skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
put a stick in the ground and note the time at narrowing intervals until the shadow starts getting longer, taking the shortest shadow as solar noon??? seems like a non-issue since you've already got an accurate watch. if you're lost without a gps and have no idea what your long. is, you've probably got a lot of spare time to figure it out.
> NoteToSelf Mail is a little app that I have on my home screen that lets me really easily send an email

Oh snap, I haven't thought the AppStore is such saturated platform, where there is specific app to send an email to myself - why FastMail or Spark won't be enough to do that? Isn't just two/one less click optimization app?
The latter is what the former originally means :)
The US did overreact and attempted to do nation building in Afghanistan. But your prescription for letting them sort things out on their own has already been tried, and it was a colossal failure. The government hosted terrorist organizations who killed thousands of people in the US and mounted attacks on civilians of many nationalities around the world.
This is solid advice.

When I was younger, I didn't have to do anything particularly special to get job/intern interviews at IBM Almaden, MIT Lincoln Labs or Trimble Navigation. Master your craft to an obsessional level, follow-up with any expressed interest or requests for data/CV and show curiosity by asking good questions.
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How the hell did you have the ability to drop 5000 hours on this?
Firing mods and stealing content: Stack Exchange cooperating with community?
Sorry, it was Heartbleed actually.
Wait, are you referring to the comment in which I refer to them as “fringe concepts”, “already moot”, and “edge cases”?

Please don’t attempt to twist my words in order to support your own bogus position. Act like a chess master and just resign already.
> Developing countries will either rapidly industrialize and militarize, becoming yet another part of the problem, or they are likely to be marginalized into migration, collapse, and death.

Without re-examining our priorities quickly and changing our economies, this fate awaits everyone.

> Which in practical terms applies to every human being, ever, who didn't become an ascetic monk.

No, not everyone is a Reactionary.
In most cases both can be true; "renter's ability to pay" is usually not the limit of what they can pay, but what they are willing to pay. If you put a tax that would increase the rent 10%, some people will pay (cut on other expenses), some will move out and someone else will move in and pay. At the end of the day, any tax is passed to the consumer, so it is never helping the consumer.
Promote the incompetent to the level where they can do the least amount of damage.
Ask HN: Is it possible for a open source project to kill commercial competition?
I know, it sounds insane. But would it theoretically be possible for a passionate community/fanatic to make a system/piece of software/service that a corporation can't compete with without losing money?

For instance, if a system like Matrix included everything Slack and Discord charge money for free. Could that basically make people not want to pay for said features ever again, and get rid of the market altogether?

In theory something similar happened for programming languages and web browsers didn't it?
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Stalin's poems with illustrations by Hitler: http://kto-kto.narod.ru/bl-bl-4/stalin_hitler.html
Oh, for the bay area, absolutely.

I will say though, might not make the most sense to pick a house in Mountain View as an example. For a couple just starting out in the South Bay that don't have two high earners and want to own a house, Fremont/Union City/Milpitas/San Jose are more realistic.

Also because of prop 13, it can make sense to lose money on buying vs. renting in the short term if you anticipate staying somewhere for a long time, because of the potentially huge property tax savings. And for basically the same reason it can make sense to lock in a mortgage payment that doesn't look like a great deal on paper in the short term.
When you say "before the renaissance", you mean "between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, in Europe", right?

Because, for example, the ancient Greeks used mathematics in the design of siege weapons - you have to solve a cube root to work out how big the torsion springs should be in a ballista:

http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Technology/en/Catapults...
First of all, that's an ad-hominem (and rude).

The title of TFA is about how "People Are Already Reporting Collisions With Tesla’s Driverless Smart Summon Feature".

So clearly it's not the case that "the car will stop itself if needed for safety"...

Your point is that if it was for a kid on a bicycle it would, but for the reported situations (not being kids on bicycles) it doesn't?

Because the more obvious conclusion is that it doesn't work properly period, and that can bite people, where the case involves an incoming bicycle or not. Especially since we have reported cases of Teslas hitting bicyclists in the non-summon mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3m1U2KiGgI
I think you would be firmly in “creating completely new markets” territory at that point. It would be like trying to imagine what one would need 1000x as many transistors for, at the dawn of semiconductors. The world certainly wasn’t buying that many vacuum tubes, was it?

From my perspective, these are the big ones in the near term:
1) LEO satellite internet. Fixes the lag issues with GEO orbits, making space internet directly competitive for some applications.
2) Tourism: I would certainly pay a very pretty penny indeed to see the earth from space.

