skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d love to see studies:

- comparing maintenance and faults to utilities in other areas

- comparing likelihood of ignition and resulting damages given an ignition event

There are lots of factors that combine into these events. Most of the discussion I’ve seen pick on one or two without considering the others. I guess it’s great if generating outrage is the goal, but it seems unlikely that will actually fix much.
You bike, just the same. Some people wear raincoats or waterproof clothing, but most will just go in their usual attire plus a hooded jacket.
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He can't do that legally to other countries. And will be stupid to do it with his competitors in the USA. Since there competition is fierce and he is not on good terms with them.

I think you are confusing Elon's pledge to "opensource" tesla patents, in 2014 - which to the best of my knowledge, not a single company has taken an interest in because of strings attached to it.

You can read more about it here: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ca6c332f-2cc5...
It's actually fairly normal to not keep people on suicide watch for very long. Full-blown suicide watch is expensive, but furthermore can stress a patient to the point of actually encouraging suicide. Being unable to sleep because your cell lights are kept on 24/7 and you're constantly getting checked on, the humiliation of having to wear a suicide smock, not having sheets on your bed, etc.

You can argue that this is a crappy system, and I'd agree - but it is the dominant system in US prisons.
But it will consume several percents of world's total energy supply, in fuel. That is, burn more fuel than airlines do. Clearly not possible. Even 1/10 as much (which is still the scale of Berlin airlift) is problematic.
> Buying time is good only if that time is properly paid for.

Buying time is always good if it forestalls doom.

Climate change activists who let perfect be the enemy of good will get all of us killed.
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> I suspect the cost of a raspberry pi isn't much higher than a new battery.

Don't forget that you'd have to factor in the cost of a display, input devices, and storage if you go the Raspberry Pi route. And if you wanted the Pi to be portable (as your alternative suggestion seemingly implies) you'd have to buy a battery for it as well.

On the other hand, if you don't need the Pi to be portable, you might as well just leave the laptop plugged in and use it instead, as you wouldn't have to spend any money at all to achieve the same end-result as purchasing the Pi.

In fact, I would wager that putting together a Raspberry Pi solution comparable to a cheap laptop would be difficult for any given price point; if the laptop is just "old" and not "broken", I would further argue that it provides a much better user-experience.

I don't intend for this to be a criticism of the Raspberry Pi. In the article they're using old CRT televisions which negate the cost of a display, and keyboards and mice are readily available from a number of places for free (or close to it). For their use-case, it seems to be quite an effective solution.
"Cycling is like a piece of magic: It only has advantages,” said Ms. van Hooijdonk . (who never cycled into gale force winds in freezing cold and rain ;'D... wtf)
SUVs are higher and hitting people in the head / chest -

https://www.aarp.org/auto/driver-safety/info-2018/suv-pedest...
> This is very sage advice.

I mean in real life (when you don't have Guido to do it for you), if people are writing code you can't understand then you need to tell them to fix it. And many people don't like being told they need to rewrite their code because you can't understand it, so it leads to conflict and eventually you often need to fire people.

So yes, it's good advice, but by cleaning up engineering debt you're often going to take on a lot of team debt.
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I think in the last 5 years I was bothered by snow about 2 times.
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You might have second thoughts when you read about working conditions at SpaceX and Tesla. It's a job I'd love to do and I have enormous respect for Elon Musk, but I have no desire to work for him.
Plus Facebook with their Flow[1], Infer[2][3], Airbus with their BinCAT[4], and Frama-C[5].

[1] https://github.com/facebook/flow

[2] https://fbinfer.com/

[3] https://github.com/facebook/infer

[4] https://github.com/airbus-seclab/bincat

[5] http://frama-c.com/
Read about genetics and genomics. Get good at programming and study maths. Aim to do a PhD at the Broad or the Sanger.
There seems to be a lot of wishful thinking in this article? You don't get the Berlin airlift unless someone is willing to pay for it, and that only happened in an emergency.

Getting into communication satellites is smart and sounds like it will be big business, but it only goes so far in increasing demand. It should be great in remote and rural areas, but most cities already have Internet.
> my commute is only 8 minutes though

I bet that's the secret. I just commented comparing the Netherland's climate to Denver and while they are comparable at the end of the day it seem it must be the commute distance that really makes it work in Amsterdam. In this case, you're commute is about as long as it takes me to walk to work after I park my car.
As my mother used to say when I complained about rain haha, I say the same to my kids now :)
I really like the idea of a constrained language for UI declarations, like the angularJS/vue templates and XML instead of UI in code. It makes generating test code for the UIs tractable.

