skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work 1 day a week in the office 4 days at home. I am much happier and healthier. Every lunch I go for a run, something I could not do when I was at the office. I am getting more sleep as I wake up later do to no commute. Overall it is much better.
Many things exist that don't add value to "society", I'm going to stick to worrying about the value given to the people actually doing the purchasing thank you.
The meaning of non-controllable is "can't be fixed".

“The quality of the drive does seem to affect the tip,” List said. “It just matters way less than all these [other] factors.”
I appreciate your understanding. And your phrasing, you nailed it.

Candidly, while nigh impossible to see things from the eyes of Ancient Greeks, I think the main take away (which may explain my incorrect recollection, as a shortcut/oversimplification) is that their view of democracy accepted 'sentiment' as valid motive, as valid 'reason' for principle and action. Part of such sentiment was suspicion, the sense of "feels right / wrong". It wasn't naive or blind, nor die-hard objective or quantified; the practice of democracy had to feel 'right', ad hoc. (I've read, in other contexts, accounts of suspicion against greed and wealth from this time very comparable to what we hear today; on a number of topics for that matter, like immigration or cultural identity, the words and perceptions of every day people are strikingly similar.)

It seems that human judgment was deemed 'sacred' or 'quintessential' enough for Ancient Greeks that they let it flow freely, though in some specific moments and places, carefully constrained within the whole political framework —remember that the point was less excellence thereof than survival of all.

Also interesting is the 'de-escalating' approach, ostracism has a negative outcome: not to 'empower' the good guys but rather to 'disable' the bad ones. Here lies a very important principle of their democracy: never give too much power to anyone, especially the ones you 'like' (it always backfires against democracy, as it did eventually in the Roman experiment a couple centuries later). Seek the minimum amount of global power required to fulfill the mission, less is more, lower is better. Concentration of power is a threat to the distribution ideal sought by democracy.

Whatever we think of it, the democratic 'experiment' back then lasted some 200 years, under these principles, and I think it's well worth studying if our current regimes are to become more 'direct' in the hyper-connected environment we now find ourselves in.
It's kind of funny how both counter-replies seem to ignore everything after the first word of "value to the average consumer's browsing experience".
Huh. Not denying you, but after seven minutes I see no data, just the base map.
It's one thing to talk about it, it's another to build.
Just describe what deep stream is in one sentence on your landing page. Right at the top. "Deepstream is a pubsub solution that ...".
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I'm creating a monetizable business-oriented web app. I know it will charge based on either a per user basis or with a multi-tier setup. How do I actually go about collecting payments? If you've created a SaaS, how did you collect payments?
Not irredeemably!
I'm making an entirely semantic argument that has nothing to do with Google in particular. I'm calling out bad reasoning on your part.

Startpage has an advantage over ddg because some people prefer Google search results.

Equally, ddg has an advantage over startpage because some people prefer being results or prefer to not use Google.

It doesn't matter if even a single person prefers Google to bing. For that single person, startpage has an advantage. The reverse of this is again, also true. Anecdotal evidence is, in this case, more than enough to justify the assertion.[0] That is, unless you're working under some unusually strong definition of advantage. Which I'll note you still haven't provided. Instead of, perhaps, saying "yes I don't consider a relative advantage that applies only to a potentially small group of people to be an advantage", you took the opportunity to make irrelevant attacks on my character.

[0]: if you want non anecdotal evidence though: both have users. This implies each has a relative advantage over the other to some subset of the population, otherwise one would take all the users from that other.
Let's take optimistic assumptions: 50 watts used by a laptop, ~4 hours a day, plugged in and used every day of the year, one laptop per an American, 300M people. All of that multiplies up to 4 * 365 * 50 * 3e+8 = 2.19e+13 watt hours = 2.19e+10 kilowatt hours affected per year. United States uses about 4.1e+12 kilowatt hours per year, that would have an impact of ~1%. Realistically it would probably be 10-100x less.

Although it does seem easy to deploy at scale, at least in the future models.
That's something of a special case in a lot of ways. And not someone we banned for political reasons. (Edit: I should have said: not someone we moderated for political reasons. We didn't ban him.)
Do your calendars use a Min-Sun scheme? All of mine (US based) are Sun-Sat.
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You can do that in uBlock Origin too.
What “risk” is there in an overflow from using strncmp, strncpy, etc?

C++ still isn’t as easy to interop with other languages as C and the low level APIs built into operating systems are not going to use C++/STL and you still end up converting to standard C strings and arrays.
Should festivals ban facial recognition, I imagine pickpockets would be a lot more into them.
I can definitely count how many times I've flown in my adult life. But that is beside the point. Individual consumer choices could never have been enough to stop climate change. Many people still do not even believe it's a threat to human life as we know it.
Do undocumented workers avoid Las Vegas casinos because of all the cameras? This seems like a solution to a problem nobody has.
I was replying specifically to

"People's freedom to give other people money on their own volition as a personal gift will not be infringed"

There's many situations in life where personal gifts are inappropriate, unwelcome, or illegal. I just gave an example.

