skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being able to make copies easily and store them in different location are probably the best protection for any document. And now days copies are virtually free and moving them is extremely easy.

I'm wondering if someone as done studies on the last technical revolution of this kind, aka the printing press. To which extent the printing press helped prevent the definitive loss of documents? There are probably a tons of factors to take into account, like history, age, kind of documents, etc, but it could be quite interesting.

Lastly, as a though experiment, I'm wondering how an archeologist would react in front of a disk drive in a thousand years.
Let say the disk drive is in a good condition, but the archeologist has to discover everything:

1) First he has to understand that the disk contains binary data spread in a certain way, if he has equivalent technology or better than today, this should work. (if he realizes that he should be extremely cautious when opening the disk drive, at least for spinning rust).

2) Then he could have to understand the logical layout of data on the medium (aka the FS), this step is kind of optional has you can recover fragment easily, but it would help a lot. And if data was stored in a DB, it's a second layer equivalent to the FS.

3) Then you have to understand the file format, if it's directly a simple TXT file, it should be doable, and it's probable someone can deduce the encoding used, ASCII is easy, UTF-8 is a bit more complex but doable. But, and it's a big but, if the data is compressed in anyway, and a lot of formats are these days, I skeptical that the archeologist (and his technical assistance) would be able to deduce it's a compressed format and not some random garbage, and then re-discover the algorithm used. And if it's a more complex document, like images (even if BMP should be doable), sound and video, it starts to get really tricky.

4) And then, you need to decipher the language and/or alphabet used.

Basically it feels a lot like Champollion needing to decipher 4 layers of hieroglyphs before getting the content. Deciphering one can already be hard enough.

That being said, as source code is often recorded as simple ASCII files which should be decipherable, he could get lucky and get the code parsing the layers, or at least get a specification of it.
But there is no case where it should be up to a web app whether its content should count as background audio. It is possible that a user should be able to flag such a situation, but native apps both have affirmative consent when downloading an application and have permissions models the user can manage, whereas the web has neither and web browsers need to assume both malicious and incompetent web devs will do terrible things with any feature they allow.
Wouldn't someone have noticed the chemical corrosion – even if not specifically looking for it?
Why shouldn’t the schools do what they want? Nobody is entitled to go to the school they want to go to.
I recall PHK's humble proposal for replacing cookies. Instead of the server sending cookies to the browser, the browser sends an ED25519 key, a "Browser Identity", to the server. Anything that the server wishes to personalize for that identity can be encrypted with the identity's key. At the same time, the browser user is free to choose whichever identity they like, including a fresh/nonce identity.
The chart says “each box area represents the number of deaths...”

What makes you think it’s not proportional?
Yep, that was me. I closed the PR before ready, but Cody quickly sorted it out.
LOL, I did. they told me to call the toll-free number.
"Folic acid"
The “10 A.M. Policy”: The U.S. Forest Service and Wildfire Suppression
Things get pushed on people, and most are not even aware enough for the question "do they care?" to even become meaningful.

We're moving from sofware you run without any interference to subscription and surveillance models, and that's not because users want that, that's not "what they like", they don't have an easy way to get what they do like while also being treated ethically.
> 1 - how do they measure altitude? GPS is notoriously poor at this.

I would imagine they would use a number of different sensors, they probably have barometric altimeters, but probably rely on some kind of radar altimeter for low altitude maneuvers.
> I wonder if there are still more Klingon speakers than Esperanto today.

I believe there were never more Klingon speakers than Esperanto speakers.

More precisely, I doubt there are any Klingon speakers -- where "speaker" doesn't mean a person who memorized a few words and sentences, but who can spend one hour talking fluently about their favorite topic -- but even assuming there are any, I really doubt there would be one hundred of them, worldwide.

On the other hand, I have met hundreds of Esperanto speakers at various Esperanto-related activities, and they are quite able to talk the whole day without having to use another language. I used to be fluent at that language, too.

But maybe that's just my bubble. Could you perhaps give me a link to e.g. people giving a lecture in Klingon in front of live audience, preferably on a topic other than constructed languages?
I think they do also have a radar for distance to pad information but I couldn't cite that. I believe they have a form of instrument landing system, similar to how it is done at major airports but oriented for the rocket of course, and the distance calculating "radar" could be part of that (using signal timing) but I am not sure exactly how they did it.
Firefox has the option to "block new requests asking to allow notifications". Just check under Preferences > Privacy & Security > Permissions.
> I'm afraid this time it is different.

Exactly the same. Google often shuts down a service in favor of alternatives it already have, like Hangouts=>Duo and Inbox=>GMail.
People: So how much security and privacy will we have on the Librem 5?

