skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The radius of Sol's gravitational influence is much larger than the radius of its coherent mass.

The sun is always at one focus of the elliptical orbit. You just can't get the orbit close enough to plasma-brake near perihelion without also pushing your aphelion way out. So you have to aim away from Sol in order to get there at lower energy. Basically, a Voyager probe that stops at the very edge of the gravity well and then plunges straight down. Spiraling down while decelerating is faster, but costs more energy. But as you get closer, you can harvest energy from the solar wind and solar radiation, with solar sails, so the amount of delta-v you have to load onto the launch rocket does not represent your entire delta-v budget.

There are ways to trade off time for delta-v, but at that scale, the ways that really make a difference mean that the person that sets them in motion will be ancient or dead before they finish.
The Mauna Kea site is a better one, in terms of observing conditions. It's higher, drier, has fewer cloudy nights, better atmospheric turbulence conditions, etc.
Slightly related: the co-author of this piece, Juan Moreno, has discovered that his colleauge, an award-winning Spiegel author, instead of doing honest journalistic work, completely invented his stories (including the ones he got the awards for). He discovered the fraud, collected evidence, and called it out despite resistance from inside the newspaper organization (who wants to admit that they have been printing fradulent stories for years and not noticing it). Amazing guy! More reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius
Maybe in principle, but I don't see OData having anywhere near the traction that GraphQL does.
Obviously I am as well.

Sounds like watching a move or TV show while being on the phone to a loved one.
People say this a lot. But I've not heard all that many people saying this in the media in their own words. It's possible to go quote-fishing until you can find someone who says "nobody represents me", but that's not quite the same thing. Can we find an example of a working class commentator with a reasonable audience saying this themselves?
I'm also an average looking guy but got successful from learning pickup IRL.
"but the dollar figure is author guesswork" any figure presented would be guesswork. It's impossible to measure how many users left your site because they thought it was broken.

The estimate provides meaningful context. Without an estimate, this article amounts to complaining about web standards. With an impact estimate, it is actionable. We have a problem, we know roughly how bad it is, we have a solution.

Maybe it's off by an order of magnitude or 2. If it's costing them $44k/year, it's still worth fixing.
I did not know they had to maintain data that way, but I guess it makes sense.

That is good to know! Thanks for the explanation!
Now I know to never use an SSD as backup o.O
53 days sober. Announced it at the start.
I have this running on my personal computer, my work laptop, and my phone. I almost never have any issues, and I can work seamlessly from any device. It's great. I will also use it to share project folders with other people, and again, no serious problems.
The media and activists are largely to blame here.

If a child wants to opine on climate change or abortion or whatever, that's fine. But activists and the media shouldn't push to elevate that child to the national stage to score political points.

Once you've set yourself up as a political activist, people will respond to your beliefs, and they won't always be kind.
Hurting oil means hurting the alternative energy sector making it more expensive to produce. All the materials, manufacturing, r&d, infrastructure installation, maintenance and i could go on heavily rely on oil, gas and coal to even be possible. In other words death sentences to oil and gas means Death sentence to alternatives.

and thats just for that specific industry. 80% of what we surround us with and cool modern living is fossil based. If you welcome the death of oil and gas you welcome the death of millions.
I have a Synology NAS with their "Synology Drive" software. The UI polish isn't great, but the functionality has been solid in my experience. Bonus points for keeping my data entirely local aside from the dynamic DNS piece to connect in remotely.
I only did alright on the SAT, but I smoked the GRE by doing something similar.

The Kaplan book had a CD with a few practice tests. I think I did 2. If for no other reason, they are super useful for figuring out how to pace yourself.

The math section was (is?) easy for most people on this site. This seems the norm because the score/percentile relationship was incredibly high.

The English section kills people. My pro-tip is, in the same Kaplan book, they have a list of the most common words. I made flashcards for the top 100, and I'll be damned if like 80 of them didn't show up on the test. I imagine this is similar for the SATs.
Positive Technologies Brings ‘Hackable City’ to Life in the Standoff Cyberbattle
Sooooo...a quick skim of the article indicates that personal automations can now do what you're missing. My question is, are you complaining about something that this article specifically addresses, saying "yea! About time!", or...? Because your "point is" is specifically addressed by TFA.
Sad state of discourse these days. Whatever happened to having civilized discussions?
What makes someone managing class? Most "managers" (by title / role) cannot stop working permanently today, per your definition of working class.
It's completely understandable to put yourself out there as the best version of yourself, but yes I have frequently seen people exaggerating themselves to the point of misrepresentation.

You see profiles with only pictures that clearly were taken 5-10 years ago, or only picture of the face with a filter so heavy they are barely recognizable. It is certainly short sighted because you can only hide behind a carefully curated profile for so long. If I was looking for a dating service I would certainly pay for one with just verified, unedited photos. At some point this could get creepy but other stats like height, age, and weight could be optionally verifiable and public.

