skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a solver that's just brute-forcing solutions. Specifically, it's doing a depth-first search through a tree where every node is a move with four child moves (left, up, right, and down).

From what I can tell, the strategy is mostly what other people are doing by hand: go to one side, delay there to gather red dots for as long as possible, then move to an adjacent side. Repeat. The solver has a few tactical tricks as well, involving knowing how to get as close to red dots as possible without getting hit, and also how to move such that the dots group together.

I just posted a game with a score of 346 where you can see this quite clearly. It's able to actually get in more than two full laps around.
Thank you! I’m still learning CSS and will have to adjust my style sheets! :)
No, just make everyone pay for their carbon. I am carbon negative. I get to fly as much as I want because I always offset. You don't get to add a puppy to your household if you don't offset. That's much fairer than you deciding that my pet hobby is worse than your pet hobby.

Everyone always has these grand market distorting schemes and they inevitably fail at the real goal.
> Are we really going to allow private companies to bully public institutions?

But on the other hand, should bureaucrats get some sort of celestial "dibs" on certain orbits? In the absence of some other kind of governing body, this is pretty much governed by the law of the jungle. Would you have the same objection if SpaceX had this issue with another company, or are you granting europe some kind of deference because of government?
Oh goodness thank you. I was looking for something just like this.
Investigators who know you’ve faked your death
You could do s/show/suggest and still get an interesting headline that is also more correct.
> ...unnecessarily inflexible...

Opinionated frameworks are much, much easier to write. Abstraction and generalization are hard, and a lot to ask of people who are likely creating something for free. The fact that a framework doesn't make the choices you would have made doesn't make it wrong, or unnecessarily inflexible. They're necessarily inflexible to keep the burden on maintainers and new contributors as low as possible. Just because one person has an edge case isn't a good reason to write a bunch of new code.

See also, yagni.
It was a grim situation, but I don't think the end of the article does justice to the fact that nearly two-thirds of the passengers survived what by all rights should have been completely unsurvivable, thanks to the sterling performance of the flight crew and the flight instructor, as well as the flight attendants for keeping everyone calm and prepared, and the control tower personnel for getting a prodigious amount of local firefighters and EMTs on the scene before the plane arrived.

It was, as Wikipedia dryly puts it, "a prime example of successful crew resource management," and had a big influence on training practices as airlines sought to replicate that professionalism.

United Flight 232 was an engineering disaster, but a piloting miracle.
I think you mean opt-a
That's basically $100 per person on a 100-person flight, enough to prevent many people from flying.

I don't think there are many trans-Pacific flights with just 100 people on board.

The last flight I took on Singapore Air was around 350 people. So the tax would be about $30 per person. Certainly not enough to prevent people from flying.

Emirates has A380's with 615 people on board. That's just $17 per passenger.
You say you are happier now, so why do you think you would feel better on heroin?
You have a 300hz screen?
Hint: it doesn't exist (for consumers at least)
Current max is 270hz I believe, but a few years ago it was sub 250 hz
I do wonder what the point of using curl for SCP would be instead of using the scp tool itself.
The "article" is just a tldr to the actual Video containing all the information you would ever want on the topic.
The mini series was... earnest. To me, it was a fine reminder that, while letting someone like Lynch ride roughshod over the source material isn't great, you can still get a pretty mediocre result from being faithful to the source material.

IMO the biggest weak spot of the miniseries was that it was about 50/50 good actors and terrible ones; and nothing shows this up more than scenes shared between both types of actors. The adaptation of Gormenghast had the same problem. It's almost better to have all indifferent actors, rather than have John Hurt swapping lines with someone who would be lucky to get a role in a soap opera.
346: left 26, up 27, right 30, up 32, right 33, up 35, left 38, down 41, left 42, down 45, right 50, up 53, right 54, up 58, right 59, up 60, right 61, up 66, right 67, up 69, right 71, up 73, right 78, down 81, right 82, down 83, right 84, down 85, right 87, down 88, right 90, down 93, right 94, down 95, right 99, up 100, right 103, down 109, left 112, down 113, left 114, down 115, left 116, down 119, left 123, down 127, left 130, down 131, right 132, down 135, left 136, down 137, left 142, up 145, left 148, up 151, left 161, up 169, right 174, up 179, left 180, up 181, right 184, up 189, left 190, up 192, right 193, up 194, right 195, up 196, right 202, down 205, right 207, down 209, right 212, down 215, right 219, down 221, right 226, up 227, right 230, down 237, left 241, down 243, left 244, down 247, left 248, down 249, left 252, down 253, left 254, down 257, left 258, down 259, left 262, down 263, left 264, down 267, left 272, up 275, left 277, up 279, left 283, up 286, left 287, up 289, left 293, up 299, right 302, up 303, right 304, up 308, right 311, up 313, right 316, up 321, left 323, up 326, right 332, down 335, right 338, down 341, right 344, down 346
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I have a feeling the seeds of several mystery novels will be laid tonight.

