skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda off-topic, but not entirely - are there some articles and perhaps even reference code for how to get from standard color correction controls (like RGB curves, or HSL color wheels, etc.) - into a LUT?

Use case is just curiosity... was dabbling with applying a LUT to images and thought it'd be nice to create my own with controls as opposed to downloading one pre-baked or using commercial software to export one.
Amazon Teams with Colorado Police on Sting That Catches Zero Package Thieves
The list seems rather arbitrary. To add to the list, I would consider also: CLIPS, Coq, Dhall, Factor, Inform, Stan.
if you develop technology devoted to getting things up into orbit, it will basically give you the expertise to do that.

The key word being devoted of course. If you fail to acknowledge any benefits from the space program other than getting things into orbit, then yes it'll be hard to see any value in space exploration beyond doing it for its own sake, which you may or may not see any value in since you yourself label it a fetish.

However the larger benefits of technology yielded by the space program are undeniable, including in some of the same fields you mentioned. From wikipedia

>NASA reports that 444,000 lives have been saved, 14,000 jobs have been created, 5 billion dollars in revenue has been generated, and there has been 6.2 billion dollars in cost reduction due to spin-off programs from NASA research in collaboration with various companies. Of the many beneficial NASA spinoff technologies there has been advancements in the fields of health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, energy and environment, information technology, and industrial productivity. Multiple products and innovations used in the daily life are results of space generated research. Solar panels, water-purification systems, dietary formulas and supplements, space suit materials in clothing, and global search and rescue systems are but a few examples of the beneficiary spinoffs that have been produced.

You may hand wave and say "oh but that could have been all discovered without going to space." Perhaps, but your thesis seems to be space exploration is a fetish with no benefits beyond making space exploration more efficient, which is patently untrue.
> No-one ever says "We spend billions on Football; let's spend it on poor people instead"

That one is said constantly (at least in the US). It comes up as a matter of routine as it pertains to the extremely high salaries that professional athletes get paid and with regard to the construction of new stadiums (which often cost a billion dollars or more now, are frequently taxpayer subsidized, and are often replacing functional 30 year old stadiums).

The top 500 NBA, NFL and MLB players earn more in salary than the CEOs of the S&P 500. The MLB payroll is $4 billion for ~750 players. Just the top 30 players in the NBA are earning one billion dollars per year combined. NBA teams are spending near $4 billion per year on salaries for ~450 players, or around $8 to $9 million per player. The 32 NFL teams are spending nearly $6 billion per year.

Between the NBA, NFL and MLB, there is around $13 to $14 billion in salaries.
Growth Mindset and the Surprising Psychology of Self-Belief
The rumor is Russian leaked India some of the tech. Most of it was well k own anyway
~50% of this archive is just Terri Gross telling people about themselves to them. I was always so perplexed at how she could secure interviews with so many interesting people, then just talk through the whole thing, literally talking over interviewees to tell interviewees what they said or what happened to them. I miss pre-Trump NPR so much, but Fresh Air has always been an immensely frustrating program.

As interesting as a lot of these interviews might seem based on subject, I think many people would get a lot more out of a Big Broadcast with Ed Walker archive.
Germany did not do big government engineering projects. They had a certain distaste for that after the war...

Instead they deregulated and let private enterprise rebuild their economy.
I'll be interested to see where these distributed trends go. I too have been working on something to solve a problem I face; "information" sharing and storage. Fundamentally I want a public wikipedia focused around small pieces of information (though I'm still toying/dogfooding with the UX), but more importantly I don't think it should be a centralized entity.

Oddly though there's something I don't like about building on top of a blockchain. It feels strangely walled off. A distributed system with all the problems of a closed off startup. I'm likely being unfair, but I'm just saying how I perceive them. Despite being interested in this area, including working on it personally, I just have no interest in joining one of these blockchain things. I don't honestly understand what I or my hypothetical users are getting out of it.

I really like the Scuttlebutt protocol in concept; it feels very.. "email-like". Something that is a mix of federation and self-hosting. Scuttle or maybe ActivityPub seem to have a good feel for decentralizing. Blockchain (as I've seen so far) however.. eh. Am I being unfair / short sighted?
A Hunk of Ice Will Reshape the World's Coastlines Sooner Than We Thought
The answers you'll get will be some combination of "namespaces" plus an ever-expanding laundry list of configurations and knobs and dials and features and webhooks and options ... which you will need to apply uniformly and correctly.

To all your workloads.

Kubernetes was simply not designed as a multitenant system. Namespaces aren't the basis of multitenancy, for pete's sake, they're namespaces. Piling ever more extensions on top to try and plug all the holes just highlights it more completely.

The concept given above is where I expect Kubernetes will go, either explicitly (by creating a hard separation between scheduling and everything else) or by convention and tooling (we all adopt layers of indirection like Virtual Kubernetes). The latter seems most likely to me.

