skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before colonizing Mars, colonize Antarctica. Antarctica is an overwhelmingly better place to live, and to move to, than Mars, on any axis you can name. Actually has air. Has lots of surface water. Has gravity. Is warmer! A flight there or back costs N thousands of times less, and you can get there in a day, not 4-10 months.

That's not to say Antarctica is an appealing place to colonize. It's much, much worse than almost any other place on earth. But it's way better than Mars.

Even the cloud tops of Venus are way better than Mars. But Antarctica is a way better place to be than Venus, too.

Central Australia or the Taklamakan desert would be a picnic compared to Antarctica.

Instead of making self-replicating potato-farming robots for Mars, make some for Earth, first. Turn them loose in a desert somewhere: Antarctica, the Sahara, Wrangel Island, or central Australia. I guarantee overwhelmingly better chances for success at any of those places than on Mars. If it would be too hard to do at any of those places, then it will be impossible on Mars.

BFStarship has an interesting value proposition for something. Almost anything is a better choice than Mars missions. Delivering milk is a better value proposition. Blockade busting is a better value proposition. Launching communication satellite swarms looks like a good idea, but a viable use for the next dozen vehicles is harder to guess. A space elevator would use up a lot of launches, but that begs the question.

Asteroid mining actually seems kind of plausible, in principle, but only if you have something to build out of it, there, like an interstellar generation ship. Nobody has any expectations for those to produce any value.
I wouldn't have a problem with expanding that to include social issues. You bought a ticket to see a game, not a billboard.

This is a problem I have with modern social movements, when they fail to get audiences in public spaces they seek out captive audiences or to be disruptive as possible to completely unrelated places. Hold your rally in a park or march down main street or a pedestrian way or in front of some place you're protesting. Stop walking down highways and forcing your messages in places which have nothing to do with your cause.
Sure, but it's really no different than ICE mods melting pistons, valves, and bending rods. We've been shortening service life of automobiles in favor of performance since the first car rolled off a production line.
Re: It has largely been fine in my experience.

That's not my experience. It requires too much fiddling and diddling to get things right that wouldn't be drama under 90's GUI IDE's. (Early versions sucked, but they got better with time.) Maybe a few experts somehow master all the arcane CSS/DOM rules, but that's the exception. Arcane fiddling may be great job security, but it's not economically logical on a planet-wide view.
There's a difference between opinion and facts/lies. Opinion is fine, but when someone is spreading an objective lie (the earth is flat!)... that's where it seems like this is a cop out for Facebook to pretend they can't get involved due to "free speech". Sure, let people share opinions, but not lies and misinformation.
So be it. At least from their business side, they are clearing themselves of responsibility. They are a company, they dont have a duty to arbitrate political discourse in general.
> "But if you only admire the interesting parts, you get a horribly inaccurate picture."

I don't think that's how admiration generally works. I admire Steve Jobs on many things, but he was a cruel human being to some. When I see a sports star, I don't need to know 'the whole picture' to admire their amazing catch or dedication to training. That doesn't make it 'horrid'.
In the large intestine, mucus is your moat (Fig 3D). https://www.pnas.org/content/105/39/15064

The key is that you can't really stop the bacteria from coming in. You have to actually feed them so that they don't get desperate enough to blow a hole through your defenses. But what you feed them is a complex mix of polysaccharides that take take a long time to chew through.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23292

Your variance hypothesis is basically correct. The goblet cells of the epithelium express ~20 enzymes that decorate the protein backbone of mucus with six O-linked sugars in such a way that the composition is never the same, because of all the different types of linkage combinations possible, which means that no one bacteria can sweep through and gain permanent access.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982847/
One of the things I love most about Python is the ease of decomposing functions. The ability to return an arbitrary number of objects at the same time makes it really easy.

Python not caring about the type of a parameter makes it easy to share code too.
> we still have a long way to go.

I agree entirely. What I've seen count as "baby steps".

As I tell myself when something is taking far longer than it should, at least the trend line is pointing the right direction. A small amount of progress is preferable to none at all.
Apple Q4 earnings in four charts
Writing a scraper is easy. So I assume the special sauce in these tools is caching, not getting banned or rated limited. Mostly could be done with Tor but still doesn't work with some sites like Craigslist. Is that right?
Larry Summers, 71st Secretary of the Treasury, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University.

this is the guy who was just featured in that article on bill gates rubbing elbows with Jeffrey Epstein.
> Defendant's profits is more promising, but I believe that it is profits that can reasonably be attributed to the infringing material.

