skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's on HN in part because it involves NASA/space. Otherwise, it's a giant yawn, frankly.
Or, "Team America: Galactic Police"
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Really? You can't see how Russia benefits from sowing disinformation and confusion about a possible next-gen technology? One that has the possibility of adding hundreds of billions of dollars and high skilled jobs to the US workforce?
Thank goodness for the homeless for preventing at least some of the people that don't like looking at poor people from moving here.
Been doing this for a few years now..AT&T UL data hotspot SIM ($20.mo, aka 'Mobley' plan) plugged into a TMobile ASUS AC1900 router...tripled my speed of Sonic DSL, for 1/3 the cost of Sonic DSL. Do it.
If you’re arguing to make someone right, you’re doing something for them for free. I don’t mind you putting in that work. If I don’t help you, I can leech off your contributions. This is the perfect situation. Keep doing what you’re doing.
That margin is slim. For many users, vanishingly thin.

Somebody like you or I might frequently max our our cellular connections, but I wager most users never do. And how would they? Streaming 4k YouTube videos onto a screen smaller than a postcard? It just won't make a difference for them.
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We got our logos designed for Permaweb Which color is your favorite?
I agree. But it seems that they just did a reasonable thing - a quick search - bought products - tested - found 25-75% contaminated. While it should be zero. Yes, they did a reasonable search. But it is not like Amazon can't replicate that search.

The right thing to do here is to add automatic random sampling and control for lead/cadmium in the distribution facilities. And fix at least this bug, for real.

Link:
https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-ferguson-amazon...
Seminovos
Have you thought an interactive site where people could learn coq writing proofs? Something very similar to https://projecteuler.net/. You could get thousands of failed proofs very fast.
Maybe a really fast slingshot?
And another

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.02644.pdf

I'd really love to see someone like Deepmind get a hold of this. They are perfectly placed to apply a lot of resources to it and it's right in their wheelhouse.

Don't know how to contact them about it though.
I agree that not helping to support your kids is extremely shitty, but that wasn't the most important part of the article for me.

Two of the children were abandoned by their parents, and the mother in this story adopted them. She earns her living doing work that seems to be an unambiguously positive contribution to society, and takes on extra responsibilities (in the form of two entire human beings).

The article paints a picture of a woman who is generous, hardworking, and disciplined, and who is getting absolutely crushed by the modern economy. That seems like a very real story to me, and a mandate to make some serious changes, even if they put a dent in the wealth of some wealthier people.
This brings to mind something Ira Glass said about "the gap":

> Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/the-gap
I just finished the NYT article and it claims the move is because Russia doesn't have a 5G play, so they try to undermine everyone else's. I guess that might hold some credence.
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There is a rather good chance that the reason it is the lead story on Foxnews right now is so it can increase user engagement in their chat sections. Lots of people who think non-hetersexuals don't deserve equal rights all over the chat.

More anger == more ad revenue.
As I read the story, this is not a termination of the lease, but rather an expiration of the lease and an election on the part of the landlord to not offer a subsequent lease.

Tenant and landlord mutually agree to a lease contract of defined term. That term runs; both sides live up to the agreement. Tenant and landlord do not mutually agree a follow-on contract. Tenant moves out.
I'd read the crap of an article that summarizes how any 10 languages handle these general purpose tasks.
We have build the first VRS systems with TurboPascal. 72 lines running on one machine under msDos. First analog, later on dgital lines.
It's not like Python projects are the perfect examples of reliability either.
> by far the best programming language I've ever used

Would love to hear why? What is that make Clojure such a good experience for you?
Upvote or submit other stories you’d prefer to see rise to the top, then. It might be possible to filter out submissions from certain domains yourself using a browser extension, similar to how you can filter Google by domain in search results using a personal blacklist extension.
Is there any particular reason why your phone or laptop couldn't opportunistically download all the latest videos from your YouTube subscriptions on WiFi while you sleep?

Maybe you don't subscribe to channels and the system could never anticipate your whims and desires... but I wager it would work great for most users.
Before I clicked on the story, my first thought went back to the Apollo 15 "Postal Covers Incident". Each of the three crew members received $7K from a stamp dealer to bring stamp collector memorabilia to the lunar surface and then return them to be sold by the dealer. No criminal charges were filed, but I wonder if the incident might be more properly considered the "first allegation of a crime in space". From the the Wikipedia article: "There was a Justice Department investigation into the covers. Its Criminal Division decided in 1974 that no prosecution was warranted, but the Civil Division the following year assumed the covers would be retained by the government. Kraft wrote, "it was questionable that any law had been broken and [the Justice Department] realized that dragging astronauts into court would not be a popular pastime."