If the Times — years from now — hails anyone as the Agatha Christie of R analysis, I’ll think back to this article.
This implies that un has jurisdiction over all orbits, which it can't really enforce. Also, good luck getting any kind of int'l tax passed; no one wants to give up that kind of sovereignty. Were I a company, I'd just wait until office changed and whatever treaty this was got torn up to put up my satellites. How could the un enforce this? At the end of the day, policies are enforced with the threat of force in response to non-compliance; fact is, un has precious little of that. The only viable enforcement mechanism would be enforcement by other nations; again, sovereignty issue. Also, what if a nation decides she does not agree to such an agreement?
(to this subthread)

Let’s remember that score is not money, and many people actually do not care if reputation is reduced by automated means (as opposed to someone’s view on their acting). Score is just a raw signal to a participant on whether they did good or not. It never was a “win all the score non-decreasingly” game. If you spend 30% of your 10k on downvotes, it is still credible 7k. And if you gain 10k and see 3k problems, then these are community problems indeed.

My guess is that downvoting costs score only to weed out low-score inexperienced accounts from emotional voting or manipulation. No effort no score. No score no downvotes. –> no effortless misbehavior. That’s it.
It looks like this web site is unmaintained and incorrect in at least the Discord case. I see a PR open since 2017, and a comment on it saying 'this site is unmaintained.'
NORAD 44278 is a Starlink satellite presently being de-orbited by SpaceX in a controlled fashion to simulate end-of-life disposal. [1]

The current altitude (~330km) [2] puts it well below the operation envelope and it’s currently the lowest sat of the Starlink constellation at this point.

It appears SpaceX does continue to have some level of control of the craft. [3] Some speculation I’ve read is that the much higher impulse of the ESA thrusters would make the ESA craft a better candidate to execute the maneuver.

These adjustments are not rare - they happen approximately every other week for this particular craft, and as Iridium says, they do this weekly. [4]

A video of the conjecture [5] shows an approach of “less than 10km”. The ESA craft apparently passed much closer to several other craft over the last week, so there may be more to it in this case, or there may be a bone to pick with Starlink.

Lastly, ESA has a particular interest in raising this issue now as much as possible, as these “mega-constellations” launched by US companies are coming closer to reality and the current processes (picking up the phone) don’t scale well to tens of thousands of satellites.

[1] - https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/11446893347775242...

[2] - https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=44278

[3] - https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1168637324592328705?s=...

[4] - https://twitter.com/iridiumboss/status/1168582141128650753?s...

[5] - https://twitter.com/m_r_thomp/status/1168583891726344193?s=2...
Interesting. A couple of comments:

• at 10 watts it uses several times as much power as my computer.

• what company is this National Union Electric Corporation? Apparently a HVAC company that merged with Eureka in 1959 and is now part of Electrolux: http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/the-eureka-... — how the mighty have fallen.

• You can hook up the same tube as an oscillator, a flip-flop, an XOR (“inhibitor”) gate, a 3-input AND, or an adder!

• it runs on 300 volts—not a TV flyback voltage but enough to give you a good strong jolt. Electronics has calmed down a lot since the wild 1950s.

• no numbers are given for price or reliability. I assume reliability would improve by reducing the number of tube filaments in your device.

• 300 nanosecond carry delay! That's pretty fast for 1950s logic! I wonder if it was that fast as a flip-flop, too.
Eliminating reliance on trust, hence, eliminating trust, is a stated aim of Bitcoin:

What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
How is it safe? I doubt its complicated to figure out which nodes are broadcasting/unicasting the most frequently, without looking at the content if you have cops at every block logging bluetooth traffic.

What's interesting is how quickly China has reacted to all this, in terms of pumping massive disinformation onto Twitter/Facebook/Youtube. There have to be upper limits on scaling that capability. And that is where China's weakness lies. The more they scale their Stasi bullshit the more likely we see a Chinese Snowden/Manning sooner or later.
If it were up to me we'd derive all our tax from things that actually effect the commons: land usage, water usage, pollution, waste.

Taxing income or capital gains in the first place was a mistake.
nothing interesting. It's like he is casually describing HN business model (i.e. startups are cheap so they buy by the dozen) and nothing else. The only part on "innovation" or creativity is that he gives in that it is impossible by definition to predict the next big thing.
I met the founder, Jorge Ribs, a couple of times. He gave me some of the best advices I've received about Silicon Valley. Great guy. I'm happy it's gaining traction!
Some humans have problems with motivation and focus. Clearly you don't but that doesn't mean other people don't need tricks and tools to help them.
I'm confused about this too. I don't use a VPN, have been wanting to purchase a subscription to one for sometime but I haven't been sure which to get since I don't trust any of those rating sites.
I may have been a particularly poor student, subject to a particularly poor education.