Car doesn't run without Linux, Cool entertainment features don't work without Linux, Battery Management based on Linux? etc, etc...
Alternative explanation: decades of work destroy internal motivation and leave people directionless in the absence of someone to tell them what to do
Check this out “Playlist Downloader for the codewithmosh.com video tutorials”
I moved to DDG a month or so ago. One thing I miss is the contextualization of my results. Google knew so much about me, it new that if I was searching for a cafe that it should search my local area.

DDG doesn't know me and so for roughly a fifth of the searches I do, I need to add more detail to the search to get the results I need.
I agree with the authors of https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0... that we should not be teaching fork and friends to people anymore except out of historical context. Yes, there is large swaths of software that make extensive use of it but that software should be re-written in my most humble opinion.
If the Constitution is too hard to amend then that is as oppressive as any other method. Deliberately making political change too slow to accomplish is how you get revolutions, sooner or later.
Papers and resources in the field of quantum machine learning
You're right, I should have just said white people. The reason I used demographics like this, is that per-capita net immigration numbers are tricky to come by, especially when you factor in the EU changing in size. But if you simply look at ethnicity, it's obvious one territory had a greater influx of people.

Regardless, I don't see how this pedantry affects the claim that an influx of workers drives down wages.
But it doesn't actually have that. It has that for 1 very specific usecase, sometimes. Its very much not generic or intentionally built into bazel, and I am almost certain that there are more complex cases where that caching will break down (for example when the various deps import each other, or as mentioned: tests). Especially when its easier to have tooling automatically manage build files for you, so you don't even have to do it by hand!
As a sector or select lucky funds? Source?

Nasdaq biotech 3y: +20%

Nasdaq tech 3y: +75%
Of course. Like it or not, the transparency that Trump's twitter provides is unprecedented and a win for democracies.
The Sierra Club has a similar “dodge.” Most non-profits are tax exempt and many have separate PACs that aren’t tax exempt but are indirectly supported by their tax-exempt cohort if only by providing a mailing list from which to solicit donations.
I think this is not just limited to cognitive decline but I heard cases where people start suddenly contracting all kinds of diseases upon retirement. Goes on to show the both mental and physical exercise is key to our long term survival.
I tried it and this applies to the login password field too, not just signup...

Note: it only happens when the password field is set as 'hidden', clicking reveal makes it work fine.
Okay Zuck ... now your turn.
I feel like a lot of this is navel gazing. Idk is the advantage of even a good school that much.
I strongly disagree.

as a matter of principle, I don't accept that a device I own should do anything more or less that what I tell it to do.

I don't expect HN to agree with me on this principle, so I will also present a practical argument. these kinds of controls that protect users from wrongdoing tend to be implemented incredibly crudely. my house is close enough to a major airport that it triggers DJI's flight restriction. if the drone happens to get a GPS fix inside my house it will deactivate itself and land. there's no way a small drone can be a threat to the public when it's hovering inside my living room, and I'm pretty sure the legal restrictions don't apply inside of a structure anyway.
Arguably Saleforce. One aspect of the product is point and click editable database tables, reports, forms.

Actually I think the lesser known parts of office 365 'PowerApps' have various features for point and clicking your way to a cloud database, forms and reports, and even ETL from your existing data sources.

However, people don't think of these options like they think of access. For MS and Office 365, they could put more effort into marketing the features. Maybe they don't want to. For Salesforce, I guess they could try to get their product into non-computer people IT class syllabuses?
I feel that my cognitive abilities, along with my overall mental state, to be steeply declining.

And I'm a senior software guy in a big Valley corp.

Probably the real priority here is to find one's "happy place" and stay there as long as it stay that way.
Funny that you mention eBay. There's currently widespread issues with Item Specifics https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/FRIDAY-OCT-18-UP...
Oh I didn't say it was without problems, but it did mostly work , mostly...

Once I started learning SQL server and VB5 for real client server apps I never looked back, but then you had to go find a reporting engine too.
I found it hard to consider them knowledgeable when they kept comparing them to armies/people/etc hundreds of years in the future.
fx and x2 where _never_ that ahead of performance to be comparable to a twice expensive intel chip.
> "Not all famous quotes are by famous people"

Googling this quote points back to RcouF1uZ4gsC as an original author.

https://www.google.com/search?q="Not+all+famous+quotes+are+b...
Someone tried to put up that ad and Facebook took it down. But wasn't it "just" deceptive clickbait advertising for a political position against Facebook? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-facebook/fac...
How is this related to process mining theory and tools like Celonis?
One fifth of a standard deviation? Can’t be separated from self-selection effects.
If you import excel files to access and connect to a db using odbc you can write sql statements combining both.
My university used it to teach relational database design, querying, form design, and report design concepts. It was really useful to have all that in a single software package.

