skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>With a little imagination?

Space is surprisingly good at punishing 'imagination'.
The nose up posture is related to the aerodynamics of reentry. You can't blow through the atmosphere at Mach 25 dead on and have anything but a scorched hulk left afterwards. Those thermal tiles, and that particular reentry profile are required to allow the atmosphere to safely absorb the kinetic energy of a re-entering craft, while keeping the entire thing safe from becoming part of the exotic and exciting chemistry such a process involves and giving some level of control over the down range trajectory through adjusting the lift vector. That lift vector was engineered to be workable in the hypersonic regime, but once you got to subsonic, it was a bit like flying a brick as I recall.

Could a nuclear payload be lifted by the shuttle? Yes. Would the size of the resulting payload make it as effective as a rocket launched warhead? Not so much.

The Space Shuttle was an interesting effort in engineering extremes that only really got off the ground I think due to the unique situation of the time. The Apollo missions were a success, but Vietnam, and a souring disposition toward manned space programs really put the kebash on what the Shuttle was just meant to be one piece of.

I wish I could remember the exact name of NASA's solar system colonization plan back then, but it was truly a glorious thing to read. Politically impossible. Probably economically ruinous given the wars we'd get entangled in over the next 50 years. But a beautiful dream at least.

Interestingly enough, I think it was really a necessary fumble to make in order to realize that reusable rocketry was the more economic launch paradigm to go for.
Bad people cut both ways, and I think it's impossible to design any kind of document (CoC or otherwise) that can force assholes to behave nicely. All these discussions about formalizing relationships, expectations, and behaviors are in my opinion a foolish exercise of programmer logic in social situations, where you abstract away all the difficult human interactions behind something that resembles a function call and then use it everywhere. In reality, all social structures are unique, all relationships take time and effort to build, and a large amount of a programmer's effort will be spent in navigating human structures. The fantasy that you can put up a CoC so you can finally solve the human issues and get back to programming is the ultimate programmer dream, but it's not something that exists in the real world.
Matplotlib 3.1 Cheat Sheet
Because a gradual increase had the chance to be neutered by future politicians. It's rare to get the opportunity to actually increase minimum wage, so it makes sense to get several years worth of increases in one go.
To respond to your anecdata: In a capitalist system, isn't it their fault for not being able to compete? Why should we lower wages for thousands of workers because you personally know failing businesses?
I'm currently listening to "When the wizards stay up late" by Katie Hafner en Matthew Lyon.

It's about the origins of the internet, starting with the birth of arpanet and going from there.

I like it, it's interesting to know how it came to be.
I do a handful of Pilate Roll Ups when I first wake up in the morning and again before I go to bed. I do these everyday (takes about 5-10 minutes per day). I've been pain free for 8+ years. Here's a pic - http://www.easyvigour.net.nz/pilates/h_pilates2.htm
- Costs of delivering mass to orbit.

- Nanotubes

- Graphene

- Internet costs (I'm pretty sure it's dropping faster than exponentially)

- CDN and storage in general

- Many medical procedures

I expect meat prices to collapse in the next 10 years.
Retail jobs aren't meant to be bread-winner jobs. Any zero-skill job is going to pay whatever the local market minimum is.

There are two ways to raise the minimum market wage. First is minimum wage laws. Second is to increase labor demand or shorten labor supply.

There's clearly a surplus of no-skilled labor in the US, yet we're still importing more of it. Businesses are capitalizing on the market conditions and exploiting the labor surplus, that's why we're seeing the proliferation of so many chain restaurants and and other little-to-no-value businesses.
Laptops were for a while, but then stopped once they hit parity with desktops.
> With the profit motive taking over the internet, the very nature of innovation changed. Averting risk dominated the direction of technical progress. We no longer pursued “moonshots.” Instead advancement came via baby steps — “design me a 5% faster Bluetooth connection” as opposed to “build me an internet.” An online community that had once been convivial transformed into one of competition, antagonism and extremism.

This cycle is perhaps fundamental to all __human__ inventions and core to the theory of disruption.

This played out out the same way with Bitcoin. Ethereum had to step in to disrupt that cycle and as ETH grows to that size, some thing else needs to come in and disrupt. Same holds true for IBM > Google > Facebook > ...
But mothering is a full time job. That's kind of the point of the SAHM- a human adult must be around regularly a child below a certain age. At least half a decade. Often closer to a full decade. I don't think leaving for a shift every day or even a shift multiple times a week is feasible for a parent of a child below a certain age.
I assume they are referring to unlimited storage for £8-9/month
So... static shared web hosting? Or does GitHub Pages do something I don't know about?
If self driving cars exist courts will be more likely to take away drivers licenses from those who drive while drunk. Thus I'd expect 10% of the cars being self driving to result in something like 20% less drunk drivers because such drivers are more likely to get the self driving cars - not that they want them more than anyone else but because they are not given any choice.
PS4 Pro lmao
I'm on mobile, so I can't go looking up the exact quote. But, per FDR - the greatest President and greatest American - any business that relies on paying less than a living wage has no right to exist in this country. And a living wage isn't just basic subsistence, but the wages of a decent living.
Actually I think @simplicio might have hit the nail on the head. If you want to take out a line of credit from a bank, you have to be physically present at the bank to do so.