This will, as others are pointing out, only get more and more necessary as CRDs and Operators continue their long march to gather all the knowledge of your systems into their embrace. But it turns out that storing all the truths of dozens or hundreds of distinct systems, some of which conflict, many of which can't be fully walled off from others, means that your security posture may include a certain amount of humming loudly.

Something like Virtual Kubernetes splits the difference: you can retain Kubernetes-as-scheduler, reaping all the benefits accruing from workload consolidation. But you also get hard tenancy boundaries between workspaces, between Kubernetes masters being used as a skin over etcd.

Kubernetes is amazing. But this is one thing it got wrong. Just wrong and we'll all be wrestling with it for years. It would be like setting out to write a single-user OS, database or filesystem.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we do some Kubernetes stuff, but these are personal views.
>If you're more interested in the “free” than the “open source” part

This phrasing will confuse people who are not familiar with the expression "Free Software". It would be better phrased like this:

>If you're more interested in the “free-of-charge” (as in beer) than the “Free Software” (as in Freedom) part
The A220 is in service today, on Delta. I flew one this afternoon.
VTCLX looks interesting. It looks like the top 10 holdings match VTSAX but comprising 20% of VTCLX vs 18.8% of VTSAX.

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VTCLX

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VTSAX
Wasn't holistic management invented by Allan Savory? (the guy that killed 40,000 elephants)
In terms of what it's good at, Go is most similar to Java/C#. It's a pretty fast, fairly straightforward, strongly typed, roughly object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. It has some distinct implementation differences from Java/C# (AOT compilation, different implementation of polymorphism, etc), and it is further towards the straighforwardness end of the straighforwardness-expressiveness axis than they are, but it's comparable.

But in terms of the niche it occupies in the whole programming ecosystem, it's rather different. Its straighforwardness makes it easy to pick up, and as you note, it has become a popular choice for dynamic language programmers who either want a fast, typed language as a second language, or who want to move on from their current language altogether.
IMHO, Rust is not the new C, perhaps D or Zig could be the new C. Rust is the hardest language i failed to learn and eventually gave up. C is one of the easiest language to learn but difficult to master.

Edit: Rust libs can be used to interface with C, but so could other languages. Porting the huge amounts of system software is near impossible task.
The argument I was answering to was "I have seen catastrophic living conditions" thus "India should not". Of course, India needs a different approach and India has different problems. But in perspective, Indian defense imports are 100B USD and this mission costs 1.4B USD. India does not buy any missiles anymore. French Rafales cost India 5-10 B USD. This is the price India pays to be able to stand up to China in Doklam.
By self-identification.
US Space Race was toward the useless side, given that GPS or comsat do not require human spaceflight. Soviet Union was more sensible.
A lot of developed nations are piggybacking on the educated, talented people from India.
It's only fair India got its fair share back.

More importantly, corruption and backstabbing has so far ruined such talent, spilling into developed nations; so if there is a somewhat level playing field being established through ISRO and via Indian startups for Indians, then that's a great start.
No, not really.

Fiber is/was more about solving legal issues than technical ones.
Yea. They basically went back to first principles on relativity I hear. They had nothing to go on. No well understood science in the public domain at all.

And the objection was around the seeker technology more specifically
"Arm mount" killed me.
Libra is backed by 100% reserve assets. Banks have like 1% requirement. Libra is already better positioned in that respect.
The difference is people voluntarily pay for football tickets and TV/online subscriptions. Same with music. They are self sustaining industries.

Experimental space flight is coming directly from tax payers and public funding. I still think it’s a worthy use of public funds because we get so much out of it that is intangible while supporting both scientific research and some of the most advanced R&D work on the planet (which is fed back into the economy in many ways).

But I still think it’s healthy for people to question it when their local day-to-day problems seem so much bigger than the universes, which is abstract and studied by academics and advanced private industry who aren’t their working class neighbours. Which is a big reason why we have elected officials to make balanced policy.
"the power is lowered to about 13,000 volts before being distributed to homes and businesses"

They've left off a bit of detail here :)
How does that have anything to do with Google's product strategy in a bunch of products that don't show ads?
Yeah thats there, I don't like the lack of consensus the Netherlands has towards it though. They just have coffee shops in some districts - notably Amsterdam - which only exist in some legal loophole, and its constantly under threat to snuff it out but then don't because tourism.

Its really strange to me because I think as a whole the EU gets so many civil rights correct, or there are places in the EU and European subcontinent you can go to get whatever you want legally. But the drug policies existing under extremely backwards logic.
> Human effluvia is full of drugs, and thus unfit for agriculture anyways...

