skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we can knock down the Vatican and build this telescope, since we are in the business of ignoring the local's wishes.
I used to play a now-defunct MMORTS back in the day with Warcraft3-looking graphics: Ballerium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgIk8HQPnP4).

Shattered Galaxy is also MMORTS and is still alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBY-WGFQk98

Really hard game concept to get right, though. Something that was cool about Ballerium was that it was one big open world. I think Shattered Galaxy was a lot more instanced, but I didn't play it much.

Definitely room for more exploration in the space.
Matt Levine's take from a few days ago. As usual, humorous and insightful.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-24/don-t-...
> Which apparently is an amazing power source

Theoretically, for reactors we don't have.
Neat! This does require you to run your own server, which has pros and cons. I’ve heard great things about Caddy but never used it myself.
$200k bail seems low for the crime. He tried to disappear - why offer bail?
The Libertarian perspective on healthcare is that it is the most regulated portion of the economy, so if other areas of the economy become as regulated, their prices would go up. We see this in Bay Area housing markets.
Yeah, that’s what they give on the iMac Pro as base, so it’s not like they’d never do it. But it’s clear they’re deliberately under configuring the base to force complete customisation, which is what I assume the kinds of people buying this will want.

I’d go so far as to say they should sell it without a default hard disk if they could - let the buyers make the choice. I’m guessing it’s defaulting to the smallest disk just for optics.

This is clearly a start with the skeleton and build it yourself kind of machine, which is as it should be. It just looks odd when the selector defaults to the lowest available option on every selection.
I live on the Kitsap Peninsula across the Puget Sound from Seattle. I enjoy tracking aircraft on a phone app that circle over us fairly low when approaching or taking off from SeaTac, Everett and Boeing Field. I recently spotted a 737Max and assumed it was part of some testing. Curious what phase they are in and how much in-flight testing is going on.
Contrarian opinion here: I've instead found the constant philosophizing tiring. But I still commend his effort because as he explained, he's trying to articulate the inarticulate and the visceral. Most programmers would probably benefit from reading a book in the style of Effective C++ (Scott Meyers) or Effective Java (Joshua Bloch), where recommendations are more concrete and more unequivocal. Once you've done that, the matter of software design only really comes with experience—experience designing software and having an almost tactile reaction to the future maintainability and readability of the code; it doesn't really come from reading a book like this.
Only shit, didnt know this. Do you have more info about haifa and intel? Why did they build there?
Thanks for the interesting thoughts ian0. I honestly think Google has a good shot at all the things you describe with their AutoML tables, _if_ they spend a lot of time on the UX. The problem that I'm guessing most services run into though is how to tune (up or down) the informational/educational aspects of the app depending on the prior knowledge of the user. IMO us hackers don't spend enough time on UX, maybe because of time constraints, or maybe because it's not something that's widely taught at university.
I like the idea that they pick pilots at random:

- Either it’s Boeing’s fault for improper UX,

- Either it’s Boeing’s fault for pilot certifications not being stringent enough.

In either case, the aircraft manufacturer must improve. I think of it as an “integration test”, “let’s see how the pilot+plane integrate together”.

Not necessarily Boeing, btw. It could be Airbus. It could even be a move from the US regulator which advantages Boeing compared to Airbus depending on whether Airbus planes were tested with skilled pilots.
Way back in the 90s, when everything was still in sepia, I thought all the Geocities and Angelfire personal websites would be doing this exact thing. Hanging around as a time capsule in perpetuity, accessible by future generations as easily as the current. It turns out eternity is approximately 10 years by this measure. Maybe Github will fare better.
i did a good amount of work on merc/rom based games...but it was lpmud that i really got into!
MCAS was only using data from one of the AOA sensors (picked during restart), but two were still present, so sensor disagree light/message (when available) would show disagreement between the sensors.
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Hate it all you want. In this case, it's true. There are no hidden factors in my description. There was no token and it was a public API.

I'm sorry you've been burned, but that doesn't mean there aren't tests that actually take < 2 hours. I can't speak to every language, but what modern toolset can't open an input file, make an http(s) call, and write to a file?

I also don't understand why we shouldn't figure out how long something takes before administering it. Several people took the test and the time ranged from 15 minutes to an hour and a half, depending on language and experience level. I will say that if someone couldn't do it in 2 hours, they wouldn't have been a good fit for the team. If several team members took it, of course we're going to make an assumption about how long it takes.

