will have no idea what that means. Even if they knew what a "microsite" was, that could mean so many different things anyways.

And before you say "then they should have asked a lawyer," 1) yes, but there may not be many lawyers who'd know what that meant either, and 2) there's no way restaurant owners could get that removed from the contract, so they'd basically have to sign anyways or remove a source of revenue.

The point being, there's a wide gulf between "it was in the TOS" and "The owners were aware and happy with what was happening"
On the other hand that rotary shifter on dodge/chryslers is an abomination, and to make it even more delightful to use is placed very close to the radio and A/C controls.
The desktop and iOS apps have feedback reporting which I've used for that before. I got an email from them noting that my correction had been accepted and within a week or so noticed far fewer people making an illegal left turn on a major road near us.
> But for the planetary biosphere, it's a win because the mammals are better suited to living there

It's not a win in either case. It's just what happened. Evolution and nature and the biosphere don't have goals.
They probably are valuable customers. Tech companies have literally no reach where the internet does not touch. If they want to expand to their full (terrifying) power, they would need to give internet access to everyone, and then control it.
FWIW the parent misunderstood me; I said "I'm hard on keyboards" - mostly due to environment. I don't think I press particularly hard.
Sean also goes into his experience with boot vs tools.cli on the defn podcast https://soundcloud.com/defn-771544745/51-sean-corfield-aka-s...
> The second item in terms of service signed by restaurant owners states that Grubhub “may create, maintain and operate a microsite (“MS”) and obtain the URL for such MS on restaurant’s behalf.”

I would not have realized that "obtain the URL" meant "purchase a domain name" if I read this.
People want to be protected from fires, to the extent that enough will support their government funding fire services. Even with fire services provided, fire insurance is a popular product for those with a sizable amount of assets that can burn down. This has enough support to be enacted.

I suspect the same will happen with climate change once it changes enough. The problem is that by the time directly impacting people enough to convince them of the need for action, the ability to resolve the problem will be outside our scope to control. Much in the same way a few cities had to burn to set an example for others. Which leads us to the other problem, we only have one 'city' to burn.

If we try to solve climate change the same way that we solved fire services being seen as a common sense government action, it will work but only after the city is burning.
Completely agree with you there, both the i8 and the i3 in my opinion look like electric vehicles you'd read about in a sci-fi novel, but neither are cool or sexy.
I believe the Switch works fine if you plug a macbook charger directly into it (I do this frequently with no problem), but it may break if you plug a macbook charger into the Switch's dock and power the Switch through that.
Glad I didn't offend!

And thanks for the nice exchange - much appreciated!
This is something I struggle to understand as well. Can anyone explain what the steps would be to take say a server rendered MVC app or on the opposite end a JAMstack app and deploy it to Dat?
Pro-tip to others who think 'Programmer Crack' is hyperbole- it is not.

Factorio does have a rather steep learning curve, and the UI is not the most intuitive. But. Once how it works clicks, it clicks, and suddenly morning. And I'm in my 40's, I'd thought my days of unexpected overnights while working on fascinating problems were mostly behind me. Highly recommended, but be aware.
Depends on the University. UT Austin does have such an official relationship with Apple -- I knew the guy who did all that work, and he had 30 years worth of certification on various hardware and software from Apple.

He was also the guy who was certified and licensed to do all that same kind of work on Dell. He spent > 90% of his time working on Dell stuff, and was very happy when he got a call to come work on Apple stuff.

Yup, one guy for the entire campus of 50,000+ students, and 20,000+ faculty and staff. It amazed me, too.
We hired a guy who had been out of programming for ten years. We didn't know what we would get. Either he'd be decent to good after a ramp-up time, or there was a reason why he had been out of programming for ten years. So we "hired" him on a three month contract-to-hire, at a discounted rate. He worked out, and we hired him full time at a real salary.
My old car had a sunroof that could also tilt up. That took the edge off and let excessive heat escape. Combined with a reflective windshield shade it worked reasonably well. Not chilly but more practical and env friendly than running AC for 8 hours a day.
Terms of service is the wrong term really. These restaurants signed a contract with another business to receive a service. They didn't read the contract. People running businesses shouldn't be signing contracts without at the very least reading the document carefully. These are absolutely not analagous to Terms of Service and businesses do not enjoy consumer protection laws. These contracts just could just as easily said "Grubhub has the right to offer 10% discounts on weekends" - it wouldn't even be unusual.
That’s awesome. Either we don’t have those materials nailed yet, or the demo version pictured has the cells showing for presentation purposes, or both.

