skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just needed to do some dns lookups recently and since I never really adapted to dig and don't actually have it on minimal installs, I went straight to DoH (on quad9.)

Memorizing a starting DoH url and the parameters actually seems like a more universal solution to be ready to bootstrap to naming anywhere from now on.

At any rate maybe a good related topic or comparison possibility. I found it interesting that I couldn't find a simple cheat sheet and just had to wing it on the parameter names.
I don’t know. I have read this before. But this goes so much against my gut feeling and what I have experienced that it is hard to believe. It’s counter intuitive to say the least.
As a field service engineer, I would spend 2-4 hours on a new problem and the next time I’ll encounter it I will solve it instantly.

I identified several common errors made by other people. They were very confusing the first time, but now I can solve them at a glance.
Will Made in America and Made in China Tesla models have the same resale value?
For the first time in US history, a decade will pass without a recession
The author has a lot of imagination and a grudge... What if Sergey and Larry were just engineers at heart and simply never craved for the attention they got after their success? AFAICT they always kept a low profile. They got talked into posing for silly PR pictures a few times, so what? As if that was unusual for tech founders.
> Why can't the stupid things I said 20 years ago in a forum just vanish someday?

Because some might want to read them or use them in some form.
I think it's bad to define a word for a situation in terms of what you think it takes to get there. Because that encodes your prejudices where it's not necessary.

Whenever you define freedom as "what you get when you do X" you have set yourself up for Orwellian denial of reality.

I think a good way to define freedom is "the condition of having a reasonably large number of good choices". The better and more diverse the choices, the more freedom.
I think the comment you're replying to was providing a single example to prove not all automation leads to job loss immediately. You're arguing some automation leads to job loss. These aren't contradictory claims. I found the anecodote interesting because it's not universally representative.
As an expert would you be able to comment on my speculation:

It seems like this whole hullabaloo is because a SpaceX launch happened to coincide with a rare event at an inopportune time:. The alpha monocerotids have a narrow band with a long recurrence time (2h window, with a peak recurrence on the order of 10 years). Moreover, some monocerotid observers are in parts of the world where they will appear near Dawn or dusk, so yes some of the starlinks will flash (as you mentioned). In general, the SpaceX launches will only cluster in that fashion a few days after launch as they haven't disperesed into final formation yet. Any other time this wouldn't be a problem.
The problem is lending is extremely expensive. The amounts people want to borrow are tiny, so the logistics involved themselves become a huge expense. Further, in many places where micro finance took off, there is a lack of ids, digital tracking, or even phones and addresses you can either contact or identify the borrowers by.

Micro finances genius was to offload enforcement costs to the community at large, and to focus lending to women.

Today where everyone has cellphones, a lot of the original expenses with lending to small scale borrowers have disappeared, and the cell phone itself becomes an ID.
'Benson,' 'Star Trek' actor René Auberjonois has died at 79
If only she knew she could interact with Excel using SQL. I have shown that to some accountants and saw lightbulbs appear over their heads. :)
If you are a company, GDPR does apply to data on physical letters and local emails. A large part of the preparation for the introduction of GDPR enforcement was companies getting a handle on what they had stored in various media.
> they are permitted by regulation

Where is the restriction to only those concerns? 47 CFR § 25.156 has some pretty vague language about "the public interest, convenience and necessity."

Thanks for pointing out that the FCC is required to evaluate orbital debris and collision risk, but I don't think the FCC is prohibited from considering other concerns (and i might be wrong on that).
The Google search method did not work for me, but http://archive.is/BOsMr did.
My last and only experience with Datalog (or a variation thereof) was (I believe) Logicblox, which (at least at the time) had zero support for pagination. In spite of all the supposed benefits of the system, that makes it fundamentally unsuitable imho.
'right to be forgotten' laws are the result of the whole "numbers have owners" insanity, combined with the fact that the average person will mindlessly use random services to store private data.
Also a European, but I really don't understand you. I don't know what you think park means in a urban context, to me a park is a man-made green area. Anyway, even when you go to a forest in Europe you likely have no idea of how much managed they are, it's exactly like farming, just on a different time scale. There is really almost nothing that is not somehow man-made on this side of the pond.
Faster, Higher and More Secret Than the SR-71 Blackbird – The A-12 Oxcart
A college student would not take a $7 microloan for convenience and satisfaction. The funny part here is that a college student should know how to keep a balanced ledger! But that's not the point, the point is that microloans are meant for developing countries where an established credit market is still forming (like many countries in Africa and Southeast Asia)
Here's a 1999 article, well before the announcement of Starlink, talking about the increasing problems of trails spoiling deep sky observations--- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027311779...