If this could save me from even one awkward date a year with someone I don't find even remotely physically compatible it would easily be worth it.
My beloved zoom no longer works in mainland China like so many things.
Python certainly makes some of the tasks so simple as to be moot. But some people try to bend a new language to match what they're used to.

For example, R is a statistical programming language where almost all data structures and operations are for vectors or arrays. But it's not unusual to see people on StackOverflow or blogs reinventing wheels like map/reduce/filter with for loops. I agree it's just inexperience that led to it, but the "intended" way is still idiomatic.
I really hope we get some interesting data on growth light spectrum as well. It’s always kind of been hot topic for indoor horticulture
Hi. Yes. The only section I did not get a perfect on was writing. I missed 1 of the multiple choice questions. I always believed that the grammar choices offered were a bit dubious but it is what it is. Totally possible and probably likely that I just got some grammar rule wrong, though I’d like to think that the test was wrong :)
We have actual offices with doors at Silicon Labs in Austin.
I don't believe that to be true but, in this case, it's a parent opting their ten year old out of it. The point is that this can be resolved to their benefit. Instead, they would rather scream about it being unfair. No one cares; the only people who get hurt will be them.
I cant help but think that those girls were selected specifically because they re underage. That they would attract trolls is an inevitability.
Of all the places I have worked over the years, my preferred office layout so far is conference rooms. That is, each team has their own room. Open within, closed to noise from other teams. Depending on how well you get along with your teammates, you can turn on some music, decorate however you like, etc. Of course it won't work for everyone, or for every type of job, but as a developer it is the arrangement that I enjoyed the most. And anecdotally, my coworkers also seemed to prefer it to either open space or cubicles.
Before her time: the tale of Navy's first female sailor
It's hard to settle on a definition of "worked"
I find the opposite. To build a personal brand, it's helpful to look very similar.

Steve Jobs and black turtlenecks.

I want audiences to recognize me and connect me from viewing to viewing.
Don't be skeptical. I know several teachers in the parts of big cities where many classes are just the teacher trying to keep the kids from hurting each other and any lectures aren't really listened to, where teachers are cussed at and assaulted with zero consequences. There are many schools where kids are effectively offered zero education because the environment is too chaotic and violent.
it's still nimby too
> actual written law or in the correspondence between various EU governments

You could cite it yourself, you know.
And by what standards is dust garbage? It is still tea.

You might get even more out of it as it has a bigger surface.

Anyway try a blind test if you can taste the difference.
Calculator I used: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/black-hole-temperatur...

A black hole with 10^11 Kg seems to have a temperature of about 1.2 * 10^12 K. Even though it would be small, it would be emitting crazy amounts of all sorts of photons.
Geolocation and Geoposition
It’s not a myth. Do you lift weights? Do you know about calorie partitioning and glycogen restoration?
http://archive.is/uGNld
Are you from the past?
I tend to pick an album and leave it on repeat for weeks / months. After a few days, you have all the words memorized and it acts as a pacing device as much as anything.

Part of it is probably that I tend to listen to music with actual lyrics instead of catchy pop songs. It's just a big long story that you've heard a thousand times. Comforting, but also easy to ignore.
The best office layout is the office layout that fits the needs of the people working in it.

Open offices aren't a dead end. I work really well in open offices.

I can barely get any work done in a private office by myself. Yet there are many people who work well in private offices, and would be as non-productive in an open office as I am in a private office.

It's obvious that people have different work styles. The problem here isn't open offices OR private offices, it's people who look only at their own work style and then extrapolate that out to the entire rest of humanity.

The solution is to let people self-select the office situation that works for them. Ideally companies have a mix of open and private spaces that allow people to work in a way that's best for them, including the option to work remotely, but that's not always possible. Sometimes that means that someone isn't a good fit for a team, and should be self-aware enough to self-select to not work on that team.
When I took the test a perfect score was 1600. Without getting into detail, the day of the test I was late and didnt get enough sleep. I wound up getting an 1160 and I never studied. Though, my grades were shit so the good unis rejected me outright.

The interesting part was one of the principals A/A+ list students was next to me at the college fair and hung his head in shame when they asked him about his SAT score and he replied with 900. A fucked up D student with an 1160 and a studious A student with a 900 both turned down. Go figure.
I can't do 'em, because of the constant pressure in my ears when I have them on.
Is the solution to suppress their voices, rather than protect them from trolls and suppress the voices of the trolls?
Internal newsfeeds with all the rah rah pom pom shaking/drink the koolaid have disappeared in Asia offices.
It would be nice if there was some kind of scoring about the probability that something like this was organic or a coordinated campaign with sockpuppets.