Edit: third possibility described by the interesting reply below: there could be an out of visible band reflective coating over the panels.
It's always quite astonishing the see the attempts at twisting history to paint the Chinese as villains with respect to HK, a Chinese territory snatched in odious circumstances for the benefit of British interests, never for the 'locals'.

HK should never have been British. It's now back to China. Let's all move on.

It is quite right to support democracy and respect for individual rights, but we should also respect that this is a matter for the Chinese people in China. We would not accept foreigners to dictate what we should do in our own country either.
Correct on the decommissioning plans. SpaceX lists out in their FCC filings a number of things including how long it will take them to actively de-orbit satellites, how long for them to de-orbit if they lose contact/control, and also how much of the material will survive re-entry.

I have read conflicting things so don't hold me to this, but on article I read said they delayed adding the laser links to the current batch of Starlink satellites because of concerns over how much would survive the de-orbit maneuver.
They may be competitive in some performance metrics, which of course does matter, but Teslas aren’t even remotely in the same league when it comes to fit and finish.

Teslas feel cheap and poorly made. The offerings have some pretty stark differences.
Men do see the mess – they just aren’t judged for it the way women are
80C is warm, but not life-threatening to the chip. I'm not sure, but it may start to throttle at this temperature, as previous versions did throttle at 80C. So cooling is helpful, but not required (Apple ran inadequate cooling in their MacBook Pros for years). Also, I think that hitting 80 is only under heavy load. Regular use should be cooler than that.

You will certainly need to cool the chip to get any meaningful overclock. In that case it is different from previous versions of the Pi, when you could overclock a bit with no extra cooling at all.
My knee jerk reaction to this was negative, but I really do think having some sense of preservation of the ways we lived in the past, for educational reasons if nothing else, is valuable. A living museum if you will.
The solar roof for running a fan has been around since the 2010 prius.
It's the topic that matters, no? When talking about BSD security, comparisons to how a security-focused BSD does it seems fair to me. OpenBSD is indeed "better" than FreeBSD when discussing security defaults. Not features or performance, security. I felt the theme was also whether FreeBSD users were aware of the situation, and whether they were able to meaningfully consent to it because they're defaults after all.
IMHO, it would be nice if the decay orbit for each satellite were tracked accurately by Amazon and published beforehand. If these satellites truly do burn up completely -- great. But if they don't it would be great to hold Amazon accountable for any problems and for waste cleanup.
Yup. Most predictions in this business don't hold a lot of water, especially when it comes to anything that Apple hasn't already publicly committed to and just hasn't announced a shipping date.
Your website is fantastic! I love how minimal and fast loading it is. Could you please enlighten on how you manage to make an HTML page interactive (for e.g. on vectorization page where I can move bezier curve handles)?
> once you split off branches that have factors living in different eigenspaces

And how exactly does that happen?

The answer is: it doesn't. The orthogonality of different branches is an approximation. It's a very good approximation because decoherence is a phenomenally efficient process, but it's an approximation nonetheless. The universal wave function always resides in the same Hilbert space because, as you yourself pointed out, Schrödinger time evolution is linear and unitary.
Does that mitigate the chances of debris significantly impacting future launches?
Pretty much anything is dangerous for a new born. I have to admit that I'd be much more scared from the flu on a new born than a cold.
Looks like not so: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181022-there-is-mounting-e...
Broadcom said to be in talks to buy Symantec
Satellites also have to be specialty built for their purpose. You can't just take a small communications satellite, attach a small camera, and have a spy satellite.

Well you "could" but it would be so crappy that it'd be useless.

Also LEO satellites lose their altitude rather quickly, not a great investment for spy satellites.

> Satellites are outside the regulatory authority of countries they operate over.

Except the United States (Assuming the satellite was made/operated by a US entity such as a citizen or business), so they still have PLENTY of regulations to follow.
And 20 more Indian cities are expected to run dry by next year: https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/indias-water-crisis-b...
FYI, there are edn implementations in many other languages: https://github.com/edn-format/edn/wiki/Implementations
Single component Angular apps, web-scripts at Spotify & more- Angular Weekly 61
I’d say one of the major problems I have with R is when people try to use it as a general purpose language. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It just wasn’t designed that way. I’ve seen a lot of R code that would have been trivial to write and execute significantly faster in another language.