Purism: Yes.
Just out of curiosity, what happens to the engineers that work on these projects that get shutdown by Google? Do they get laid off?
So I guess we now passed the aqui-hire (acquire a company you're not interested in to get the people you want) and arrived at the prod-hire: Build a product you're not interested in to acquire a company you're not interested in to get the people you want.
It's also a lot hotter than room temperature, especially where the high pressure is.
Types have fundamental meaning and function way beyond simply being a dictionary. Javascript's lack of type systems means it's crippled when it comes to serious numeric computation, simulation or modelling. Even a 64-bit number can;t be stored properly, to say nothing of SIMD operations.
Even when a language allows mutability, just having immutability by default makes a huge difference.
Purdue Pharma in Talks to Resolve Opioid Cases Through Bankruptcy
I don’t know about other browsers but you can turn that off inside Firefox‘s privacy settings.
Are going to? They already are. I will no longer consider a Google product for work purposes. Even for big stuff they are committed to like their cloud offering there is no confidence that individual features within it they you rely on won't get killed off.
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp19/
Funny enough in the 70s and 80s (and into the early 90s in some rare cases) it was fairly common for cyclists to cut weight like boxers.

I think its fair to assume that caffeine and amphetamines were used to achieve those results and not strict fasting regimes...
It's not the same thing. At all.

Pocket is used by people and is a feature Mozilla want to prominently integrate with Firefox. This is due to the financial gains they directly get when someone signs up for Pocket premium.

It's not an unused, dusty feature that's adding a burden to the platform and is a net time + money sink. It's something that makes them money.

As I said, in the comment you just replied to, even if nobody did use pocket then this would be a burden they are willing to take. So, comparing RSS feeds to pocket on the fact that it can be implemented as an extension alone is a nonsensical point.
1) Unlikely, because even today the most selective schools that use holistic admission have far higher graduation rates than less selective schools

2) Even if this is true, this is a feature not a bug

As it turns out, college really isn’t all that difficult in most cases, and never has been. If anything standards have increased!
Table-Oriented-Programming (TOP) philosophy is that while it's good to apply categories to snippets of code, one shouldn't be forced to have one and only one category per snippet. The hierarchical and file-based view of grouping or categorizing code is seen as obsolete under TOP's way of looking at things.

We use RDBMS to manage large quantities of physical objects, so why not also use them to manage large quantities of code snippets, such as event handlers. Early databases were hierarchical also, but over time hierarchies ran out of steam. TOP believes eventually the same lesson will be learned about code management.

Take MVC for example. Some code maintenance tasks are by entity and not just M or V or C. For instance, adding a new column to a given table. So if one could run a little query to list links to all modules/files/snippets for a given entity, then entity-based tasks are easier.
Cheers. :) Thanks for the PR!
Yes I think that radar idea is quite correct. I now recall Elon/SpaceX explaining that this rocket (BFR or whatever) should be able to land on any solid body in the solar system. This would eliminate barometers and GPS for long-term solutions, but keeping radar/lidar and other light-based imagery in the running.
No it doesn’t sorry. The India battery only survives 150 cycles and the iron batteries are heavier than lithium.
I have 2 trek bikes, one carbon fiber. I love cycling at high speeds. Unfortunately because of awful drivers I can’t do this. So yes, I use the Peloton, in addition to cycling to work and around the Bay Area ( but at lower speeds ;) )
Yes of course. Wasn't there also some policy change at some point regarding what's available in the store by default? I had a vague memory of that but could be wrong.

Anyway, the upshot is that at least based on my experience (limited as I'm not a big media consumer), media playing does just work OOB with current Fedora.
That's an a120 incubator project, meaning it's being created in a separate part of the company as an experimental product.

https://area120.google.com/
Because native garbage from the AppStore is at least vetted by Apple. For example background execution permissions will be subject to extra scrutiny by the reviewers.

Sorry, but I trust them more than those npm junkies saturating my pipes with adtech crap on every other corner of the web.
Glorious indeed. The shape reminds me of Boba-fett's ship from starwars.

Notice the flame turning red before landing? Did the mix become rich, or the flame cooler?
I've heard that angle, but it doesn't really make any sense. Samsung is also on that list, and all their SoCs since 2014 have had vp9 support. They've had vp9 support longer than HEVC.

The MPEG-LA isn't so much a business model as it is a pragmatic solution to patent trolls. I'm pretty sure Apple puts money into the MPEG-LA, not the other way around.
Leishmaniasis is a cool case: the drop in death is partially attributable to the orphaned drug process approving a drug that had been abandoned as unprofitable. When capitalism can't save lives, governments can.
You could probably just put the requests library from python behind a quick and dirty cli...
I've semi-seriously been considering starting my own OS project to circumvent some of the IO latency issues with VR and AR applications.

The big metric is motion-to-photon latency, which is a measure (in milliseconds) of how quickly a user's head motion is reflected on the display. Anything greater than ~10ms is considered insufficient, as you've missed a whole frame of rendering for VR headsets that run at 90hz refresh rate.

