skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well when you are attending the Space Academy (which should probably be named after one of the Mercury 7 Astronauts who served in the Air Force {cough, cough, Cooper}) you would be a Space Cadet. Once you graduated you would be a 'Spacer' perhaps. I figure at this point a new service isn't going to call their members '*-men' since they will be an integrated group. They could just call them 'Astronauts' and distinguish them as civilian or military in context. A friend suggested 'Space Person' but that doesn't really roll off the tongue. Then there is 'Space Technician' or 'Person of Space' or 'Space Cast' or 'Spaceist'. Not an easy choice.
Other commenters already pointed out that we didn’t have modern laboratory science when tobacco was brought over to Europe, not to mention that mechanized cigarette production is a much more recent development that the use of tobacco by western cultures.

I used to smoke, and now I vape. My lungs function so much better now that it’s easily discernible to me that smoking irritates lungs far more than vaping.
I hope you mean `financial net-profit` by growth.
I had the thought a day or so ago that a system could be created to tie images to their respective cameras with a private key stored inside of a chip that self-destructs when you attempt to read the key from outside of it, along with a trust hierarchy of certs from various camera manufacturers. A little like hardware auth tokens mixed with PKI.

Does that sound like something that would be feasible to produce/practical in the real world?
People play all kinds of silly games over status, but I think this is going into dangerous territory. It's basically how WW2 started: Hitler had the idea that Germans were higher status than Eastern Europeans, and so Germany was justified in taking their land for itself.
Need for More Speed: Profiling and Optimizing the Pbrt Build
The web community has a focus on byte size which is rarely found anywhere else in application development.
This might be an unpopular comment, but I think at least part of the reason you don't see people plow into inspiring things these days is less about lack of profitability and more about an overabundance of diversity.

Inspiration looks different to different people. If people don't have a shared vision, they aren't going to be able to collaborate on shared projects at the same level as people that do have a shared vision.
The ETL for 3200 emergency rooms worth of data must be a nightmare. It would have to be largely unstructured upon ingestion, and I can’t imagine normalising it enough for this sort of automated outlier detection would be possible.
About 5 million years ago, for one.
> 1) No more carriers.

This doesn't really work. If you've looked at some of the calculations for SpaceX's constellation (probably the highest bandwidth one proposed so far), it is completely insufficient for even medium sized cities.

There is also a question of what sort of antenna the phones will use to connect with the satellites. My understanding is that modern sat phones are pretty low bandwidth and aren't really the sleak and slim design we've come to expect from Apple.

> can let illegal imports take care of situations where there is the potential for bans e.g. patents or Russia.

Probably not possible either. They're going to need plenty of base stations, which are easy to ban with court order.

> 2) No more dealing with Qualcomm and 5/6G standards bodies and having them dictate where the industry goes.

We'll see. If the problem is with patents instead of technical ability then this will be easier than I expect.

> 4) No more dealing with foreign governments blocking websites, demanding apps be installed, intercepting traffic and by extension far less jailing and killing of dissidents, minorities, journalists etc.

Again, they're going to need base stations. The parts of the world that regularly do that stuff are usually pretty poor, which means pretty low iPhone penetration.

If Apple can pull this off, it'd be great for them. I'm not very optimistic.
Q&A: How does Dedupely access my HubSpot data?
Decade in Review
Goodbye international treaties on the peaceful use of space.
Feasible? Sure, to the limits of what we can do with secure enclaves today.

Desirable? Well, you've created a system that authenticates a camera as being at a place at a time. It's a good way to authenticate photos, but a bad way to stay anonymous.

How do you feel about photographers and journalists becoming even larger targets for anyone who wants to keep a secret?
FWIW x64 effectively has 32 GPRs worth of 32-bit registers, which is what chacha20 needs. You'd need to access them as something like:

add eax r8d
rol r8 32
add edx r8d

though, so several are useless due to clobbering, and you'd need to schedule things rather weirdly. Also, where did you get the RNG state from, if you don't trust memory to be read-what-where-proof?
ACM signed letter opposing open access
Having read the whole thing, it's basically a Gladwellisation of anecdotes and correlations into implied causations.

