skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your example is technically not fiction, but as you point out, its main purpose is to enthrall the reader with a compelling story, not to convey a large amount of dense information in the way that textbooks, manuals, and academic papers do.

If a reader wanted to extract and retain as much information as possible from Endurance (say, if they were studying it in school, or read it but found they didn't retain a lot of the key points), they would still benefit from skimming, skipping around, taking notes, and other advice provided in this post. This advice applies to anyone who wishes to extract and retain information and understanding from any given piece of text, fiction or non. Just don't spoil compelling stories for yourself unless you really want to.
There are certainly no 20-30m telescopes in space (Also, imagine how annoyed astronomers would be if they found out the biggest most advanced space telescope in history was in space and pointing down...).

I do wonder what would be possible to resolve using multiple 2.4m scopes to create a larger synthetic aperture?

Resolving text on a license plate which would be at a very oblique angle (so more atmosphere) is probably not worth trying.
Sending nudes or porn to someone to whom physical flashing would have been untoward (an unwitting stranger, the general public, a child, a student, your taxi driver, etc), or images of someone else who would not have wanted the images shared (revenge porn), is the kind of action that one should be able to take to court. They share nearly identical mens rea (flashing vs unexpected unwanted dick pics), so it doesn't make sense one is criminal but the other is not.
They will demand that the government "do something" (aka, a bail-out) whilst simultaneously complaining about their taxes.
What’s the difference between this and RAID?
I mix and match a bunch of systems, some of which are digital, to create something that works for me. I think personal productivity and reflection systems have to be unique to the user. The part I personally find useful to digitize is the small annoying tasks I have to keep track of, e.g. "talk to Bob about the x, get y and z from the grocery." These tend to move around a lot and I will push them from day to day, and they don't really reflect any underlying structure or goals. At best they tell me the various sources of all the shit I have to do and could serve as indicators of things to cut out.

I prefer handwritten systems for more long-term goals, daily reflection, and projects. You get a lot more stability and emotional connection to your tasks and thoughts when you write them down in my experience. That's what I want when I'm really planning and thinking about my life. Digital doesn't seem to have the same effect. It's too easy to delete and edit yourself.

If you're really interested, this is what my system looks like. It's a mishmash of the following:

• Pile of Index Cards - I use it as the "single source of truth" for tasks and projects. I don't use the stuff about thoughts and discoveries, but I like having discrete cards I can move around and prioritize for todos.

• GTD (Getting Things Done) - I mainly use the idea that each task should have a clearly defined "next action" or a specific trigger if you're waiting on something. Ensures I'm not subconsciously avoiding a task because it has some undefined prerequisite.

• Bullet Journal - once per week, I populate pages of the days for the week ahead with tasks I expect to do from my index cards. I use that page to notice when I'm pushing tasks back and also to reflect and write down notable events from the day.

• iPhone Notes - I duplicate the task list for the day, and I move one into a "WIP" (work-in-progress) slot. This is the first thing I plan to do. It ensures I'm not trying to multi-task and do too many things at once. Over the course of the day I will peek at that list and move items around or push them back into an "Inbox," which then circles back to the Index Cards at the end of the week. New tasks go in there too. At the end of the week I re-prioritize and throw away any index cards I realize are not necessary or I no longer care about.

It sounds like a lot, but it's actually a reasonably fluid system and I'm fairly happy with it. I refine the bumpy parts when I find they aren't working.
Like RAID-0 specially
After just reading the linked articles / chapter I was thinking: This is an interesting approach to look at the situation. After reading a couple of posts on this blog I can't shake off the feeling that the objective of his writing is being divisive to sell content.

While his models provide an interesting lens they are applied selectively. Instead of looking at the picture holistically by examining if the mechanism he describes can be found everywhere (e.g. on both sides - and I believe it can), there is one side that has feature x and the other that hasn't.

If you look at the Brexit article in the same blog, he is eager to point out the mistakes of the intellectuals who are against Brexit. But he looses no word about the fallacies that made people actually vote for Brexit.
> People sending personal emails will be happy to burn a penny of CPU time as "postage" but spammers won't be able to send their spam profitably

The problem with this idea is that spammers don't use their own computer, they borrow other people's computers to send the spam. It also heavily penalizes people who legitimately need to send bulk email.
I'd go for the blue jumpsuit. Throw in a couple of spanners for good measure.
Someone in government’s daughter got one too many pictures sent their way. It happened to my wife at least once that I’m aware of. I was texting the guy on her phone when it happened. It’s extremely jarring, and was completely unprompted and uncalled for. I don’t hate the law, if there’s a good burden of proof on the conversation to show that it was uninvited.