For direct application, yes. But it could feed a pipeline where, say, the 3 generation of those nutrients could be harvested and applied to food crops.
This is an excellent point, and the much more fascinating corollaries:

- a product designer/manager of something with 1,000,000 users won’t learn more about usability than a product designer/manager of something with 15 users. All those measurements of flows and secret at scale analytics data is sort of worthless for the purposes of usability.

- people with 15 users worth of learning about usability instead of 0 users are way undervalued, while people with 1,000,000 are way overvalued

- “we don’t know until we test it,” the #1 refrain of big company design nowadays, is intellectually bankrupt for most free software, since if it looked bad for 15 users it’s probably going to still be bad for 1,000,000

- after you’ve shown something to 15 people and they don’t like it due to usability problems, you’re extremely unlikely to find 1,000,000 more who will like it.

This also appeals to my instinct that there is something learnable about design, that great design is achieved by people and not by massive datasets.
There's a bunch of Python used for CLI tools and simple API webservers that Go also excels at replacing.
yeah but npm is broken. Software update is broken because something was changed from testing to staging. Seems they didn't even test their first time setup.
I could not disagree more. She talks far too much. I think she lets her personality as a Personality get in the way.

I know this is subjective, and I don't need you to agree with my opinion. I'm only responding because I listened to her for almost two decades and have never been able to tell anyone these thoughts except for an undeserving ex-gf and a hapless hitchhiker.
You should check out blockstack. The platform does not use blockchain to store data, but only to create a more robust domain name and identity solution. The data is stored on encrypted server storage. I think this is a nice combination of decentralization and blockchain at work.
>hopefully in 60 years there is tech to replace all the plants that can no longer be grown.

And if it turns out the cheapest and best "tech" is soil conservation, what then?

"Tech" tends to mean high-tech, but high-tech is also high cost (see vertical farming). It's quite possible that low tech / appropriate tech solutions will win in the end.

Also, how many decades of R&D delay for this (rather... ambitious) Replace All The Plants Project are you asking for? The whole 60 years? Or should we tap the brakes (ie implement known soil conservation techniques) before going off the cliff?
For people who work in the TV industry there's still good reasons to differentiate. TV news is still edited using linear editing in a lot of small local stations (because it's fast and cheap).
Thanks, dependent typed languages seem something to consider. Coq, Agda and Idris seem the most useful to me.
I'm not sure what the quotes are for. Journalists have beats. Conflict journalists, for example, do not generally have military backgrounds. White House correspondants have not generally run for public office.
The dropdown next to the "Run" button in the playground link shows you the ASM. But here's the relevant part:

playground::main:
push rax
call std::panicking::begin_panic
ud2

That is, it's an unconditional panic.
Do you realize that Airbus is not bound to a single government? There is France, Germany, Britain, Spain...
Yes. UK’s biggest company is not a train engine company. UK learned that it could generate far more revenue by selling financial services with its rich legacy along that line, than export train engines that it invented.

India took a similar path in 90s, selling IT services. But it isn’t simply enough given the size and the population of the country. The only sustainable way forward is to become strong exporters of good products along with services.
This is incorrect. Most likely, India will continue to grow. Most countries not in the resource curse (and even many with it) have continued to grow.
That's some bunk methodology right there. Perhaps you could explain to us why the top 25 articles on reddit as a whole reflect data on journalism and outrage culture?

Of course r/aww isn't going to have a lot of outrage: it isn't journalism or journalism adjacent. You might want to read the article... it isn't talking about outrage in the missed connections section of craiglist. The article is talking mostly in the context of news and disinformation on the internet.

I recommend you browse top posts in any news related subreddit to get a better idea about manufactured conflict on reddit.
With some more detail on the mechanics:

Here's a screenshot of an orbit in Kerbal Space Program, an excellent NASA-simulator game (you have a spaceport and make + fly rockets and do science): https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/File:KerbalEccentri...

On the blue orbit, you can see Ap and Pe. Ap is the apogee; the place in the orbit where the spacecraft is closest to the earth. Pe is the perigee, the place where the spacecraft is farthest from the earth. Since the blue orbit is mostly circular, they are at about the same altitude.

If you look at the large white orbit, the apogee would be the leftmost point, close to the apogee of the blue orbit. The perigee would be all the way at the right of the image.

When your spacecraft is at position X, thrusting your engines will not meaningfully change your current position - the acceleration they generate is negligible to the speed at which you are moving. However, the maneuver will change your speed, which affects your orbit.

At the apogee, if you thrust in the direction you are moving, your perigee will increase - the orbit will become even more eccentric. Example: at the apogee you are moving at 100 miles per second. Thrusting the engines will not change your current position much; your current position is determined by your 100 miles per second speed and where you came from. But the maneuver will change your speed to 105 miles per second, which will cause your perigee to become much farther away from the earth. However your apogee will stay in the exact same position.