Furthermore, since we didn't prescribe a specific language, there's no reason why someone wouldn't have all of the tools pre-installed. Even so, if you had to install your favorite development environment, you'd have been fine. That also wouldn't have been part of the two hour time frame (which wasn't a limit, BTW, just how long it ended up taking competent developers).
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+1 for surety bail bond. "Cash Only" bonds are a racket for bail bondsmen.
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It was his house and cars. Doesn't seem unreasonable under the assumption he is innocent.
Not a game dev but I guess you could go quite far with just an IRC server.
Crosshatch your world in chat rooms, with a bot in each one.

A player sends a command to his current chat room; the bot validates the player position and current action.

Other players listen to bot responses in all nine chatrooms around them.
It's going to be difficult to keep the sensor completely clean for the next person to use.
That could be an even more efficient version of our test. As long as it screens for what you're looking for, I would definitely agree that shorter is better.

It feels like it tests something different than writing code, though both may be a proxy for "quality candidate".
I'm disappointed that the authors don't even consider that the observations might be of rare atmospheric phenomena. Some of those (red sprites, etc.) look unreal.

What the Navy observed also sounds an awful lot like WWII "foo fighters". Occam's Razor tells me it's probably some sort of natural phenomenon that happens to be attracted to planes for some reason.
> Once we acquire language, we can live without it.

Do you think they meant - "can't"
I'm not sure what you're talking about? RTGs don't have short decay paths, they have to have long decay paths to last through a mission. P238 is what we use for most probes and has a half life of 88 years. It decays to U234 which has a half life of 200,000 years, short enough to be dangerous but long enough to almost never go away. RTGs tend to produce on the order of 100 watts of electricity from 500 watts of heat. A good nuclear engine will want to use 100+ megawatts when in use.

And more importantly RTGs don't put out nearly enough heat to make a usable nuclear thermal rocket. The important thing is being able to turn them on when you're doing a burn but then turn them off when you're coasting to your destination then turn them on again to stop there. RTGs can't do that.
I'm 21 and I know everything. Or at least I think I do...
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this is getting close to the answer, but still not there, the secondary decays decay for a long long time, what do we do with the rocket or core after use? how much propellant is needed in theory given radiative cooling? is 10% enough?
This isn't the same but related, for many of us that have left religions, the inertia it took was immense. It manifested for me something that looked like 5 years of depression. But afterwards I had lost my network of friends, family, and invalidated a lot of my experiences about how the world worked.

I imagine leaving a cultural and national identity way of thinking would have similar repercussions. Many would lose family relationships, friendships, professional networks and could potentially burn bridges with their home country in such a way as to essentially be in exile. All of that for something they aren't even sure is more true than what they know or could be biased in another way (as most of history is more of a cultural collective of things composed of selected facts in such a way as to paint a narrative or map of what happened).

I still think it's wrong, and I'm not sure how to solve it, but I can kind of understand why someone wouldn't follow their curiosity down the first steps toward an open mind.
What matters is the low value comment that brings down the level of discourse on this site, not the age of the account.
if you ran it over a websocket it seems like that could help the situation you mention. back in the day, honestly, as mostly 14-16yo kids....we really didn't think about that!
I tried to work for the government. It was a 60% pay cut and a demotion - I did quite well in my career so I didn't have the years of experience required to come in at my current level because that's how the government evaluates employees. Plus stunted salary growth. And this was for a government job that has a special salary exemption 'to be competitive with the market'.

No matter how much money the government has from taxes, there is no way in hell they are going to pay enough to be competitive with FAANG. It's anathema to government culture (unless it's for a football coach). You have to let people go back to FAANG to recoup those losses or the government will never be able to hire anyone.
When I pitch my boss on Next.js s/he will ask how confident I am that Zeit is going to remain a profitable concern subsidizing active development for years to come.
> I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and answer your question in good faith: whether you willingly give your information, or are tricked into giving it, makes a world of difference.

No, not your information, their information. The post you're replying to is about the friends of the person using the app. In one case, the app user is tricked, in the other case the app user consents, but in both cases the vast majority of the data is from friends of the user, who had no say either way.
What's insane is that you want to educate people on the dangers of buying from an unregulated black market, but somehow think there is a safe way to inhale chemicals into your lungs by applying regulation.
I went to a recruiting event for the United States Digital Service. It was a complete joke. It seemed to be a mix of early social media employees who had made their millions and now wanted “to give back” and government staffers. The rest of the technical staff was low quality (& low paid). They made a point of telling me that I’d have to take a huge pay cut and work with out of date equipment, and deal with extreme amounts of red tape. They tried to sell it as a “challenge” but all I could see was some people from the government trying to find gullible people to take advantage.