As the other comment said, it’s basically flashing.
Nah, rural politicians will most-likely find it more politically advantageous to claim that the hospitals are closing because of 'illegals', welfare-bound decadent city folks, or some hare-brained conspiracy theory.

It will be too difficult to square their political convictions with economic realities. Providing healthcare in rural areas will always be economically difficult. There aren't enough consumers in rural areas to support modern hospital facilities. Admitting this isn't a problem markets will solve, and that government taxes and spending might be the answer, is something that will prove very difficult indeed.
Beating V8's GC and JIT would be extremely hard given they're of pretty good quality, and I don't even know if you could write a JIT in WASM (can you?). Do you think implementing an interpreter and a GC in WASM could be faster/smaller than exploiting one of the best JITs out there and easier/smaller than taking advantage of a built-in GC? Moreover, you seem to be giving up on dynamic code loading in exchange for worse performance.

I'm not trying to challenge you, I just work on VMs and I don't understand the thought process behind such an unusual decision, but that could be because I don't know much about WASM. What am I missing?
Quite a few of those in Europe. Germany - Poland/Romania etc for example. Generally you have to live a place about a decade to get citizenship though.
How is it inconvenient? It prevent accidental quits!

I use ctrl-q as my shortcut key in tmux. I can't count how many times I accidentally sent that into the wrong window :) I consider showQuitWarning in Firefox a necessity.

IMO, no application ever should quit from one key combination without confirmation.
I was thinking the exact same thing. It's possible that because it has been so long since Google identified this threat actor, they did in fact use a honeypot account to trace the attackers prior to burning them.
Countdown until the "nudes are free speech" defense
Mr. Tavi and the Easy Chair
So I Created a Programming Language
I've used this tool for breaking up movie trailers and old Vines. I really didn't like the output quality.

I ended up using optical flow and key frame information instead.
Here it is! I can’t take the credit at all- that goes to panr.

https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-theme-hello-friend/
I agree that it's impressive, but my biggest objection to Wayland is uuuh... that it doesn't work. This is honestly mostly NVidia's fault, but still. I have a laptop with dual Intel and NVidia graphics, and there is as far as I can tell no way to make Wayland understand that my external monitor is connected to the NVidia card. I tried both Nouveau and proprietary, but then I switched back to X11 and it worked instantly.
I don't want Firefox to "beat" Chrome, that is a terrible idea that is killing Firefox.

Even if Firefox was superior in every way, Google has more leverage, and will always be able to shift the goalposts to stay ahead of their competition. And they will also be able to get the vast majority of users who don't know what Chrome is and just want to go on Facebook.

But what exactly does beating Google at their own game even accomplish? An ego boost for Mozilla? Focus on making a better browser!

Imagine if it were 2005, and Mozilla was like: Firebird needs to beat IE6! Only by out Microsofting Microsoft can we "win".

We need to abandon the features that make us unique and attractive to the smartest people, and focus on Windows support. We need to have better support for Microsoft's proprietary plugin architecture!

Better Windows Media Player DRM integration!

Javascript should be able to eject the cd tray!

Has anyone considered that Chrome actually has a lot of problems, and maybe Firefox should be the antidote to those problems? Containers are actually the first innovative anti-Chrome thing Firefox has done in a long time.

Firefox initially had success because of their integrated popup blocker and empowering the user to actually control what plugins were added to their browser. Awhile later, rogue plugins and browser bars were becoming an epidemic, and Firefox was there, diligently refined, and ready for IE users.

And Firefox will probably still continue to lose users, but so what?? I think if they seriously focus on being anti-chrome, they will in the long term win users back. (not that number of users should be a goal itself)

So, Mozilla should shut off the damn analytics, fire the UX and marketing people, and then roll up their sleeves and make something cool. Success will follow if they do a good job.
And I will add my thanks, too... your comment, @mikekchar, is much appreciated!
To be fair, we shouldn't have assumed that imperial pizzas are the same size as metric ones.
To add a bit of context, China forces Android users in Xinjiang to install surveillance apps:

- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne94dg/jingwang-app-no-en...

- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xgame/at-chinese-border-...

Such apps wouldn't work on iOS, due to its tighter security. But apparently if you're China that's not much of a deterrent, because you can just buy a rootkit to get around such limitations.
Am I stupid, or is it really hard to get from a readthedocs page to the github repo it is generated from.

It seems like the only way to do it is click edit, get an error message and then hit backspace in the url to get to the root of the repository.
Or...

It could have been the plan all along to engineer a "market failure" so these people have no choice but to accept socialized healthcare even if they're vehemently opposed to it.
There are often multiple installs of spidermonkey too (IIRC recently there was an effort in FreeBSD Ports to consolidate everything onto the latest couple versions)

The most (in)famous consumer of that is polkit :) but also GJS
Was going to say much the same thing. I've been a full-time Firefox user for 10+ years. I've also worked on web apps and tested against Firefox, Chrome, IE (and later Edge), for 10+ years.