But for its domain, I think R is great.

I guess when all you have is a hammer...
Penetration testing takes on new meaning when cyber meets Harlequin
Assuming 0% false negatives. I am not sure such an assumption is backed by evidence.
Apparently Intel's cable modem SoCs (Puma 6) are garbage as well, demonstrating ridiculous jitter level.

https://www.badmodems.com/

I'm also an unfortunate owner of an Arris box. If only the person who showed me this website could have done it a few years ago...
Always wanted this, makes a lot of sense in the desert. Is Toyota still turning on the headlights in the daytime? Seems like it would negate this advancement.
It is very dead and very empty. Sure, it looks pretty and is useful for astrophysics. But compare that to the utility of global, low-latency internet.
Mandated why? Because they work.
Meaybe some lightweight fiat/renault/citröen would do.
Are we talking about the German government that was pushing mandatory communication meta data retention for all?

That classifies people as "dangerous" without a trial and allows for the temporary imprisonment of those people without any court involvement whatsoever?

The government that was a driving force behind the copyright directive (aka article 13)?

The government that made unconstitutional laws to allow police to install trojans on people's devices?

That tried to push an EU-wide censorship infrastructure with secret filter lists under the guise of "fighting child porn", while lying about child porn (e.g. they claimed child porn is not illegal in India, which is not true) and where then-family minister von der Leyen (now about to become EU commission president) screened actual child porn to journalists at a press conference to influence their reporting?

The government that changed the law so that now you have to talk to the police most of the time (as a "witness")

That helped the NSA to spy on communication of other EU leaders and German politicians as well? And then tried to hide it when caught, using every dirty (legal) trick imaginable?

That regularly does mass surveillance on peaceful protesters? Or let the police lose to bash up a few of them?

That made a law that essentially turned social media companies into law enforcement agencies with no supervision?

That currently tries to create laws to force service providers to turn over communication "even if it is encrypted", aka defacto crypto backdoors?

and so on ...
The mac chiclet keyboards weren't the best or the worst but these recent keyboards are awful.
More so than if you are male?
I’ll take your condescending bait. When it’s 100% it will be good enough. Until then, it’s not.
The "I am not a robot" reCaptcha is an interesting flavour on the email list.
I used to program in assembler. You can't imagine the glee that erupted within me the day I discovered you didn't have to write all caps. It changed my coding aesthetics immediately.

Nowadays I only use ALLCAPS to visually mark code that I want to refactor, or where later attention is needed, such as for code that might open security vulnerabilities if handled incorrectly.
Interesting. Which one is the news article about?
I twice submitted a great talk that goes into more depth on this and other things, but both times it failed to get many views ([1] [2]), despite my having a hunch that there would be significant interest in it. Any thoughts on how to give the talk some more visibility?

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20150835

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20057134
> not a problem if they are maintained in the way the SpaceX sats are going to be.

Aka - Not a problem if they are well thought out, well planned, and maintained.

Are there international agreements that specify this is the case? Just curious, real question.
I used to play this with co-workers and we would end up having a standup meeting about it once we got back to the office in the morning.
This seems like a weird question. I like OSX well enough and I would rather not incur the cost of switching to a different software toolchain.
I don't understand the pessimism about this. In any real-world scenario this type of system would be followed by human review of the photographs, followed by actual investigation. Nobody is proposing arresting all 600 people straight away.

Whittling 90,000 photos down to a set of 600 is a major accomplishment. Even if 599 of those are false positives, that 600th person would probably never have been caught, because it wouldn't have been feasible to review all 90,000 photos manually.
Boeing engineer breaks silence on MAX 737
The various national governments of the world better wise up pretty soon to the fact that they are losing all of their leashes on these beasts they've been riding. Sooner than we think pure profit-seeking entities will be on even footing with organizations that are (or at least are supposed to be) deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. This is a deeply sobering thought.
Here's a crazy idea - they could literally have just e-mailed grubhub asking "Hey, I'm reading through the contract you sent me, could you elaborate on clause X"
i did that for a while, ill have to look into finer details, there were issues with screen rotation breaking the formatting, so i might have to redo the CSS; im looking at gridding the pages, as this seems to be the direction to go for the next version of the page. I basically want to make the navigation UX a first person RPG themed frontend.
so that the files are accessed by e.g. moving to the library, talking to the librarian for help or searching for a document etc. finding the sword of git! slaying the maldragon [not necessary but if you want to side quest for fun it would be there]

and thanx BTW
Ask HN: What would you include in a women-in-tech event for students?
Everyone loves the idea of “Yes, let’s teach girls and young women about technology careers!” However, too often I see people put their attention on “What do I want to say?” rather than “What does it actually help them to hear?"