Longer term:
3) Global sun shade or other system for preventing global climate catastrophe. In 30 years I think we’ll be talking a lot about this.
4) Resource extraction, which otherwise doesn’t make sense with expensive rockets.
5) Self sustaining mars base. Still can’t figure out what the economic incentive is for this. It will cost a lot of money for what return exactly?
The thing with the F9H is, that there was no real need for it for years, it almost got cancelled entirely. The F9 was improved to a point where it could do most missions which initially were thought to require a F9H. So the development of the F9H was done at a lower speed than if the business had depended on it. But as there seem to be some contracts requiring the F9H, they made it eventually. How often it will fly though, entirely depends on how quickly the Starship progresses.
In construction price gouging is often less about the rate than less ethical charges.
The 'web' link hacker news supplies worked for me (in incognito)
Direct link to article https://books.google.com/books?id=ygoAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA16&ots=...
The person you replied to was expressing skepticism that the claim that the X-29 was "the most aerodynamically unstable aircraft ever built", on the grounds that the F-117 first flew in 1981 (which implicitly predated the X-29 which first flew three years later in 1984), and was unstable on all three axes.

You asked of what relevance the date first flight was, and I made the relation of first flights explicit, which answers your question of what relevance it is. That is all. Your claim about what I want to argue exists only in your own mind.
I feel like most people have that much time assuming they cut out time wasting things like Facebook/YouTube/etc.
There was no malice intended. At the time I commented, also the top comment here in HN was saying the same thing. So I assumed everyone knew what we were talking about. This whole HN thread had like 10 comments in total so it was easy to read. Then the thread made it to the HN front page, and it blew up. (And people in the US/Europe woke up while I was having dinner with friends here in Australia).

Edit: the HN comment I’m talking about is this one, you can see from the timestamp it's older than mine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21104074
I don't know about that. I think salaries for web developers without some differentiating skill set have collapsed, or were never really that high to begin with. The average salary coming out of my undergrad's CS dept is about $60K.

Programming salaries are now very bimodal.
I hope you have a signal jammer that blocks all other wifi networks, because it's been proven that smart TV's also connect to open wifi.
You mean the US has been sitting there since the 70s. Trained a bunch of militants there who eventually turned on their colonial masters using them for brute force to fight the Soviets, don't you? The government who hosted the terrorist organization in Afghanistan then could be said to be the US.
The way Americans rationalize this is saying that if a business is not insanely profitable, then it is not even worth starting. In tech this manifests itself as saying that you should only create "world changing" businesses, and if you have a so-called "lifestyle" business you're seen as a loser. The reality is that these insanely profitable business can only exist when you have a deep pocketed investor as a co-owner of the business, that is, a billionaire owning a large part of the business is a necessary part of the process.
If it was that easy we would have built them already.
Pretty much this, the only reason anyone gave Go any attention was:

1. The pedigree of the creators
2. Google's developer marketing

And now we are stuck with it thanks to traction.
Self-care and wasting time or not equivalent things.
the “first decade of this century”?

i think you’ve grown a little too old.
It would be a welcome addition to my dentist's office. He is forever struggling with his staff switching the office radio from classical to something else. I guess that's a use case.
5000 hours is a long time, but you can do it in 5 years with under 3 hours per day. That's within most people's means though you would have to make sacrifices.
Spacex hasn’t shown a payload capability yet; ie a starship model with clam doors, but they’re going to at some point I wager. Or an expendable second stage.
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He also talked about how stainless steel has a high melting point (which means their re-entry heat shield doesn't need to be as thick) and gets stronger rather than weaker at very low temperatures.
Where exactly Google marketed the language, please gave us any example.
Solar hot water heating works really well in the northern US. It’s an odd tradeoff as you get less energy so you need to scale up, but you also use the system more days out of the year. You do want a large thermal mass which can be difficult to add to an existing home.
I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences
If you don’t know how to workaround WSJ paywalls then ask someone - the rules allow for that. They didn't ask - they just complained. Or pay up and subscribe to the WSJ!
Mayakovski wrote in a 1927 piece [1] "he'll plow the fields, then write a poem". I wonder now if this was about Stalin?

I also wonder about odd habits of other great men (great as in "highly influential"). Is a man with great inspirations but without quirky habits unrelated to their field doomed to mediocracy?

[1] https://info.wikireading.ru/228439
“Administered”. I’m not talking about local admin rights, I’m talking about the people in your IT department who administer a fleet of Windows PCs.

It doesn’t normally mean “create offline account”, but domain accounts are not the same as Microsoft accounts, and domain accounts are a normal part of enterprise deployments. So it does normally mean that you can create a non-Microsoft account. Yes, it’s stupid. Not defending it, just trying to explain what “join domain” means.
It was more based on the idea of the network effect, because any service in communication systems may benefit from additonal users. This effect is uncoupled from the actual technical implementation, though that is also an important factor of course.
I always found it fascinatingly ironic that AGI research only fund deep learning which is a local minimum.