Here's my take on what's possible for generating support code for UI tests when the UI is written in a declarative, easily-parseable language: https://samsieber.tech/posts/2019/06/type-safe-e2e-testing-d...
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I am absolutely of the mind that Codes of Conduct have been weaponized, but there’s no reason for participants to be so overtly rude in the discussion, regardless of reactji availability.
I wonder if SourceTree will also drop Mercurial support at some point? That would be unfortunate.
Didn't AOL go through this exact same thing back in the day? I'm pretty sure I recall them having volunteer moderators was declared illegal.
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> If you just wanted the windowing and tiling, wouldn't a tiling window manager be better? It's kind of weird that you concluded the right layer for window tiling was the terminal emulator.

I tried a tiling window manager (not sure which) a long time ago and didn't like it, it felt too heavy-handed and unnatural to me. My daily driver is:

- GNOME Shell ...

- ... with the occasional Super+{Left/Right} for basic half-screen splits (e.g. term on the left and editor on the right)...

- ... and I use a little helper script ( https://github.com/ronjouch/marathon ) to run-or-focus apps.

With these three things, I meet my "simple tiling" needs and keep the flexibility I like from non-tiling WMs.

But Sway looks cool, I'll definitely try it one of these days :) , maybe I'll change my mind.
But muh western values! If Russia had done the same exact thing this thread would be filled with jingoists calling for sanctions or war. Remember that the next time somebody tries to goad you into tribalism with ideology, the ideology to them is a means, not an end.
Enrolled in an OCaml course once. Dropped that like a sack of potatoes.
> It turns out that landing on Mars is really hard. Of 17 attempted landings, only 8 have been successful, all built by JPL.

This is practically offtopic, but this is technically incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_3

> ...the Mars 3 lander became the first spacecraft to attain a soft landing on Mars, on 2 December 1971. It failed 20 seconds after landing...
"FF reading view", it's really nice.
I don’t like python and don’t use it but I still think your question was unnecessary.
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I wanted to do this for years now. It´s clear to me, that biotech will become a complete game changer. But what can you do, if you know only the computer science part? It seems like you can contribute only peanuts, if you don´t know one of the natural sciences.
>I assume an Apple user like yourself wouldn't know about

Yes, truly... because there's no way that someone who uses an iPhone might know about the existence of Android/Windows/Linux/macOS or any other system that allows for sideloading and/or installing un-certed apps.

The point is, even if Apple allowed sideloading, there's no way that the iOS sandbox model would allow for what's being described here. The comparison wasn't accurate.

Your condescension and ignorance doesn't help that argument at all.
You misspelled the 1960s.
> $750/foot

2-3 times more than per square foot price of building a luxury house in California, that number totally checks out!
Our tools are still not that good.
> People here tend to be on the less design side of things, most on the can I use this entirely with my keyboard.

Wrong dichotomy. "Design" is not about the amount of eye-candy. Design is about how to make a product so that the user can use it most effectively. Making it visually appealing is an integral part of that, but only part of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams#%22Good_design%22_...
Actually, no, but if you want to pretend I did, have at it.
>Also, if banning vapes helps reduce the rate at which it is getting trendy among teenagers then I fully support it.

Yes, because prohibitions have always worked out marvelously, the list of bad things kids get into is small, and won't someone please think of the children?!

If you're all for banning dangerous things that adults enjoy which we also prohibit children from doing, you're list is going to grow quite long.
This is great advice and somewhat correlated with a shower thought I had the other day when thinking about quitting for good.

2 weeks before I pull the trigger and throw everything into the garbage (that is the plan because I agree the temptation would be probably too great), I plan on trying to only vape outside like I would have to with normal cigarettes. This is to detach my habits of also sitting at the computer desk and taking vape hits whenever I want. This would force me to want it bad enough to put on a jacket and physically go outside to smoke it.

Where I live we just got our first snow yesterday, so going outside is not exactly pleasant, and I'm hoping that when I do pull the trigger and quit at the end of the month it will easier if I've already weened myself off of vaping at my desk or other areas inside of the house I've grown too comfortable vaping in.
Do you also oppose administering Gardasil to prevent HPV infections, on the grounds that youngsters will stop pursuing safe/marital sex?
Man gets angry that he can't post fake ads on facebook that are meant to show that facebook has a problem running fake ads?

Californians are nuts
Former Flash/AS Designer/Front-end Dev here with a couple of thoughts; Timeline animation is the most obvious feature of Flash to most people, and it was also the reason why so many Devs hated Flash. This niche is for Animators, and there are lots of timeline animation tools around, including Animate, which is just Flash rebranded. I used to teach Flash as well, and 'easy to create animation' is a relative term for sure!

For me, the value in Flash was the Stage, Symbols, and the Library, using the single frame movie paradigm. This allowed designers to import graphics and create complex UI layouts, interactive content and animations using Symbols, which could then be controlled using Actionscript.