It would inconvenience SOME who don't live near a bank and shopping loan offers around will be harder than going on Quicken Loans, but it would also make it nearly impossible for the giant crime-rings that outside of the US to steal identities and open up credit cards.
It's off the shelf, it's a Kuka arm but the arm itself isn't the interesting bit. It's integrating the 3 arms, the print head, and the rotary table. I've programmed an older one of those arms and it was no cake walk and my program was to just do the Towers of Hanoi as a demo. [0]

[0] It's a pretty simple demo because it can just be done as a simple set of calculated linear motions. The only real trick was that the version of the language it was using didn't support recursion.
I think there's a mixup in this conversation going on. I thought the question was whether or not Facebook could determine whether a post was political in nature or not (biasing on the side of "it is") and refusing to accept money in exchange for distributing it.

Never was this thread about Facebook's role as an arbiter of "truth." The difficulty of that is much, much higher, and one that I agree shouldn't be entrusted to Facebook (or probably to any single entity, for that matter).

Again, this is not about whether people should be allowed to post their opinions on Facebook. It's really about whether Facebook should be used to amplify political speech; and also (secondarily), if they are used this way, whether they should allow advertisers to narrowly target political speech to audiences. With respect to your "gay rights" fringe argument, I see no difference in how that viewpoint (as formerly a fringe view) would be treated from a then-mainstream viewpoint under a broad rule like this. Neither pro- nor anti- rights messages would qualify for amplification.

BTW, there's a great discussion with Alex Stamos (former CSO at Facebook) in which he discusses it with more nuance and detail, but tries to thread the needle more than I feel comfortable doing: https://galley.cjr.org/public/conversations/-LsHiyaqX4DpgKDq...
Yeah, that is probably true. Big companies tend to hire entire companies to outsource work to, even when those companies are less efficient than individuals.

I did notice that all the corporate people have nearly zero mutual friends on Facebook, whereas with consultants and startup people there might have well over 100 mutual friends. It's quite an extreme.
Sure. And you could find a name like that for pretty much every website in existence in the 90's.

I strongly disagree that it's a special case, and I strongly disagree that there are only few websites left that feel like part of a bigger something. I think you are romanticizing the past (as most people do with most things they remember from their youth - remember when kids' TV shows were actually good?).
I won't go too heretic on internet, but I think it kicked the old structure too hard and too early.
Turns out I don't see the inline ads on Google anymore. Not sure when that changed.

I was using NoScript from 2010 until FireFox Quantum came out and broke things. Since then I've been on UBlock + UMatrix.

Agreed, seeing the internet without an ad blocker is a terrifying experience indeed.
It's like those dystopian heavy metal graphics of a feeble human with a screen strapped to their face. Back in the 80s and 90s they were thinking about televisions. People wasting their lives away being pacified by tv media while some faceless companies and government controlled the world. If they saw the world today it would probably blow their minds.
Hey it's worth a shot :) It's a stunt but anything that calls attention to Facebook's BS is probably worth it.

It won't work. It should be clear to anyone that Facebook's policy is really just for allowing the conspiracy theories that are loved by the political extremes. At this moment in time, it's mostly for the right wingers. Zuck has been meeting with prominent right wingers and I'm sure they've told him that if he blocks their nut-job politics they will break up the company. He knows the Dems want to do it, all that protects his monstrosity is the GOP, so they are going to dictate the terms.
Can confirm, does not scroll with Firefox 70 (it has add-ons like uBlock Origin and Ghostery).

Reader mode works fine.
Its gotten ridiculous, I just wish that we could move away from the tipping culture that we have here in the US.

I almost always tip 20%. I even tip 15% for poor service--I figure that there are likely things going on in the kitchen or with other service staff that I'm not aware of, and that tips are often split between everyone so the my tip for poor service is help the other employees busing tables too. My wife often tips 25% or more.

Why can't restaurants charge us more, pay their staff better, and then the staff could treat us like we were customers of the restaurant and not expecting us to directly compensate them. For the answer, see my last paragraph.

Even for pick up service, say when I place a to-go order for cup of coffee with my Starbucks app and then pick it up from a bin on the counter myself, the app prompts for a tip. At other server-less restaurants, I'm forced to make the choice of tip when I place the order.