> From Table 1 it is clear that since 1985 the annual mean number of trails has risen from 2.5 to 2.9 in a 60
minute exposure, an increase of 16%; the number of spacecraft on orbit has increased by 39% in the same
period. Since the trail rate data comes from a set of plates not selected for time of night of exposure, the
trail rate is averaged over an entire night. Since trailing is most frequent in the two hours after sunset and
before sunrise, it would be expected that the trail rate would not increase as rapidly as the spacecraft
population. However, the trend is such that it supports the view that plate trailing is caused by spacecraft
and large debris and not by debris more generally. The figures suggest that the satellite population is
doubling approximately every 14 years at present launch rates. The concern of the astronomical
community is that due to the advent of large satellite constellations such as IRIDIUM and, further in the
future, a TELEDESIC network, there will be a sudden increase in the numbers of satellites capable of
causing trailing. The time available to find a solution is thereby reduced.

It even foresees SpaceX's "solution" that they are trialing:

> The Space Agencies
could also assist by reducing satellite albedos.

It's also discussed in similar terms in "Adverse Environmental Effects on Astronomy", D. McNally, 1992.

You can find early 2000's complaints about Iridium-spoiled optical observations.

You can find late 1960's papers analyzing the impact of satellites on optical astronomy... that point to exactly where we are now.

It's hardly a "surprise to the optical astronomy community." If there's any surprise, it's that people are actually willing to listen to their concerns.
Optical signature.
The key is finding pragmatic ways to react to a finding of harm that will result in positive change.

After WWI, the League of Nations was formed, in large part to mitigate the risk of war. Unfortunately, the primary known way to punish a warring nation is with a war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations
Why isn't there an international condemnation from governments despite of UN raising concerns, journalists tracking satellite images, tourist videos, leaked CCP papers on the protocols, etc?

What is stopping governments from strongly condemning and taking action against a modern take on Nazi fascism? 1.1 Million CCP members are staying inside of Uigher homes while their husbands are attending camps. I don't doubt if there are hundreds of thousands of rape incidents in the name of cleansing the genetic makeup of Uighers (and now Tibetians).

This is not acceptable in 2019. Fuck the CCP. We have funded this state - stop now and push back.

It is year 2025 - and we will look back 5 years and say to ourselves, "Why did the world let this atrocity happen?". It is year 2030 - 7 million Hong Kong people are imprisoned in the same camps, along with Taiwanese population. Africa is fully funded and operationally dependent on the Chinese government, AI + modern weaponry is miles ahead of anything US/EU/APEC can come up with. Our online fingerprints remain. My instagram post protesting against this in 2019 has lead me to a prison in Sri Lanka (run by the CCP), I am posting this from a hacked forum login that I found...help. I need help.
Found the article in case anyone is still browsing here http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/humevas.html its interesting
I'd think that we'd have yeasts that could produce alcohol for longer. (saccharomyces usually die at around 18% ABV)
I don't work at Reddit but I take personal offense when someone so unfairly criticizes the "working class" of a software house like that (ie the non manager level software engineers).

What makes you think that whatever is wrong with Reddit is due to lack of talent? It almost never is.
You can't just subtract a bright signal and hope to see the weak signal underneath it, or we'd just subtract daylight during the day.
Show HN: My in-network Node app for controlling my kids' nightlights
(ps: if anyone looks at my site: it is intermittently slow for me lately and the hosting support can't reproduce it. If you see that slowness, and want to say what region you are from (perhaps emailing me using contact info on the site's page footers, won't put you on a list), that might provide diagnostic input. No big deal but thanks if so.)
> why are relational databases not able to tell you how many rows are in a table without a full table scan

This is unrelated to database being relational or not. Any mutable database will have hard time with that challenge.

Can you remember how long you have lived in seconds? In milliseconds? Why are you not keeping track of such obviously useful information?

Of course, it is theoretically possible to create a database, that can count rows very quickly — under very specific conditions. Are week-old results acceptable? What about year-old results? A nanosecond-old results?

Locking is hard. Your computer has multiple CPUs, which constantly execute out-of-order instructions, — such as other transactions, mutating the same table. In order to count results of read operation those CPUs will have to take a stop (no matter how insignificant) and agree on linearity of events. Some of CPUs may have to perform pending work (such as sending recent transaction contents over PCIe bus) before they declare themselves ready to sync. In the worst case you may have to wait for some preempted threads to be brought back to life by OS scheduler. And you have to do that during every read — otherwise your results will automatically be outdated!