> We can’t prove a direct causal link between porn addiction and the “sex recession,” [continues rambling on as if a direct causal link was proven]

He also seems (wilfully?) oblivious to any other factors - e.g. as a tiny example, when talking about how Japan's "sex recession" might destroy society, he mentions that these "herbivores" tend to live with their parents (that -probably- impacts their sex life), prefer spending time alone (again, impacting sex life), and are uninterested in professional careers (ok, no relevance here.)
Let's see the uniforms, please.
No! NOT ENOUGH MYLAR!!
I think it might also be a reflection of general polarization. Collective action is hard (certainly easier under a dictatorial regime, e.g. China), but in earlier days in the US we had more common purpose -- whether it was a sense that we are building a nation or WWII, those kinds of things -- which to some degree compensated for the inherently inertial nature of collective action within a liberal democracy.
The obese have other very costly externalities, for example: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.22657

They are more of a burden to society than smokers.
I'm a type 1 diabetic, and the costs for all the supplies related to it are easily over 10k a year. Just the insulin is ~250$ / bottle, and I use somewhere in the range of 5 vials / month, so that's $15,000. Admittedly, I've changed insulins recently, so the price may be reduced, plus the insurance company certainly isn't paying the full cost. But still, that's just ONE of the supplies for my diabetes.

And then I had an operation this year (unrelated to the diabetes.... kind of), so that adds another 10,000$, give or take.
Slightly tangential, but why doesn't Linux symlink /dev/random to /dev/urandom like OpenBSD does?

Wouldn't that stop issues like these (what's the benefit in keeping /dev/random the same)?
Computing pioneer Grace Hopper was an Admiral in the US Navy.
One key quote from their FAQ:

> Q: Will any units assigned to Space Force move locations?
A: There are currently no plans to relocate existing units.

Another answer informs people that they can remain in the Air Force even if their unit is space force.

Final interesting aspect: the join space force link points to airforce.com/careers.
NVIDIA drivers are not as bad as they used to be, but it's a proprietary driver so you're dependent on NVIDIA, who doesn't care that much about Linux gamers (probably 0.1% of their bottom line).

I have a NVIDIA card I bought because I did not know better (and I used to run Windows). I'm lucky that it works fine on Ubuntu 18.04 (I can play games like the 2016 Doom fine) but if I had a choice I'd pick an AMD GPU.
Peace is not free and does not come cheaply with wishful thinking.
One thing I'm missing from Actions is a way to manually trigger an action from the UI.

Currently the closest equivalents are making a request via the API (but then you need a token with it, and all the security concerns it opens) or sending a special message using an empty commit (but I haven't found a simple way to do that from inside VSCode, unless I missed it somewhere).
20 physical therapy visits alone could cost somewhere close to $10k when billed to insurance. A drilled cavity can be $500. Have a wart removed? $500. It's so absolutely easy to hit $10k in a single year.
Elon and NASA have a better taste in space fonts.
The link you sent says they're not profitable. They had their best quarter, and it was still a loss.
The AMDGPU driver is open-source and generally seem the best integrated with the rest of Linux; performance is comparable to Windows. The nVidia closed-source drivers also give performance comparable to Windows but have issues like graphics corruption with KDE on suspend (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364766, supposedly KDE's misuse of OpenGL). The open-source Nouveau drivers for nVidia are not really usable: the team has to reverse engineer everything and nVidia doesn't really support their efforts so it's rolling a stone up a hill.

Intel graphics are open source but they're mostly used on laptops, so I don't think the drivers support much beyond basic functions. I guess light games would probably work well with them though.
They like doing this sort of psychology 101 stuff. Eg their digital plus paper is cheaper than just digital
“Additive” is a word that implies that it performs some function in the product. (The technical jargon equivalent word being “excipient.”)