It's also a glaring example of weak points in current law and Twitter specifically. First, Twitter really needs expand its privacy options. Someone should be able to publicly share an opinion without allowing anyone to reply to their timeline or DM them. On the legal point, sending graphic pictures to underaged girls is a sex crime, and underfunded law enforcement is not keeping up given physical crimes and multijurisdictional nature. Interpol or a related entity has to start chasing down criminals that send sexual material to young people. It is plainly child abuse regardless of politics.
I spent the other night writing a cowsay shortcut, so that’s something.
> force you to put something else in your body that you thought was not in your best interests or that of your child?

It's not in the best interest of other children to let your children not be immunized.

One of the reasons immunizations work so well is because of herd immunity. The entire population doesn't need to be inoculated against every random mutation the virus will take. Enough of the population has good enough immunity that the virus can't take a foothold. But once you dip below a certain percentage, the virus gets free rein to spread and evolve again.

Effective immunization requires that we all mostly get immunized.
I don't think it's the same as NIMBYism either, because the people who oppose it aren't all in the area, and there are cultural issues and issues of colonialism involved.

That said, the idea that NIMBYs won't oppose a luxury hotel or housing development is laughable. My NextDoor is filled with people posting proposed development of our downtown, criticizing it with specious reasoning, and trying to rally people against it. The nature of the development doesn't matter. How much it will improve our property values doesn't matter. How much it will help with housing or traffic doesn't matter.

A luxury hotel... I can already hear them shrilly decrying how we don't "need to bring more people to the area," as stupid an argument as that would be for a hotel.
I don't think that a hypothetical person will object.
U.S. Judges Admit Enhanced Interrogation Is Torture
So very rare.

Mass extinctions, from your number, appear to be a once in a 132 Mya event. [0]

Humans have been on Earth 0.1 Mya, 0.2Mya; statistically we'll be around for a total of 0.2 to 0.4 Mya in total. [0][1]

Therefore, there is a 1-330 chance of the two time lines overlapping.

[0] Assuming the present time is random, I believe the best estimate of event frequency is that we're in the middle of two occurrences; hence the doubling.
[1]I'm being generous here. I don't think we have 0.2 Mya left in us, primarily because for the first time in history we have the ability to kill ourselves off. Therefore the assumption that out present in at a random position of the human experience used in [0] is invalid. Since we probably only have 100 years left, that's a 1-1E6 possibility facing us.
It's interesting because in Atlanta the inner city is growing and the suburbs are becoming more like the city and creating walkable downtown areas. The new millennial ideal seems to be a revival of the main street and a rejection of both the strip malls and super urbanized downtowns.

If millennials really didn't like the urban lifestyle then wouldn't prices be dropping instead of staying high?

I was recently in a coffee shop in Ypsilanti, Michigan that was indistinguishable from one in Brooklyn. I think more and more people are realizing they can keep the things they want from trendy metros and move to places like Raleigh, Salt Lake City,Austin,Atlanta,Boise ,Dallas,Ann Arbor in exchange for lower costs and less traffic.
I watched a TED talk about this years ago and recognized myself and my habits. I've since stopped announcing plans until I have a certain amount of concrete progress. Sometimes I still misjudge, and lose motivation. For me this applies for both small and big things.

Eg say I make plans to go to the gym tomorrow. If I tell someone I'm going to go to the gym, I am less likely to actually do it. If I keep my mouth shut I'll probably follow through. I currently have an idea of something I'd like to do. It will take a lot of physical and emotional work. I've tried to make plans before and discussed them with some friends, and always after the discussions it never ends up happening. This time I'm not telling anyone until the plan is actually in motion.
Sad to see. Although, honestly, the parents shouldn't have allowed their kids to put themselves in these 'activist' positions to begin with. What did they expect? And also, a 16 year old girl speaking at the UN? Is that a joke?

I fully support protecting the environment but this is child exploitation for political purposes. These movements should be led by scientists, not children. Is it any wonder people are still skeptical?
Perhaps suggest that there is no market for this and there may never be one. This particular release is invite-only. I don't see this going anywhere.
>mom of 8-year-old climate activist Havana Chapman-Edwards

Is it just me, or is there something disturbing about an 8 year old activist for anything? I cannot see anything good coming from turning young children into activists. Kids that age need love and stability, not the fear that the world is going to end unless they do something.
When it's too late and the worst of the effects of this climate emergency are upon us, I would not want to be one of these climate deniers. There is going to be a reckoning and the reaction of people whose children are going to die will not be pretty.

This is not going away. What kind of person this badly disregards the science? Do these deniers also take their children to Witch Doctors? No? Oh, well then they like _some_ of the science.
Why would I want clothes to last until they look dated and unfashionable?
That's gernerally true for polster-types who brag around with what they have done wjile others see their contribution rather miniscule.