Signs suggest neither lagged the median by much.
Streaks are often self-defeating. A few samples from the duolingo forums where this comes up frequently:

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/17598950/The-demotivation...

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/3705144/Streak-Breaker-Wh...

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/7927344/Lost-streak-and-m...
So things get better over time but instead of recognizing the advances made, you take the point of view that nothing is good enough because it could have been better?
> The valuable high-rep SO users do not like wading through bad and duplicate questions.

I disagree.

I’m relatively high-rep. I don’t have any issues with stupid or duplicate questions, they don’t waste my time. Nobody forces me to answer every question asked on SO.

You know what is a waste of my time? When I wrote a good answer to a question which I think is fine, which then goes to oblivion because some other people, who often have absolutely no clue what’s asked, decide the question is not good enough.

Examples:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56843086
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57064879
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57323981
> As if you need to be a dick to maintain “quality”.

Maybe you can't. Being nice does not scale: being nice mean you take more time to answer and try to make people not offended. With an internationnal audience, good luck not finding something which won't offend someone (hint: not everyone shares the USA values).

You can be nice in the PR and issue and wiki of your small projects with limited number of people around. If you want quality on a site serving millions of people? You'll have to cut to the chase. And some people (the author being one) will take it as being a dick. Some other people would take offense to the use of the expression "being a dick" for something negative.
I would start with these: https://thebestschools.org/rankings/best-online-bachelors-co...

Scroll past the ads that mention the "schools" you mentioned, and take a look at the list that starts with the University of Florida's program at number one.

I'm not personally familiar with the schools on the list above; however, I am currently going through Harvard's extension school for a graduate degree in software engineering. This has worked out well for me thus far. They also offer an undergraduate degree.
You can find information about that one here https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/bachelor-liberal...
That's kind of what you're doing if you get an expensive gym subscription and don't go.
Yeah - I mean, there is even a mechanism for giving feedback on how the question can be improved: the comments.

In my view, if you think a question needs work your first option should be to leave a comment, and your second should be to edit it yourself to improve it. If there isn't time in your busy schedule of bludging at work for either of those then maybe consider just ignoring it?
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I’ve always understood their product to be big data analytics. They pull together the government’s or their customer’s data from disparate sources to allow the data to be more easily used to draw useful conclusions. They aren’t surveilling anyone as far as I’ve seen. That being said, they do apparently assist ICE with utilizing its own data to assist with immigration/border enforcement.
(I'm the hell no commenter).

I probably should have stated that more kindly. I love the idea and I love that you've brought it here for comment.

The "hell no" comment comes from experiencing the dark pattern of requiring an email before the user can determine if there's any value. This pattern has been abused time and again, and many people will just leave without learning what it's about before giving out an email for another marketing push. I did, and maybe all the upvoters of that comment also. Even if the privacy terms are "no mail ever", that doesn't mean the DB won't be hacked or stolen some day, or the company simply sold and the DB harvested. Who knows. It's been spoiled by everyone before.

My suggestion is open it up so people can read all the project details. Perhaps require a signup only if the user wants to contact a poster. And consider not using email at all.
The reason why it's a big deal is that SpaceX is planning on putting up a LOT more

On one side is a multimillion-dollar weather satellite, on the other side 1536 throwaway satellites, 5 % of which failed during commissioning (the track record of the initial batch gives you an idea what to expect for the future). It's easy to see who will move their asset out of the way and also easy to see who has no business being up there.
> it sacrifices precision that is essential in the long term.

Definitions are precise, not names. Names aren't what makes math work, it's the precise definitions, inference rules and theorems, regardless of the language in which they are written. 'printf' does not work the same in all programming language yet everyone knows what that name means.
Because we had data that fit better in a non relational store. We stored data that created from user generated forms and we loaded data back into those forms.

Why use a relational store? If you’re working with a system that will only be read and written by an object based language? Why keep converting back and forth between a relational model and an object oriented model?

In C#

var seniorMales = from c in context.Customers
where c.Age > 65 && c.Sex == “M”

Would be translated at runtime to either MongoQuery, Sql, a foreach loop, etc depending on what “context” represented.

You get autocomplete and compile time checks.

When you want to add an record to your Mongo collection, you work with strongly typed

IMongoCollection<Customer>

And the compiler will ensure that your collection stays consistent.
There have been times when I've commented on someone's question but more to interact.

I like collaboration I find I learn better asking people questions.

