skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah! Vanilla Fudge reminded me of the extremely fine thing that is songs of Alvin and chipmunks, slowed down 2x: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-MYe0SL9Q and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpofYybjXgQ (these are probably compilations from other vids).

They're much much better with bass boosted somewhat with a browser EQ plugin, or with VLC—but the higher end must be kept, for the voices.

The original ‘Diamond Dolls’ is gorgeous in this rendition, and some others like ‘My Sharona,’ ‘Good Girls Don't,’ or ‘How Do I Make You,’ might be the best ways to play such songs.

After those vids, I had to go through their song collections—and found some other gems, like ‘I Fought The Law,’ ‘Blitzkrieg Bop,’ ‘Whip It,’ the incredibly cool ‘I'm Too Sexy,’ or also original ‘I Wish I Could Speak French.’
Lack of fight history is not a design error..

Especially in the context of a spacecraft that is specifically designed to be able to quickly gain a long flight history (unlike every other spacecraft we've ever built).
Your post doesn’t add up. You start by pointing out the unintended consequences of burning fossil fuels, then continue to say that we should pursue solutions that allow us to continue burning fossil fuels sans serious short term repercussions. I think continuing to kick the can without proper longview regulation is only putting money in the disaster bank.
I think the point is that it relies on it's fins much more than previous designs, and less on thrust vectoring and steering thrusters than traditional designs.

It's more like comparing a traditional airplane to a B-2 / flying wing design; it's doable, but difficult and not without risk.
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Time to Go.
Do you think it would make things better or worse?
My karma score is pretty big evidence against the theory that there’s no permanent relationship. Users can become highly invested in particular communities!

I also abide by fairly strict code of conduct / moderation policies when writing on certain platforms. If I don’t abide by the community rules my posts can be flagged or even my account banned.

Paid writing is absolutely a trade, so I can’t see how any policy that sweeps up moderation can’t also equally apply to comment writing.

The government has a nasty habit of taking a concept like “work” or “income” and then applying it to literally everything so that they can regulate and tax literally everything. To the point where the IRS had to define specific exceptions for family chores lest they be deemed as barter and requiring the payment of payroll taxes.

Luckily in this case we have the 1st Amendment which should provide a pretty strong defense against any attempt to limit basic community social activities and the necessity of moderating those interactions.

Despite the fact that [I would hope] my comments on HN accrue significant value to the HN site, and that those comments are indeed work of the kind that some people even get paid for, my 1st amendment right to post here should override the interest of the State in establishing minimum wage requirements. Would love to hear a constitutional law scholar’s thoughts on this!
Plug for thisplacewillbewater.com - they have a great map of what 4C warming will look like and you can also buy biodegradable stickers to post around and raise awareness if you live in an area that will be underwater.
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Just take a look at the google ads API to get an impression about all metrics you can get from an ad [1]. It's frightening detailed and complex.

[1] https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v2/metri...
There was actual discussion here IMO, I am sorry you feel everyone should have groupthink.
I have an annoying co-worker who constantly haggles me on Slack. I've since made a Slack bot, masquerading as me, who communicates with said co-worker. It's been a life saver.
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They could have used subdomains:

dominos could register dominos.pizza.new
and pizzahut could register hut.pizza.new

pizza.new could then list and search through all the registered subdomains (and would be hosted by google).
Climate change is worsening the droughts that cause fires as well as the winds that spread them. Turning off the electricity is one of the only ways until are the transmission lines are buried. But it might be safe to say every residence and apartment building etc should have a battery back up anyway and renewable energy installed. If this were so grid electricity would be a moot point and technically we would not be dependent on grid electricity.
Go is Oberon's and C's secret child. They met thanks to Robert Griesemer, who worked under Wirth's supervision, AFAIK, during his PhD.

I like how go gives access to the cool parts of Oberon within a relatively popular language.
Exxon's 1982-vintage predictions on global temperatures have mostly held up.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/exxon-predicted-2019-s-ominous-c...
It's still an interesting read.
> the Github repo for takedowns has plenty - although they seem to usually be coming from China/Russia.

The other takedowns are 100% from China and Russia. Spain is joining two of the most censor-heavy (and undemocratic) countries in the world by issuing this takedown.
Proven results will be enough to get the major ones through the next 20 years.

No one is strapping the James Webb or a similar payload on to a rocket with no proven reliability.
> That's not true for moderators: they have specific tasks they must complete, and they must continue to be active, or they lose their moderation status.