If you can accept outdated or outright invalid results (duplicates, remains of incomplete transactions), you can always use weaker DB transaction isolation level ("READ UNCOMMITTED" etc.) or simply cache results in Redis/Memcached. But for obvious reasons that isn't a default.
Peter Lawrey said he had HFT clients who wrote Java and managed to get their object allocation so low that they never had a GC pause, and just waited until market close to restart the JVM.
> what is essentially private communications

If they have access to it, it is not private.
There are very usable, well-supported languages out there right now that do have such type systems. Saying they're out of consideration because they're not mainstream is a circular argument.
As someone who enjoys Python quite a bit, I think Java has a lot of options that would be really important there that Python is lacking, like real-time support, and Python no real benefit.
Test suites are one leg of the stool. The others include memory safety, type safety and (for real-time applications) resource guarantees, as well as a formal development process that includes rigorous code inspections. Put everything together and you have "space shuttle computer" level investment required. As you give up legs, the stool becomes cheaper yet not as sturdy.
Most twin studies simply compare identical and fraternal twins in non-adopted households.

Since identical twins share twice the genetic covariance of fraternal twins, the impact of family environment can be backed out from the respective intra-pair correlation coefficients. In the limit case if genetics played no factor, then fraternal and identical twins should have identical pairwise correlations.

For example suppose pairs of identical twins have 45% pairwise correlation for adult IQ. And say fraternal twins have 25% correlation for the same measure. That would tell us that the population level variance of adult IQ is 40% attributable to genetic heritability, 5% to environmental heritability , and 55% to non-heritable factors (i.e. not genetics and not family environment).
Oh fuck off, you condescending cunt.

By the way, your site is shit and this article dull and unreadable.
They've now launched 120 satellites (there's been 2 launches of 60 satellites). The test has already proved successful. They're heading on to production now.
David Brooks needs to sit down with a nice tall glass of OK BOOMER. He is nothing but a propagandist for the ruling class.
Verizon has stated in support emails that they were aware of Archive Team's efforts and specifically will not be un-banning our accounts.[0] I therefore think it likely that the banning was targeted.

[0] https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/verizon-...
> It's easy to lend anywhere.

There are quite a lot of regulations surrounding lending in the "developed" world. It's not easy for you or I to just go out one day and set up shop trying to lend money.
I'm not a professional scientist, but shouldn't the spirit of science be curiosity and exploration at all times, not shooting down a new idea as soon as you hear it?

If such an attitude were present in every person, science would not progress at all.

I'm not that long a veteran here, but I think at HN we are more interested in having our minds and ears open and feeling we can comfortably share and discuss articles that make us think, than fostering an attitude like this.

I mean this with respect, whoever you are.
> Hour-long compilations,

If your project takes hours to compile them you only have yourself to blame.

> type-unsafe templates

There is no such thing.

> with unreadable errors,

That's an implementation issue, not a language issue.

> and circular references

If you write buggy code then you only have yourself to blame.
Yes every single day I micro borrow amounts as low as 2.99 to buy coffee. I pay these off with zero interest at the end of the month. It gives me a way to get what I want without having cash in hand. It’s great. Some micro loans even pay ME for taking them.
Micro-loans actually seem better than the standard western practice of credit cards. With a credit card the individual never pays for their own transactions, they're completely sidelined then pay back the cost + more later. At least with a micro-loan the individual actually is involved and in control of the money.
I have a feeling they will completely remove old.reddit in 2020, citing fake security risks and there will be a medium sized digg like exodus
That no matter how good you are at the tech. You need to mature professionally (comms, etc.) in order to avoid undermining your full career potential.

- source: I manage a small team of senior SW engineers

</end of rant>
Is there a benefit to building C code with a C++ compiler?
(I think you get downvoted here, because it is a long read and while extremely well argued on data, it could benefit from more of a narrative at times. I often felt a tad lost even though it was a great read)

The question that arises for me from the article is: what should society shift spending towards/away from healthcare to receive the most life expectancy gains? Fight obesity, transport safety, drugs? Is any areas of those amicable to be solved by spending?
I do operate linux desktop machines but not as my main driver. As much as I like Linux and OSS in general, the community just does not have UX and design experts. They are not part of the community. As a consequence, all desktop environments in Linux is "programmer art". I have an eye for design and UX in general, and Linux desktop feels like a Frankenstein's monster of features with no coherent logic. Now windows is like that too. Not as bad but still...

I also use lots of proprietary software that won't run in Linux (for audio and gfx work) - especially for audio, linux audio stack is and has always been a mess. That said, even if all those software ran comfortably, the desktop experience alone is a dealbreaker for me personally. With macOS, I have a unix and a solid very well thought out desktop experience so I get the best of both worlds. Also with hackintosh, hardware is also cheap (use good old PCs I assemble myself) so overall it is the best of all worlds for me.
Yes a lot of replies in this topic sound like Lamarckism.

The mutation is a pre-existing condition that is selected for when everyone else dies or has a bad day, and you can now fill the empty space.
That could really help. Thank you!
Yes. Inflation decreases debts and means people with wealth need to do something with their money (e.g. invest) in order to retain its value.

