skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a good chance that the next collapse will be more comprehensive than previous ones though. In particular, it's very easy to imagine nukes getting thrown around as nations compete for rapidly diminishing topsoil & fresh water.
Yup, complaining about deprecating 32bit seems to primarily be a choice by game devs who care about frame rates, but will happily throwaway 10-20% perf win that you get on x86_64
It is carbon neutral to make hydrocarbons and then burn then as long as the energy source for making them is carbon neutral. The hydrocarbons have the advantage of far higher energy density, which makes them much better as fuels.
I've become a believer in any kind of work that lasts a long time, especially art, structures, and ideas. It's these types of inheritance that improve the lives of future people.
When did we stop fantasying about the future? Of all the trends in the world, that's the one I find the most worrying.
> Now a billionaire

Enough to have people around you always to absorb your manic-ness to feel a little better. Works for the president
So their only differentiator is they advertise and their competitors don’t?
I strongly suggest using better sources for this. You should avoid using Wikipedia when things like the SEP[1] and IEP[2] are available. Also, "probabilistic" fallacies are not formal fallacies. E.g. something like the "gambler's fallacy" is not a de facto formal logical fallacy.

Further, the "Naturalistic Fallacy" isn't what you think it is. There's a difference between "argument from nature" or "the appeal to nature" (which is what you think it is), and G.E. Moore's Naturalistic Fallacy[3]. This is a pretty embarrassing mistake, especially if you'd like to be treated like an authority on the subject.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/

[2] https://www.iep.utm.edu/

[3] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-non-naturalism/#Nat...
In general, people tend to be overconfident in their beliefs and too slow to incorporate new information. There is experimental evidence to back this up (pdf warning: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Baruch_Fischhoff/publica...). I think this applies to engineers as well as anyone else.
The NY Times is leading the reader to conclude that the "solution" is to outlaw encryption

> Offenders can cover their tracks by connecting to virtual private networks, which mask their locations; deploying encryption techniques, which can hide their messages and make their hard drives impenetrable; and posting on the dark web, which is inaccessible to conventional browsers.
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It also sounds like an excellent recipie for being utterly beholden to every industry trend that gains critical mass despite numerous examples of how sub-optimal it is.

It's a strategy for a big corporate hiring committee, not an individual worker.

Of course the actual successful software companies "build the next proven thing" so even for them, this "wait and see" strategy is clearly not effective.
Even if that's true, which I'm not seeing from a cursory glance; they've released their project as open source and it seems active.

They've chosen technology I like too (python/postgres/redis/saltstack), and it seems to have a clean interface.

On purely technical/product merits I like it.
It's a great, succinct post. Deeply uncool. A programmer should be modest about their skills, skeptical about new-new things, eschew bullshit, and terrified of dependencies. I buy the whole thing.

Moreover, I trust the advice of someone who rates themselves poorly more than someone proclaiming that they're a hotshot.
As in, adding more features to C++? And then people cry about how complex C++ is.
I've been in the industry 8 years and worked on maybe a half dozen games but none of the projects was >400 hours.

I don't see how to make the commitment to spend multiple years without like an income coming from it and a team to work with. By myself it just becomes unbearable after a while.

I want to make a living off games. I'm almost 30 and things aren't getting easier.
I dont mean to be offensive, but usually those things take like a month to learn if you're bad at it. People talk about that grind like it's anything other than the most basic of gestures for tracking the rapidly moving target of browser technology.

If this is what we mean by, "being a bad programmer" I guess I get it now. A refusal to actually track the state of the industry, instead being told by employers what matters.
Which is far better, IMHO
Same with the F/A-18.

I remember being really into naval aviation when I was a kid, and I'd look at carrier air wings. There would be F-14s for air superiority, A-7s for light attack, A-6s for heavy attack, EA-6Bs for electronic warfare, KA-6Ds for tankers, S-3Bs for anti-submarine warfare, etc.

Now I look at a modern carrier air wing, and it's F/A-18E/Fs for air superiority, F/A-18E/Fs for light attack, F/A-18E/Fs for heavy attack, F/A-18E/Fs for anti-submarine, F/A-18E/Fs for tanking, and EA-18Gs for electronic warfare. Same for the Marine Corps and a bunch of foreign nations.

For that matter, the X-29 was itself a variant of the F-5, another lightweight, low-cost design that got a lot of mileage in different roles, including being the starting point for the F/A-18 design. Sometimes it pays to be cheap.
> Almost all of the bespoke code is written in Python, but the message-passing architecture of the system and the approach to managing availability was directly inspired by reading about Erlang (in particular your book).