At the event in SF they had stale sugar cookies & bottles of water for refreshments. Several people (myself included) got up half way during their pitch and left.

Not sure I’d ever want to work for the federal government after that experience.
He confessed to the crimes (per Bloomberg's piece referenced by certmd in this thread).
> lpmud

Yes, I remember those, and played with them a bit. They were a far more flexible, dynamic environment, but 'back then' (in the early 90s), as I recall, the performance hit associated with LP MUDs (inherently dynamic) vs. DIKU MUDs (inherently static) was pretty large, and available memory/CPU cycles were at a premium.

Mostly though I think I preferred DIKU MUDs because I happened to start with them, just by chance.

Good times, thanks for sharing!
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> I am a bit curious how the solution to this lack of trust is always diminsishing government power instead of say trying to figure out how to properly compartmentalize or divide it?

If we had a German civil service system instead of the orcs we're actually afflicted with, that would seem like a reasonable thing to do. When an American with historical sense looks at government regulation, we see Tammany Hall, defense contractors, the Clinton family's net worth (a considerable fortune made entirely from political graft) and guys like former SF Mayor Willie Brown wearing $40,000 suits when his job as Mayor pays him $35k a year: overt graft at the highest levels is as part of the fabric of society as Mom and Apple Pie. Usually reducing regulation is wanted by people who are not plugged into the power structure but would like to get their way.

FWIIW I think the OTA was a pretty good government agency, and though I am pretty right wing, Newt Gingrich was an evil jackass and almost everything he did was horrible for the country. I'm guessing they got the axe because they made the mistake of dabbling in policy rather than sticking with their mission, but it's just a guess. Bob Park would know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Park
We have the black market already, and it's toxic. So telling people they shouldn't do it right now seems reasonable. At the same time, we should be making it legal & safe. It's simple: "Don't do it while it's dangerous, wait until it's safe"
It's hard to kill them. I'm glad to see that they're getting a second (third?) life because of their durability - I bought mine on deep discount after the Made in America/logger clothes trend went away around 2011 or 2012 and they were considered to be clown shoes (because of the toe cap) compared to the 1000 Mile and other boots.

They've gotten crazy expensive again - it's a good thing that mine are going on eight years with little signs of needing to be replaced.
There's a story that reaches the front page of HN from time to time of a Russian family that fled from Stalin into the Taiga sometime before the space race and were only found I think in the late 70ies.

One of the observations they had made from the wilderness was satellites, and IIRC they had figured out the objects had to be man made.

That story always touches me in more than one way.
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You make good points but your comment doesnt appeal to me that much. I dont really care about React adding hidden boilerplate for me, as long as it is efficient enough and enables me to work on more productive things. Svelte sounds good, dont get me wrong but the abstractions are there for a reason. We as humans want to minimize complexity and mental overhead having to figure every best practise on our own. Enabling developers to do whatever they want with a framework sounds frankly like a bad idea.

But if svelte can do both, eliminate the boilerplate and at the same time minimize the cognitive burden of having to work with DOM, then im interested. But i rarely have noticed that React makes me angry the way it used to. So do i want to switch, like the stereotypical frontend hipster, to another hype framework and code the next customer app with it? I'll need a lot more convincing first
We used to use the elk stack and filebeat but we got tired of maintaining the stack. Datadog is expensive but out-of-the-box for a lot of things.
but what cools the radiator fins, in the absence of air?
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Is there a non-paywall way to read this?
Sadly credit monitoring just increases the chance that your data will be breached once again - what about the option where, because you guys done goofed with my data, you're not allowed to track me anymore or store any data on me - and you're not allowed to charge me to do this nor randomly charge me if a bank tries to talk to you.

Credit Bureaus are just such steaming piles of crap.
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The Taycan looks really cool, but it starts at 150k. And Tesla has autopilot. Tesla Model S is a fast car, but's also marketed to buyers who probably would not want to pay 150k+ for a Porsche.
The sciencedaily.com article is ultra weird, in that it has a scandalous, clickbaity title, but it doesn't say what those 3 sexes are or what they do. The actual paper downplays that aspect of the newly discovered nematodes, but does say what the 3 sexes are: "such as possessing three sexes: hermaphrodite, male, and female"
There are arguments for unique IP addresses for interfaces. I'm just amused at the addition of yet another layer of address indirection.
I'm not saying the demand will fall (I mean, it should rationally but I wasn't making an economic argument) My point was that our message to users should be, "Don't do it while it's toxic, wait until it's safe" where safe is legal & regulated for safety, like with juul-variety vaping, which isn't killing these people.
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The other comment does a good job illustrating
We implemented it for Siri in iOS 7. Exposed APIs for third party developers in iOS 11.
Realm of the mad god proved it's possible to make a miminalist MMO game

The difficulty is building a MMO that is appealing and fun to play, so you have to think about multiplayer game design, which can involve a little bit of game theory, economics, reward systems...