In that light, I think a good path would be to create a Flash-like visual IDE that integrates with Haxe, which has a ton of target languages and platforms, but which lacks this kind of visual front end.
Using the freestyle libre. however, i am still doing finger pricks, when i need to figure out my current blood sugar level
and i don't have the time to wait 10 minutes, since the libre has a 10 minute lag.
Can't get Dutchier than "Wij zijn niet van suiker" :)
Ya this reads like a pr statement to me. Like: He was not unhappy here he is retiring!

A carefully controlled message.
It comes from a time of machines executing instructions thousands of times slower than they do now. Literally – thousands. Memory access was about as fast as an instruction execution, so the amount of compute you can justify per unit of data was hundreds of times less than it is now. They did however have virtual memory systems with on demand page fetching.

Also, that machine was being time shared with a dozen or more users.

Launching emacs or TeX on this machine might take tens of seconds without access to unexec(), but only 3 seconds for the freeze dried version.

unexec() was easier at the time. There were no shared libraries, no address space layout randomization. One memory region grew up from the bottom, one down from the top. There was no mmap() jamming mysterious stuff in the middle. Just copy the bottom, copy the top, do magic to adjust the stack for your unexec() call, and write the thing out as an executable.

(Yeah, I excised unexec() from BibTeX back in the ‘80s to port it to a 68k Mac for a coworker, then later implemented unexec() for a Motorola 88k based multilevel secure SysV system in the early ‘90s because launching emacs was driving me insane. I prefer our shiny new future of stupidly fast computers.)
You may notice that the visual changes occur at the same frequency as the music's tempo. But you're right, there is no influence on the content itself.
The current Raspberry Pi 4 includes analog video out over the 3.5mm TRRS jack.

It's still there, it's just not using the RCA connector anymore.

Unless you're referring to the RCA connector itself being removed, in which case, I apologize.
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"The point is more that I'd go so far as to avoid taking a job or gravitating towards a project where the development would not be enjoyable based on the tools I'd have to use."

I can definitely understand this point of view. Well sorta. I was/am always goal oriented. I find satisfaction in creating a product used by other people. The actual process of implementation is 90% boring work and language for me is just a tool. I do not get too excited by languages.
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"Group of fans" is a weird way to describe serial entrepreneurs and angel investors. I'm sure they like the product. There's only one person on that list without a background in finance/investing, who happens to be the spouse of another person on the list.

Congrats on the exit, I just think it's odd to describe the acquiring party that way.
Feel like we're either fat and unmotivated, or overworked and unsatisfied... with only a thin slice finding something in the middle.
> Makes me wonder what kind of secret club they have going on

It's no secret; they lived through the time where the computing power was outstripping people's ability to express ideas harnessing that power, and the world was ripe for more expressive languages that leaned harder on the CPU to convert them into action.

And, that's still true. ;) New languages are being invented, some haven't caught on yet.
Not needed really. We have last mile underground, but major distribution lines are over air. However all plants higher than few inches are cut down under the lines the width of the cut depending on how high the cables are. I can imagine it wouldn't work that well in the mountains. Here it is just a matter of regularily mowing the whole thing (few times per year).
Airplanes have a LOT of redundancy and backups. Rockets don't.
Yes, same in Python:

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I love to bike with my waterproof poncho.

https://www.thepeoples.co
Its funny WinForms was just code. The designer generated the code or you code do it by hand.

You could read it and understand it because it was the same language you used. If there was a problem you could debug it.

I never felt more productive than when my UI declaration was just code.

Inevitably you need to mix some logic in the layout language and then debug it (For each render this thing, binding syntax etc.) now you have a weird programming language that is hard to debug and remember syntax for, or you could just use a normal programming language, maybe one that supports some declarative constructs.

SwiftUI gives me hope, would like to see something similar show up for the .Net World.
Ant farts are hard to hear

hard to smell yet so near

they cause minor headwinds

in hindsight of tiny hind legs

they cause minor earthquakes

yet nobody is scared, or cares.
And in Norway.
The state pathologists keep getting paid no matter what their conclusions were.

Epsiein's family pathologist only gets paid as long as he's involved in the investigation. If he said "Yep, looks like a suicide", the family would have no further use for him. But if he discovers some conspiracy that will take an indefinite amount of time to deal with, he keeps collecting paychecks. Also, this fellow seems to thrive on fame, so even more incentive to find something juicy.
I've never heard of Cockpit before. It is a lightweight, secure CPanel alternative?
Besides the practical, physical advice from others on equipment and gear, I recommend a mindset reset that billions of people around the world ride bikes rain or shine every day -- old, young, rich, poor, male, female, etc -- and have for generations.