People really interested in AGI should better look at Cyc and opencog
curious how googles developer marketing got us a solid golang standard library
Avoid messy, gobbledygook, weak and no typed programming languages along with giant bloatware languages.
Yes it did. Google's chromium project, Firefox, and webkit have combined to kill IE/Edge. The key difference with hosted applications IMHO is that the open source version needs to overcome the cost of hosting. For clientside apps that's less of an issue.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/20/20813510/microsoft-chromi...
Except that what GP really wants is an APL keyboard to go with that.
Methane was chosen to a large extent because you could make it fairly easily on Mars which is necessary if you want to fly people there and then get them back again.
Linux and the BSDs killed the commercial UNIX market, at least mostly.

Back in the 1980s there were "cheap and cheerful" compilers such as Turbo Pascal, I think those have been squeezed between free tools and Visual Studio.
> Google's developer marketing

Pretty sure Go was a huge 'failure' for a long time (in terms of marketshare)
"Cloud?" It can work with anything with an API. If there's a Terraform provider that they or the community hasn't projected into TypeScript (or whatever) you can do that yourself with minimal effort. Not sure what else you'd want.
> My younger relatives actively seek out video tutorials and the like, and YouTube is the first place they look.

I would suspect that's because they've had more things read to them than they have acquired the skill/patience/vocabulary/instinct to seek out things to read for themselves.

I guess similarly, without the mental movie to play out the actions they're hearing the words for, it can be easier to watch someone type or watch a program run than to read about that same action
Here in NYC

There are hundreds of other markets in the United States than New York City (and tens of thousands worldwide), and the vast majority of them have just one public radio station.

This isn't a "public radio tuner." It's a single station tuner.
can you share the checklist for us who are curious?
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“Administered”. If you don’t have IT specialists you don’t have people administering your PCs professionally.

I’m not talking about people who happen to use Windows in a professional setting. I’m talking specifically about people whose main job responsibilities include Windows administration.
It's also probably worth pointing out that the future of space travel may not be trips made by people in their lifetimes with the knowledge of science that exists now.

If we can somehow figure out how to keep astronauts in stasis some way or the other, that would remove the need to get anywhere in under 100 years or so. If humans become cyborgs and lose the need for standard forms of nutrition or air, that helps too. If methods for life extension are found, the same.

And if that fails, well there's always robots. Or potentially colony ships. Nothing says the automated ship has to be 'on' for the duration of the journey, only the launch and destination.

with any of these ideas, the speed of light becomes even less of an issue.
You lads ever heard of gab or zeronet ?
But it is tunable which breaks the whole 'statement' for me.

It's more "hackable" than "tunable."

If it was a "tunable radio," then the tuning mechanism would be exposed to the user.
They are human beings killing people on command in an unjust situation. They should feel bad. They should be mentally hurt. They shouldn't just go about their lives like they completed a level in a videogame. This is what it means to be human and what it means to murder someone. All the bullshit justifications aside, it's impossible to keep rationalizing all the killings of the last seventy plus years. At least from a US perspective, we haven't been in a just war since WWII. The operators know this. So good. Maybe this will make the armed forces think twice about deploying such murderous technologies. I doubt it. But at least, hopefully less people will volunteer for sure murderous roles and missions. Once can only hope.
So Aldi shopping carts and Berlin keys are isomorphic.

You stick your token in, you gain access to a facility, and then to get your token back, you must restore the facility to its proper state. Additionally, in both cases, the facility you're unlocking happens to involve physically moving an object around.
Full on programming as a mechanic seems overwhelming, but I like the idea of automation in strategy games

I’ll give your game a try, maybe I’ll be proved wrong
Creative thinking e.g. how many different ways might a paper clip be used?
The clarity, simplicity and minimal didactic approach towards making old instructional videos is gone now. We have subscribe/hit-the-bell reminders, annotations, background music, sponsorships, intro and exit greetings and all kinds of unneeded bullshit in video production.

Commercialization of video has ruined this art form. Just compare early Mythbuster episodes to something from 2016. Production quality has horrendously degraded. The money is where the masses are and the masses want entertainment, not education.
Right, speaking as a lapsed mathematician, I definitely see errors or gaps in published work. Wiles’ original FLT proof had one. And yes these can generally be patched up. I’m not quite as alarmed as the author is, because generally a major false result would have all sorts of alarming ripple effects and implications which would be pretty easy to spot. FLT is an extreme example where literally anyone with a calculator could in theory disprove it. The fact that no one has suggests to me that it’s likely true.
The basic-ness of golang is the best part about it.
Yep, it's to match vector/array size_type and difference_type, although I tend to just use size_t and ptrdiff_t directly.
It was indeed copied, by Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Modula-2, Modula-3, unfortunately not by the languages that won.
> They do, else MS would not need those dark patterns.