My senior project was to create a complete project plan in MS Project for a system (I chose a video rental point of sale system), then build it out using Access. The project plan had to be a semester long plan, including features and assigned assets. The system had to have a proper ERD, forms and reports. It was a two semester course and taught me a ton about how to actually build software in a business environment.
Much of 18th century English-language literature was an attempt to show how smart the authors were...
Saville was a friend of Prince Andrew's elder brother, the future King Charles.

Don't overlook the snobbery and friend of royalty aspect. The Windsor boys have been very, um, unlucky in their choice of friends. Despite the fact they have advisors and the secret service keeps tabs on them so they aren't compromised by spies or assassinated.

It really is extraordinary that they were both so unlucky and so badly compromised in this way.
Uh, international coordination was definitely a thing! There was a whole Delian League formed specifically to coordinate the city-states' response to the Persian invasion – Sparta's exit from the League precipitated the war with Athens.
This is a general state problem, to be sure. It always ends up as an older generation imposing rules on a younger generation that lacks the political autonomy to change them.
There's little that can replace access in one interface/app. Have hopes for airtable. :)
YAML predated / was concurrent with JSON. Both were in reaction to the bloat of XML.
Reminds of when I was not able to log into Skype, because when I typed in my username, which was something like firstname...familyname, it kept replacing the three dots with an elipsis automatically, without me noticing.
LibreOffice has Base which can use either embedded database system or talk to proper RDBMS like postgresql. KDE has Kexi which afaik is pretty similar. I have no experience with either, nor have I ever heard anyone to use them.
Personally, I see no greater advance for humanity than curing diseases. Some of these illnesses have been with us since before humans became modern humans, and now for the first time ever, we have a chance at curing or preventing them. I'd take new disease cures over colonizing Mars.

But more to your point, I understand health care costs are crazy (especially in the US), but I am concerned that capping health care expenditures will dis-incentivize companies from taking risks on new vaccines and therapies.
But it actually is being shown to work.

When was the last time that a court successfully reversed a transaction on the Bitcoin Blockchain? The answer is never.

Sure, they have sent court orders to companies, or whatever, but the blockchain itself has never been reversed by court order.
Yeah I thought it was a joke at first but then I saw the comments here and went back to re-evaluate. Looks more to me like it's a thought process that's laid out like code to help the author come up with ideas that solve problems and then evaluate the efficacy of those ideas based on a perceived market for it. Sort of like a checklist to run through in your mind but laid out as a coding workflow.

If you are familiar with the GTD method from David Allen, it reminds me of that a bit where "var product = new idea(getPainsIFeel());" and "innovateSolutions(painsIFeel, audiences, traitsBehaviorsValues);" is basically the equivalent of the weekly review and trigger list to generate things to do/improve. Similarly, thing like createValuableContent(), achieveProductMarketFit(), and synthesize() are analogous to the intermediary stages within GTD that drive the workflow and keep things on track to reach completion.
Most of the graphs on Six Colors have 2019-Q4 missing and some of the numbers are wrong. For example compare total revenue change for 2019-Q2 with the actual numbers in the second chart above.
And sometimes you have poor genes for atherosclerosis. Exercise is still a miracle drug, but I think the young underestimate the physical disabilities that inevitably come with age. The will to live may be correlated with mean survival years because of the same underlying health issues.
One of my grandpas was an alcoholic, did not much more than sit around, drink beer, and go out to eat pizza and roasted chicken about once a week for the last couple of decades of his life. He lived until 100.

The other had one of his lungs shot by tuberculosis, but despite that, smoked his entire life. Not particularly active either after retirement. He lived until his late 80s (EDIT: just checked, 85 actually).

EDIT: Obviously staying active is important for good health but anecdotes are not super informative.
that is the basic premise. there are also audio engineering effects to deal with such as reverb, chorus, delay and phasing due to poor input quality. lets not get into the likelihood of layered vocal tracks. TL;DR: you want the original raw vocal to do the best removal, and if you have that then you probably already have the tracked version of the mixdown so you can just mute the vocal layers.

in my DJ days, you could just write a record label and ask for instrumental or vocal only demo tracks to perform mixes (this is how dj's became popular in the NYC scene). 80% of the time its a yes, and 90% of those vocal tracks were "audiomarked" copies so you could only make demos (but didn't stop people from using the non-watermarked part for a 15 second clip in their DJ mix.

anyway, what i'm saying is that your method works for basic recordings. as you move up the production food chain you need to become more creative in your methods
Another key niche for Access was that MDB was for too long a time (decades) the only single-file DB format that people could reliably ship around as files / store on network shares / etc. Many a VB6 app used MDB as the underlying storage internals of their file format because it was convenient.

SQLite has only relatively recently started to be an option in that niche of single-file databases.
While kind of true, the anti-GPL movement seems to forget that without it, we would probably still have all those commercial UNIXes to choose from.