Why? Because in orbit you are basically flying sideways while gravity pulls you down. In a circular orbit this balances out into you flying around in a circle. But if you go faster, you're going more sideways while gravity pulls the same amount. So your orbit becomes more elongated.

You can thrust in the direction of movement at any point in orbit, and it will increase the altitude of the orbit on the opposite side of where you are at - if you thrust at apogee the perigee altitude increases, and in the white elongated orbit if you thrust between the apogee and perigee your orbit will become more circular and bigger. Similarly to make an eccentric orbit circular, you get to the apogee and then use the engines to slow down, which brings down the perigee.

Since thrusting changes your position on the opposite side of the orbit, the most efficient way to increase your perigee is to thrust while at the apogee.

The NASA thing is basically going into an elongated orbit between the Sun and Jupiter, coming back to the apogee near the Sun, and then thrusting. The difference in efficiency between thrusting at the apogee of an orbit and just thrusting in a straight line out into space is really huge. Though I'm not sure why the extra gravity of the Sun makes the maneuver more efficient.

If you're interested in this you should definitely play KSP. It's a great game and gives you a great intuitive sense of how these things work.
The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology Malaise
Read the guardian article, it cites a few reputable sources to debunk the debunkers. So, I'd be careful calling bullshit on things based on some blogs with an agenda. Skeptical science seems to exist to empower climate change deniers with the illusion of factual reality. Bullshit in other words.

Ultimately, it seems there are a few projects out there practicing instead of theorizing and converting actual desert back into fertile land.
I don't know anyone but in my first year living in the US someone got shot in my street and I could see the blood stain on the sidewalk. Chicago, uptown, near the L.

I have a friend who got a gun pointed at them too in Chicago (by a fake landlord).

I've also overheard people bragging that they were carrying guns in the L. I was freaking out. I will never visit any state with open carry.
They seem to have forgotten Step 0, create a viable business model that can pay people.
Already happened to Cape Town
The provided example ([rust playground](https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit...) can generate assembly ('...' next to 'Run').

`main` just calls `panic` immediately. The functions returns undef. The reason: `x > 150` is undefined, `undef || ...` is undefined thus the first if-statement with side-effects may be interpret undefined as true.

I wonder why the optimiser didn't choose false and let the assert pass?
I was going to comment this. Typically these days a LOT of Desktop apps are Electron based:

VS Code, Slack, Signal, probably Keybase, Skype, MS Teams, Discord, RamBox, IRCCloud, Postman, Insomnia, Light Table, Hyper, and...

The list goes on.

But those are apps I have used and know are Electron. Thats at least 10 different instances of Chrome on a system running at any given time.
Hole-based programming is something I really miss in every non-Agda language I've ever used. In particular, I code professionally in F# in such a way that it should very often be possible for the type-checker to fill holes (or at least to help me fill holes) - lots of annotations, tiny-types to encode more meaning into the types, and so on. Once you've tried agda-mode, you feel hamstrung in every other environment.
Editing film was very much non-linear editing to being with. The transition to tape based editing meant that you were limited to managed edits from source decks to a destination tape deck.
I had to determine why a single hydro electric generator kept on going off-line last week. Turned out to be a temperature sensor in the generator gone bad or high resistance connection in that circuit. Due to improper historical logging of alarms, older protection relays, etc, it took a visit to the power plant and a few hours of downloading and analyzing event files and correlating signals with the schematics.

So a massive outage like NYC has just experienced will take weeks to collect the event files and analyze them. Probably the time was wrong in some places as well so it will be hard to figure out the exact sequence of events.
I'm not a K8s wizard, but have a little experience with it. I found there to be a steep learning curve with simultaneously learning RBAC, side cards, Helm, YAML templating, storage, logging, operators, service discovery, etc. There's so much hype around Kubernetes that it can be hard to sift through the noise to figure out what you really need to know. I found many people wanted to sell you on how "how all you have to do is...", but before you even get a basic service deployed, you can easily end up with a complex problem that is unique to your situation. And unique can mean you ain't gonna find an answer to your problem on the Google. That becomes even more of an adventure when you're trying to do something any a little non-standard because K8s doesn't expose an API endpoint to solve a problem you have. Now throw slicing up one cluster into N virtual clusters and... debugging that sounds like an adventure.
No. It's pretty clear, even if the anti-vaxxer lunatics were not wrong (which they are, they are wrong, they are perniciously wrong, in the face of all evidence they are wrong), that vaccines would be a net benefit.

In other words, even if vaccines did cause autism (which they do not) it would still be imperative to use them. The alternative to widespread vaccination is much worse.
Airbus Quantum Computing Challenge
"Blockstack PBC, a public benefit corporation at the heart of the Blockstack ecosystem, has raised $50M+ in capital to develop the core protocols and developer tools for the platform."

What is decentralized about a venture-funded vanity project?