Current XR applications need to wait for the USB or Bluetooth stack to return the head pose before modifying the view, then wait for the graphics stack to reflect that change. There are many ring transitions along the way. This leads to an absolute minimum motion-to-photon latency that can't be broken just because of OS overhead. This eats into your frame budget, as every ms of context-switching out of the IO drivers leaves you fewer ms to render a frame in time to get it back into the kernel for context-switching back to the graphics driver.
What is special/hard to make for Starhopper compared to Falcon 9?

Hm..I think I found it on the net: The Raptor engines are the same size but are about twice as powerful as the existing Merlin engines.
The native version is worse than the wine version. It was hanging constantly for me
RSS is very much alive and kicking. It has only lost its status among mainstream users.
Modern GNSS can reliably measure altitude at <50cm 2-sigma accuracy using techniques such as RTK and PPP-AR. Modern GNSS is a better source of altitude data than barometers.

Likely SpaceX is using a combination of radar altimeters and GNSS.

Source: I do engineering on modern GNSS
You can say the same about various miracle drugs before they under go trials.

Iron might be the future for some energy storage applications (e.g. home batteries) but can't compete for other applications (e.g. Automotive).
Okay, I think this reply helps frame your stance much better. You are not necessarily proposing no C ever, but saying at least start a new project with a C++ compiler / IDE and if there are reasons to use C code or rules like "don't use dynamic memory allocation", when there is a substantial reason, then that is acceptable
Dispensing advice like this to someone with anxiety issues is exactly the same as telling someone with depression that they should get out of bed, meet people, be happy for what they have, or smile more.

It is the kind of swapping of cause and effect that many neurotypical people fall into when conversing with those who are suffering. All of the behaviors and habits you describe are largely the result of healthy mental states, not the cause (there can be feedback loops that make the distinction fuzzy, but those feedback loops are very fragile and require constant maintenance).

I'm sure its well intentioned, but it's just not going to be very useful advice.
Actually it was 500 feet or around 150 meters.
Palantir CEO: Silicon Valley Shouldn't Dictate US Policy
Thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10409507

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8572600

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580383
I would add on by saying from personal experience that the wider your breadth of experiences, the more you find that experiences in seemingly unrelated fields overlap and synergize to make it even easier to pick up new skills. Anecdotally I found my background in software + college coursework in signal processing gave me a huge boost with getting into music production, and in line with the ROI perspective I feel like I'm passively reinforcing my understanding of Fourier transforms and whatnot when I'm playing around with Ableton so it's akin to the effect of compounded interest
Automatic backups timed for the middle of the night.

Such a small thing to do, and much peace of mind.
>Companies like AMD, Intel, Nvidia, ARM, and Broadcom are part of the alliance that developed AV1

Which Apple is also a governing member of...
You need H+ to raise the pH, like when you split water in HO- and H+. [1]

In this case they get H2O2 (neutral) so the H must be neutral, so they must combine to form H2 (neutral). (Perhaps the H radical can survive some time in water until it combine with other H and form the H2.)

[1] A small technical detail is that the reaction is 2 * H2O --> H3O+ + HO-, not H2O --> H+ + HO- , but H+ is the usual shorthand.
>Think of the materials and industrial waste to produce 1 nuclear power plant versus all of the battery, solar cells, and turbines to equal the same in power and scalability.

Please, also think of the carbon footprint of those materials. Every ton of cement produces 1 ton of CO2. Every ton of steel produces 1.8 tons of CO2. The mere process of building a hydroelectric dam and wind turbine involves emitting CO2 into the environment. Even the process of growing silicon crystals and doping them with ions to create a solar panel produces CO2 that must be offset over the lifetime of that solar panel. Carbon capture solutions, on the other hand, can involve simply planting trees. Each acorn that is dug into the ground will capture a ton of CO2 over the course of a decade.
>It's sickening to even think about what he did in Uber.

Uber's leadership and corporate culture were toxic and ethically dubious long before Levandowski came along. It seems to me like he fit right in. No wonder Uber bet so much on that guy.
This visualization from the same source answers your question:

https://ourworldindata.org/where-are-children-dying

In summary, it's highly disproportionate, with rapidly industrializing nations in Asia representing a huge portion of the decline in child mortality.
Having independently come to this same conclusion, I am glad someone did the compilation on a single page.

I'm not against the gold standard per se but I have come to believe that money supply controlled by credit expansion is simply not efficient. It distorts who gets the first bite at money in circulation. It also keeps everyone forever in debt.

Humans are not supposed to be indebted forever. Money as credit has monetary system backwards af.
The 130+ page Annotated Guide to Kik's answer to the SEC's complaint
Actually, after years of Django, this is such a pain for me to create a SPA with the same level of quality, that I'm considering stopping web development to learn ML.