That’s not correct: especially on the small sites, it’s acceptable for moderators to be inactive for long periods of time. It’s not great, but it’s understood that moderators have lives, and that they’re … not employees. I can state this confidently because I used to be a moderator on smaller sites, and I finally resigned from one (without having been in any way encouraged to) after almost a year of inactivity.
So, this whole time they've been doing it for free AND illegally? Hilarious.
Wonderful. What would energy usage and air pollution look like if everyone did this? Decentralized energy production = horribly inefficient.
I'd be careful reading too much into data on top performing funds. The law of large numbers makes it so that smaller funds are more likey to outperform (and underperform) since they have higher variance. Couple that with the strong correlation that speciality funds are more likely to be smaller and it's not surprising.

A more accurate analysis would involve looking at all VCs and seeing if you can apply those rules in advance:
What would your IRR be if you invested in all the specialty biotech funds as a basket?
There's plenty of places that are experiencing all sorts of problems with flooding. Look into Miami and Venice for starters; their problems are well-documented in English media. Less-developed cities are experiencing it worse, but aren't as well-documented in English.
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The problem is invalid, because it is not a "problem". It is an "incident". Specifically a security incident that needs remediation.
Given that you'll rarely need more than this year, and maybe next year, you can preemptively do some math to make it easier.

yearcode = (centurycode + [last two digits of year] + ([last two digits of year] div 4)) mod 7

So this year (2019) = 1, and next year (2020) = 3 (and also a leap year). These numbers are infinitely easier to keep track of, especially when doing modulo operations in your head.

This link [0] explains the process from this perspective

[0]: https://litemind.com/how-to-become-a-human-calendar/
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Because of engineering and analysis.

I don't know where the anti-science "it's impossible to speak meaningfully about anything in the future that hasn't yet been built" idea came from in Internet rhetoric, but it's absolutely ridiculous.
To be honest, it is a sad moment, but it was expected. When Guido resigned from BDFL, I knew that it was the beginning of the end.

And lets be honest, he's earned it.

Thank you Guido, after learning Python, I never looked back, and it has been the source of great joy for me over the last decade.
Improve it how?

The tax filing co isn't the one going to congress, they hire some PR company that does lobbying to talk to congressmen about tax law. Of course, that PR company just so happens to hire people from tax filing co because they know the industry. With OTA, the PR company goes to OTA to talk about tax law, it's just adding a different step to the process.
You'd be hard-pressed to find such in California, is my general point. I'd be interested in specific citations of exceptions to the rule.
It gives them the context that this is a decision from a big tech company, not just some startup they haven't heard of.
GitHub being shut down in Spain for ignoring a court order is more harmful than one repo being blocked by a court order, imo.

There seems to be this belief in the atmosphere that companies of all sizes should blithely ignore content takedowns when the alternative is large fines or exclusion from a country. This is not a realistic demand and you will be disappointed every time if you maintain it.
You are indeed mistaken about this fact, and it's somewhat telling that this is the version of the story which reached you. Go ahead and read the explanation from the moderator herself - https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-....
This is a cool read (and a shared sentiment!), I've always wondered what industry luminaries do day-to-day, and hasn't it been quite the draw for Dropbox from a recruiting perspective, to say, "Oh, and Guido might want to ask you some questions about your code."

I wonder what "retirement" means for Guido. The Python/software community could never hear from him again and he'd completely deserve the rest (and we the community would be immensely grateful for the work already poured in), but I get the sense that won't be the case. :D
As far as has been publicly stated, nobody was advocating misgendering, there was only a question over details of the policy. See footnote 1 to the OP here

https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-...

"as a professional writer I, by training, write in a gender-neutral way specifically to avoid gender landmines, and sought clarification that this would continue to be ok"
Except that MSNBC doesn't dominate the left like Fox does the right. There are many networks that liberals watch: MSNBC, CNN, the BBC, etc. etc. and that's not even going into the fact that liberals are generally smarter consumers of news as a whole, reading multiple papers, watching multiple news networks, not to mention independent sources too. Conservatives rarely if ever leave the bubble.
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Would it make a difference if I did?
A bunch of non-lawyers taking a tiny chunk of law in isolation and speculating about whether something "seems illegal" based on it is really, really useless.

And this HN thread is just going to be even more of that.
What are unpaid internships if not unpaid volunteer labor?
Most fission nuclear power comes from primordial supernovae of blue giants during the early formation of our galaxy. Fusion would be novel energy from the creation of the universe if we could get it working.

Most of the energy we have used comes from the sun. Aside from nuclear.
Take a look at the comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20910845 (36 points, 52 days ago, 19 comments), the comments may be relevant.