You could also make the same argument to defend the "casting couch," yet we seem to have moved past that being defendable.
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How far is the edge of the universe?
>15-30%

Isn't 15-20% the effective standard range in the US for restaurants?
True enough, and it works to a certain degree I think.
I don’t see a mention of hydrazine in the link you shared.
http://archive.is/tM2oW
Why Semiconductor Development Matters
> That's also clarified in the blog post. Sorry, I haven't posted the link before: https://puri.sm/posts/supplying-the-demand/

The blog post says one thing. Nobody in the community has posted anything about actually having an Aspen in hand and working on it yet.

> They are and will be available to anyone owning the phone, just like I said in the previous post.

Technically I own one because I plonked down the ~$500 or whatever it was to preorder one. I'm in the later batches, but I have paid for one. It would be nice to get at those schematics, if they exist publicly. Sadly, I haven't been able to find them, and you haven't been forthcoming except to point me to a schematic and board art for the dev board.

> You said: even the dev units have no details on their construction
> so I showed you the full open sourced design.

Ah, sorry -- I should have been more clear in the first post. I was referring to the schematics for the EmCraft SOM, without which trying to manage thermals and manipulating device trees is going to be problematic.

Frankly, it's a bit disingenuous to call that a full open sourced design -- half the dev unit's board is missing and buried inside that EmCraft symbol.

> You said: the community can't get in there to help.

And they can't without schematics for the EmCraft SOM. I was prepping to actually help out at one point, but stopped because I couldn't find the EmCraft SOM schematic.

> you're moving the goal posts and making me look wrong.

No, you're reading too much into the original post. I said the community hasn't been able to help. Purism isn't the community, and your link points to a commit from a Purism account. I fail to see how I moved the goal posts here.

> See, that's the problem with your posts here. I'd much rather have you get corrected by asking questions at the community channels, which are frequently answered by engineers rather than post under-researched false things on unrelated forums. By posting wrong things, you're undermining the project, which you yourself claim to support.

I have asked in the community and dev board channels, on Matrix, and I have spoken with engineers involved. Some questions were answered, some weren't. Others were answered with handwavy "eventually" statements. I mentioned this in the first post I made about this.
Please do not use this. Looks pretty but is unusable for code examples. The web has everything you need for pretty formatted text.
That’s what collective governance is. I live in NYC. I’m sure the bulk of my taxes subsidize some form of “those people” of whom I am not a part. It’s called a community. I don’t bike and yet I support I infrastructure for bikers.

As for cars, I sympathize with many people I know who have cars and need them to reverse commute or to take care of elderly parents in the burbs etc... The rich have garages. On street parking is a pain but viable for the middle class.

Let’s admit there are two valuable sides here. It doesn’t mean we don’t ultimately weigh one claim as more worthy but let’s not be cartoonish.
Good news, and good to see them respond so fast as well. I looked through the config files (could not get the exploit to work for some reason) and found the exact offending lines and jumped to the wrong conclusion. Weird how the config appears to have the exact setup that NextCloud has and yet it does not seem to be exploitable. Wonder why that is.
Ah, where’s the latest orbital data?
That's the ideal way of solving the problem, but it is a luxury not everyone can afford.
Well, there's also the option of making your own engine. Which many game companies do, especially in the AAA space.
If you are managing a php server and asking this question then you have bigger problems.
It sounds like you're under the impression that people dislike tipping because they feel they're paying "more", but the parent post wouldn't make sense in that context.
Could not modify to add to bullet points above,
but Washington Posts' obituary notice to ISIS head Al-Baghdadi, seems to prove the point...

Washington Post referred to the now dead head of the terrorist organization as: 'austere religions scholar'.

I guess, for Washington Post, Hitler was a dog loving vegan and a self-taught artist.

(they have changed the article by now).

Giving Pentagon business contracts to owner of this 'esteemed news publication', hosting these 'journalists' would, definitely would be absurd.
You sound like PHP is somehow particularly bad in this regard. While this issue is nothing to be proud of, same kind of issues (and other RCE-causing issues too) are regularly found in many major products and libraries. There's no reason to specifically shame PHP for something that happens everywhere. Good defense is depth practices are always good idea, but no need to motivate it by casting PHP as some kind of particularly villainous.
yep really

I know it, few other dev know it too, and the rest well...

they will keep spewing stupid stuff about how flash is dead and ignore that wonderful tech

their loss
I read one of her books, it was bad.
SpaceX webcast of the launch in 2017 [1]

Some info on the payload at 6:30 mark

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M6Zvi-fFv4
I would say the compelling feature is it's opensource 'serverless' data-sync with permissions, clustering, monitoring and auth built in. Serverless here meaning there is no server code required, just run the server. The easiest way to market it would just be the OS competitor to firebase.