While some of us might not care that much, others might come to miss the days when GPL was actually relevant.
Much of California's power infrastructure is ... both centralised and decentralised.

There's a huge reliance on hydroelectric power, one nuclear power plan (Diablo Canyon), as well as a huge amount of imported power from Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Canada hydro projects. Plus numerous peaking plants (one near Hunter's Point in San Francisco, Moss Landing north of Monterey, off the top of my head), and an increasing amount of wind and solar.

A map of major transmission lines in the state helps show this:

http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/national_energy_gri...

With populations as large and concentrated and distributed as they are (roughly half of the state lives in LA-SD, half the rest in SF-OAK-SJ, half the rest in Sacramento-Stockton, and the remainder scattered throughout the state), it's hard to match generation and load. You can't park enough large plants near the big cities, you can't get enough small plants scattered around the countryside. Dams are difficult to relocate, for obvious reasons.

Localised generation has costs and risks, particularly if fueled. Renewable sources can be built, but have their own reliability issues, many of which are addressed through storage, where that is best served by pumped hydro, so again, you're schlepping large volumes of power over the state rather than having a locally-contained grid.

Incidentally, the Kinkaid fire started at or near a major renewable generating facility, The Geysers power plan near Healdsburg / Geyserville. That's actually among the largest and oldest geothermal generating installations in the world.
Sparking transmission equipment in the area, possibly related to the plant, may be in part responsible for the blaze.

As is often the case, a part of the proposed solution may well be part of the problem.
My organization recently adopted Office 365. One of the new apps was "PowerApps", a web-based GUI app builder. I popped open an example app inspected a button and, to my horror, I found the program logic was Excel syntax one-liners. When I checked the data binding for the app, it pointed to an XLSX spreadsheet on OneDrive. Time is a flat circle...
He sounds a lot like my mother and she isn't even 60 yet. She was lucky enough to have inherited a bit of money after her mother passed. She worked a hard job cleaning most of my life and hasn't worked more than two days a week in 10 years. It is hard to watch her decline to only realize that things haven't even really started to get bad yet. If she only didn't abort my siblings, I would have someone to help with all of this. Lucky me.
There's no doubt that people decline cognitively in their old age. I don't think this study's saying that all cognitive decline is due to retirement. People get old and their bodies and brains deteriorate. To my mind the question is whether the rate of decline can be reduced by keeping mentally active.
Learned 3NF in an Access 2 class, so I might be older... =)
My dream is to build a modern take of the fox/dbase family. I starting with the inner language

http://tablam.org

Access, as concept, is great. Is exactly what many need.

But it have a lot of small deficiencies that make it disliked by developers. I have used FoxPro, and it have almost all the right things instead (Fox is Access, but goooood!... except a bit less user friendly).

I wish I could dedicate to build this. Is weird to me why this kind of tool have so little support?
It would suck to have a world not too hot, but with no sea life left.

Allowing CO2 to increase without bound would eliminate the fisheries billions of people rely on for their protein.
Ms Access in a modern form
> I've been trying to do is to make XR tools for scientists to make their own visualizations using their datasets

Have you any thoughts on helping them with that process?

For instance, educational graphics for atomic nuclei, and electron density, are very stereotyped and unrealistic. Some good data exists for both, but it's in these tiny communities. Education content creators have little interest or incentive to pull, and the researchers have no incentive to push, with non-trivial effort, something for which there's no interest.

So I've been wondering, might one facilitate the process? To speed progress. Perhaps say create a free Unity asset, with a set of more realistic atomic nuclei graphics. So the next time an XR content creator is reaching for a graphic, at least there's an easily accessible one that isn't the usual ball of colored marbles.
Someone with health declining over a long period will retire and withdraw from everything, and then later on be tested to find that their health has been declining I think you will find that most retired people are dead, just by virtue of the fact that all dead people retire!
Whats wrong with Base? I haven't used it so I don't have any preconceptions about it.
Probably we should just add class and/or socioeconomic status to the Title VII list and mandate that colleges add it in the form of affirmative action. We can talk around the problem & treat symptoms all we want but fundamentally the Ivy League's purpose is to take the children of the rich and give them the meritocratic legitimation that our society currently requires of its elites. Allowing a small amount of poor kids in is just a part of that meritocratic veneer. We should destroy the entire purpose and rebuild it w/ 20% of its students from the bottom 20%, 20% of its students from the next 20%, and only 1% of its students from the top 1%.
"Please do not bother me with you trying to not get killed by the state anymore."
The advantage of a counselor-like figure telling you to just apply to a fancy college (i.e. that it is totally within reach) and the advantage of the instructor having the time to teach (instead of just herd the students around) is absolutely enormous from my observations (as both an academic and a K12 outreach volunteer).