However, speculative increases (buying land for increase in prices, buying shares for increase in share price, etc) and rent seeking adds price but doesn't add real value/investment to the economy.
This was (is?) what the semantic web dream was all about, and I find it funny that it took a corporation (FB) developing a clone before others discovered the concept. Semantic web data would be published as RDF data and clients would consume this data using a SPARQL query engine to get whichever shape of data that they desired.
As for a previous article like this -- it's pointless. Just use BLIS, like AMD do, and which is infinitely faster than MKL on non-x86 systems. https://github.com/flame/blis
Trying to post on stack overflow? Here's a survival guide.
So while it sounds good that we've fixed the launch industry and can launch everything cheaper, that we should only have space based telescopes, space telescopes are a very different game from ground based telescopes.

First, as others have pointed out, is size. Ground based mirrors are very large, in the 10s of meters, and those mirrors are extremely heavy, like tons. You can't lift one of those mirrors up on one rocket, so you'll have to figure out some kind of in orbit construction. Not impossible, but we haven't assembled a lot of things in space, probably the biggest would be the ISS. But telescopes have tricky tolerances...

Which leads me to the next issue: not only is it heavy, but telescopes are fragile. They have to be very carefully calibrated and put together. Launching something into space tends to be a very bumpy ride, and making something that can withstand that kind of vibration for launch, and then the thermal problems while in space would be certainly not trivial.

But let's say you could build something and get it to work in orbit. Then it's still hard to service. Servicing the hubble to fix the optics was a very hard mission, and the hubble is relatively close to the earth. And that was when we had the shuttle, which we don't now.

Cooling is very tricky for both telescopes and space. Since there's no air to radiate to, you can get big thermal gradients over the length of your craft and you have to be very careful how you point it. Same for the optics and the camera, you want to make sure they have as little thermal gradient as possible.

Unlike a lot of commercial satellites, many scientific probes and telescopes are constantly refitted and reused. Ground based telescopes frequently reuse the same expensive (typically one-off) mirrors and put better cameras on them all the time. This is pretty hard to do in space.

That being said, being in space does have a lot of advantages, the most obvious one being a lack of atmosphere to mess with your observations. But assembling large telescopes in space still isn't exactly easy.

I think over time though, we will be heading to more space based telescopes as the cost comes down. But many slower moving telescope projects (mostly slow due to government funding) were started before Starlink was even announced.
Multiple court orders? Does the procedure involve large amounts of unmarked bills for the British equivalent of a judge? £46,000 is obviously not "a bit more" than the fee for writing a letter.

Why would someone assume the Guardian doesn't make up stories like these? Are they more reliable than the Sun?
> Yes, I’m an astronomer and I can tell you this SpaceX statement is pure BS. The astronomy community absolutely thought of this before any of these satellites were launched. I’ve personally talked about it at public outreach events (and it was members of the public who brought it up) and topic has definitely come up at professional meetings...but there is just a general feeling of powerlessness, both from the point of how do you fight a company like SpaceX and a charlatan like Musk, and also from the point of many members of the public don’t care.

Why aren't you talking about any of the other constellations that are being built? They're all planning huge numbers of satellites, many of which are larger or in higher orbits than SpaceX's satellites. You can't single out Elon Musk's companies just because of a personal vendetta if you're actually trying to be fair and attack this from a technical perspective.
Why do so many people believe that? Here in Maryland, there are towns with municipal broadband in rural areas on the eastern shore. (Maryland has a fairly extensive public fiber backbone to which rural towns can connect.) There is no tech related business activity or jobs. The only economic activity is farming and tourism. In fact, due to the way Verizon built out here in the early 2000s, there are many quasi-rural areas that have had fiber since 2005-2006, but still have no municipal water or sewer. It doesn’t seem like it’s done anything for the local economy.

We cannot even bring tech jobs to second tier cities, what makes anyone think that technology will enable that for rural towns? Kansas City has had fiber for almost a decade. Can we point to data showing that any of the economic benefits have been realized? What about places like Chattanooga Tennessee? Are they doing better than similarly situated small towns?

These seems like “build it and they will come” techno-Utopianism.
I second this. Why do writers use hyperbole to make points when their hyperbole is not an exaggeration, but rather just false? It makes me as a reader not trust anything they say afterward.
This is my experience too. Sexual attraction brings you together. This may lead to love, if the circumstances are favorable. And then you can choose to make the effort to nurture that relationship, or not.
Fuck, I still can’t tell.
But those workarounds will cease to be viable in the near future - updates will stop, software will stop supporting it etc. I worry for the PC ecosystem honestly.
Probably a life of guilt for opening doors and handing over all their data to big brother.

Sooner or later this will all be public knowledge. Will this tarnish their legacy?