In all that time, I don't think I've ever seen a Firefox-specific bug or layout issue.

I saw them on IE all the time (obviously), sometimes in Edge, rarely in Chrome, and never in Firefox.
i've been following these since lenny, https://workaround.org/ispmail

pretty much a set & forget solution. He also writes a new one with all-you-need-to-know extras every time a stable release of debian comes out.
This question is better fielded by Paul, Luke, or Hans. I gave them the week off after the conference so I cannot promise they'll reply here on HN. If you want to contact me over email (brian at dockyard.com) I can try to have them follow up on this.
On another note, it seems this tooling could also be used for native BEAM as well. Perhaps C/C++ NIF’s compiled to wasm for extra safety. Maybe as an alternative to HiPE as it appears to be somewhat dead, and using wasm jit’s might make sense. Exciting experiment!
> It'll make sending nudes carry a huge legal risk.

Nonsense. You text "do you want to see a nude?". If they say yes, you're in the clear and have a written record. If they so no, you don't send a nude.
Let's do some napkin math.
A quick websearch suggests spy sats orbit around 200-800km, while U2 flies at 20km.

Let's say you can use the same camera system on both. Then 10cm resolution at 200km orbit means 1cm at 20km, which would be enough to read a license plate.
> NO really is one of the most important molecules produced in the human body

This made me question how much they are embellishing or even making stuff up.

> NO has a half-life of about one millisecond,[4]

The cited study claims anything from "5s or less (Archer1993, Bates 1992, Nathan 1992)" to "half-life has been reported to be 500 s (Winket al 1993)" depending on circumstances. Highest reported NO concentration rate-of-change in the study was when binding with added heamoglobin and even then was on the order of seconds.

> We see ads for things like nitrite-free bacon or organically cured sausages—but this is deceptive marketing because we need nitrites to preserve meat, and there are no replacements for nitrites.

In our village, we have produces bacon and sausages for generations and never added anything resembling nitrites. Add enough of plain salt, air dry at reasonably cold temperatures and nothing spoils.

[4] Hakim TS, et al. Half-life of nitric oxide in aqueous solutions with and without haemoglobin. Physiol Meas. 1996 Nov;17(4):267-77.
I don't because I'm only speaking about how one should parse the sentence, not the facts of the sentence.
Cerebral Organoids mimic the brain for pharmaceutical research
I would also say executive discretion needs to be put under a microscope in an era of cynicism and data.
Sure, my thinking is that N stratified uniform samples plugged into the alias map is the part that prevents the annoying low-probability sequences. This is very similar to the simpler and more common technique of picking from a shuffled list of outcomes, but plugging it into the alias map allows the outcomes to have arbitrary probabilities not quantized by the number of choices.

The shuffle and jitter are the things that control randomness. Shuffle controls the order of events, and jitter controls which events are chosen. Using both you can have different outcomes each time through the N samples.

Regular sampling would give you the same set of events, where jittering will change which events are chosen depending on your parameter choices. But! Jitter will only change the number of each event chosen by a limited amount that you control.

The choices for the blending knob and the number N of uniform samples, along with your goal distribution, let you control how often and by how much the events change. For example, by picking an N that gives you uniform strata that are the same size as the smallest item in the goal distribution, you can guarantee that you get at least one choice from each item in the goal distribution. I think this would also ensure that adding jitter changes the number of choices for each goal bucket by at most 1. It might be by at most 2, due to the alias map’s splitting of large buckets, and this cap might need strata that are half the size of the smallest bucket. I’m not sure of the exact details without trying it, but I am pretty sure this gives you control over the amount of variation; the number of events you can possibly have above or below the expected value.

That’s the idea though - choosing N and using the knob allows you to decide how much variation you want on top of the guarantee that you never get sequences that feel wholly improbable.
There was a technical issue during Jose's keynote. The video kept dropping out from his laptop. I don't know for certain but I suspect that is the reason why his video isn't public. Maybe they're going to re-record it but I cannot say for certain.
I can’t wait for people to start JTAGing their smart TVs.
Adrian Carton de Wiart: The unkillable soldier
You're just cheap like me. :D
I'm frugal, which makes me adopt tech late but that's because I'm waiting for the price not because I don't believe in new tech. Late tech adopters are more skeptical in the beginning and almost end up adopting it because everyone around them have adopted. It's not necessarily the price that gets in the way.
Well, that and decentralizing your power infrastructure.
I guess the idea was too obvious to be original. I'm surprised that it inspired Bitcoin instead of the other way around though.
Yup, probably not TV, but a filmed interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWjgt9PzYEM
The Learning Machines
Again,you misunderstand what I said. Yes,tax payers foot the bill for the government body and just like a company can draft a policy telling employees what criteria to use when refusing business to a customer,the regulatory body can do the same.