A mmo is not difficult to make by its strict definition, once you have a large open world, the spatial partitioning to manage network traffic, things work. What is hard is to populate such a large world with "life", activities, things to do, and especially rewards in a persistent world.

MMO are amazingly interesting, world building is a vast subject, but building a quality MMO is also enormously expensive.
Not optional for React devs. Well... maybe now with hooks.
> rely solely on witness testimony.

Bad part about that - even today - is that we know for a fact that what people remember/recall isn't necessarily what actually occurred. Also, as time goes on, those recollections can become more unreliable.

We know that the mind confabulates, making things up to fill in gaps - both at the time something occurs, and after the fact to "fill in the story".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183265/

https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/starklab/false-memory-eyewitne...

Unfortunately, the legal system has been slow in acknowledging this - on top of so many other things found and/or known to be false or bias - two big ones are so-called "lie detector" systems, and "blood spatter analysis".

Fortunately, lie detector "evidence" is generally not admissible in the United States (at least I think for criminal cases?) - but blood spatter analysis is still considered to be a "real science", when it may be anything but:

https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/blood-spatter-...
Every single climate scientist you know validates the whole WGIII of each of IPCC's AR ?
The difference is that these things are written into Republic party platforms and are not merely the views of individual Democrats, and the average Republican voter absolutely picks up on this. Thus, even if bureaucrats considers themselves Republican, they appear to be Democrats to these voters.
Would these coatings be useful in solar panels? Does the energy trapped/absorbed by these CNTs turn into heat and does it transfer easily to the material its applied to?
I have not heard of them doing so (though I admit that I have not followed them very closely). For those of us who haven't seen this, can you supply some reference(s)?

But if they're going to call the alt-right Nazis (with justification, at least for some of them), and they're going to fly the hammer and sickle... well, I guess they earn being called communist, Stalinist, and Leninist.
Well perhaps if browsers didn't try to cram every feature of a desktop operating system into their own runtime, it wouldn't be?

Seriously. Chrome and Firefox are both guilty of this.
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My point was that no, of course the feature doesn't require it, but their particular implementation of the feature does. For example, maybe they implemented per-user sharing first, which obviously would need to know who is accessing the document. Then they realized there are some use cases for sharing the document publically, but they basically just treated this (internally, i.e. according to their implementation) as a wildcard in the authentication portion. That is to say, the public sharing works exactly the same as the per-user sharing, but with a * in the "allowed users" field.

Clearly it doesn't have to and should not be this way. My point was that:

1. They are saying that their particular implementation did require it to be this way.
2. Almost every web app could be made to require less private data from the user, however if this is something that GDPR is going to enforce then there will end up being some subjective analysis (according to non-tech lawyers?) as to whether a particular implementation was in violation.
At least they aren't copper nanotubes ;)

OK I'll get my coat.
And Boeing decided to make it an optional paid feature, though I am not sure if it was added later by request from airlines or they designed it like this.
I love your rushing to pretend that you didn't write what you wrote:

>Good. This might actually be the one good thing that Trump has accomplished.

>Or that would have been my reaction until I read the article:

>"Countries with more than 75,000 tonnes in post imported annually - mainly the United States - may apply their self-declared new rates from July 2020, UPU officials said."

>So does 'mainly the US' mean 'only the US'? I don't want an exception just for the US because they are too powerful to ignore, I want the same rule to hold for every EU country. Replacing a rule where rich countries subsidize long distance mail from (former) poor countries with a rule where only small rich countries have to pay for that subsidy is really not an improvement.

In other words:

* Requisite snarky remark about Trump

* Complaint that the rule change is only for the US (written before you read the rest of the thread and realize that this refers to the US getting the rule change slightly earlier than other countries, as we can see by ...)

* Stating that "this is not an improvement" because other rich countries won't benefit from the rule change, again because you hadn't yet read the read of the thread. (Even were you correct, this would be an improvement for the US, which is Trump's concern. As I said, he is not the president of the EU.)
Have you looked at the Sapper project? I think it adds a lot of what you are looking for. It’s basically a next.js equivalent.
This echoes much of the theme of Strunk & White "Elements of Style": write concisely and directly.
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