> making the planet great by removing the carbon from the soil.

This is a typo or a very bad idea? It's better to add carbon to the soil so it is not in the air.
I think it'd be really fucking impressive if someone could discuss the ins and outs of systems they've used, likes and dislikes, taking conversational questions about it that they don't know about in advance, without setting off any alarms, while not actually knowing anything. That'd be wild.

I think a lot of the whiteboarding/leetcode stuff is just hazing, a desire for "standard" processes (every candidate has a different background, so a well-done conversational interview will differ a ton per-candidate), as a bit of a time-filler ("that's right [C-suite person who's asking questions] we have very rigorous hiring, look, it takes six hours, and see all these steps! Only getting the best of the best, I assure you."), and because if it's scripted you can have mid-level devs do it—poorly, for the most part, since conducting a good whiteboard/leetcode interview is possible, so far as that goes, but it's not easy and requires serious people skills, which is a big part of where places go wrong I think, and also tends to make it look so non-cookie-cutter that if you squint it's not really that much more "standardized" than the conversational version.
The potential energy is close to the energy used during launch. And every time we launch a rocket/sat (and then it comes back eventually) we heat up the atmosphere a bit.
Warming trend vastly accelerated in a relatively short time frame to the point of the long term trend not holding much salience
This isn't a very insightful comment, but I've seen it repeated multiple times in regards to Starship. Do people really find it persuasive?

It applies to basically every aircraft (including Shuttle). And it's dealt with the same way: redundancy of actuation and control systems.
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>Also, how the Sauds use the tech is beyond NSO's

It's not. They aided this regime, and other regimes, and chose to do so. And they knew that they weren't just selling them a few cars or some designer handbags, but actively aided in operations against everybody the house of Saud considers an enemy, and knew - just like anybody else who did some cursory googling - about the regime's targeting of any civilian opposition and protests, handing out gruesome "penalties" which can only be described as state sponsored murder, mutilation and torture.

>and especially the lady's control

She decides where she works. This is the old "I was only following orders, and wasn't even directly involved in any of the evils" excuse deep down.

>Just like how the Sauds use American defense tech to wage war on Yemeni civilians - defense tech subsidized by the American taxpayer - that is you. And still, you continue to live in, and pay taxes to the US, instead of moving to a non-exporter of arms, like Greenland.

I am not living in the US, but a country that still exports arm to the Saudis, so I kind of get your point. However, there is considerable societal backslash against this here, me being tiny part of it, to the point where the government "froze" such exports for the time being[1].

Your "just fuck off then to a nicer country" argument is built on a false premise anyway. You fix things in your society that are wrong, and you don't get to tell those people who raise concerns, which is the first step in fixing things, to just fuck off to some other nation.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/german-arms-export-freeze-on-saudi-ara...
Let's say you're a tech expert, how do you get involved with the biotech revolution. Is there any resources to learn what is currently available, how you can contribute, etc? I think this field will likely yield some of the most impactful tools and innovations we've ever seen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397996
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Really? The 737 is from the 60s.
And the laymen doesn't care and it is not relevant to the story what a "github" is.

It is something by Microsoft that apparently is important for apps. Nothing more you need to know.
No full-envelope abort system exists or likely will exist for human lander ascent systems. That breaks the "hard requirement" argument if we're going to the Moon or Mars.
Its certainly the norm for industry leaders to lobby and even propose draft rules/legislation to regulators/legislators...however, it is not normal for the government to willfully hide communications from the industry to government (which was done by the IRS in response to a FOIA request) and its outright illegal for the government to pay/reimburse the lobbyists themselves which the IRS seemed to do here. That's right your tax payer dollars were used to pay for lobbyists travel expenses to lobby the IRS to the detriment of taxpayers.
> On Stack Overflow, the moderators really are working directly on improving the site's content. They're practically unpaid editors.

So do non-moderators. In fact, there are some users who do more work towards improving the site’s content (via editing, handling suggestions, etc.) than some moderators. In fact, “trusted users” have access to many of the same moderation tools as moderators, and editing content is actively encouraged (via functionality, badges …) for all users.
This is misleading due to how states structure their tax code. California has a high top marginal rate, but its progressive taxation system leads to many of the middle class and under paying lower taxes than in other states. I live in Iowa, for example, and the top marginal tax rate is 8.9% for all income earned over $72k. The top marginal rate in California is 13.3%, but only applies to income over $1MM. A couple making $80k in California will pay about $2k (effective 2.52%) in income taxes, while the same couple in Iowa will pay $3,976 (effective 4.97%). You can't just compare tax rates by comparing the top marginal rate. You've got to look at how they actually impact people.
Hugo or any other static page generator work perfectly for maintaining clean and consistent markup.
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Nope, they're completely separate. Codebase, people, timeline.