Let's say you are planning to hold a school event to encourage more girls to get into STEM careers. What, explicitly, would you include on the agenda? How would the agenda differ based on age or grade level? What metrics would you use to judge whether the event was a success?

I’m writing a feature article in which I aim to provide a checklist of “what to include” for those who plan these sort of events. I’d like to hear from people who have personally been involved in such events, as organizers, sponsors, and attendees. If you attended: What should have been included, that you later wished someone told you?
How do you like the .17 update? :D

More seriously, I am curious about what people who haven't played Factorio think of the article. Since I've sunk $bignum hours in to it, I found your explanations clear, but I'd like to hear what those who haven't think.
Penrose was on Joe Rogan last December: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEw0ePZUMHA
They also had a bunch of employee turnover and haven't done anything interesting with electric cars in ~6 years. The i3 was really good back then, boring now.
To be fair: quirks and features are way more relevant to the typical car owner than driving dynamics and track performance.
Why do you think "terms of service" is the wrong term? The article refers to it as such multiple times.
> non profit international consortium funded by many nations

that sounds horrible
Of course, that also means that they are killing at least one or two of the Thunderbolt 3 ports.

Because there's no way they'd add one or more T3 ports on top of already having four of them.

So, maybe you don't want to be so glad to see that designation.....
If everyone who exhibits some of the qualities on this list is an asshole, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who isn’t as asshole.
>Zebra mussels may be one of the few examples where an invasive species was actually good for the ecosystem

And maybe just this ecosystem. As noted elsewhere here, zebra mussels have caused tons of other problems. In less-polluted lakes, they filter the water clear, which not only reduces fish populations but can lead to massive growth of algae.
'Atom' is pretty vague. There are several different micro-architectures under that name, with different performance characteristics.
Not a bad point at all, especially with Amazon joining at the hip with the U.S. government lately.
so it wasn't technically university, but a academy for gifted high school students, located on a university. am I barking up the wrong tree?
Tor Project to fix bug used for DDoS attacks on Onion sites for years
Would they have responded? I can't think of a single time when I had any chance to negotiate a TOS.

Besides, even if they changed the onboarding process into an old-style contract negotiation, constantly having to deal with the devil, weeding out his sly contractual tricks, is a cost that can add up in terms of stress and man-hours. Most people would rather just choose business partners that aren't trying to trick them.
GrubHub says that restaurants have it wrong by citing fine print.

Restaurants want first right of refusal over the use of their brand, not default opt-in by a third party buried in legalspeak.

GrubHub is trying to reframe this issue in legalistic terms, to distract from their failure to collect explicit opt-ins from every restaurant they’ve used in this manner.

It’s unfortunate that the headline enables that change in perception by readers.
> Everything began with the Tesla Roadster showing that you could build an attractive all-electric car.

no.

the car mfrs already knew you could build such a thing. the reason they didn’t is they had no reason to build a loss leader product.
If the human beings don't read the contacts they sign, they won't be owning a business for long. If GrubHub put it in writing, and another business didn't bother to figure out what it was signing, I can't see how it's GrubHub's fault.
Just as disappointing as that time they copied K-mart and Wal-Mart.
Are you imagining they'll provide uncensored internet in China or something?

I agree it's mechanically possible, but Amazon isn't the company I'd have expected to do it.
A more pragmatic take when looking for a place to move to: checking out the local grocery store will tell you everything you need to know about that area.
Hilarious. The president of the United States probably wouldn't meet hn posting standards.
Rumour has it a new MBA model with scissor switch keyboards will be released later this year [0].

Whether it's true or not, or if it will be an actual improvement remains to be seen but it might be worth the wait.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/04/kuo-new-keyboard-macbook-air-...
Yeah ditto. And are there agreements to stop them interfering with each other? I get that space is really really big but surely there needs to be a way to coordinate so much stuff up there.
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