The proper term for vitamin E acetate is “cutting agent.” Like talc in cocaine. Neither the original manufacturer nor the consumer wants it in there; it was effectively MITMed into the product.

A very precise analogy: you wouldn’t call cyanide a “Tylenol additive”, right?
The people using the cutting agents were sellers on the blackmarket. Do you really think they're going to collect and pay sin tax and follow regulations? This whole episode had nothing to do with the legal sale of THC products.
Ask HN: How big of a problem is fake news, what can we do?
I’m working on a mobile video platform that’s focused on taking YouTube style broadcast and turning it into something a lot more social. Part of the advantage is greater social verification and less filter bubbles / echo chambers.

My questions are:
1) how big of an issue is this today? Can we really not distinguish truth for ourselves? Do you see this as an issue that primarily effects fringe users / edge cases or everyone? Or do you think the main issue is that it moves the Overton window? Or something else entirely?

2) what are some of the solutions you can think of?

3) what makes an environment conducive to fake news?
United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Treaties and Agreements...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Committee_on_th...
The militarization of space was going to happen eventually no matter what. It's a necessary precursor to colonization but also national security as the cost of access to space plummets.
I think I’ll trade not living under the threat of nuclear holocaust and desire to beat an ideological enemy for getting to the moon slower. A feat which while fast possibly slowed the natural progress of getting and staying there, and which has as its main legacy intercontinental nuclear capabilities.
Could also be a business account thing. Lots of companies make you manually file an expenses claim for each payment, so if you're not paying anyway why not pick the easier option?
I've already been a Pro subscriber since 2010. Not sure what else I can do to support them, but I really don't want Flickr to disappear. It was odd they raised the price. Why don't they lower it, increasing the number of Pro users? Or does it not work that way? Somehow I feel like switching to AWS will only increase the costs to them, despite any user-facing improvement.
it’s already happened we’re just making it more official
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There's a fantastic library called Immer [0] that uses ES6 Proxies to let you write "mutative" update logic that is tracked and turned into a safe immutable update.

We recommend using Immer as the best way to write immutable logic with Redux [1], and our new Redux Toolkit package [2] automatically uses Immer internally to let you write reducers like this:

const reducer = createReducer(initialState, {
updateItem(state, action) {
state.first.second[action.payload.id].fourth = action.payload.value
}
})

[0] https://immerjs.github.io/immer/

[1] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide/#use-immer-for-...

[2] https://redux-toolkit.js.org
I have found Twitter to be very valuable to follow machine learning researchers and find out about up and coming research.
The biggest problem today is opinion masquerading as news. If one party calls people fact witnesses that witnessed nothing and provided no facts I think you can begin to figure out who’s misleading you
The website looks a bit amateurish at best
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. If you've got any specific concerns I can help with, I'd be happy to try to offer advice.

Out of curiosity, what issues have you been seeing with using thunks?

I'd specifically encourage you to check out our new official Redux Toolkit package. It includes utilities to simplify several common Redux use cases, including store setup, defining reducers, immutable update logic, and even creating entire "slices" of state at once:

https://redux-toolkit.js.org

You might also want to look at the new "Style Guide" page we've added to the docs, which lists our recommended patterns and practices for using Redux:

https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide
Missing a lot.. maybe too much.
nice to see a nim lang app in production. its a great language and this project looks nifty.
For a "log in to continue reading" popup? No thanks.
So, not fast?
Looks like shit tbh. Seen way better websites come out of an Intro to Web Dev class in uni.
Scaling Etsy
Court Asks Andhra DISCOMs to Clear Solar and Wind Power Dues in a Month
That doesn’t really answer the question. If technology allows unlimited monitoring of your children where would you draw the line? Do you want to raise people who accept constant surveillance as a fact of life? They’re home, give them their own space.
I can't understand what you are trying to say. I think you're confused about what these terms mean.
“We chopped down enough trees and leveled enough ground that you drive supply trucks through...sort of.”