This approach is pretty interesting - I’d love to read about implementing Erlang-style availability in other languages.
Since this is HN, I am going to prefix this with the disclaimer that this is not a denial of climate change. Here goes:

Bloomberg terminal is $24K/yr. I use that as a baseline for the market value of somewhat accurate/timely information--they don't give it away! Contrast with newspapers, which are sold primarily at cost of distribution, "5 free article" news websites which are more PR-organ than journalism, and cable news--which is virtually given away to the point of ubiquity (restaurants, salons, dr's offices, etc).

This whole "you are the product" biz is nothing new. Media serves its advertisers. They have to keep us exposed to the ads, and crises are effective at that--keeping us all under a sort of siege mentality--where we check compulsively as if life and limb were at stake. Actual knowledge or constructive insight will never be offered. That would diminish the effect. Instead, they offer a round-table of whores and buffoons (all billed as world-class experts, of course) to crank the despair up to 11.

To go to the shrink and take the pills is to succumb to both stages of the scam. Before going there, first try disengaging from media. Grab a book off archive.org instead--preferably, an old one.
I hope I am never in a position to hear that sound in person.
The center core of the Falcon Heavy has been described by Musk as effectively an entirely new rocket, due to the million pound lateral forces holding the three rockets together. It's not just three Falcon 9 strapped together.
Sure, I was kind of envisioning overloading []. It did make me think though: perhaps it is best to have an embedded interpreter for accessing member items? It is what gcrypt does, actually -- embedded lisp syntax. I always wondered why and I think now I know.
This is the key to this competition-winning business model: more than half the cost of a resi solar system in the US is in the installation and the design/permitting.

Permitting involves things like making sure the design is up to fire codes (eg there are setback requirements to make sure a firefighter can put a ladder on the roof) and the interconnection work with the utility that lets you send energy back into the grid. In the worst states, these extra costs are largely artificial barriers (ie outright anti-competitive tactics).

I believe Germany for example spent a lot of work streamlining these all these permitting and interconnection fees, and as a result has much lower solar costs.

What this company appeared to have proposed in this contest is that by bolting solar onto pre-fab homes in the factory:

1. Installation costs drop, presumably because it's built into the design of the home and there's factory tooling around it instead of a retrofit system; and

2. Permitting costs go down because the design is standardized and presumably you can get economies-of-scale if you're connecting a whole subdivision or trailer park all at once.

This also nicely addresses the equity angle since prefab homes are generally aimed at lower income levels -- the claim here is that this building can drop the price of solar by almost half for this demographic.
Any sources on that? Tildes is a young community still tho, voat failed and I don't think it'll be able to reach much success either (where success = massive volume of users). We'll see.
Agree. Everyone is a poor programmer when they start. If they all thought like this, we would have zero good programmers.
Personally I think you should skip the /r/ or /i/ part of the paths. Always bothered me that reddit has it - communities are central to these sites so IMO they should be the first part of the path
On the other hand, you could connect 12V lights in series to get them the desired voltage.
They should also set up a national reserve of that stuff. It's practically the new oil, your econ halts.

If they exist in friendly countries, and they do, then it's just a matter of setting up the infrastructure. So what it costs, say, $1.8, more per smartphone?
Looks great. I think everyone should have an understanding of how arguments can be fallacious.

But one thing I noticed - going down the fallacy rabbit hole - is that you can find fallacies in almost any written opinion...

I think this is because fallacies are somewhat subjective and some fallacies can even oppose each other, so there's no way to avoid them...

But that's just my (fallacy-riddled) opinion
Well, unless you've killed 10+ innocent people, I don't think there's a way to prove it, nor do I think you should be so sure of yourself.

Beyond people having problems killing others, the nature of the job in question is that you will have visuals on people you are responsible for terminating, and there will be mistakes made, often on Intel you've provided ("it looked like a terrorist meeting to me, how was I to tell it was guys shooting the shit around a campfire?")

I used to think of myself how I think you think of yourself, where I thought I could view killing and death rationally. Since then I've had a few points where I had to deal with the death of people I knew and while I was somewhat clinically detached most the time, there were instances, sometimes months later, where I was overcome with emotion for the first time regarding that incident. There's a fine line between being able to rationalize your decisions and being in denial, and the human mind doesn't always act as you want or expect. And besides making people accidental murderers, how do you test for this? Seems like many people in the army would probably identify just as you are, yet we still have this problem.
Why should we? Schools are universally reviled in the US because of what they have become. Mindless drudgery and ineffective teaching techniques mixed with a sullen workforce prepping the next generation of sullen workforce.

Wealthy individuals counteract this with extensive (and expensive!) private tutoring.
> Your "go to" data structures should be hash tables about 70% of the time and vectors about 30% of the time.

Depends on your program. In my world, it's vectors about 99% of the time when it's not a fixed-size array.
You lost me at "next thing you know in our production code we started getting these weird ass recursive functions...". I don't mean to be mean, but recursion is pretty fundamental to a lot of algorithms, and it sounds like the SICP coder was just writing stuff more advanced than you were comfortable with.
If you ALAN you can't KISS. You won't know what the simplest thing is. You'll end up with miles of nested "ifs" instead of 4 lines of recursion. A gazillion "else ifs" instead of case etc.