Example: raising voice,using specific phrases,making personal comments about the support staff that's helping them,threatening they'll get them fired,refusing to follow official troubleshooting guides,etc...

For example,you can't do the reverse which is firing an employee for being an asshole to a customer when they were being polite and doing their job. If that is your readon and that reason is based on untrue facts then you are liable for a wrongful termination suit.
I doubt my Google-fu is better than yours (and it looks like Zed has basically retracted what he said anyway by way of going so far to remove it from the Internet) but one of the salient points was definitely "some of the code in the book doesn't compile or do what it says it does."
I believe this is the tweet from Trump:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11674933719732551...
It's telling that Google wasn't willing to name China publicly and that someone (most likely someone at Project Zero) had to leak it to this reporter off-the-record. Maybe they still have some hope of re-entering China?
If that truly is the case I have no problem with what you said. So long as transparency and due process are in place
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You can put slashes in Org tags. I think OP is looking for tooling that actually understands that they form a hierarchy.

There is something like that in Org though as I just found out.[1]

[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Tag-hierarchy.html
Something that I forgot to include in the keynote is that we are very adamant that Lumen not be viewed as competing compiler/runtime for the BEAM. We don't want that responsibility and we most certainly don't want any drama that could come about from the perception that we are trying to fork a community. We are 100% committed to the BEAM being the primary implementation for Erlang/Elixir and that we will follow as we target platforms that are currently unsupported by the BEAM. I can probably spell this out in the README at some point but I would considered Lumen broken if it ever decided to deviate from BEAM. Code that runs in Lumen should always run on the BEAM.
I mostly use Console, Network and Inspector tabs and I rarely debug (in general.)
Especially Network tab in Firefox's dev tools is much superior to Chrome's one, IMHO.
I wonder how much background knowledge is needed to execute those 20 commands with confidence.
Ask HN: What do you do when you join a new team with an existing codebase?
Do you

- look at the tests?

- pick a function and follow it in a debugger?

- pick a task and figure out how to implement it?

- pair program?

- etc

Personally, I've found picking a task and start doing it is helpful
Thanks! I go back and read old posts at times. I haven’t done anything really formal though.
Making your own electric car is easier. But still I wouldn't do it.
Right, I don’t post the journal publicly. Just this template.
Makes sense. Why would anyone choose to be inpatient at Hickville Memorial Hospital when they could drive 45 minutes to go to State U Medical Center?

These communities need smaller facilities with fewer beds, not mid 20th century style hospitals.
Kinda doesn't fit with this: (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

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Compiling to native in some form like WASI is in our roadmap. We are shying away from promoting this too much at the moment (but I don't want to be dodgy about it) as we want the current focus to be on Web Assembly. We know there will be interest an excitement about the potential of building native Erlang apps without the complexity of an underlying OS, but as it stands we cannot spread our resources too thin so we've opted to tackle WASM first then "go native".
Not sure where you are, but I pursued physics as well and found the exact same endpoint as you. I'm currently teaching, but there's just not the jobs for physics unless you're going to pursue a higher degree. Now, when I talk to students interested in physics, I always tell them to just do engineering and take some physics electives on the side, or to double major in something engineering related.

My most apt description for physics is "useless engineering" when it comes to jobs; a decent overlap in content, but none of the opportunities.

(I also wish I had done math; I've come to realize that's what I like about physics, outside of astro)
Ah thanks! That's a bummer to hear. We've had to do a number of things to work around weird issues with Safari iOS's WebRTC implementation. I thought we had these issued licked -- I just tested on my device which is actually same as yours with no issues. Would you mind stepping me through a reproduction case if it's easy? Also, were you using any kind of audio peripherals on either side? Thanks for the feedback!
Why do you believe it's a composite image?

> the license plate was not observed in the moment the main photo was taken

I believe there's a limit on resolution of a space satellite. If you're suggesting the traffic cam reads the plate, how are you going to connect the coloured blob that is the car with an image taken by a traffic cam at a different time in a country that doesn't give you access to its traffic cams?
Because just deleting the nudes and moving on with your life is too difficult?

The human body doesn't upset me enough to worry if some man or woman spams their junk at me. But there are images that I find emotionally hurtful, and I do accept that some people include nudity in this category. It still seems a bit dubious that this has become a big enough problem to warrant more laws.
I'm not sure they'd be wrong. The politicians pushing to socalize US healthcare are doing so on a platform of cutting costs and are generally pretty hostile to the idea of subsidising rural folks. Both of those point in the direction of healthcare reforms that kill off rural hospitals.