Eagle predates KiCad by a wide margin, iirc. KiCad started in France, Eagle was German (iirc). I think modern Eagle is on Qt, KiCad uses wxWidgets for it's GUI library.
This is important. Poor land use policies in California are possibly a bigger contributor to the problem than anything else. They impact our ability to do controlled burns, for example: the biggest obstacle to controlled burns is health effects, which happen because the number of wilderness-urban areas is way too large in this state.
Do they? It seems to me that it'd be a lot simpler to send up dumb sunshades, and then simply keep launching more as previous ones drift. The linked sunshades would only weigh a gram each. How much would a sunshade weigh if it had to be an entire spacecraft capable of stationkeeping? Many orders of magnitude more.

You can't station-keep indefinitely anyway (your fuel will run out), so just launching lots more dumb sunshades seem like the more effective and cheaper solution.
If you're intending to create something to sell then presumably you have people in mind to whom you will sell it. Who are they? Where are they? How will they find out about your product?

Answer those questions, identify those people, then go and talk to them. If you can't identify those people, how will you sell to them?
they would burn up in the atmosphere - they have not much mass individually
Places with ex-FAANGers in decision-making positions seem to favor it. Nevermind their business is a boring-ass CRUD app and their anticipated usage patterns will only require solving "hard" problems to scale if they totally fuck it up.

[EDIT] and on the topic of your quote, in actual work screwing up while working through problems in a meeting or while collaborating is (or had better be) normal, and everyone's working together to find the right solutions. If you miss something you missed it, that's fine, even if it was something dumb, everyone does that all the time, NBD, unless you're doing it just constantly no-one will think a thing of it. Expectations, explicit and implicit, in an interview make it way less friendly and safe feeling than even a very important or relatively high-stress task in actual work life. It's not even in the same category of activity as solving problems at work.
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That part is actually positive though - if you want to squat a domain for over 100 days too bad.
Indeed, the witch-panic exists everywhere and at every time, though sometimes it is weaker and sometimes stronger, and the words used vary. Today in Nigeria and in Evangelical Christian churches there is still persecution of "witches" and "cultists", while in mainstream America instead the word used is "hackers". But in England the witch-panic did not dissuade Newton from publishing his works on natural philosophy, as it had Descartes during his lifetime; and in Leipzig and Hanover the witch-panic did not dissuade Leibniz. Spinoza, whose Jewish family had fled the Inquisition, published many of the fundamental works of rationalism; had his family remained in Spain, only with great luck would he have escaped the auto-da-fé, and today we could not debate his ideas.

How many potential Spinozas did we lose to the Inquisition because they had the misfortune of being born in Spain instead of in the Low Countries?

England and Holland were certainly guilty of atrocities, at home and in their colonies abroad, but the indigenous peoples of many of their colonies retained their cultures. The Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee survives today, and possibly it inspired the revival of democracy in Europe. Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, and Buddhism survive in India today, as does knowledge of Vedic, Pali, and Sanskrit, despite centuries of English enslavement and exploitation. Contrast this with the fate of the cultural legacies of the Inka, the Maya, the Caribs, and the Quilmes.

Genocide does not require extermination. Cultural obliteration and mass expulsion — the explicit intent of the Inquisition, and to a very great extent achieved throughout Iberia and the Spanish colonies in America — are equally genocidal.

So, I say, do not accept censorship. It is a poisonous remedy, and it kills what is most precious in human culture before it begins to cure the illness for which it was prescribed.
I mean, why try to do anything? There are tons of science educators working on low-tech tools like you describe, with success. My point is, we can all be armchair critics, but from my experience when you actually try to make one of these visualizations "right", you run into a never-ending torrent of complex decisions that need to be made, both on the scientific end of things and pedagogical, most of which end in some kind of compromise that others can pick apart. There's also a severe lack of funding to support this kind of work.

Totally agree on XR and scientists - biologists LOVE visualization, particularly XR. That's definitely not the problem. In fact, one of the things I've been trying to do is to make XR tools for scientists to make their own visualizations using their datasets (http://10k.systems). There just aren't enough headsets yet, but it's possible Quest will change this.
Thank you for creating an awesome lingua franca for a generation of programmers, engineers, and scientists Guido! You'll never be forgotten. Love!