He's got one thing right. He's a poor programmer. "Success" must be mighty loosely defined here.
For a simple false negative it would. That is a special false negative, at least to me. Is that occurrence common, and do you have an example?
People today have not been given such advantages. Example: let's say I'm a poor white guy from Appalachia. Will you really tell me I have been given advatages for centuries? When you hire normally, you can somewhat absolve yourself of concern for personal situation; you judge based on emperical information as presented by the candidate. When you play God and take it upon yourself to be the judge, you are morally responsible for discovering everything about some one's life and weighing each impartially against the other. How arrogant must one be to believe himself capable of such a judgement; the judgement not of one resume against another, but of one soul against another? If we could evaluate people's whole selves; we would not have resumes, nor references, nor interviews.
Even more than that, you pick up speed due to the nose down configuration. This means the forces on the control surfaces are so great that you can no longer manually trim via the trim wheels. This was, apparently, a well known handling characteristic of the 737, with original versions describing a "roller coaster" maneuver where you dive briefly to relieve the forces on the control surfaces and incrementally trim. Unfortunately, because of how MCAS was set up, it was inactive while flaps were set, but kicked in immediately upon flaps up, meaning that they essentially had no altitude to work with.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNOVlxJmow&t=1008s for a flight sim recreation of this situation on an NG.

Everything here seems to be that exceptional pilots can (and did) save the situation, but that it's not straightforward even with training.
How are you going to prevent your reddit clone website being overrun with lowest-common-denominator content? i.e. how you will maintain quality long-term, after the initial rush of novelty wears off.
> Learning how to use something like Vue when you already know how to use React (or vice versa) is stupid because they both solve the exact same problem in a reasonably similar way with a reasonably different API.

Settling on Mithril as my front-end library was a long journey from framework to framework. If I had stopped at Vue or React, I'd be much worse off for it.

Really, if I had stopped at the first front-end library/framework I used in web dev, I'd still be using PHP. Sometimes you need to move on, and if later asked about your technical choices in a professional environment, you need to have a professional answer that comes from wide experience.
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> Why Vladimir Putin Suddenly Believes in Global Warming

Not answered in this article. It could be some sort of strange internal pressure or just plain obvious to get pressure off other treaty's he wants.

Anyway I love the new spam using GANs? or just a language A -> B B-> A to convert articles for clicks -

https://luxorr.media/analysis-why-vladimir-putin-suddenly-be...
Please don’t store everything in Arrays. If your language supports tuples, use them. If it doesn’t, at least use a struct if possible. Basically: Constrain the possible input and output space of your functions to the smallest amount of possible values. That way, you are reducing the room for errors significantly. Using arrays everywhere, many errors might even go unnoticed until an edge case occurs.
IIRC a clearing co. CLS used erlang a few years ago. LinkedIn still has the erlang architect JDs somewhere.
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from a ui perspective, i think this is correct.

the only issue will be losing familiarity for reddit users.
Angular?
Did you look at the unequivocal denials posted by the very companies mentioned in the story?

As Bloomberg reported: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-h...

Apple: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got...

Amazon: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/setting-the-record-str...

Supermicro: https://www.supermicro.com/en/pressreleases/supermicro-refut...
Consider Member -

https://memberapp.github.io/

It's got Reddit style functionality (HN style theme at present) with all content on the Bitcoin (BCH) blockchain.
I really loved the site, great work. My only feedback is to make the pagination more apparent...I at first thought it was a work in progress and you only had the first 20 until I searched around and noticed the pagination boxes... I think clearer pagination or pagination that beckons you to click will reduce your bounce rate
If you invest more energy you can also turn Methane into longer chain hydrocarbons and produce things like plastics or lubricants.
A lot of the complexity is hidden in the second video. It's the exact same deal, it just doesn't look like it. In particular those innocuous 'waffle irons' on the side play an incredibly important role. You miss the scale in the video thanks to how big everything is. Those fins are each 4' x 5' large. And each of them can independently yaw/pitch/roll. And of course the exact angle that the rocket is at when it fires its boostback (as well as when it's coming down), exactly how long the boostback is fired, and a large number of other variables all need to be lined up exactly perfectly. Otherwise you end up literally thousands of miles from your destination, run out of fuel, or otherwise condemn your mission in a surprisingly large number of innovative ways.

The big difference you're seeing compensated for is that Mars atmosphere is less than 1% dense as Earth. So to slow yourself down you need a much larger exposed surface area. Do that exact maneuver on Earth and you'd get an 'unplanned rapid disassembly' during reentry thanks to the thicker atmosphere. That danger and complexity is also something that's hidden.