So why the culture around tipping here in the US. I believe that it's related to why movie theaters can charge so much for popcorn. From Stanford.edu:

"The findings empirically answer the age-old question of whether it's better to charge more for a primary product (in this case, the movie ticket) or a secondary product (the popcorn). Putting the premium on the "frill" items, it turns out, indeed opens up the possibility for price-sensitive people to see films. That means more customers coming to theaters in general, and a nice profit from those who are willing to fork it over for the Gummy Bears." [1]

In the case of tipping in restaurants, the restaurants are naturally willing to charge more to customers like myself and my wife for the wine+food+service while still making a profit from price sensitive customers that pay less by tipping less for the same wine+food+service.

[1] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-does-movie-popcorn...
My impression is that the cost of the actual sequencing has dropped so much that it is the overhead costs that now dominate.
I agree with your point for software in general. The right fonts and spacing could pimp up a lot of software if developers put effort in it. But...

> one glaring example of this is LibreOffice

Compared to MS Office? Excel yes, maybe PowerPoint. All other programs are inferior by now.

5 years ago I would have agreed MS Office to be far ahead in functionality and design. I use the 365 version and it is just terrible all around. And users fail even harder to create structured documents than 10 years ago. And helping them is far more difficult now because you just don't have the patience for ridiculous UI quirks of word processors anymore.

Google Docs is better than Word and it is extremely simple, but uses classical design philosophies. It still uses a sensible color palette and a good font. Not that I want to advocate Google too much right now...
It's true that very often people only start things thinking about easy to dream benefits, and rarely about the systemic implications.
I get you. I'm a maintainer as well. But I'm not even talking about "long resolved" issues. Last week I saw an issue created by the maintainer themselves to talk about some upcoming milestone or something, that got autolocked before the milestone got there.

Yes, it's just misconfiguration, but when you're configuring these tools you're never thinking about the damage the autolocks do to your project if you're not very careful with the settings. Remember, the people just get turned off from contributing. They don't stick around to give feedback on this being the root cause.

Hell, I never did, and I'm very vocal about autolocking being toxic.
IIRC, whatever the pay period is. I would need to ask an old manager if the week or pay period matters. Could be per week.

It’s so rare in the $2 an hour states. I worked at Chili’s during the worst parts of the recession and never made a paycheck. Once the economy picked up I went to greener pastures.
> but only immigrants are made to have ID card

Errm, that's not true.
Google is a driving force behind the destruction of the web. They like the content they do not like the links. The best way for the web to develop from Googles point of view is if we all consume just the content that Google forwards us to without horizontal bridges between pages. So that's why you will see Google push to reduce the importance of URLs and why Google will - shamelessly - lift content of other websites and display it as their own as the result of a query on the results page rather than to link to the site that they took the content from to begin with.
I had no trouble: https://imgur.com/a/N5vAcr4
What you're saying is taking into account only big cities and young population, but in small places and suburbs you depend on cars to do anything, get anywhere. Old people can't be expected to walk far or drive scooters and bikes everyday. And population is mostly getting older, plus with the rise of remote work I presume that more and more people will move outside the big urban centers looking for slower pace and cheaper life, closer to the nature. That means cars will be needed more, not less, and driverless cars can save you a lot of time when commuting everyday.
Wow, I couldn't even properly identify the turn signals in 4 of the 6 turns. It was never as obvious as it should have been. Dirty windows, yes, but nevertheless. In an age of LED-lighting there's no excuse for not having excellent and properly colored lighting.

Now this felt like a student driver, overly busy with correctness, insensitive to the actual experience.

I think these cars should be marked, like student drivers, to signal their inevitable difference in behavior.
Miniaturization carries a stiff penalty. I'd expect the size-class needs to be similar before one can make a meaningful comparison.
Do you think it'd be as snappy if Bernie was up there at the podium asking for $14.79 per hour?

These are arbitrary numbers, when thinking on an economy-wide scale, because $15/hr does a LOT more for someone in a small town than a big city. The point is to pick something reasonably high, a non-starvation wage, that is also easy to market to the masses.