I know this could be understood insulting, still my observation though.
This.

This is particularly terrible for addresses. The only acceptable solution (that nobody uses) is as follows: allow FREEFORM addresses. Like, I'm OK with the website or the server doing some post-hoc validation, and suggesting to the user "This address doesn't seem right, are you sure it is correct?" But the amount of time I have to enter "county" (or whatever) for my London address (and sometimes it's Greater London, other times just London, or probably something else as well...) is ridiculous, doubly so because mail in the UK arrives without problems with little more than just a postcode.
Well, they were specifically posting a branded Accurint report for Krebs in the lampeduza (IIRC) thread.
Registering to vote can allow re-identification of your anonymized data
Excellent. Blame the victim for having an opinion.

People are not responding to their beliefs though - this is straight up abuse, racism, and crass insults. Presumably as they are unable to engage with those beliefs at a rational level.
Like others, I'm also left wondering what methods the US is really using. Obviously, it's too soon to disclose all the details. But compare this (where the few strategies disclosed involve methods like "guess the answer to a security question") to something where we do know the details.

For example, the Stuxnet worm used multiple OS zero days and involved hacking or otherwise exfiltrating signing keys from multiple other third parties (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-o...). I bet a lot of that sort of thing is going on these days too, and we just don't know about it.
-.-.

I think some fonts are not great at rendering Morse code :)

There may be a dah dit dah dah dah, but I don't know it either. But then again I don't know the less common punctuation, Cyrillic Morse, and I think heard once there is even Kanji Morse.

...-.-
I use Dropbox and just not paper
I think the difference here is it is announcing an accomplishment, not an intention. Since its already happened, you can build pride around it.

I believe the article is saying is that announcing "I'm going to quit drinking." Is not a good way to get and stay sober.
A truth stated passionately doesn't become false. A falsehood stated calmly doesn't become true. This is at the heart of why appeals to emotion are almost always logical fallacies.
I work for a no-name company in the midwest. Have my own office with a door. Pretty nice.
get the newest Sonys. in terms of audio, nothing beats them atm. - some well invested 300 bucks IMO.
Could we expect the war criminals responsible for this be prosecuted now?
I saw $6.1b first as a Google given answer. It said different on Wikipedia so I investigated the source. I knew my high school teachers were wrong about Wikipedia!
The wheel gets reinvented because wheels are extremely useful, not because they look good on resumes. (OTOH, Greenspun's tenth rule is a different story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule)
> - up to date with technology and great chances for resume building.

Resume driver development is bad for the planet, you, for everything.

Java programmers still find jobs; COBOL programmers are still needed; FORTRAN is still alive, so I'd rather find something that will not go away in my lifetime than trying to keep up with trends.
> Or, you know, that group gets thrown to prison or bombed, and problem solved, how about that?

Are you really arguing we go to war with every country who doesn't stop using fossil fuels?

> beats dying in a climate apocalypse

I'm 100% for paying more to switch to 100% renewable energy, but none of the effects of climate change [0] will in any way result in an apocalyptic future.

[0]: https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
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I think I'd have a less negative reaction if people actually had a decent amount of personal space in these floorplans. In the photo at the top of the article, two people could scarcely yawn and stretch at the same time without making physical contact. If you're towards the end and you want to just take a bathroom break, you'd have to physically weave around people and chairs to get out. My home office that I use for playing video games is nearly as large as that space that houses presumably four working professionals. How is this reasonable? How does anyone think this is a good way of investing in your expensive staff? If this is all the space you can afford, I absolutely sympathize, but maybe at that point it's time to let people work from home.
Using children as political tools is disgusting. It's blatantly manipulative. Throwing them into the cess-pool of public politics and then acting as if you're shocked they're in a cess-pool, and using that shock to try to score political points, is one of the more reprehensible tactics in the modern play book.
Some of those "real leftists" are incredibly aggressive to a point where they fit the horseshoe theory. They act like Trump supporters are actually retarded, which isn't a great way to convince people to join your side. This "my team vs your team" mentality will lead to another Trump in office.
You're not being very charitable here -- all the stuff that got tacked on was the answer to whether this was an isolated incident or not.

Stallman's personal views are something that people involved in Free Software have been trying for years to downplay and sweep under the rug because RMS is Free Software to a large extent and every part of him affects people's image of the surrounding work.

I love Free Software and I contribute a lot of code. I hope that RMS the archetype lives on in the mission of the FSF but that the grittier reality fades.
We shouldn't suppress any voices, unless they're outright calling for violence.

We also shouldn't elevate our children to become spokespeople for the world.

Let kids be kids.