That gets shut down immediately on Stack Exchange sites. Often by an unprofessional, terse, personal reply by a mod "This isn't your own IRC channel" or something to that effect.
It’s webscale!
My impression is that they might have had a better result if he'd obeyed orders, or they might have pancaked into the ground at an even greater velocity and killed everyone.

Maybe a simulation could figure out, after the fact, which one it would have been. But it's a moot point, because there was no way either the captain or the flight instructor could have known for sure. Each man did what he guessed was best in the heat of a impossible, unprepared-for situation, and they managed to save nearly two-thirds of the passengers. IIRC, The investigation praised them all and exonerated them completely, which the FAA doesn't do lightly.
A lot of people advocate PostgreSQL as a replacement. Why not elasticsearch? It’s also a document store with a good history.

At a previous job I shipped Mongo as the store (under AGPL) because at the time the replication story for PGSQL was too complex compared to mongo. But I reached a point where I was going to replace Mongo with elasticsearch and get rid of Solr at the same time.
No rest days? Sounds pretty brutal.
Funny you point to "capitalism" where everything in your statement points to cutting corners which has nothing to do with capitalism per se. We would not even have planes that cost hundreds of millions if we did not have a system for investments.
Often at exorbitant cost in our case. The SSA is an unaccountable financial black hole. Our former president send to have also used them for his political gain, this Fraser chap is responsible for many misdeeds.

Now parts of our country are literally burning, yet there's no crime intelligence about the very threats to the state that SSA should be monitoring for. There was an act of terror that was nearly committed 2 days ago, but we're seeing poor leadership from those involved.
That doesn't make sense - how are you eventually moving to a RDBMS if your data is not suited to it?
Availability is one problem. I live in Greece and wanted to build a medium workstation back in April. There were only two available Epyc processors in the market and only two mobos. I ended up building a rig with two Xeons in which case there were hundreds of available models/motherboards. It was either that or the option of buying from a German shop.
It’s not inherently subjective. There’s good and shit.

Like how there’s good code and shit code.
"less worse" reporting at reuters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20862579
Could be some survivor bias here. One 747 Max happened to have a jumpseat pilot who knew how to fix the MCAS issue and the plane flew on without issue and thus without much media coverage. [1]

Presumably, 2 other 747 Max's didn't have enough SME's on board to save them and crashed.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/03/jump-seat-pilot-an...
No it’s a different psychological trigger.
No, I think that's pretty much the definition of racist.
Because SO rewards you for answering questions, there is an incentive to convince the person to change the question to something that is easier to answer.

This is why you see posters being badgered to change or recast their question so much.

Sure many questions are ill posed, but there is a lot of pedantic meta discussion¹ on the site centred on the precise form of the question.

1: The word pettifogging comes to mind.
It runs on 300 Volts likely from a supply that can source a couple of Amps. I'd rather take the flyback transformer, it will zap you but the voltage will collapse nicely. That 300V is there to stay.
It's always nice to see an interesting and quality R package.
As if the South Africans can decrypt anything. They can enjoy receiving non-SSL traffic. They're not going to get my shit.
“Top 40s are shit”. Obviously. But this has been the case since kingdom come and gone.
And no comms between client device and internet endpoint for several minutes? Is so, you can say 'network down, manual scan required'. If client can get network, it buys a ticket online.
The point is to avoid the generator trip in the first place.
They are synonyms with different connotations behind them.
I guess when you have your own launch capabilities you can treat your internet satellites as easily replaced.

Adding more junk up there only serves to create more launches as the inevitable collisions occur. It arguably makes good business sense for SpaceX to add as much as possible and be quite fast and loose with their management of it, at least as long as it's the wild west up there.
That's not impossible. You can use solely SSPL software, or software with licenses compatible with SSPL.
From the feedback we've got from different sources including startup communities at reddit, our logos are much better than our competitors (logojoy, brandmark) in terms of diversity and creativity. I would love for you to have a look at the website and try creating some logos.

On the technical side, we are trying to automate as much as we can. One example of this would be a feature that we are working on right now which uses GANs to generate icons from scratch. Another is icon coloring using Conv Nets. These features are still in progress but you can see where we want to go. We want to do away with rules and let the ML algorithms decide everything for us. This addresses one of the limitations of our competitors that we observed - a lot of redundancy because of some rule based aspects of their products.

Happy to chat more about this.
Ironically, I got an error on the web.archive.org link but the other one worked just fine.
It's not so simple, you can post snappy/disrespectful comments that skim the line and create an unfriendly atmosphere for a very long time.

It's a hard problem, because it's about patterns. Everyone has a bad day and posts a badly worded comment every once in a while; I certainly have. That's okay, it's human nature. The problems start when a small group of people do it all the time, and turns out it's rather hard to actually detect those kind of patterns.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870397