I don't think economists are huge fans of $15/hr across the board, so $20/hr would probably be abhorrent to them. But economists can be totally wrong and still keep their jobs and respect due to the political use of economics these days.
I don't know any high schools that allow laptops in normal classes.
This is in the tri-state area at least (NJ/NY/PA) where I know a bunch of people who are teachers. Maybe the rest of the country it's common for high school students to be allowed laptops in class?
Parking lots are hard for the reasons you mention, but they are also easier because the speeds are slow. Hit a kid at 5mph and it is probably not harmful, and even if it would be you get a lot more cycles to recognize the problem and need to react vs if you were driving at high speed.
You are free to belive whatever you wish, meanwhile the world moves on.
It's real bad. Delay getting kids a phone as long as possible.
This phenomenon has been discussed to some degree; here's an article about the changing web and who benefits from it and what we've lost in the process:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/social-networks-apps-killing-o...
Then they aren't stay-at-home moms, are they?
I think that programming is a bit more complex. You see I get the difference between the "coder" and the person who cares about adding value and creating something that others will use. The industry needs both "good coders" and "creating thinkers" to move forward and its hard, ofc, to find someone who is able to use all of those parts of the brain. Probably there is a 3rd category of people who are here just for the $ :)
RAD Studio let's you build cross platform apps targeting Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, and HTML5 with a single codebase and single UI. Choose either Object Pascal or C++.

I prefer the Object Pascal side but the C++ side is also powerful because it solves some of the problems that the Dropbox team talked about in their "The (not so) hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android" article.
Solar, memory chip, etc. had exponential declines for over half a century, so it's not always "a very short duration of time".
The difference is in what a developer can express. As has often been noted: you can write FORTRAN in any language. But that doesn't mean I will opt for Fortran (except perhaps for some specific numeric computing cases! Then I might!) when other tools allow me to capture more invariants in my program.

The fact that the compiler doesn't make me is orthogonal to the point I was getting at in this article. It allows me to capture constraints and invariants that matter to me, and it enforces certain constraints and invariants on all developers. That combo can be—and in my experience working a lot in C and JS as well as in richly typed modern languages like TS, Rust, Elm, etc.—very, very powerful and rewarding.

(Also: TS gets surprisingly far on dynamic runtime inspection. While I'd love to see the ideas in Idris become far more mainstream, in the meantime, the stuff TS is doing with type narrowing, mapped types, conditional types, and so on is nothing short of astounding. You can do some pretty wild stuff that isn't quite dependent types but gets awfully close. But caveat emptor: compile times may get you.)
This could really use an example of an invariant that couldn't be elegantly enforced with property descriptors[0] and decorators[1]. Without such an example it's just flamebait.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/decorators.html
But elements with ids and their attributes can be changed after a re-render and you need to sync those with DOM.
That's about authors, and using that metric, most of what we code is "half-true, perverse, forced, and vacillating".

I don't disagree, I just think it's a stretch to apply it to code - and not the good kind of stretch, more like the kind of stretch where you really want the german philosopher to have written about you so you'll go through all sort of lexical excercises to make it happen.
> But if Latin-style scripts are so much easier to input into computers, and if computers are not just the wave of the future but the present as well

But the hard part isn't supporting _a_ script, it's supporting _all_ scripts (or at least, all relevant scripts, in our modern interconnected age). It's only moderately more complicated, even with existing latin-centric tools, to only support a single script. Heck, If you only support Chinese + Japanese for example: you can always assume monospacing, which makes layout a breeze; line-wrapping rules are extremely simple [0]; and word-breaking (and associated headaches, like hyphenation and inter-word spacing) is practically a non-factor.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_breaking_rules_in_East_As...
GC in osdev has quite a large number of problems, performance being one of them, the other being that some resources simply can#t be handled cleanly by a language that can't opt out of a GC.

You somewhat need the option to atleast manage some memory very very manually. And of course, the GC needs to work without allocating memory (ie, true in-place GC) otherwise you're going to blow of your kneecaps of fairly spectacularly (this goes double when you need to initialize memory management, which can't rely on a memory allocator being present or free memory being available)
> This is so true, all commercial OSes that take i18n seriously do this,

Does Windows really?

> while most open source OSes' community (which communication revolves around English) decided that IMEs are an add-on for CJK people.

IIRC, Fedora ships an iOS/Android like Latin-script IME with autocomplete. It's not mandatory, though.

> It's a pity, and this one reason is enough for Linux to be never adopted for ordinary users in the non-western world.

The Korean situation doesn't really generalize. Among CJK, AFAICT, the Korean IBus IME on Ubuntu 18.04 is pretty broken but the Japanese IME and the various Chinese IMEs appear to be at least OK. (It's a rather surprising situation considering that the Hangul part of a Korean IME should be much simpler than the Japanese and Chinese IMEs.)
Is SF as a whole hurting, or just restauranteurs? If their businesses are hurting in a capitalist society, maybe they should look at their practices, re-evaluate, and survive the competition, or else bust. I don't have too much sympathy for those entrepeneurs going into a notoriously difficult industry who then complain that paying lower-class wage workers slightly more is killing their investment.
With AI, We'll See Faster Fights, but Longer Wars
mbsync/isync changed my email life.

http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html
I think the point the article makes is good, I just don't like how the comparison was made. I don't think the article would be of less value if the author dropped the "JavaScript is C" peppered all around it.