So, maybe it does not prevent SOME people, but it's about to prevent me.
Seems related enough.
Government, hands-down.
Super interesting info. Sorry for my annoying questions. Does modern GNSS receive that level of accuracy in cities among buildings, or is that an ideal case like what SpaceX has, being outside?

Also, how expensive is a modern GNSS receiver that can get that level of altitude accuracy? Is this something that could make it into phones some day?
And even if the RSS feeds are not used a lot by the majority of the audience, I wouldn't be surprised if it helped bring in other audiences. I feel like RSS users are more likely power users and may be more a bit more interested in the site than most users.

I personally know that a lot of the RSS feeds I am subscribed to I also end up sharing articles with friends. I see these articles early and quick and help create early discussion about them and comment early on them often first. I feel like overall RSS feed users may not directly look hugely beneficial to a site, but can have other impacts hard to track.
He was on the Berkeley team for the original DARPA Grand Challenge. Their team was notable for being a motorcycle while everyone else used a car, the complexity of using a motorcycle earned them big points with the higher-ups even though the bike didn't do very well on the course.

So if you were a CEO looking to hire a senior guy for autonomous vehicles, he was one of the most senior in years of experience, pretty much nobody was working on autonomous vehicles prior to the Grand Challenge.
"My own guess is that it was not suicide, but that’s a different story." What was this about, I wonder?
GitLab PM here. Auto DevOps makes use of herokuish in order to find the language of your project. Herokuish images are Ubuntu-based, and it doesn't allow the use of specialized images. One can always provide a dockerfile (based on the image of your choice) and Auto DevOps will use that instead.
> the mars

The one and only.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20807221 and marked it off-topic.
Without being in the zeitgeist, it's liable to disappear as time goes by.
I'm just here to thank whoever changed the title that used this as an opportunity to smear engineers. Levandowski was not an engineer. He was an executive and this type of behavior is completely in line with executive behavior.
Did some quick checks; it does appear that it's area-proportional.
I've been fortunate to know good lawyers that have made my life easier, reduced the stress of dealing with hard situations. I've seen investors take chances on long shots that succeed, and wouldn't have had any hope without that investor help. I've had excellent managers (and some not so good) that championed my professional development and growth and took care of details that made it easier for me to focus on my core work. You're pointing at the worst parts of things and using those extremes to say they're not necessary. I see this view a lot on HN: Engineer == Good because they produce easily tangible output, and those with less tangible output == Bad.

These professions with less tangible output aren't zero sum. They're the necessary infrastructure of massive organizations, large projects, civilization itself. Calling them zero sum is sort of like saying pipes are zero sum because they just take water from one place and put it in another. It's a bit more complex than that.

Society has to have rules. Society is big, there are lots of domains. There need to be experts that understand those rules and help lay-folk navigate them. That's lawyers. Some are awful, do bad things, make things worse, we produce more of them than necessary, but civilization doesn't really work without them.

Similarly, the economy is huge. Allocation of capital requires people to oversee that process. There's your investors. Many are awful and greedy, but it's a necessary process unless/until we find more efficient ways of allocating capital-- And while programming itself is not capital intensive from the equipment perspective, it is from the "human capital" perspective. The burn rates of many startups will show just how intensive. Again, investors are "plumbing". They're positive sum because the entire system, which is positive sum, requires them to function.

Large projects have lots of moving pieces. At some scales, it's near impossible for a single person to have it all in their head, much less focus on a full time programming job while they're at it. All the moving pieces require coordination. Integration into the non-programming parts of a company require coordination. Managers do this. Plenty are mediocre at it. Others play power games. Some make things worse. But overall the system wouldn't function without them.
Why Everything They're Saying About the Amazon Is Wrong
> Especially people who want to spin during times of inclement or excessive warm weather

New Yorker here. If I had the space I’d totally get one of these.
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Congrats you guys! I’ve been following Coursedog for a while, and if there’s anyone who I believe can crack this market, it’s you two. As someone who just spent the past summer creating software integrations with legacy learning management systems like Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle, and Sakai, I can’t emphasize enough the need for disruption in this space.

They’re a rocketship!
you dont use gmail or google apps for business? i think their mail and docs/sheets are not a risk. everything else i wouldnt place a bet on
Thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13529213
If I see a five-pointed star, or a five spoked wheel, I don't have to count to know how many. Probably same goes for six, or a hexagon. Maybe seven.
Because the layman windows server user would think the internet is broken if it stayed stuck on a blank page.

By the way, it should be easy enough to change the home page with a group policy or something if anybody actually cared about that. Companies usually change the homepage of all desktops to the intranet homepage.
This is surprising considering how many companies I've seen use Hire in my current job search. Was it not profitable? I wonder what the backlash is going to be for all the companies that spent time integrating it into their hiring workflows.
It looks a lot like https://outline.com