No, typical end users do not care what “domain join” means. They only care about creating offline accounts. “Domain join” isn’t supposed to mean “create offline account”, it’s supposed to let you join the computer to an AD domain. Or at least, that’s what I’d expect.
If your entire existence is justified by creature comforts and an unyielding demand that nothing ever changes, then isn't technological progress just as disruptive to your ethos?

Doesn't that arguement suggest that despotism is self-justifying because it increases the quality of life for the despots?

The notion that a temporary setback due to our worldview basing itself on untenable principles is no different than societal collapse is, to me, terribly wrongheaded.

If anything, the knowledge and technology we have gained enables us to imagine building something truly better from scaffolding erected by our current, less-than-desirable societal structure and industrial dependence on expensive and toxic energy (made all the more absurd by the fact it is essentially free with modern technology if we are just willing to alter our usage patterns a bit). Maybe we can imagine a world with a place for everyone and an understanding that cooperation and coordination need not only be accomplished via super-massive hierarchies that unjustly benefit only the upper strata.
Naw, not unless you’re firing up an eGPU...not for 4K, anyway.
Looked up an interesting photo from the article: Dryden “Research Aircraft Fleet on Ramp, X-15, F-18, SR-71, X-31, X-29”
link: https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Fleet/HTML/EC93-4101...
I'm not sure that's a fair characterization. Regardless of whether the US should have gotten involved or should have seen future problems coming, my understanding is that at the time that the US was supporting the Mujahideen they were attacking military targets and where therefore guerrilla fighters, not terrorists.
Obligatory counter: "Teach yourself programming in 10 years"

http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
Ah, it must be a user option in Reddit, I assumed that everyone else was reading the same thing I was reading. Also, at the time I commented here on HN, the top comment here was this one so I was assuming everyone would see it (but later it went down the page and now it’s hard to find) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21104074
This is a year and a half old. I wonder to what extent it has still true now that the AI hype tsunami has receded ever so slightly.
The Su-47 is discussed in the article.
Theres a little more philosophies to go by. I wouldnt invest too much time to incorporate something thats just superficially augmenting a layer of organization. But yes, something to meditate on if it werent used in an inflationary manner in other instances.
It's a one time grant that seems to be given sort of randomly, by which I mean I don't believe people apply for it. You just kind of get surprised one day to learn that these folks think you are spiffy.

Good for him, but I really don't see that as a rebuttal to "wages are so low for this occupation that people really good at this choose to do other things as a job." It's a bit like saying "Well, just do what you love anyway! You could totes win the lottery as a way to keep a roof over your head!"

Well, kudos to the lottery winners! But most folks would like a paycheck they can kind of count on that covers their needs reasonably adequately without hoping for a windfall out of the blue as the solution to their problems.
So why are the pictures on the site clearly of retrofits of solar panels to an existing tile roof?
Yeah. Oops. Autocorrect FTL
If it's anything like the UK, plenty of non-disabled people use them regardless - because they drive a massive Q7 which doesn't fit into regular spaces, or just because they're closer to the store/school/whatever.

Pretty dispicable if you ask me, but there does seem to be a large segment of the population that just don't give a shit.
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I think it's been a good week for him. The Starship of course, but on the Tesla front they are coming up on the end of a quarter with record deliveries, shipping Smart Summon which might let them finally add the FSD revenue to the Tesla reports, etc.
So radix sort IRL.
I wouldn't make a Ph.D program decision based solely or even primarily based on potential salary. Aptitude and, especially, personal interest should be a stronger guide. AI will likely turn out to be as data science was 7 or 8 years ago: In demand, for now. Then, the market will be flooded and salaries will drop to the average rates for qualified professionals of a given level of credentials & experience.
I think a regex match on emojis in the subject line would be a good heuristic too. It's a good indicator of a marketing email. A bicep / unicorn especially so.
Eh. I strongly suspect that cheap, quick, self-driving (solar-sourced) electric cars and VR + seamless telecommuting is going to nip urbanization in the bud and send people back to the burbs.

Maybe 20-30 YO college graduates will do a tour of duty in SF/NY for fun, but nobody in their 30s+ is going want to go to bed listening to their upstairs neighbors party, their downstairs neighbors screw, and the homeless schizophrenic outside systematically shatter glass bottles on the sidewalk.
This is a thing!

The ISS runs 120v DC for this reason...higher efficiency and much less complex since you don’t need inverters and and power supplies.

My burning man camp of 65 people also only has a DC grid that runs on 24v

30kwh daily solar harvest

It’s a thing of beauty :)