I rode it on a motorcycle in 2015. The days of a “I survived the AlCan” being a meaningful t-shirt are well behind us. It’s a little rough, mostly paved, but not what they built in 243 days.
Vote! Fight for candidates who will bring sanity to the system. Donate money: it's amazing how powerless tech is in a city where it dominates economically.
Author here. Functional languages indeed avoid many code defects from its own design, and it is also easier to locate the problematic code. That's why we originally chose Rust rather than C++ to develop the TiKV project in PingCAP.

It's hard to implement a bot to do auto-debugging. The purpose of this Hackathon project was to develop a tool to improve debugging efficiency. Check out our progress on https://github.com/fuzzdebugplatform/fuzz_debug_platform.
Anyone else remember Apple's secret team working on self driving cars?
I'd guess the "$2/month" price has a catch.
Or it's already been distributed/used/sold, albeit not as a single large leak of data.
> we didn’t have modern laboratory science when tobacco was brought over to Europe

Modern laboratory science is no help in figuring out fast whether vaping is harmful, because we don't understand how the human body works well enough to do laboratory tests that will tell us. So we're reduced to basically what we used to show that smoking was harmful: long-term data collection and analysis.

> My lungs function so much better now that it’s easily discernible to me that smoking irritates lungs far more than vaping.

Saying that vaping is less harmful than smoking (which is probably true) is a much weaker statement than saying that there's zero indication that vaping is harmful, so there's no reason to worry about it, which is the claim I was responding to.
I think it's pretty unquestionable that smoking is worse for the lungs, and almost certainly worse overall than vaping. But smoking was on the decline; if vaping had never existed or gone mainstream, eventually very few people would have smoked. Instead now, there are many young people becoming addicted to nicotine via vaping. That's almost certainly better than if they were smoking instead, but it's likely worse than if they weren't using a nicotine product at all.

Now, you could argue that there's little evidence of nicotine being harmful aside from being highly addictive (although even then there would be an economic argument to be made), but if there is any harm, the addictive nature will make sure that harm is long-lasting.
Their donors might balk, however.
Well unfortunately we don’t live in a spreadsheet where you can just drop the rows that pull your average down, but rather a real country. Somehow the other countries have done better despite facing their own challenges.
While the idea that space would forever be a shared, international region akin to Antarctica, the militarisation of space was bound to happen eventually.

While there are some downsides, I actually think this is a net positive. War-time, or at least the preparations for potential war-time (as all military endeavours actually are), usually lead to the greatest scientific and technical advancements. Just looks at WW1, WW2, the Cold War. I think we are now entering a "space cold war". Hopefully it can stay a "cold" war. But it is exciting to see what developments may come along.

The other upside, is that if the US achieves space superiority (which it already has, but if it develops the means to properly enforce it - which it is trying to do with this space force), it will open up the potential for proper commericialization. The US will be able to enforce space trade law, customs law, private property in space will be made possible. This will enable companies like SpaceX to have a proper legal framework within which to operate.
Industry pushing back against Trump for doing something that is close to universally supported on HN. Can’t see this thread surviving the front page for very long.
> There weren't regular, organized, multithousand data point case studies back then.

Case studies can't spot harm faster than the harm occurs. The main harm from smoking is a significantly increased risk of lung cancer and other illnesses which can take decades to show up. That's why even with modern medicine advancing over the last century it took so long to nail down the health risks of smoking.
I believe the CDC also found it in illicit nicotine cartridges
But then we'd wonder why the transit needs to be conditioned on the utilities. This is political malpractice undermining support for bus lanes citywide.
The ACM is a parasite of an organization.

If you want to be in one of the clubs that badly, support the IEEE instead. Friendlier, cheaper, and not controlled by lawyers.

The ACM has a lot of cool people, and a few nice resources, but it's not worth supporting the profiteering it does.
Just because trump is doing something does not mean it's bad. Although probably give it a closer look.