I was surprised that it was not mentioned in the BBC story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15_postal_covers_incide...
Having similarly done software in that time period, your reductionist argument flies in the face of my own experience, where there are actually tons of nuance within what you are correctly identifying as typical macro patterns. When I look at Fowler's repository of EA patterns (https://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/), I see a ton of time tested patterns that are, to this day, used in a tremendous amount of software. They are so prevalent that they are typically abstracted into frameworks or libraries that are then used by people building line of business applications.

Something I have always appreciated about Fowler has been his workman-like, semi-anthropological approach to documenting these patterns. He does not claim ownership to them, but instead discovers and names them out of working software. He does have a playful opinionated-ness to his writing, but that is really only to spice things up, as far as I've seen (in other words, he has been quite willing to modify his own positions over time).

Perhaps to your point, I have seen people read these books and suddenly wish to apply all the patterns at all the times to all the software, resulting in an ill conceived amount of complexity. That, to me, is why a healthy software development team needs senior developers who have been around the block on this sort of thing. And why the agism in the industry is so poisonous and counterproductive. A healthy team needs healthy defenses against the forces of over complexity (and, equally, over simplicity), and because of the tremendous amount of abstraction in software engineering, experience, erudition and mentorship can bring that to a team.
The irony here is that the literary prank described is in some ways a parody of the quirky historical articles you don't like. So you might actually like this article. I found it quite interesting and it wouldn't surprise me if Thomas Pynchon had some exposure to it before he wrote his major works.
The standard experience of maintainers trying to support their work is that everyone else makes a public point of standing in support of maintainer funding as a general matter, but strongly opposes whatever specific approach the maintainer actually happens to be trying.

To be frank, I'm not a fan of ad-based models. But it's the example here, and we see the same pattern. Ads in general? Sure. Ads where people will see them, as via popups in Atom or messages to stdout? For shame.

This is not Feross' first attempt to fund his open work. Past approaches haven't failed because Feross wasn't churning out valuable software. He's been doing that the whole time.

The "well conceived" approaches that cost consuming developers literally nothing---no money, no time, no attention---don't repeatably solve funding problems for producing developers.
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Not quite the same, but there is a TeX-Font for the initials:

https://ctan.org/pkg/yinit
"You may protest that this is a false equivalency, that the above-mentioned things are different from Christianity, which is merely belief. But that would simply be picking and choosing what you personally feel is open to ridicule - what's left is, by definition, sacred."

Is it? You've tried to distill things down to belief or sanctity, but if we go one step further, we're talking about opinion. E.g. "It is my opinion x is sacred."

The actual false equivalency to me would be that we can freely strip down facts and science to mere opinion and sanctity. "The Earth is sphere-like is an opinion and I hold it sacred." Sure, people are welcome to question facts, but the bar is higher if you actually want others to believe your version.

And that's the difference. If I have a differing view challenging a fact or theory, well, prove it. Do the work beyond just opening my mouth. Science is always trying to self-correct. One man in the system may hold firm to a belief without merit, but his colleagues may not, and what is provable lives on. But if one decides to have a different religion or decides gruyere is better, they don't have to prove anything to anyone, except maybe themselves.

If there is a time where the science of evolution is mocked and laughed at, because of the inherent bar of provability, I think we'll be fine either way.

"Maybe we should all learn to think twice before we laugh."

I personally think it would be healthier for people to learn to accept constructive criticism and be the butt of a joke once in awhile.

Which, if we get back to the heart of the matter (rather than "science"), The Life of Brian isn't just mockery for mockery's sake. It's satire and satire is meant to provoke and challenge thought, to raise questions. It is the opinion's humorous version of an opposing scientific view. The bar of quality is not so high as a scientific proof, but satire generally only works when the questions it raises are valid.
Just ran a speed test, 55Mbps down, 5.5Mbps up.

An increase in upload speed would be a game changer.

That download speed can stream 4k w/o issue. The upload speed could use some improvements, I can imagine better scenarios if I could stream high res video off to a cloud AI processing system!
If that were written today there’d be hardcore consequences.
I've been keeping tabs on various atmospheric (and ocean and space) conditions via the Nullschool Earth viewer: https://earth.nullschool.org/

Different conditions and sensors can be selected, including both particulat (PM2.5 especially) and CO concentrations, both of which are strongly (though not exclusively) associated with wildfires. SO4 is another combustion-related emission, though also associated with power plants, shipping (major shipping lanes are very sharply visible), and volcanic erruptions (see especially the Kiril Islands, north of Japan).