The issue with that however is taking that approach means we lose the NodeJS ecosystem support which is massive (and required to add custom plugins/maintain the server). We tried it before and it was terrible in terms of metrics and participation.

Thank you for the feedback though! I will definitely be looking at redesigning the home page and will use your feedback when doing so!
Almost all spacecraft (including satellites) use hydrazine (MMH, UDMH or Aerozine 50) for rotating around itself to keep pointing in the right direction (see attitude control, reaction control system).

When used as a bi-propellant, hydrazine is usually combined with N2O4, which is also super toxic.

It is not just the military that uses these things. Everyone uses it because it is the best performing high thrust (not ion engine) non-cryogenic (storable) propellant. It being hypergolic (self igniting) is a bonus for reliability.

The military actually switched to solids for ICBMs and SLBMs.

The F-16 has a hydrazine APU, and I would not be surprised if the F-35 does the same thing.
If by “effective” we mean “deny most everyone” then yeah it’s very much so. If we mean “hire people right for the job” then no one actually knows this because a test would require control group. I would argue that if some leetcoding and other rote can make a significant difference it’s probably not effective.
Depends on a few factors. Your home Country is one, if in the U.S. and the values are typically sized for credit cards, then use Stripe. Stripe is the easiest one to use, they are quick and things just work. Only time I've seen people complain about Stripe is when you are running a business that is in the no-no banking zone (e.g. porn etc).

I've personally used Stripe, and I've also done integrations with FirstData directly amongst some others. Stripe is easy and quick, and you can get better than 2.9% with them if your volume picks up.

If you are in the Enterprise range of pricing, e.g. 10's of thousands of dollars per client per month than you typically want to invoice and be paid via ACH/Wire.
> It’s as though the US government is on a mission to prove they should not be trusted.

I would consider that mission solidly accomplished at this point.
I feel for the backers but this was entirely predictable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182968
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17913940
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15090567
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17140823
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17913700

I even tried to warn Todd off his approach before the crowdfunding campaign kicked off. I knew no good would come of it.
Bought Unity on sale with plans to use it later. Returned to a prototype two years later and both the product and licensed changed. No way to use the original license or version since their old registration flow broke. So it's upgrade... or crack it?
then again you could use solar collectors for hot water and heating, eliminating the need for boiling with electric energy
People ask why the people servicing it after landing (in the photos) are in hazmat suits. It's because of the hydrazine and N2O4.
> What sort of documentation would make most sense?

A single sentence in the landing page with a clear description of what it is and what it does would suffice.
I can see where you are coming from, but you are likely not aware that a lot of this is already happening. Even my small coop gives out a few hundred dollars in rebates for electric water heaters with remote control. They use this for demand control now.

They also offer cheap ecobee thermostats, with an agreement that they can use them for load leveling. Again, rebates make it practical.

I haven't seen anyone do this with electric cars yet, but its a pretty small leap to imagine utilities offering rebates to businesses for the install, if the result is to shift demand in ways that are useful for the utility. Right now that isn't really necessary here, as the currently small demand for EV charging is mostly at night, and that is already off-peak for our utility.
I m not sure how doable it is to do it reliably. Some services, e.g. cloudflare block scrapers like cURL and redirect to a captcha page or enable javascript "Attention Required" page . It seems owners of these sites need to explicitly enable the scraper by IP! This pretty much precludes a link previewer from working reliably, and cloudflare is used by A LOT of sites these days

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/217720788-T...
You might be right, and I think it makes for interesting introspection. For me, it’s not necessarily a policy grounded in rigorous economic philosophy. Rather, someone—a person with thoughts and feelings—just went the extra mile to serve me and give me a pleasant experience, and I want to give them a token of appreciation in return. It’s participation in humanity for me, rightly or wrongly. Maybe I would also tip the software engineer (who went above and beyond to ensure the product I bought was well-crafted) if only I had some direct contact with him or her?
Telephobia
good for you mate.
A meta comment: in academia, for an outsider a specific paper's contribution is usually hard to decipher. Many papers will sound fairly similar. Popular articles like TFA will essentially have to resort to describing a whole branch of research or even a whole subfield. Authors of the academic paper often don't even recognize their work from just reading the PR summary produced by the marketing department of the university (although this one is written by the original authors).