I remember riding in Vietnam during monsoon season. When the rain started, everyone pulled over a few seconds to put on their ponchos and started riding again.

I suspect that we who don't ride regularly are the exception.

Here's a podcast episode of mine of a school principal who wrote his bike to school every day in Alaska, often below 0F http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/jethro-jones. He was pretty fun about it.
> The city recently surpassed Amsterdam in a widely respected ranking of bike-friendly cities and is now second only to Copenhagen, which is more than twice its size.

I visited Copenhagen last year, and while it's a lovely city I have absolutely no idea how it is ranked number one cycling city in the world. Mark Wagenbuur, cited in this article, is also sceptical: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/11/27/is-copenhagen-...
I was referring to the RCA, although I didn't know you could do something similar with the 3.5mm jack. Is there a simple (non-powered) adapter one can use to convert that to RCA?
What was the level of effort to remediate that?
I remember the CSGO skin betting sites. You'd transfer skins to bot accounts to bet on streams of esports matches. The skins were valued at market price from the Steam marketplace. After the match, other bots would then transfer back to you a collection of skins equivalent in dollars to whatever the odds were. The system would give you whatever skins it could to fill the equivalent dollar amount so there would be a lot of common skins that you'd flip for pennies. Larger bets meant you got back some skins actually worth keeping. Obviously this marketplace only gives you Steam store credit but it wasn't that hard to find third party markets that would let you "gift" game codes you bought with Steam store credit or trade CSGO skins again.

It was immediately apparent the whole thing could be used to launder money easily across borders, you don't even need the third party market buyer to be in on the laundering. The products being sold were legit and had real value to everyday people unlike bitcoin or expensive art.
I’m right there with you!

I’ve been doing embedded hardware and CE work for 15 years non-stop, and had no idea what OoO meant.

Kept thinking “on a”. As in SoC or PoC.
The only really risky part of adopting it at enterprise scale is that it's flexible enough that a developer can trick themselves into thinking they can extend it and they end up falling into DSL hell (where you're technically still using Python, but you've bent it so far via its runtime-dynamism that static analysis tools can't help you and you're now writing both code and a toolchain to support writing code).

But you don't have to do that to yourself to use the language.
Again, please look up definitions for the words 'malicious' and 'morality'.
Have you tried Fortran?

C also shows excellent stability and backwards compatibility.

Cobol is also quite stable, but IDK about the quality of open-source tools for it.

The problem of stability is that you are pinned to the moment when the interfaces were defined and committed to, and this moment goes further and further into the past. Quite often this means that you can't use the new things which give advantage to your competitors.
All those are either unprofitable or have much lower than trillion dollar revenue possibility in the next 50 years.

To take asteroid mining as an example: The entire platinum group metal market on Earth is only about $10-20 billion per year. Adding a huge supply is likely to crash the market price well before you drive demand up high enough to compensate for the far lower price. So platinum-group metal mining is not huge.

Mining water is also a very small market. You're primarily replacing rocket propellant for launch vehicles or maneuvering, but this is a small market. The entire commercial launch market is about $3 billion per year in revenue. Adding non-commercial launch may more than double it, but you're still talking less than $10 billion per year. And propellant (or propellant services) is going to be a small part of that. It won't help get payloads to LEO, so you're left with just providing services from LEO to GEO or something like that. Maybe for deep space missions... But even that market is very small. NASA makes up the majority of world funding for deep space exploration, about $10 billion per year optimistically. Propellant is a small fraction of that.

So for water propellant, we're looking at maybe $100 million to $1 billion per year in revenue.

For structural materials, the market is even more speculative and less proven.

Space settlements are going to be small revenue, too, for the foreseeable future. NASA human spaceflight, philanthropic, and space tourism are really the only consistent funding sources there. The settlers themselves won't be super rich as they'll need to be sustaining themselves, but let's just say we have 10,000 settlers each able to spend $100,000 for your services per year. That's just $1 billion per year. To get truly sizable, you need like a million people living in space, and it's still only $100 billion per year.

So it's primarily telecom that is the big space market. The others are much smaller and less profitable. It turns out that serving billions of Earthling consumers is where the real money is in space.

EDIT:

There are 3 big (trillion dollar) markets:

1) telecomm

2) energy

3) high speed transport (aviation)

Space can in principle address all three. The first one is the only real "slam dunk," the other two are questionable to one degree or another. SpaceX is pursuing 1 and 3.
So it becomes a business, which will focus on generating profit from the magazine, thus Nautilus will become yet another bog standard science magazine subjected to the same structures as other magazines.

And we all know that consumers don't fork enough money to support ads-free journalism, which leads to perverse incentives.
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