Looking at PM2.5, Here's the current view over Brazil:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2019/08/24/1700Z/particulates/...

And over Congo:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2019/08/24/1700Z/particulates/...

And a year ago, 24 August 2018, over ...

Brazil:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/08/24/0500Z/particulates/...

Congo:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/08/24/0500Z/particulates/...

You can see other sensor information or skip forward or back a few days or weeks to see what trends are like.

I'd not done this until just now, and frankly, it appears that last year's smoke activity was actually greater, though the 2019 fires may have been worse several days ago (there's been pronounced global political backlash).

The "day of burning" was the 19th as I recall, let's look back a few days ... OK, unlike the timeslices above, this one is selected as a more active capture, on August 19, 2019, though a few later periods are comparable:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2019/08/20/0300Z/particulates/...

OT: Watching for unusual activity can be interesting. For example, it appears one of the East African Rift volcanos may just have lit up in Ethiopia, probably Erta Ale (the most active continuously errupting volcano on Earth), though there are others in the general vicinity:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2019/08/24/1500Z/chem/surface/...

(All Nullschool links should be to date-anchored snapshots. You can expand the controls by tapping "Earth". "Now" will show current / most recently reported conditions.)
> iTunes for TV shows for years.

Which is way more expensive than streaming services. Prohibitively so for wide swaths of the general population who don't have tech industry salaries. The cost of one TV show from iTunes can approach the price of several months of Netflix.

With copyright reform, that needn't be the case.

(Note that for many consumers, Netflix is already considered too expensive. Several people sharing the cost of one account is pretty common from what I've seen.)
Puritans.

I was shocked by the "no vaping in public parks". I just can't believe that attitude towards non-harming social behaviors. Cigarettes at least had the excuse of the cigarette butts.

Then again, you typically can't drink a beer on a park bench in America, either. Sad state of "freedom" to be honest.
No output. Declared the input/output is in the shape table, list, tree.

Like when a http response say is json, text, csv, etc. This information unlock certain capabilities and will allow to provide efficient execution of queries.

If psql (postgresql terminal cli) declare their data is in the "tables" shape then it could take the |where name = "" query itself and execute it instead of output all the rows...
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I really hope that the latest generation of developers don’t see all the negative HN hive mind comments and discount writings like this.
It's always interesting to see what gets put into the news ahead of the big meetups like G7, and how that dovetails with the narrative that is being pushed.

Of course, this destruction of rainforest is not a good thing, but it is not a new thing.
While I think its great that open source projects get funded, it would eventually turn into a game of who can make as many people as possible dependent on your code using clever marketing. Dependencies are not chosen by technical merits, they are chosen by popularity.
It is not that bad, if you do not want to feel pathetic spending tons of time and money taking great pictures/swiping/having many fruitless conversation/paying for boosts or swipes, the path of lowest resistance is to just get fit, which also has a lot of other benefits.

I had only limited success with online dating, even though I had hundreds of matches and used it somewhat regularly for probably 2-3 years I only went on one pretty bad date + one actual success which was just someone I knew pretty well IRL who used tinder to express that she was interested in me. I didn't have great pictures or pay for special features or anything because out of principle I felt that was participating in a complete bastardization of a pretty fundamental part of human life, finding a partner.

Rather than continue wasting time or do something I loathed, I just deactivated and deleted all the dating crap and started lifting weights. It has without a doubt been a better use of my time
Lol because it was a fucking complete ide and compiler on a single low density floppy disk.

And what you’re saying is of course impossible.. determining if the function is called by static analysis is not possible.

If input = 1 then delay end
is impossible to analyze statically.

If you meant reference to delay, that is a bit more tractable. But then when do you actually initialize, you will see that program initialization is about the only practical place to do it. Which is exactly what is done.
Even if they did have a play, they'd be smart to sow disinformation and slow down or stop adoption of next-gen technologies, as those represent huge economic boons and advantages to the countries that adopt them first.

Similar to 4G, the first to 5G will create companies and startups taking advantage of the new infrastructure. As countries onboard onto 5G, these well placed companies will out compete any native companies. This is what happened with 4G in the US, and why US tech has dominated the space in the past decade.