Hardly any work is ground breaking in science nowadays. There are incremental advances most of the time.
Considering Patreon, so much the worse for Jaron Lanier. Wrong for the right reasons.
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2019/0100.html
On a similar note, I wonder, what kind of ERP software do modern organized crime use? Do they use SAAS? Regular commercial software or FOSS installed on private cloud?

In other words, does the dark web have a SAAS Salesforce equivalent for the bad guys?
Seems like replacing cytosine could have some negative side effects if it occurs in the patient's cells as well as the virus's.
Can you actually use Signal built from source with official servers? Anyways, we have open-source chat platforms that have been audited by independent third parties, on one side, and closed-source mergacorporations' unaudited chat software on the other. Point being, why would you argue for using the bigger "evil"?
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You sound surprised the rich and powerful are buddies who gang up on anyone who threatens their position!?

Harvey Weinstein and the tricks with his money and network he pulled is a current good example of this. But, it's been going on forever in every sector(tech to entertainment to etc) yet sometimes karma comes around and bites them accordingly.
I'm looking at solving a similar problem but for desktop.

I would like to avoid C++ and so far the best candidate seems to be Nim. It transpiles to C which then can run in pretty much any platform.
People can talk about replication problems but the fact that this happened even once is interesting. I would claim that the reason the rats went extinct was because they were put in an environment that was far too different from their natural environment to survive. The question for people is not how do deal with overpopulation the question is why aren't we experiencing overpopulation.
You might be onto something here. The last delivery I received was a chair; it came unassembled but was still fairly bulky. I'd pay a small premium to watch somebody try to carry it on a bicycle because that sounds hilarious.

More seriously, most small items are shipped in packaging that's much too large. Solve that problem and non-truck delivery becomes a lot more feasible. Still not feasible for some packages though.
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Or use a wildcard cert.
MacLean's book, whose thesis is repeated here uncritically, is replete with significant errors that would see it rejected outright from any serious academic publication.

See:

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GxvYCKp9hxU9bAGVCMB6...
[2] https://thepolicy.us/democracy-in-chains-a-dubious-work-of-h...
Working in a properly lit environment, with a blue filter enabled, it sometimes feels like the papers on my desk are about the same brightness as my monitor.

At home during the night I have to turn the blue filter up until the monitor is practically glowing orange-red.
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NORAD doesn't publish TLEs for X-37, but here's a spot from April 2018: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2018/0065.html

Here's a TLE from Oct 17: https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=42932
Lithium Ion battery cells right now cost ~$100USD/KWh and are good for approximately 1000 cycles. That works out to ~.10USD/KWh of provided capacity, which is too expensive, but not "orders of magnitude" too expensive. Obviously there are a lot of additional costs, but I don't think they add up to making them orders of magnitude too expensive either. For perspective, Natural gas comes in at ~.025USD/KWh here.

There is also some evidence that cycle count may improve on cells in the near future as prices fall. a 5x improvement in cell lifespan would make a huge difference.
This is my take away: “The sky is no longer the limit for the Air Force and, if Congress approves, the U.S. Space Force”

I used to be worried that the current trendiness of Space in the media would be a fad, gone by 10 or even 2 years from now. Such statements make me hope that —finally— people who matter have recognized both the value and inevitability of space. After that, it's all just a matter of time... wink@sagan
No, crashes happen because of a common misunderstanding of some important market variables (or war, or cataclysms like bad weather).

The last crash happened because of systematic soft-fraud all the way through the housing chain from individual borrowers, to lenders, VPs, ratings agencies, bankers, fund managers not doing their jobs, excessive risk etc.. No single issue would have caused a problem but collectively it meant everything was vastly mis-priced.

The next break will happen because of the China slowdown when the world discovers more materially how much China numbers have been fudged for the last 30 years. We know it, but kind of ignore it. China won't crash but it'll slow down more quickly than anticipated which could cause some bubbles to pop where there was that dependency.

Markets can also over-correct.

If most market participants have really good information, ahead of time, and act rationally - there's no need for crashes.

The Canadian economy doesn't go into hard recession - almost all of Canadian 'swings' are due to American pull. Canada has always been focused on 'stability' more than anything else (i.e. freedom, growth, exceptionalism).
Pretty fun doing this with unusual unicode characters, like the various emojis.
More efficient by which metric? It's going to take 30+ ebike trips to cover a full delivery truck with a lot of deadhead trips to pick up more packages. How much are you paying them? Same rates as the drivers? Good luck!
The CIA ran a fake vaccination campaign to try and locate Osama bin Laden by gathering DNA samples.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc...

So now how do you know if the next humanitarian group running around your country isn't full of U.S. spooks?
I would be pissed off if the police caught the thief and let him go

So would I, given that policy is to not respond at all to simple property crime, even car break-ins. (When it's not Facebook property.)

All they do is have you enter a report on their web site and print it for your insurer, if any.