I cannot recommend Kerbal enough for anybody even vaguely interested in space. Just absurdly fun and does really help you get a feel for all of these issues.
Cranes aren't especially heavy. You would need a boom to extend 2x the maximum dimension of the cargo hatch, so probably 8 feet, out past the exterior skin, plus some dyneema or steel cable, plus a winch motor of some sort. Not 100 lbs but probably less than 1000.
They're not in order, they're just in a data structure where the largest remaining element can be extracted in O(1) time. One can't say anything useful about any other elements of the list.
I wonder if the author has considered the idea that it's not a lack of effort or some inherent cognitive gap that keeps them from being "good" programmers, but perhaps these beliefs instead?
If China stops harvesting organs from Uyghurs, harassing foreign companies with arbitrary law enforcement, dumping fentanyl in Europe and the US, blocking foreign online services, manipulating currency, stealing IP, building out Orwellian monitoring infrastructure at home and abroad, forcing joint ventures, waging cyber attacks against every other nation, murdering families of reporters, dumping trash in the oceans, building fake islands in neighbors' territory, cheating in every agreement it signs on to, and giving speeches about literal ethnic supremacy of Han race during politburo meetings, it would be a good start for integrating with the rest of the global community peacefully. Until then it makes sense to use multilateral economic pressure from global community on the CPC. And no, "what about Murica bad" is not a valid way to address any of the mentioned concerns. Those are global problems, not US problems. Nobody wants to go back to mercantilism from 1800s.
I'm of the opinion that you need evidence of bullshit if you're going to claim that the reporting organization has lost all credibility. Anonymous sources unwilling to go public is the nature of intelligence community reporting.

If this story is real and sources are made public, people are almost certainly going to jail - some of those sources (if real) had to have security clearances.
But somehow, you can copyright it...
I dislike this mindset too. For any other profession it would be crazy, but for programming it's fine? What happened to apprentinceship and mastering the craft? Why is it fine to be considered a fool if you are not an expert programmer from the start? Should a blacksmith never make a sword, because at the beginning they can only make nails?
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Here is how you figure that out.

Go into your managers office and tell them what you think you are worth. Once you are fired, start your own company and charge clients what you think you are worth.

Either you will find out if you were paid enough or perhaps you are a millennial and don't realize that you are only worth what someone is willing to pay.
Ok let’s say China isn’t communist.

what is communist?

Is anything communist?

A Kibbutz maybe?

How about on the nation-state scale?

Was China communist under Mao?

Was the Soviet Union communist?

Castro’s Cuba?

Edit: Any Platonic ideal undergoes distortion when manifested in the material world.
Pedantic: Standard outlets are 16A in mainland Europe, so 3.7kW.

Modern single ovens can also be connected to a standard single phase outlet rather than a dedicated circuit. In my kitchen the induction cooktop is on a 16A three phase circuit, and all the other outlets (fridge/freezer, oven, dishwasher and appliances) are on a 16A single phase circuit.

5:11 from 20°C to 220°C
I found this video series about soil really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A

It's long, and I was sure I would click away, but the presenter has a great tone and the content is heka cool.
We work with multiple tens of ton of SS steel per month, and I would have never thought this heavy thing could fly with all the stress of the sky. I hope it fly good.
If that's not engineering I don't know what is.
Wow, thanks to you who have filled it out so far!

I confess I kind of pessimistically assumed nobody would. After all, a dev's time is very precious :). Really really appreciate it guys.
You didn't address the main point. So to expand on it, Google is effectively an information monopoly, which means that it uses its market dominance to restrict competition. Moreover, it also uses its position to influence the web and public opinion itself in ways for which there is no precedent. The US is not addressing this last aspect in any respect.

Not sure what Google being an American company has to do with that.
Plenty in Australia, drill baby drill!
NASA is still waiting for SpaceX to complete the Crew Dragon spacecraft that will fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The space agency has picked SpaceX (and another company, Boeing) to provide commercial crew flights to the station.

While SpaceX did launch an unpiloted Crew Dragon test flight to the space station this year, a subsequent abort system test failed, leading to the destruction of the vehicle. SpaceX aims to resume abort system tests later this year ahead of the first crewed test flight.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, it seems, is not happy with the years-long delays of Crew Dragon, as well as Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, especially after seeing SpaceX build Starship Mk1 this year ahead of its own test flight.

"I am looking forward to the SpaceX announcement tomorrow," Bridenstine wrote on Twitter Friday. "In the meantime, Commercial Crew is years behind schedule. NASA expects to see the same level of enthusiasm focused on the investments of the taxpayer. It's time to deliver."

Interesting.
What exactly is it then?

Why should we not take the CCP's description of their own system of government at face value?
It’s a fun idea but no, it’s not about Stalin - Mayakovsky refers to various Bolshevik leaders explicitly and often by name. It’s Mayakovsky, not Mandelstam.