Russia's goal is to weaken the West in any way it can.
> When would be an appropriate time for people to become aware of the problem and start caring?

Now is as good a time as any. What doesn't help the discussion is making it about the current administration when this is a problem that spans multiple administrations on both ends of the political spectrum.

It's the same for policies that span the Trump and Obama administrations (and probably the W Bush and Clinton administrations too).
NASA is looking at all options for the Moon–including prizes
I remember reading in a 1986 SciAm about how the team worked around spacecraft failures, like compensating for temperature and the doppler effect in the sole functioning radio receiver, and slowly rolling the entire platform to compensate for seizing motor shafts: https://books.google.com/books?id=rYIJJP7audkC&pg=PA42#v=one... (New Scientist)
> This quote advocates for wise people to never try to convince other people, which would leave politics to unwise people.

There's convincing with words, and convincing by example.

"The Master does his job" - not necessarily in private or alone. If people see someone successfully accomplishing something, they will follow. For me, seeing something work is a lot more powerful change actor than someone talking in hypotheticals trying to convince me.

If you say something to someone and they are unconvinced, I doubt more prodding will convince them. Eventually they will say they are convinced, just to have you go away, and let them do it the same way. Then they become more entrenched in their beliefs, even if they know it's wrong.

“Every truth has four corners. As a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.”

–Confucius
> Even Fred Brooks' Mythical Man-Month - informed by his leadership of the massive bet-the-company "360" project at IBM - lacks data. It's still great though (in, uh... my subjective opinion, I guess).

I have just read that book.

It is the computer book with most tables pr page of any I have seen.

How you come to this conclusion is beyond me.
It covers a lot of the same ground, but IMO is much easier to use all around.
I like articles about Dance Dance Revolution too, but I don't want HN to become a DDR site.
Don’t work weekends if you don’t want to. That’s just silly and it hurts coworker morale because people think they need to keep up with you.

When you’re on your deathbed, you’re not going to wish you spent more time working for your employer.
That's great for you, but we have plenty of evidence that the patch doesn't work for a lot of people. It's also expensive. It didn't work for me because I enjoy the act of smoking.
> leave politics to the unwise

To build on quotes from the Tao Te Ching, same translation:

“Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won't be any thieves.

If these three aren't enough,
just stay at the center of the circle
and let all things take their course.”
This is like saying we'll allow you to play poker but you can't bluff.
JavaScript brief history and ECMAScript(ES6,ES7,ES8,ES9) features

https://medium.com/@madasamy/javascript-brief-history-and-ec...
You probably get a bit of a thrill, or some other reward, from the argument. Whatever it is, be aware of it.

Beyond that, Postel's Law is pretty decent, for protocols and for people.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=postels+law&t=fpas&ia=web
It's a legitimate question, which you do not provide any evidence to refute. Fires do contribute to climate change because they convert stored carbon into atmospheric carbon. A question is how much do they contribute. Fires are also natural (although not in the Amazon or Congo so much!) so it's not like you could eliminate them entirely anyway.
> Except for the fact that we continuously discover new energy...

Is that really a fact? Is it guaranteed to be true in the future? Past discoveries seem very lumpy and unpredictable to me.
Last I attempted a systematic survey of open source developers on Patreon, I could only find seven or so reported to be making >$1k USD per month.

Of those, many of the most successful weren't simply taking donations. It's common to see substantial additional products of services as perks, like access to security alerts, work prioritization, personal time, and so on.
> For a lot of the public for example thin-ish clients might actually make a great deal of sense for their "personal computer", just as it long has for businesses or certain home users right now, if only they had reliable high bandwidth connections.

A repeated dream. In reality thin clients suck even on a LAN. Remoting from a Windows PC to a Mac Mini sitting right next to it had unacceptable latency.

Which is rather confusing given that modern machines can encode video at over 60fps....

Same OS to same OS is better, but not great. Every few years someone comes along and tries to deploy thin clients, and it never takes off en masse, good enough for a few limited scenarios though.
Ok, does anyone have a simple guide to what it means?
Google Easter Eggs
Aren’t we seeing how this is already backfiring in some ways? I think Google is a good example. This is a company that seemed to stoke socially progressive ideals among employees and then created this environment where employees are protesting the company’s involvement with the military, more conservative employees accusing the company of bias, the company now saying political discussion is frowned upon at work, etc.
The Curse of Playing the Wicked Witch of the West
Kardio – open-source health check for Kubernetes